Kim and I are taking a few days to relax, evaluate, and plan. Reflecting back on where our journey started, I sit back, close my eyes, and vividly recall the absolute hell brought into our newlywed apartment some 8 years ago. What started as intense chest pains led me to the Fort Carson ER where I was immediately taken back only to discover strong acid reflux - a symptom that would plague me for years and force me to sleep in a recliner for most of my first year of marriage. People can describe intense chest pain and acid reflux, headaches, irritable bowels, insomnia, gut inflammation, and mood swings but it just doesn't do justice to the lived experience.
A year later, taking 6 pills a day and feeling like a lab rat undergoing experiment after experiment, no relief was in sight. My lap nisson fundoplication surgery (basically wrapping my stomach around my esophagus) gave me hope, despite the required all-liquid diet for the month to follow. (Thanksgiving dinner just wasn't the same out of a blender...) Fast forward 6 years after having tried all of the diets out there from Paleo (cave man diet), the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), Food Rotation Diet (keeping a journal of everything you eat and not eating it again for 72 hours - that was tough), Low fat, Low Sugar, Low Carb, Blood Type Diet - all of them. Only to discover my eventual path to healing almost by accident - one in which could have prevented all those pills and perhaps even surgery. A simple whole foods plant-based diet. If you had told me even just a year ago that I would become a vegan and be running a plant-based meal delivery business, well I'm not sure what I would have said, but probably can't repeat it here...Here is where we are and I am proud to say I am a healthy man today because I changed the way I eat and the way I think. No more pills. No more sleepless nights. No more pain.
You deserve to feel great all the time too. Our bodies were made perfectly and to exist in harmony and health. Your pain is simply telling you to make a change. The start of fall marks a chance for a new beginning. YOUR new beginning. Your new life. Start yours today.
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