Life has a funny way of giving you the answers you seek. I became involuntarily vegetarian July 2013 when I was doing deep spiritual work in my heart chakra. It was a struggle between my mind, body and spirit for the last year. I averaged eating meat between 1-3 times a month depending on the month. During the last year I have experienced the most swelling I have ever experienced in the 16 years I have had fibro. I even began to experience brain swelling where I would start the day wearing a hat that was loose on my head and a few hours later would have to take the hat off because it was giving me a headache from being too tight.
When you begin to realize that what you eat is contributing to the flaring of your autoimmune system you begin to experience a depression. There is so much you cannot eat and so little that you can that will not make you sick. I walk through the grocery store looking at everything I cannot have that I use to enjoy. Staying positive helps because you become your own reinforcement. Yet is a struggle all the same. It is even more difficult when you are out and cannot get to the foods your body needs. Nothing at a fast food place is healthy for you, besides the salad, and I am not a salad person all of the time.
In the middle of my ups and downs I was talking with a good friend about how the autoimmune disease works. She started telling me about the Blood Type Diet. In her explanation many things that I had recently learned about the autoimmune system made sense. I am type O +. This means that I need to eat more meats and veggies, but I cannot have cabbage, or beans, or potatoes. The list goes on, but as I read this I realized that most of the things I had been substituting for meat were what was said to cause inflammation for people with my blood type. Mixed with what I had already learned about the autoimmune system I was intrigued. Life had given me an answer, but being vegetarian it was not the answer I was looking for.
I sat with this for a few days, going over in my mind's memory the time I had decided not to eat any breads or pastas or anything that was not meat and vegetables. It was the only time in 16 years that I had started to lose weight and my body was feeling good. I had not continued it because I missed watching people around me enjoy all the french fries, pizza and ice cream. While I did not eat this stuff on a regular basis I still wanted the freedom to eat what I liked. Now that freedom comes with a price.
I decided to start the blood type diet based on each meal and record how my body reacted just after eating it. I would eat my vegetarian meal for one meal and then eat a meat based meal for another meal. In another meal I ate my french fries. I noticed the difference in how my body processed each meal. After noticing that the meat and specific veggies were processed much better for my body I decided to give the Blood Type Diet a try.
I tried to find ways to do this as a vegetarian, but it will not be possible. Some meals I eat and I am unable to think about the other life I am consuming, while others haunt me as I eat them or as they settle into my body. Practicing spirituality for so many years I can feel my spirit and the spirit of the animal become one. As such I have turned to the knowledge from the Native Americans and the Pagan cultures in which an animal was prayed over and given many blessings for its sacrifice so that I can live. I take my time to bond with the energy of the animal and the plants that become one with my body and spirit. I charge each meal with Reiki & Ife energy, giving life to the life that has given to me.
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