Re: Started Macrobiotics diet 11 days ago

Kingston,

The diet your naturopath gave you is in some ways true to macrobiotics and in some ways not. Do you have a particular ailment that you are doing a version of #7, the strictest Ohsawa diet for 30 days? It is also recommended by Ohsawa and Naboru Muramoto author of "Healing Ourselves" that one can do an all grain diet for 30 days to lose weight. Most modern day macrobiotic counselors would not advise this. It is extreme, and as a result of that you are experiencing cravings. I personally think the grains and some steamed root vegetables would be better at this stage than no vegetables and would not hurt weight loss.

All the foods you listed are fine, but the tea concoction is entirely your naturopath's recipe and is not macrobiotic. Fundamental macrobiotics does not normally use daily herbs, even in cooking. A true macrobiotic would mostly be drinking, plain and simple, Bancha Tea (Kukicha made from the twigs), with no sweetner added. Few in macrobiotics uses supplement. Vitamin pills and supplements are avoided, preferring instead to let the body take vitamins in their natural state and assimilated better in food.

The symptoms you experienced at day 5, headache and coated tongue are the result of a cleansing fast. The "healing" macrobiotic diet, if adhered to strictly, will provide a rapid, but natural weight loss. It will not be 1 lb. every day, or even 2 lbs. every week, regularly. A person will lose weight surprisingly easily and naturally as the body rebalances itself. You'll get on the scale and be 4 lbs. down one day and it just keeps going like that in jumps and starts, while sticking within the parameters of the "healing" diet. Macrobiotics is not about rushing your body to do what you want it to. And, it is not about measuring yourself against someone else. You are an individual, and your body is also entirely individual. It is about learning about having the utmost respect for your body, how it functions individually, what it tells you about what is good for it and not good for it -- then honoring your body.







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