I purchased the "The Kind Diet" cookbook back in July.  I have been meaning to get on here and follow everyones' posts.  I am enjoying my new life and find that I eat meatless meals most of the time.  I have felt myself occassionally eating meat here and there, especially around Christmas time or when I visit family. Most of the time they disagree with my eating habits, which makes things abit difficult.  But I really enjoyed how I felt when I went months without eating any meat.  I feel that I am making that commitment again, so I can feel the way I did when I didn't have any meat in my diet.  I thought it would be great to come on here to keep myself accountable.

Hi Barbara! Welcome to the forum. :D I found it hard in the beginning mostly because of other people's opinions about my diet. Since they seen I'm serious about my nutrition and not just giving up meat they're more and more supportive. Good luck!

WC

I purchased The Kind Diet a while back & read it after I saw an interview w/ Alicia on TV. At that time I didn't have much success with it as I came up w/excuses why I couldn't fully commit to it. BUT, it did start me thinking. Since then, I have gotten involved w/Nutrition Respose Testing through my doctor which started me on the road to being healthy. It was rough at first since my body couldn't handle many foods. After a year or so I went on my first purification program which was highly restrictive~no grains, nuts, seeds, etc. I ate mostly fruits & veggies for 3 weeks! (I was allowed lean protein after 10 days but I think I only had it 2-3 times durin the whole 3 weeks!) After I finished the program I felt amazing. When I went to the doctor for my post-purification program he was amazed~he could find nothing wrong w/me! I didn't want to succumb to all the toxic stuff I'd been w/o for the last 3 weeks so I picked up Alicia's book again and started reading it. That was on Monday of this week. As I read it I found that I wouldn't have much trouble this time following it as there was more selection on this than on my purification. So, now I'm actually looking forward to this journey!  Interestingly though, I did have a piece of toast w/peanut butter one day and I noticed that I was quite cranky for a few hours afterwards.  When I checked the ingredients I found that it contained evaporated cane juice! Since I have had no sweetners of any kind in over 3 weeks (except fruit) my body was not happy w/this. Lesson learned!  By the way, did I mention that I am gluten sensitive & have not had any gluten in over 5 years? 

Thanks Leslie.  I find that some family and friends have become more supportive of me.   Also, I think I have surprised some of them with some dishes that I have prepared.  I just had the egg salad sandwich on page 208 of Alicia's cookbook.  I was quite surprised and my boyfriend liked it as well.   He is taking more to the diet too, and mostly prefers eating meatless dishes.  

Hi Marye,

Wow...what you said was very interesting.    I went to a Tony Robbin's event in July, and they gave us this 10-30 day challenge where we had to avoid sugar, flour, vinegar, meat etc.  I felt amazing!  I found avoiding the vinegar was difficult, however, I didn't crave sugar like I normally do when I was on this challenge.  Near the end of the challenge, I didn't realize that I used soya sauce that had sugar in it and then I started to crave something sugary afterwards. It's amazing how different one can feel by changing their diets.  I hope you get through Alicia's book this time around.  Let me know how it goes.

Barb