Dr Oz - Toxic Sabotage

I'm sitting here watching Dr Oz and his Toxic Sabotage show.  Wow. 

In the first relationship featured on the show, the family shown is a mother and daughter.  The mother sabotaging her daughter with her words.  I don't think that in all cases, the "sabotager" knows or understands how their words hurt.  I can see in this relationship that the mother is not fully clued in to how her words hurt.  When I look at my father, I think he is more like this mother.  He may have had good intentions with his words, but he did not understand that the way he was going about it, was not healthy for me.  His words didn't motivate, they devastated me and caused me to retreat within myself.  When the psychologist on the show called the mother a "bully" and explained why she was a bully, I was able to understand that my father was being a bully as well.

The third relationship featured a diabetic woman and her "cook" husband.  Of course, he's thin and she's heavy.  You don't even have to go past this description, to see an initial similarity here.  The man cooks good food, but not the kind of food that his wife should be eating.  How many times have I talked about how my husband makes cakes, cookies, fudge, rice crispies, and other sweet treats!  While his soda does not tempt me at all, the chips, M & M's, cinnamon rolls, and some of the junk food he consumes....that DOES tempt me.  I cannot keep it out of my house, and I am not totally able to ignore it when it's in the house.  I don't think he fully understands what I am up against, just like the husband in this show....either that or he doesn't care.  It's easy, I think, for a person who does not have health issues or a weight problem, to not understand why another person struggles.

The thing that I struggle with most here, is that I feel like I am the only one in my relationships, who recognizes the problems and who is willing to work on change.  How do you succeed in change when the other person in the relationship, is not willing to admit that they are part of the problem?

My life is at stake.  I do face potential blindness, possible kidney failure, possible amputation and even possibly dying....IF I do not get things together and healthy.   I cannot continue to ignore my problem.  It's not going away.  I can only possibly control the negatives by working on my health.

The way I feel right now, I feel like I have to find a way to TOTALLY control and discipline myself, or continue along my path of bad decisions and eventually I die. 

It's hard to be strong enough to control and discipline myself. 

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead - Joe Cross & Dr Oz

If you haven't seen the Joe Cross movie "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead", 
I HIGHLY recommend you do.  It is worth investing the time watching.  
This link takes you to the movie on the Dr Oz page.  You can also find it 
by visiting the Joe Cross Website "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead".

Ramp up to the juice cleanse for 2 days prior. 
-Drink 15 oz hot water with lemon & ginger in the morning.
-Eliminate processed foods, caffeine, sugar and meat.
-Finish day with herbal tea.
-Eat fruits and veggies, lean protein.

3 Juice Cleanse - Joe Cross
(five juices a day, eat 1 lean meal of fruit & veggies for dinner)

Carrot, Apple & Ginger Juice (breakfast)
3 carrots
2 apples
1 inch ginger

Mean Green Juice (mid morning)
1 cucumber
4 celery stalks
2 apples
6-8 kale leaves
1/2 lemon
1 inch ginger

Gazpacho Juice (lunch)
4 plum tomatoes
1 large cucumber
2 celery stalks
1 red bell pepper
1 small red onion
2 cups parsley
1 lime

Citrus Inspired Green Juice (afternoon snack)
6-8 kale leaves
8 swiss chard
1 cucumber
6 clementines

Sunset Blend Juice (pre-dinner)
1 large sweet potato
1 medium carrot
1 red bell pepper
2 large red beats
2 golden delicious apples
1 orange

Dinner recipes that work with plan:

Kale Avocado Salad w/ Vinaigrette
(keep chopped ingredients stored separately in fridge, toss with dressing just before eating.)
2 servings

4 handfuls kale
1 handful red cabbage chopped
1 tomato chopped
1/2 avocado, diced
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp dried basil
4 cloves garlic
sea salt and pepper to taste.

Cut kale off of stems and chop.  (Save stems for juicing)  Chop red cabbage, tomato and avocado.  Mix 1/2 of each of the ingredients together in a bowl.  Save other 1/2 for tomorrow.

In separate bowl mix dressing.

Carrot & Sweet Potato Fries

2 medium sweet potatoes
2 large carrots
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp sea salt

Heat oven to 425 degrees.  Peel sweet potatoes and carrots.  Cut the potatoes into wedges.  Cut carrots in half crosswise into two chunks.  Slice each chunk lengthwise into 2 pieces and cut each piece into 2-3 wedges.

