How Juice Fasting Changed My Life
At sixteen years
of age, I began the dangerous journey of exploring
psychedelic drugs. A bad L.S.D. trip resulted in daily,
excruciating headaches. To deal with the pain, I started
to use painkillers, tranquilizers, cannabis and alcohol.
Five hazy years of my life were devoted to escaping pain
through drugs.
I become more reckless in my drug use. With callous
disregard for my life, I injected a syringe full of
P.C.P. It was a dangerous dose. This injection severely
damaged my kidneys, increasing my pain level. Anger and
self-hatred turned to hardened resentment. I hated the
world, but I had no one to blame but me.
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Seven years later after my first experience with drugs,
I was forced to live with the consequences of the abuse
to my body. My short-term memory was nonexistent. My
skin was a sickly yellow. I was constantly tired. My
kidneys burned with pain, my leg muscles would spasm and
ache while standing. As my job required working on
ladders for long hours, I lost my job! It was a dark,
dismal, depressed and hopeless existence.
Finally, with no other way out, I got down on my knees
in prayer and surrendered my life to God. I repented,
gave Him my life and asked Christ to enter my heart. At
that moment, nothing happened but five hours later the
sound of angels rejoicing penetrated deeply into my cold
heart. I would never be the same. Everything changed. I
had a burning fire inside. I had purpose, meaning and
connection for the first time. I started a new
exploration of the spiritual world. Joining a Christian
youth group, I made new friends who did not use drugs
and supported me through my recovery. I used my
experience to help others not go down the same path. I
spoke before thousands of students in high schools about
the dangers of drug abuse and many made commitments to
stop using drugs.
Life now had meaning and purpose, but my body and soul
were still damaged. I was still sick. Years of drug
abuse had devastated my health. When I heard about
fasting, I was at the point where I was willing to try
anything. I discovered a book called Rational Fasting
describing how a dying man had returned to health. Not
only had he overcome a fatal illness through a strict
vegetarian diet and fasting, his newfound health
surpassed the vitality of his youth. For me, the message
shouted out hope.
The benefits of juice fasting helped me to feel better
physically and mentally
I continued to study and found books on juice fasting.
As a teen I had tried water fasting and ended up
vomiting over the toilet on the third day. Juice fasting
made sense. I bought a cheap juicer and started
experimenting. My favorite was cantaloupe juice. Second
was honeydew and third was my veggie combination of
carrots, apples, lemons, celery and beet. After several
short juice fasts of three-to-seven days, over a
one-year period, I felt better physically and mentally.
The benefits of these short fast encouraged me. I
started working out in the gym and eating healthier. My
body healed enough to return to work but I was still
tired—standing on ladders caused intense pain in my
legs.
I went on a thirty-day juice fast
A thirty-day juice fast was the turning point in my
life. The first few days were difficult, but as I
continued I felt much better. At the twentieth day of
the fast, I started working fourteen hours per day at
hard, physical labor in the hottest summer weather. I
climbed the ladders with ease. My energy level
drastically increased.
There were other improvements as the fast went on. I
needed less sleep, my mind cleared, and my memory was
now functioning. Leg muscles returned to health, and
back pain lessened due to the healing of my kidneys,
leaving me a virile young man.
The juice fasts changed my life radically
My life radically changed! For the first time in years I
was pain free. Instead of suffering, it became a joyous
experience. The healing came like water to a parched,
drought-stricken heart. The thirty days of fasting on
juice was a miracle that changed my life. Not only was
my health renewed, but I also experienced vitality,
energy and clarity of mind, and the aging process was
drastically reduced. Next to
becoming a Christian, this fast had the second greatest
impact on my life.
To go from sickness to health in 30 days was more than I
believed possible. Changes so dramatic demanded answers
and that hunger for understanding birthed the writing
you now hold in your hand. I wanted to understand why
fasting healed so powerfully and how to support that
healing through diet. I wanted to help others who had
health problems. Although I could not spell or type, and
had almost no writing skills, a burning passion kept me
going.
My battle with food addiction
After the fast, I faced new challenges. Fasting was easy
compared to trying to stay on a healthy diet. My
compulsive addictive nature changed forms. My war was
now with food. Little did I know this was the start of a
five-year war with food addiction? After the fast it
became even more important to eat healthy, as the
fasting had drastically increased my sensitivity to
harmful foods. The wonderful clean feeling of the fast
faded as I entered the world of eating. I started
studying nutrition book what to eat and how to eat in
order to support the benefits I had received from the
fast. Even with this knowledge I still wrestled with
compulsive eating. I decided the problem demanded
serious study and effort. I studied books on
weight-loss, self-esteem, addiction, coping with
failure, goal setting, and every resource I could get my
hand on to understand my inability to control my
behavior. I started the book,
Eating in Freedom, and by
the end I was free. Yet even with that knowledge the
road through life brought many challenges and failures
came and went. I now know that life’s journey has many
imperfections and know that humility is the only
response to grace for we all fail.
In looking back to my discovery of fasting, I see that
it was not an accident. The people who have had such
profound effect on my life have not been there by
coincidence.
The above juice fasting article was written by Guest Writer,
Tom McGregor, author of
Eating in Freedom,
which you can download into your computer today.
Tom had an overeating disorder and once ate an entire
gallon of ice cream in one sitting and almost froze his
stomach. He shares his story in this article:
My war
with food addiction. |
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