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HOW CHANGING MY DIET AND LIFESTYLE
HELPED ME HEAL FROM.......The debilitating symptoms I experienced living with CFIDS/ME and Hepatitis C
I have had Hepatitis C for over 30 years now, but didn't become symptomatic until about the fall of 1997. In April 1998 I had sudden-onset CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome). When this happened, I became totally bedridden for almost six months. I had numerous symptoms - intense sore throat, fevers, night sweats, sleep disturbances, brain fog, major GI disturbances, and debilitating fatigue. I even had to eat all of my meals lying down in bed at the onset of my illness as I was too weak to sit up alone, much less stay sitting up! Getting up to shower was a monumental task and oftentimes was impossible for me. To try to explain the level of fatigue I lived with ~ even chewing at times was just too much effort!
Nutrition is critical during any chronic illness of course, but it
is only one step in the healing process. Abba has much to say about our physical health as well. I have outlined for you the entire Healing Plan Father led me to follow, as well as how to Transition from the S.A.D (Standard American Diet) to a more Biblical way of eating and living. If you are battling any type of illness, I believe this Healing Plan is the best means of enabling the body to do its healing work as designed by our Creator.
I have been living with CFIDS for over 4 years now and I want to point out that I still live with very serious fatigue, but I sure don't miss all of the horrible
symptoms that I had to live with on a daily basis before I changed my diet and lifestyle! Thank You Abba!!!! I am slowly improving and I give all praise to Elohim!
From all my research and my personal experiences with vitamins, I can tell you that they are a total waste of
money AND more importantly, can be detrimental to our health!! I will
share my own personal testimony on vitamins/supplements with you first. I
have always taken vitamins! I was brainwashed into believing that we NEEDED
them! So when I became ill years ago I just thought I needed more vitamins
and that was why I was tired. I had no idea at the time how ill I was with
Hepatitis C......I took LOTS of supplements. When I became bedridden in
April 1998 with CFIDS/ME of course it was only natural that I should turn to
what I was familiar with.....more Vitamin PILLS!!
For seven months I took every vitamin/herb/mineral/supplement that folks
pushed on me....and guess what? I got NO BETTER!!!!! We do not need supplements when we eat
correctly.....which is 65-85% raw foods full of living enzymes, vitamins and
minerals, and drinking live juices.....I recommend 2 glasses a day for those
who are maintaining health & for those of us who are ill, 4-8 glasses a day,
depending on the individual circumstances, along with taking *some* form of
green superfood, such as Barleygreen, Blue Green Algae's, etc. Eating no
processed food, especially sugar which ROBS our body of vitamins (just like
the enemy who comes to rob and steal!), then there is no need for us to be
taking those man-made supplements. :-)) They CAN play a helpful role for
short term acute purposes, but very rarely.
I took 29 supplements, total, while I was bedridden to try to get well...I would take them 3 x's a day, for a grand total of 29 herbs, vitamins and supplements. I even drank a product called clustered water that was guaranteed to cure me. I tried Mannatech that so many of you ask me about, Triple Antioxidant Therapy, Parasite Cleanses
~ you name it ~ I probably tried it!!
None of these supplements and therapies helped me! I tried EVERYTHING that was supposed to heal my body and that others pushed on
me constantly. I spent $2,500.00 on supplements that did NOTHING for me, and
in fact hurt me. I got no better whatsoever and I was desperately ill.....as
soon as I changed by diet almost 3 1/2 yrs ago, my body was able to heal and
ALL the horrible symptoms I had been suffering with disappeared....alas,
except for the amazing fatigue that STILL lingers!!!!!! It was an amazing
experience....I never knew about or understood the power of raw foods until
that time. I ate 65-85% raw. So, I can remember throwing out my BAG of
pills, haha, and it was scary....I had been brainwashed to believe in those
pills! :-( Abba really DOES provide all we need
if we will just partake of it :o))) HE IS SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD AND WORTHY TO BE
PRAISED!!!!!!! Thank You L-rd!!!!!!!!!!!!! Phew~ I can get carried away
praising HIM for all HE has done in my life and I know HE will do in your life too dear one!
At this time I was on Synthroid for my thyroid and Seldane for my chronic hives. I had
every symptom imaginable from the CFIDS......I was SOOOO sick. By the time a
dear sister gave me some video's to watch by someone who was healed from cancer, I was pretty much fed up with hearing
anyone's "cures" for me, and almost didn't watch them! This was November of
1998........I had just been given a more serious diagnosis of Hepatitis C in Oct.
1998....I knew I needed HELP! This was the first time that I had heard from
Elohim that this was the way that HE wanted me to go. All the other ways
I was listening to man, but this time I was going to listen to the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy
Spirit)! I was convicted that this was they way I should walk......it was
Truth. I was up and out of bed in a very short time after I adopted this
eating plan AND health plan (ALL 10 steps), and have never been sick (from
any acute illness) since that time!
Praise ADONAI for HE is good! I still battle this darn fatigue
and can only assume ABBA has His reasons and when He wants me to healed
of this fatigue, then it will happen........either in this earthly shell or when
HE calls me Home. Either way, I am content and TRUST Him to know what is best for me :-)
I also had a dowagers hump on the base of my neck...yes, I know I'm young! I
had it from about my 20's and it grew..it was so hard it was numb...I could
take a pin and not feel it and always had numbness and pain there. My
husband is the one who noticed that in a few months time it was GONE! AND
within a month to two months I had stopped taking the synthroid and
Seldane...and have not had the chronic hives return since that time, over 3 years as of the time of this writing! PRAISE YAHWEH!!!
I also had
hives from the age of 21 (coincidentally I had been a vegan for a full year,
and started to eat yogurt and cheese and have suffered from hives ever since
I began to eat the dairy products again...even ended up in emergency one day
while at the beach...I was totally covered in hives!)
Dear ones....why oh why do we think we can take what GOD has made, and try to
compress Vitamin C from an orange into a pill, and say this is better??? WE CAN'T
IMPROVE ON GOD!!! I will be writing on WHY vitamins are harmful
for us in the future....and why the are NOT assimilated at the cellular level of our bodies.....our
body reacts to these pills as a toxin and tries to excrete them!! I'm SURE
none of those expensive pills I ingested for months and months were ever
digested or assimilated! I had TERRIBLE GI problems all during that time as
well.....I was poisoning myself I'm sure.
Others who have had invasive breast cancer say that when they tried the vitamin route,
the tumor grew larger and faster!!!! It didn't help them either...and there
are countless other testimonials out there by others who tried this route
first, then adopted Adonai's eating plan and recovered. We cannot get well if
we continue to eat the same foods that caused so many of our illnesses, by
popping some pills. ADONAI did not create our bodies to heal in this way!
Our bodies were designed to self-heal by eating whole foods, in the natural
state.
Thank you for letting me share some of my testimony for what ADONAI has
done for me. It's like we have to relearn so much that we've
been brainwashed into believing as truth. So save your hard earned $$ dear
ones and go out and buy some good organic whole, living foods with that
cash...or better yet, please invest in yourself and your health and buy a juicer! :-) You'll be doing much more for your body.
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