Disease Proof : Emily Boller

The Real World

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Emily Boller

I'm a nutritarian who lives in the real world.

I have children, so therefore, I have a vehicle that hides half eaten suckers and stale candy bars deep within its seats. I find them. I usually eat them.

I have a little boy who likes to have “treat dates” with his mom. I'll be his date.

I have a young adult daughter who has sprouted wings, and flown to new adventures, and wants to show me her exciting city, and the Italian restaurants that abound within. I'll visit her discoveries.

I have graduation and birthday parties to attend. Weddings to celebrate. Art openings to linger at. Holidays to enjoy. I'll continue to rejoice with family and friends.

I’m 100% committed to living the ideal life of excellent health and well-being within the real world.

The real world…filled with pizza, chips, dip, macaroni and cheese, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, cheeseburgers, fries, pop, stale candy, birthday cake and parties, ice cream treats, social events and holiday gatherings centered around high fat / low nutrient foods, chronic malnutrition, organic depression, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, achy joints, lethargy, chronic fatigue, a stuffy nose, back pain, triple bypass surgery, dialysis, astronomical medical bills, insulin, heart meds, ace inhibitors, anti-depressants loaded with toxic side-effects, baggy “fat clothes” composed of black shirts and stretch pants, and absolutely nothing fun to wear.

I eat to live. I eat for health.

I nourish my cells with nutrient dense foods.

I am kind and gentle to my body.

I’m fully committed.

Abstinent, yes.

Perfect, no.

For life.

100%.

How have you managed to commit to Dr. Fuhrman’s nutritarian lifestyle while living within the real world?

Abstinence is Key

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Emily Boller

Will a minuscule bump in the road here and there along the journey to excellent health prevent one from living in health and freedom? No way!

When a slip-up occurs, can one still be 100% committed to health for the rest of his/her life? Absolutely!

The key is to not allow the slip-up to become the excuse to “throw-in-the-towel” for the rest of the day.

One must always be mindful of the principle of sowing and reaping. Seeds of compromise sown into the soil of our lives will grow into seedlings of bigger compromises, which will eventually grow into full grown plants of addiction, and become the catalyst for poor health. Guaranteed.

It is so very important to understand that even minuscule slip ups do have their consequences if one desires to get completely free from toxic food addiction. One must abstain from toxic cravings if he/she wants to see results. Period. No shortcuts.

Seeds of abstinence sown into the soil of our lives will grow into seedlings of bigger abstinence, which will eventually produce a harvest of freedom from toxic food addiction, and become the catalyst for excellent health. Guaranteed.

Remember, 100% perfection is totally different from 100% commitment.

A perfectionist mindset needs to be psyched up at all times to live in 100% perfection. If a slip up occurs, even the tiniest one, because perfection can no longer be attained for the day, it’s an automatic excuse--and many times a most welcome excuse--to throw-in-the-towel for a full-blown binge that may take a day, or days, months, or even years to recover; therefore wreaking havoc in one's psychological and physiological equilibrium. Some call this disordered eating. Some call it an eating disorder. Some call it a mental illness. Some call it yo-yo dieting. Whatever label one so chooses, it can be totally overcome by correct information. A transformed mind will produce transformed actions which will produce a transformed body. Guaranteed.

Stay the course. Keep the balance.

Abstinence is key to freedom.

Are you a perfectionist? Is striving to be perfect preventing you from living in freedom from food addiction?

Tags: Emily Boller, Healthy Food, Hurtful Food, addiction

I Climb Mountains and I Don't Want Pizza!

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Emily Boller

Recently, my two sons, my brother, and I went hiking up the rocky cliffs overlooking Devil’s Lake, near the Wisconsin Dells. The climb was steep and strenuous, but the view at the summit overlooking the bluffs was gorgeous; well worth the physical exertion that was expended to capture its magnificence.

Three years ago, when I was obese, and carrying around almost a hundred extra pounds, I could only make it a third of the way up due to shortness of breathe and exhaustion.

Unfortunately, I never got to see the breathtaking views from the summit. In fact, past a certain point in the climb, one never sees an obese person.

Not only did I make it to the summit with little effort this time, that evening I asked my 20-year-old son if he’d like to go back, and watch the sunset with me.

We reached the summit in record speed, just as the sun was beginning to melt into the earth, and the picture of me above, on the right, was taken immediately afterwards.

At that moment, I vividly recalled one person’s response to the infamous, “How did you do it?” question that many, including complete strangers, have asked me throughout this past year of getting my health back.

After telling the basics of being a nutritarian, I recall one person emphatically exclaimed, “Oh, I could never give up pizza!”

Give up pizza? Ha. She had absolutely no clue.

I didn’t give up pizza. I don’t want pizza!

Because I eat high nutrient dense foods, my body has become so well nourished that it no longer craves junk. In fact, now, a year later, pizza sounds repulsive to me, and doesn’t even enter the radar screen of desire, because the addictive craving for high fat, low nutrient, processed food is completely gone.

Being a nutritarian not only gave me my health back, but my entire life back!

We reached the base just as darkness settled in.

It was at that moment, I knew that I was completely free from the power of our culture’s toxic food addiction, and would be committed to eating for health for life.

Tags: Emily Boller, Exercise, Healthy Food, Hurtful Food, Success Stories, hiking, junk food

Romaine Lettuce, Life's Little Black Dress

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Emily Boller

A year ago I was a desperate woman. I was living precariously in the deep abyss of food addiction and obesity; teetering on the edge of diabetes, heart disease, and organic depression, and realizing there was no way out, except to learn to swallow greens.

Desperate people take desperate measures. In July, I made a commitment to get healthy. Unfortunately, soon afterwards, life happened. One of my children became seriously ill, and I suddenly needed to eat something uncomplicated, yet full of nutrients. Romaine lettuce became my best friend.

Each day I rinsed a head of romaine leaves with water, wrapped it in a kitchen towel, and threw the bundle into a cooler.

I discovered that I could eat romaine leaves while driving. I could also fill a sack with them, pack a can of beans, a can opener, some carrots, an apple, and have an instant meal in a hospital cafeteria. I could go anywhere, spur of the moment, and thanks to romaine lettuce, have the mainstay of a nutritious meal always ready and available. Anytime, anywhere, just like a little black dress. Versatile, uncomplicated, yet full of pizzazz!

Three months later, as the crisis passed, and life returned to normal, I gradually discovered wonderful recipes: green smoothies, vegetable and bean soups, sorbets and ice-creams, and various salads; including the romaine, finely shredded, and drizzled with raspberry sauce.

The benefit of unintentionally starting Eat to Live with an abundance of romaine lettuce was that it changed my taste buds to enjoy the subtle flavors of greens forever, even curly kale! The little black dress of greens gave me my health back, and for that, it will always be my favorite.

Tags: Emily Boller, Healthy Food, lettuce