When my wife became interested in Organic Chinese Herbal Foods, I was overweight, had elevated blood pressure, and my cholesterol level was too high.
My own efforts to address all of these health concerns all had their benefits the problem was, the benefits were all short term. Every diet I tried was either too restrictive to work long term, or was impossible even in the short-run.
My problem was common. As a friend of mine said. “Men don’t want to get in shape. They just want to be in shape.”
That was it. That was my problem. I knew I needed to do things differently. The difficulty was in the pain of making the changes necessary. As anyone who has attempted even minor changes knows, change requires effort and discomfort, and it was the unwillingness to go through these changes that kept my weight at 225, my blood pressure at 155/95, and my cholesterol at 236.
As in the case of so many others, I go through cycles. At one end of the pendulum’s swing I just didn’t care enough to try anything. Past experience told me that any solution I found would not be long lasting; that I would be in a continual battle. And I, like others, found no warmth in the idea of a lifelong subsistence on willpower.
At the other end of the pendulum’s came the resolve to try something, anything, even if its effects were temporary. So I decided to try Organic Chinese Herbal Foods.
Two very odd things happened to me. It wasn’t the fact that in 30 days time I lost 20 pounds, saw my blood pressure drop to 100/62, or my cholesterol go to 162.2. It wasn’t the fact that I lost 4 inches in my waist or that my health club trainer referred to my percentage of body fat loss as “phenomenal.” It wasn’t the fact that a friend told me that I had never looked so good.
The two interesting things that happened were that:
I was never hungry and so the eating changes were never a struggle; and
the foods that I knew I should not eat were not a temptation to me at all.
An anecdote will help explain how these two phenomena really worked.
One day, after having been on the weight management program for about a week, I decided to go fishing on a Friday afternoon. I had to get a fishing license and so I stopped at the Wal-Mart in Guthrie. In getting to the sporting goods section, I had to pass every junk food rack that Wal-Mart had in the store. All I had to eat that day had been Organic Chinese Herbal Foods products. Dana and the girls were still in California. It was Friday. I was going fishing. For me, all of those facts would normally have meant a feast of salt, sugar and crunch delights. It would have been only the prelude to the cheeseburgers and onion rings or the pizza in the evening when the fishing was over.
Incredibly, I had no desire for any of the food that had helped make me the man I was. And as time passed, I continued to eat good food without missing or wanting the stuff we all know we shouldn’t eat as a regular diet, but do.
The only thing I missed on the Organic Chinese Herbal Foods regimen was the texture of foods. I solved that problem by eating wholesome foods because that’s what I wanted.
No one can say what your experience might be in trying Organic Chinese Herbal Foods. There is only one way to find out. For you, Organic Chinese Herbal Foods might be another in your long list of things that didn’t work, or you may experience what I did, painless change.
Sincerely,
Davd T., 1990