Hi folks,
Let me give back by summarizing for you what I took away from my stay at one of your homes, which changed my health dramatically.
I arrived feeling awful. Pain all over and exhausted. I had been traveling for a couple weeks and wasn’t feeling too great before I set out so you can imagine how I felt when I arrived.
I was greeted with a cup of ginger root tea. It was the beginning of my turn around. I now make ginger root tea once a week and it lasts about a week because I am the only one drinking it. No one else is allowed unless they undertake to make a huge pot and that isn’t going to happen.
I ate as though food was going out of style at the house where I stayed. I fully expected to have gained several pounds on returning home, but not only had I lost weight, but – and this isn’t always discussed – my bowel movements had quadrupled. At my age that is a concern because somehow, I thought you just had smaller bowel movements as time wore-on. I think that is the real reason for my recovery.
The food was all organic – which was fantastic. My food was normally all processed before I discovered your network. If I ate anything healthy, it was purely accidental. I didn’t realize until then that my food. during processing, had all the taste taken out as the companies strove for long shelf life and what was added to the food to make it palatable was salt and sugar. No more of that in my body.
I have several rituals that I now have added to my lifestyle. The last thing I do at night is have goats milk yogurt with a bit of organic maple syrup over the top. No sugar or other stuff in the yogurt – only what I add myself.
First thing in the morning I have a cup of warm water with lemon juice squeezed into the cup – the juice of one organic lemon.
Later in the day I try to snack on apples/oranges/bananas. That keeps the sugar demons away – and, of course, my organic ginger root tea keeps me going throughout the day.
In the afternoon, about 4pm I have three limes (organic) squeezed into a cup and I drink that straight without the addition of water or anything else. I know you folks talk about the woman from India whose nutritionist suggested she have four limes per day about 4pm, but I can be cheap and somehow I can’t bring myself to use four limes a day. It took a few days before I got good at drinking that lime juice without major contortions of the face, but today it actually is something I look forward to – the pickup in energy for me is phenomenal.
By the time I left your house to go home I was feeling no pain. It was all gone and I had enough energy throughout the week to get my work done – and I had an extremely difficult schedule, trying to get things done without having to extend my stay – cost was a consideration.
Hope that helps someone else reading your blog. I wouldn’t have believed the change in my energy level or all the other things that happened to me and as I continue to feel better, I continue on this regimen.
Needless to say, those who tried to take me to dinner loved your regimen because it meant I ate almost nothing in the restaurants and their bill was miniscule. I tried to be social, but my stomach just flipped and wouldn’t stand for the intrusion of the wrong food. I think I am going to become a very popular person to take out to dinner.
Keep those discussions going during breakfast – make them about health so we can get more of what other people are doing to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I am now a Bettina health fanatic. In a few weeks I will calm down and just be like everyone else, but in the meantime I am acting like the newly converted with my fanaticism.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com
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Hi folks,
Let me give back by summarizing for you what I took away from my stay at one of your homes, which changed my health dramatically.
I arrived feeling awful. Pain all over and exhausted. I had been traveling for a couple weeks and wasn’t feeling too great before I set out so you can imagine how I felt when I arrived.
I was greeted with a cup of ginger root tea. It was the beginning of my turn around. I now make ginger root tea once a week and it lasts about a week because I am the only one drinking it. No one else is allowed unless they undertake to make a huge pot and that isn’t going to happen.
I ate as though food was going out of style at the house where I stayed. I fully expected to have gained several pounds on returning home, but not only had I lost weight, but – and this isn’t always discussed – my bowel movements had quadrupled. At my age that is a concern because somehow, I thought you just had smaller bowel movements as time wore-on. I think that is the real reason for my recovery.
The food was all organic – which was fantastic. My food was normally all processed before I discovered your network. If I ate anything healthy, it was purely accidental. I didn’t realize until then that my food. during processing, had all the taste taken out as the companies strove for long shelf life and what was added to the food to make it palatable was salt and sugar. No more of that in my body.
I have several rituals that I now have added to my lifestyle. The last thing I do at night is have goats milk yogurt with a bit of organic maple syrup over the top. No sugar or other stuff in the yogurt – only what I add myself.
First thing in the morning I have a cup of warm water with lemon juice squeezed into the cup – the juice of one organic lemon.
Later in the day I try to snack on apples/oranges/bananas. That keeps the sugar demons away – and, of course, my organic ginger root tea keeps me going throughout the day.
In the afternoon, about 4pm I have three limes (organic) squeezed into a cup and I drink that straight without the addition of water or anything else. I know you folks talk about the woman from India whose nutritionist suggested she have four limes per day about 4pm, but I can be cheap and somehow I can’t bring myself to use four limes a day. It took a few days before I got good at drinking that lime juice without major contortions of the face, but today it actually is something I look forward to – the pickup in energy for me is phenomenal.
By the time I left your house to go home I was feeling no pain. It was all gone and I had enough energy throughout the week to get my work done – and I had an extremely difficult schedule, trying to get things done without having to extend my stay – cost was a consideration.
Hope that helps someone else reading your blog. I wouldn’t have believed the change in my energy level or all the other things that happened to me and as I continue to feel better, I continue on this regimen.
Needless to say, those who tried to take me to dinner loved your regimen because it meant I ate almost nothing in the restaurants and their bill was miniscule. I tried to be social, but my stomach just flipped and wouldn’t stand for the intrusion of the wrong food. I think I am going to become a very popular person to take out to dinner.
Keep those discussions going during breakfast – make them about health so we can get more of what other people are doing to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I am now a Bettina health fanatic. In a few weeks I will calm down and just be like everyone else, but in the meantime I am acting like the newly converted with my fanaticism.
Ed. Note: Members of the Bettina Network Lifestyle Community can contribute to the Bettina Network blog whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.
TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com
TO LEARN MORE try www.bettina-network.com
Tags: bed & breakfast, Bettina Homes, Bettina Network's Lifestyle Community, breakfast table talk, health
This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 at 6:20 pm and is filed under Bed & Breakfast, Bettina Homes, Bettina Network Educational Institute, Bettina Network's Lifestyle Community, Breakfast Table Talk, Guest comments, Health. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.