Positive Mental
Attitude – I dare you to define it!
So yesterday when I went to bed I started reading about
the nutritional aspects of dealing with cancer and foods that would help with eliminating
chemo. ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/9189022/Eat-the-alkaline-way-recipes-for-a-healthier-you.html
)
You probably already know I am a sugar junky and
therefore this is really starting to cause me a massive dilemma as obviously
you start blaming your lifestyle coupled with then linking that with what the ‘odds’
throw at you. I am not a gambler but I
am a risk taker and I have gambled my whole life on my health and totally gone
with the notion of “a little bit of what you fancy does you good”. It’s one
thing eating sugar and getting too fat, but another entirely if you think the
grim reaper is at your door staring you in the face with the barrel of a shot
gun.
Now don’t get me wrong anyone who has sugar addiction, or
any other addiction for that matter knows the stats, the overwhelming evidence of
‘this’ or ‘that’ contributing towards the slippery slope of poor health but do
we do anything about it before it gets to this stage? Well for most of us no, we attack it in fits
and starts, I must do more at the Gym, I must drink less, I must eat less
chocolate! I already had arthritis in my hands and that did not make me stop
did it.
So the question is: Is now the time to make some
fundamental lifestyle changes? Have I
just been in the lottery game and am I unlucky? Or could I have done something
different? Human nature – we beat
ourselves up, we auto correct, we move forward.
Sometimes however, I am still a prize Muppet so whilst
researching last night into sugar and how it affects cancer - (cancer cells
have 30% more receptors so it can speed up the process of cancer cells
multiplying – well I read this more than once).
I also then did the opposite and looked at foods that can add nutrition
and slow down cancer cells from growing and the top food that came up was celery!
So not being one to do things by halves I promptly got myself
downstairs and proceeded to eat at least 10 sticks of celery at about 11pm last
night. Now some of you may think this is
comical or just downright desparate but having a positive attitude means at
least trying to change, trying to get things right and in my own way this was an
example of just that. Gone are the days of stuffing chocolate Brazils in my
mouth or guzzling Cadbury dairy milk. I literally stuffed as many sticks as I
could down my gob in about 10 minutes flat like a woman possessed. Probably would have made the Guinness Book of
Records if old Roy Castle had still been about!
Maybe he should have eaten more celery too.
Now I don’t know how many of you have ever eaten 10
sticks of celery in one go but believe me it’s a known diuretic and I swear I
pee’d for the country last night in ten minute intervals and did not get a wink
of sleep. Not just a little piddle
before bed as my mum use say but the sort that blokes have when they are so tanked
up they cannot see and start peeing against a wall and it just won’t stop! I think every toxic substance known to man
has left my body over night; I must have lost 10lb in water alone. I was so
exhausted this morning that I could have slept for a week! So the moral of this little tale is still
everything in moderation! I phoned my nurse at the cancer unit to tell her and
she just pissed herself laughing and said “Wendy if Celery could get rid of
cancer we would have understood it by now but it will give you a bloody good
clear out”!
Defining positivity for me is just who I am. I struggle with negativity at the best of
times. I don’t mean when we have a moan,
that’s healthy. I mean always looking
for the best not the worst and when it comes to my ‘bastard’ cancer that means
looking you straight between the eye mister and saying:
“I have spat little tosser’s like you out the whole of my
life and my career!”
“YOU CAN’T DEFINE
ME CANCER – DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM!”
Love Wendy x
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