Day 4 - Update on Pancreas Protocol

So, I tried the leek soup and...not so much. I ended up making a cocoa shake (which actually tastes great). Because of the various symptoms and whatnot, our wellness coach suggested that we go off the diet until we actually get the supplements that are part of the protocol (Probiotics, enzymes, multi-vitamin, and calcium-magnesium to make up for all the nutients that are deficient because of the diet itself). She also recommended that we get colon therapy to better prepare our bodies for this diet (especially with the constipation) and to do regularly to keep the body working (since when is it natural to have someone else flush one's bowels??? Isn't this the most natural thing that our body should do on its own??).

As it stands, there are a number of things that I have an issue with and I have to get them sorted out quickly. First of all, I do not know how I can eat these processed powdered meals for the next 4-5 months, unless I just go with a shake in the morning as a meal replacement, a shake and a salad for lunch (or the chili which is actually good) and a shake before bed. Then it would work I suppose. However, I find myself craving fruit and I'm having a hard time understanding how it is healthier to not eat some of nature's more perfect and naturally packaged foods (never mind the fact that fruit is loaded with nutrients and anti-oxidants). I guess if you compare the results that I should attain from the program, versus being clinically obese, then that is something to consider as well.

Still, it bothers me that we have to take lots of supplements (to make up for all the ones that are missing in the diet itself), processed foods, additional products to combat the constipation which can occur as a direct result of this program, and tonics. Another part of the problem is that Grant and I never really eat processed foods, which is why I think the packaged meals taste worse to us than someone who eats whatever, whenever. We haven't had MSG in our diet for ages, we never have fast food and we never consume chemical sweeteners, so these packages just taste weird to us (and actually creates a little gag reflex for me).

How can this be the healthy diet when these products were not around when man ate a diet that was more native to him? This really bothers me. Sure, I know I can lose weight, but at what expense nutritionally? Is that worth it to lose weight in a quazi-Atkinsish diet that may cause me to put on even more weight when I go off it later? I don't know. It just doesn't feel right. I can't help but feel that the answer is out there. There is a way to eat healthy and naturally and lose tons of weight and keep it off. I just have to find it.

I have friends who have successfully completed various diets, but most of them either gained back everything they lost and then some, or they gained back some of the weight. What I'm looking for really is something that I can do for the rest of my life and that I can actually live with. I don't think powdered meals and lots of supplements (to make up for all the nutrients my diet has left out) is the answer. I just picked up a book called Eat to Live that a friend recommended. I do believe that knowledge plays a big part in all of this.