It Begins Here

It begins here. I enrolled to study nutritional medicine yesterday. And I ate more than one banana. I don't eat bananas as a rule. It felt like the fabric of the universe was coming undone. Then I found a home-made swing under a huge tree overlooking a train-line. My bottom fit, I took that as a sign it could hold me. I sat, swung, and drank in this new beginning. And my banana smoothie. It felt a little bit amazing.

But really it began years ago.

Food and I have had your not uncommon full gamut of love, hate and neutrality in our relationship over the years. It's my sincere hope that all my various personal experiences with food and health (food intolerances, food aggravated hormone imbalances, weight gain, weight loss, eating disorders and food obsession, recovering from eating disorders and food obsession, experiments with being vegetarian, pescetarian, ovo-lacto, vegan, high protein, dairy free, soy-free, gluten free, grain free, macrobiotics, food combining, metabolic typing, candida diets, paleo, juicing, smoothieing, supplements, Chinese herbs, acupuncture, chiropractic, counselling, cooked food, raw food, fermented foods etc etc etc) combined now with studying nutritional medicine, might actually be of real help to people.

What have I learnt from my personal experience? Two main things. One, that I think that everyone's body is different at different times in their life. What works for one person won't necessarily work for the next person, and what worked for one person at one time in their life might not work now. And two, that some people can implement food changes easily but some, like me for many years, need more support, maybe a lot more support. And if that support can come from a combination of  food choices that help the body/brain to function at it's best, and a supportive network of people who are similarly sincerely trying to finding their path to healthy eating, I think that might be the ticket. In my future practice I hope to be able to provide both for people who need and want it.

But, I might be wrong. I've also learnt that in the area of food and nutrition, well in life really, that I've always got to be ready to let go of what I think is 'right' or 'best' if I want to stay healthy. Even if it is 'right' or 'best' at that point in time. It seems that that kind of  black-and-white thinking, while at first often beneficial, if held onto for too long can lead to closed-mindedness and cut one off from further learning and from intuition, both of which I think are vitally important when it comes to making continued healthy food and life choices.

So let's get started! :D