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Just curious to hear from those who have been around here a while and who have had dramatic success in your wellness program (and in eliminating your chronic illnesses!):
Did you succeed by:
(1) One specific memorable day making a major decision and implementing a major change in your total lifestyle (turning a corner, as it were, and changing everything about your lifestyle at once)? , or
(2) Did you just make a few small incremental lifestyle changes over time (to slow the rate of your descent into chronic illness), adding up to the big changes in your life that you have experienced? and then:
(3) Has your progress been pretty much continuous, positive, and successful, or have you had lots of setbacks, falls off the wagon, relapses, and repeated recommitments along the way?
Thanks in advance!
RHJ++
In Reply to: Turning a corner vs just slowing the rate of decline - a request for testamonials posted by RocketHealer Jim++ on July 31, 2000 at 07:43:02:
Hello RHJ - My answers to your questions are below.
When I had severe rheumatoid arthritis in late 1997 (I had fallen off Dr. Stoll's healthcare "cliff"), I made a decision to follow Bob McFerran's e-diet and the HG diet (based on Bob's advice) after that. I did this after reading his book manuscript and seeing his own results. Given that my success at doing this likely was to permanently influence my ability to function normally, I made the diet changes all at once (added SR 10 months later). I didn't look back as that was a miserable existence.
For the first several months I was very strict about my diet. Progress was fast for about 6 months starting 3-4 months after my changes and has continued since then but at a slower rate. Any food relapses I had for quite some time were answered by pain and inflammation, so my motivation to stay on the "straight and narrow" has been very high.
Now it's a habit/lifestyle, although I have been able to deviate some and not have reactions as I have improved. A typical deviation might be to eat the bun with a sandwich when I travel. I keep the refined sugar out of my diet as much as possible, try to stay with the HG diet, do 20 minutes of SR daily and continue to reap the benefits of this.
After 2.5 years of this, I'm STILL noticing small, gradual improvements. I'm starting to have a hard time remembering the last time I had arthritis pain. My smile gets BIG when I type this!
Recently I created a website documenting my experience. There are several more people being exposed to this method as a result. As you know, the benefits of this approach go far beyond arthritis. The URL is www.topcities.com/science/jhackett/index.html.
Joe
In Reply to: Re: Turning a corner vs just slowing the rate of decline - a request for testamonials posted by Joseph Hackett on July 31, 2000 at 12:12:08:
Thanks, Joe, for your testamonial and your excellent web site! I've taken a note of your web site for inclusion in the next Glossary update.
I hope this thread brings forth enough similar and divergent testamonials that it will be archived by Walt.
RHJ++
In Reply to: Turning a corner vs just slowing the rate of decline - a request for testamonials posted by RocketHealer Jim++ on July 31, 2000 at 07:43:02:
Hi RHJ,
You may have seen my "A Testimonial (well, sort of)" several days ago. That pretty well described how I had progressed so far since "meeting" this BB. At the bottom, it said I was about to embark on something DRASTIC.
Well, that something drastic was the PWFD. I am now on Day 8, with only ONE slip-up. Easy?? No! Would I be doing it if I felt it wouldn't be worth it? No way! You probably like more foods than I do (most people do), so you would likely have a much easier time than I as far as variety goes. My feeling at this time is that I will do 3 months of PWFD NO FRUIT, then 3 more months of PWFD adding in fruit, (total of 6 months), then begin to test to see if I am ready to "liberalize" and try some of Beth's recipes that have a bit of honey or raisins in them. Sounds like heaven to me at this point.
If you want to lose weight fast, this is doing it for me. I am averaging 1/2 lb. per day. I can only afford to lose a maximum of 10 more pounds, as that would put me at 105!
I have also posted a few things in the last 2 days regarding how it has been going. One thing I am really excited about is I am embarking on the prescribed massage series (3 per week for 2 weeks) tomorrow. I have never had a massage and I can't wait to reap the benefits! THIS is going to be the scheduled launching for my CONSISTENT practice of SR.
Once the massage is done, SR will be my #1 priority. The diet will be continued as planned, AND exercise will be added in on a regular schedule (now is sporadic).
Wellness is hard work, but it assimilates itself into your life style if you MAKE it happen, then you begin to wonder how you ever lived the old way. With wellness, you begin to truly appreciate what happiness is. NOT doing what you should be doing for your health causes stress in itself, because you are constantly wishing you were doing better! Actually DOING it feels like a relief, even though it is hard work.
Hope this helps
In Reply to: Testimonial posted by KMD on July 31, 2000 at 13:24:07:
I can't wait to hear your reaction after your first massage! I just had one on Saturday. Make sure you drink lots and lots of water afterwards, otherwise you'll be sore the next day. All those little rowler growlers need to be flushed out! If your massage therapist doesn't talk to you and has relaxing music on, this is great SR. My therapist likes to talk, and her shop is in a Gold's Gym, so it's pretty noisy. But, I only go about once a month, so can't count on it for SR anyway. Good luck and let us know how it was. :o)
Joanie
In Reply to: Testimonial posted by KMD on July 31, 2000 at 13:24:07:
nmi
In Reply to: Ok I give up - What is PWFD???? (nmi) posted by Rosemarie on July 31, 2000 at 18:24:42:
:o)
In Reply to: Testimonial posted by KMD on July 31, 2000 at 13:24:07:
Hi RHJ++,
You don't appear to reply to my posts anymore. Hope it is nothing I did? I don't recall saying anything that would be considered "not nice", however sometimes people can take things wrong.
Thought I'd ask...
In Reply to: RHJ's not speaking to me! posted by KMD on August 01, 2000 at 00:50:42:
KMD:
No, I'm NOT not speaking to you, you of all people!
I'm simply not spending nearly the time here I used to, not reading nearly all the posts as I once was, and not replying with one-liners (me too!, Thanks!, Wonderful!) unless I think I have something real/significant to add or to share. I'm becoming more "Walt-like" in my actions/presence here. Not confusing myself with Walt, but getting my life priorities rearranged.
Thanks for your recent testamonial and for sharing how you recently embarked on PWFD. By waiting till you had something GOOD to report, you likely avoided some "splatter". As in explosives-testing, often it's good to stay behind a shield. Otherwise you can get hurt really fast.
I was glad to hear from Walt when I visited him how much you are accomplishing towards the new book (so how are you finding time to be here soooooo much??). I was also a little disappointed in a way. I had hoped to collaborate on it. But I realized then and there that that was simply not going to happen. For each of us a place in the order (disorder??) of life.
RHJ++
In Reply to: Re: Turning a corner vs just slowing the rate of decline - a request for testamonials posted by Joseph Hackett on July 31, 2000 at 12:12:08:
Thanks, Joe.
Your experience may help other fence-sitters get off their derriers and help themselves.
Congratulations! 5 Years from now you will still be seeing gradual improvement.
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: RHJ's not speaking to me! - NOT! - chatty, not substantive posted by RocketHealer Jim++ on August 01, 2000 at 05:29:51:
...as you may have noticed from the grapefruit thread.
In Reply to: Not serious really! Just in a feisty mood yesterday. .. posted by KMD on August 01, 2000 at 11:57:48:
LOL
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