Baldeagle,
Nice to see another kindred spirit here. Yeah, initially I lost 40 lbs. A little more strict than macrobiotic because I ate no grains, almost no fruit, and, of course no meat. I was doing so well, but decided to stem the tide of weight loss by adding yogurt, which admittedly I ate too much of. Gained about
5 lbs back. Then PSA rose, so I went very extreme again. No grains, no dairy/meat, no fruit, no mushrooms, and no legumes(no beans). That pretty much left me existing on nuts, seeds, almond milk, spirulina, chlorella, and loads of veggies. In a month dropped 10 more lbs. I just said to myself, OK, so now you're a skinny ******, better than a dead one, who really cares besides me?
But like anybody, I am a little sensitive to what people think. As soon as I got some improvement, I started getting concerned about
weight again. 150 lbs? I'm jealous! lol Actually, that is my current goal, 150 lbs, which would be a 10 lb weight gain. I'm very lean at 150, but 140 is just plain bony.
I have added back in some yogurt, but only goat yogurt. One day I even went really crazy, and ate some chicken and beef. But that will not be on future menus. I am a little undecided on fish. Maybe once in a while. But I have started eating bread again, and plan on maybe adding brown rice,and some beans, to my diet. I'm thinking about
maybe some quark, too. Waffling on that one, cause is it dairy. But so many people are recommending it. Maybe a wee bit. Oh, and I am going to cut loose a little on eating fruit. But not too much.
I read the link to Dr. John Kelly's book. Very good. He has something in common with the people I sort of look to for direction. People who are not specialists, in some cases not even MDs, but are healers who treat(ed) common folk. Jethro Kloss healed himself (no cancer), and when he met a man who was very sick, he offered his help. The man, who was on his death bed, recovered. What do I owe you, he asked. Nothing, said Jethro, just helping out. The man gave him some money, and said, "You will never do your work for nothing," meaning that people who recover from illness are grateful. From word of mouth, people came to him seeking his aid, and he became a very, very busy man. He went on to study medicine, and called himself a nurse, but really he was an herbal healer.
Kloss wrote his book, "Back to Eden," in 1939, when he was 76 yrs old. He lived at a time, when they didn't have chemo or radiation, or any of the advanced surgery procedures that are now used. He treated every kind of illness, often encountering cases of cancer. He used herbs and massage and other basic treatments, as well as diet, which he felt was key, and got good results.
Another man Gerald Green, lived in England. He got so ill that the doctors gave up on him. He began to study and cured himself (don't recall what he had). But he was a common country gent. Another man that found himself busy, as word of mouth spread, about
the results he was getting, treating all kinds of ailments, cancer often among them.
Dr. Wm D. Kelley, who was a dentist, is pretty much cut from that same mold. Cured himself of cancer, and people flocked to him. He lost favor, however, when he failed to cure Steve McQueen, who had already had chemo and radiation, and was near death, when he undertook his cause. The notoriety brought the establishment down heavy on him, and he was branded a quack. But he still had a lot of grateful adherents to his theories.
Dr. John Kelly, the Irish doctor, from the link you gave, seems like the same sort. He is a doctor, but yet a common man of the people, just doing his best for all who came his way. And soon being branded as a nut by the specialists, who don't want to hear what he has to say. I don't like to criticize the cancer doctors. They are smarter and more educated than I am, and I respect that. But, just the same, I have said that they are very narrow-minded, by the book (whatever is the currently AMA approved trreatments), and don't want to hear anything else. Which is exactly what Kelly says.
What you said about
people's expectations of what is average and how that has changed over the years is exactly what I was thinking a couple days ago. When I was 20 to 30 lbs overweight, people mostly told me how great I looked. But when I would take my clothes off, and look at the size of my belly in the mirror, I was pretty grossed out, TBH. OTOH, I am a little freaked out by how bony I am now. Could def use another 10 lbs.
At the end of the day, if the current weight gain experiment results in a rising PSA again, I will probably just resign myself to being a skinny ****** as an unfortunate fact of life.
Post Edited (Jaybee_007) : 12/11/2014 10:23:41 PM (GMT-7)