Put the potato and carrot wedges in a bowl and toss with the oil, cumin, salt, pepper and arrange on baking sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake 30 minutes or until flesh is tender and outside is lightly browned.
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From The Dr Oz Show, Joe Cross' 3-Day Weekend Cleanse 
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Add 1/2 an avocado to juices, with ice, to thicken the juice.

Tony Robbins & Dr. Oz

Watching Dr Oz, and he has Tony Robbins on his show.
Here are some thoughts from the show.

Three Steps to a Health Breakthrough:
1- Change My State. (Mental, Physical, etc)
2- Change Your Story. (The way you think, act, do.)
3- Create a Strategy.  (Make a plan.)

Life is happening for you, not to you.
The quality of your life is the quality of your emotions. (1, 2)
Whatever is spoken, effects us emotionally. (2)
All I need, is within me now. (1, 2)


Establish 15 minutes to fulfillment.
1- Invest 5 minutes waking up your body.
2- Spend 5 minutes taking inventory.
3- Spend 5 minutes visualizing the positive.

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Create A Healthy Gut:
1- Build an Alkaline Environment
2- Choose plant proteins.
3- Take a probiotic.

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Notes:
1000 mg Calcium (no more than 600 mg in supplements)
 450 mg Magnesium

Keep L-Cartadine down (whey, red meat).

"Vegan Before 6", Dr Oz show

Last night I watched the DVR'd Dr. Oz show I had saved.  It was an interesting show, and I got interested initially because of the "3-Day Jump-Start Detox" segment.  I decided to do the Ultimate Reset, beginning today 05/01/2013, and this was along the same line of thinking.  The Ultimate Reset detoxes and cleanses your body from the effects of harmful food choices.  It was the next segment, called "The Vegan Before Dinnertime Diet" by Mark Bittman, that I am going to write about now.

"The Vegan Before Dinnertime Diet", or VB6, is an interesting concept.  I think it was designed to give those who struggle with sticking to a diet, a daily moment to taste what they're missing while on a "diet".  Basically the idea is to eat strictly Vegan during the day, up until 6 pm, and then eat anything you want - in the form of a reasonable dinner - after 6 pm.  So if you want some chips, you eat them after 6 pm.  If you want pasta with alfredo sauce, you eat it after 6 pm.  If you want meat, you eat it after 6 pm.  

The problem I have with this is that, at least for me, if I open the door to "anything I want", then I am going to push those boundaries.  I know me!  I know I will eat more than a reasonable dinner, and I know I will push the boundaries on how late to eat.  I also know that anything I eat after 6 pm affects the scale the next morning.  Now Dr. Oz did interject and suggest that it be limited to 6-8 pm, and while I appreciate that and it makes it more reasonable, again I fall back to the knowledge that I would push the 8 pm limit.  

This was interesting to watch and learn about, and while I am still interested in the concept of being able to have "anything I want" (mainly meat) once a day, I am not sure that I would be able to handle the "anything I want" after 6 pm.  Perhaps this could be adapted to "Vegan Before 6, Carnivore at Dinnertime".  What do you think of that idea?  I'd still want to stick with the part Dr. Oz added, making dinnertime a limited 6-8 pm.  

Why haven't I gone Vegan, or Vegetarian?  I am a meat eater.  I do love steak, but I do not like what happens with cows and pigs when they're on their way to slaughter.  I have been trying to get away from pork and beef.  If you watch the video "Food Inc" (you can find parts of it on YouTube, and the entire movie on Netflix), or "Vegucated" (available on Netflix and Hulu), you will see why and what happens (to some degree).  I just want no part in that.  So for me, now I battle the beef cravings, in the hope that someday I won't have the struggle any longer.   I still eat chicken occasionally, their fate doesn't bother me as much as cows and pigs.  Fish I have no issues with.  Love 'em!

Pescetarianism (pron.: /ˌpɛskɨˈtɛəriən/) (also spelled pescatarianism) is the practice of a diet that includes seafood, but not the flesh of other animals. A pescetarian diet shares many of its components with a vegetarian diet and includes vegetables, fruit, nuts, grains, beans, eggs, and dairy, but unlike a vegetarian diet also includes fish and shellfish. The Merriam-Webster dictionary dates the origin of the term "pescetarian" to 1993 and defines it as: "one whose diet includes fish but no other meat.  (from Wiki)

I could see me being Pescetarianism, the problem is that I cannot remember the word and I have no clue how to pronounce it.

So......I guess I'm done for the moment, it's time for lunch.

Have a great day!