Healthy food choices LIKE healthy credit/cash choices

Within the last few months I've been steering my lifestyle over to more relaxed and more wholesome.

As I've mentioned on my blog, I've been walking and riding my bicycle since mid January 2008. I'm starting to feel better, and now it's time to take a look at what I'm eating.

As you can imagine, it takes a lot of energy to keep this website going, and build it so that it's enjoyable for the members and visitors.

In the last few years, I've burnt the candle at both ends trying to get the site built and to a point where I'm happy with it. I took on this project as something I was interested in, however, it got out of hand. Being one to finish my projects, I saw the site to its completion. This cost me a great deal in healthy living choices.

While I was building the site, I would eat at restaurants and I would eat food that would spike my energy, just so I would have enough to learn the programming language and concepts of website building.

These spikes of energy meant that I was eating fast foods, and mostly unhealthy foods.

On top of this, I sat on my but 7 days a week for 7 years and didn't exercise!! Very unhealthy choice.

Sadly, while I was doing this website building process, I was addicted to foods that spiked my energy and gave me the mental time to do the job.

I'M HEALTHIER THESE DAYS
As I mentioned I started walking in January, and bicycling at the beginning of March.

I decided on February 17th that I was going to start my healthy process by cutting out red meats, breads and potato chips for 30 days. This was tough because I love cooking with steak, hamburger, and would have toast each morning with my coffee.

I noticed that all of a sudden, my natural energy started to spike! And after 30 days my cravings for meat, bread and potato chips is gone.

I'VE BEEN FIGHTING CANDIDA ALBICANS FOR YEARS
Several years ago, I realized with the help of some naturopaths and blood analysts, that I've got a case of candidas albicans. This is yeast poisoning. It gives me head aches, saps my energy, causes depression etc. I'm not going to explain it here, here's a link to google. candidas albicans

I've always done a poor job managing my affliction with Candidas, but now that I'm doing my Not Spending Money project, coupled with my healthier lifestyle project, I feel it's time to take on the fighting candida project.

The problem with fighting candidas albicans is that it's a very restrictive food process. Along with red meats, breads, potato chips, I've got to cut out about 75% of the rest of what I like to eat.

Here's a list of what I CAN eat:
Wheat, rice, corn, barley, beans & peas, sweet potatoes, squashes, turnips, parsnips, green leafy vegetables, vegetable juices (without sugar)

Here's a list of what I CANNOT eat:
Sugar (any products with sugar), yeast products, sugarry fruits, canned foods, restaurant food (unless I'm just eating lettuce and vegetables), coffee, soft drinks, cheese, mushrooms, processed meats, and any red meats.

I bought a membership over at www.thebestdayever.com , David Wolfe and Len Foley, which is a raw foods only website. This site is about people who call themselves raw foodists. They only eat raw foods. Nothing cooked.

THE POINT:
While I have tried to cut down the amount of food I eat over the years, and have stopped going to restaurants for about six months now, my diet is still causing me problems. I've had to take on some drastic measures to get my health in order and regain some of my high energy.

It's a struggle, and I am a little unhappy that I have to eat "bland" food in order to get healthy.

CREDIT ADDICTION IS THE SAME
There are many people who are addicted to spending and charging up their credit cards. It's a delicious lifestyle that is much more exciting and fun that saving up money and being fiscally responsible.

If a person, who is is addicted to spending, is going to change their ways, they're going to have to change their life the reasons around why they're spending so much.

In order to get my health back, I've had to develop a more relaxed lifestyle. I've had to learn how to cook, and now eat raw foods with a very limited diet. It's not my favorite, but it is the only solution.

Same thing with spending addiction. My advice is: why not try a strict cash only spending budget for 30 days and see how you feel about it. Make sure you think about the process during the 30 days. Every 30 days with your cash only diet, you can evaluate how you're doing.

Changing our ways takes time, and is only achievable 1 day at a time. 30 days at a time.

I'm not expecting to regain my health in 30 days. I've got alot of work to do, and am giving myself 365 days to do some good work. That's my time line.

Anyway... I hope that my example will shed some light on the things a person needs to do to get into better health.!!