the message below is by Sheila Shea and is forwarded with her permission. / Tom Billings ================================================================= >From [log in to unmask] Sun Oct 17 11:55:58 1999 >Message-Id: <v03110703b42fcf7a4929@[169.197.30.112]> >Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:59:01 -0800 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Sheila Shea <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: An eccentric diet & diet meanderings Hi Tom, Long time, no write. I am very busy with my own list. I took time today to read the notes. You always say something that speaks to my heart and I appreciate your thinking so much. The comment on L'Orme is wonderful. I go through so many phases with living foods. I began in 1974. I've never been 100% although for some days or a month or 2 at the most. It's my favorite diet. I do try to eat instinctively. I also deal with letting go of so many addictions including my former eating disorders, then marijuana and most recently coffee and black tea. Wow. The headaches were too much and I've cycled in and out of them for so many years. I transitioned to Rapunzel chocolate once a day - pure stuff - and how that puts by brain and heart in overdrive and lifts my energy and spirits! My energy is great anyway, it's just my ego that thinks I need to be up continually. I'm in therapy bigtime to overcome the addictions - and I do find that my cravings are less, my emotional communication is better. I love the raw meat however I love cooked lamb. It's so hard on the list or with private people the ragging 'meat' gets. The only thing I find with the meat esp cooked is that it is drying for the intestines and slows my transit and I have suffered from life long constipation. I think smaller amounts, raw work better. Plus I have recently developed a taste for raw ahi tuna. I've dropped the meat/fish temporarily to come back to an elimination baseline and then will add slowly beginning with the ahi tuna. I met a new 'raw-foodist' at a party last weekend who acted like a canonized saint. I've known her for years. I asked her how long she had been doing it and she said 4 months! She's the right wing school with no animal products. I explained the 'left wing' position. She was not into sharing anything, people, recipes or thoughts! So not much discussion. More holiness about her 100% raw decision and practice. I kept my mouth shut after that. Anyway, I still occasionally have a margarita and wine however even that desire is waning! I think some emotional crises that were resolved over the summer have calmed the desires! Now to look at the chocolate situation. I'm enjoying it while it's happening however I'll just observe where that path takes me and for how long and how much and the effect on me. Thanks for being you and reassuring me on this unique dietary path. I'd love to me you when I'm in CA someday. Hope you are well. Sheila Shea, Tucson AZ PS You are welcome to post this to the raw list! BTW my dad had Mitford's book in his library for many years! ************************************************************** Kind Regards, Sheila Shea Tucson AZ------------------ Interested in Intestinal Health and Colon Hydrotherapy issues. http://www.sheilas.com Listserv on Intestinal Health now available. To SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE, go to: http://listserv.azstarnet.com/cgi-bin/lwgate/INTEST_HEALTH/ **************************************************************