Quoted from ABJoe

This is good to say, but the brain needs something positive to think about.  you don't want to be thinking about avoids all the time, it is much better to think about beneficial foods, or something else that will have a positive impact on your life.  Try to develop an action statement that is positive.  
Example:
Replace the avoids with beneficials.

This is VERY true because I have just replaced a sales job at home with a more "normal" job, working for an answering service. Action statements that are positive bring us back to ourselves. For years I"ve been trying to motivate myself with "if you don't do this pretty soon, here's whats going to happen to you, then you will come to a horrible end, and you will wind up like (blah blah blah) and you know what....it may work in the short run but afterwards, it robs me of thinking of a normal life. I guess its just as bad as watching a violent movie, or being out in a crowd too long. I'm cursed with hyper-awareness, yet being my own taskmaster in order to see results just doesn't even let me see the day, let alone enjoy the next one. And that's another reason I don't like our modern age. We're surrounded by career assumptions and thoughts that focus on materialism, pleasure and death; man now knows how to flip these switches on and off in his fellow man by advertising, and its' making me positively ill....

And whenever I think I have to go it alone, NOW I'm watching dinosaur movies. Trying to pretend I'm just as good as a dinosaur. Wow violence, blood, on/off flip switch in lizard brain......I applaud the dinosaurs but they didn't have A type blood. And I eat their descendants. Then I think I'm more dinosaur. Then the stress and cortisol kick in ; what a stupid addiction to my own stress.When am I going to STOP?

I"m practising my new found Tai-Chi/Qui Gong substitute today, and it feels pretty good, without boring me.  

ABJoe...You are correct. Affirmations should be made in the positive, rather than negative, perspective.  Thanks for reminding me.  

Seraffa, yes, I am a secretor.  Does that make me more reactive to wheat?

Quoted from Vivian

ABJoe...You are correct. Affirmations should be made in the positive, rather than negative, perspective.  Thanks for reminding me.  

Seraffa, yes, I am a secretor.  Does that make me more reactive to wheat?

Actually it's supposed to make you a little less violently reactive to an avoid, but everyone has their own genetic individuality. If wheat expresses itself profoundly for you in the foot region of the body, whereas in me it causes bulimia, you can see the genetic expression of what avoids do to different people.

Help....help....I need Explorer help!

Because I don't have time for prolonged cooking I ate my red meat and poultry for a few meals in a row so this weekend Im left with my fish and eggs and nuts. Now cold weather snap is here and I get up thinking about meat, but I have to wait till Sunday to eat it. Too much compliant sugar makes me feel malnourished.

Will I be okay as long as I make sure my nuts are added in and my starches are on the high protein side, like lentils, through tomorrow? I don't want to get out of balanace, and I don't want to fall off the wagon!

Hi everyone! I'm new here and new to the Explorer diet. This is my 4th day and for the last 2 days I've had headaches and insomnia. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this in the beginning. Thanks!

Seraffa, I answered your post on the FS thread. Sorry to be so slow..... Been one of those busy days....

Charity1975  -  Welcome.  As for the headaches, it could very likely be from adjusting to a new eating program and detox.  I suppose the insomnia could be too.  How were you eating before you started eating as an Explorer?

Quoted from Charity1975

Hi everyone! I'm new here and new to the Explorer diet. This is my 4th day and for the last 2 days I've had headaches and insomnia. Just wondering if anyone else experienced this in the beginning. Thanks!

Welcome!  Did you start taking new supplements?  Did you abruptly stop drinking caffeinated beverages?

Thanks guys! I ate pretty bad before this.  I drank caffeine occasionally (but naturally, I was sensitive to it). I drank diet sodas (hello aspartame!) and ate quite a bit.  This diet had completely curbed my appetite, which is very unusual for me (but welcome as I wouldn't mind losing 10 lbs!).

I was just wondering if anyone else experienced headaches or insomnia. Hoping that it will end within a week!

Glad to be part of your community! Thanks for the warm welcome.

Oh! And yes to the supplements - I was taking Bladderwrack and B12. I stopped taking it yesterday to see if it makes a difference. And I've lost 4 lbs this week! Maybe I'm losing too fast..?

You could be suffering from aspartame withdrawal as well as detox...  It is hard to tell if you are losing too fast, though.  When I started, I lost about 35 lbs. in about a month and a half.  It wasn't comfortable, but between not having a good meal plan for replacing the 80% avoids that I removed from my diet - and detoxing all of that junk, ICK...  

I went a little below weight, but then the body adjusted, I got hungry and gained back up to a reasonable weight.

Thank you! It's nice to hear from other Explorers. Another question- how do you eat out!? I used to eat out (at restaurants) too much. I've obviously scaled back, but whenever I'm invited out to eat I panic. Any rules of thumb that work for you? Btw- congratulations on your weight loss and healthier lifestyle!

Headache may be from suddenly stopping caffeine.  High "doses" of B vitamins might interfere with sleep.  Do you take your supplement with breakfast?

Charity1975 - by being invited out to eat by friends, do you mean to their homes, or to a restaurant?  Most of my friends know by now that my eating is different, so I ask what their menu plan is and then bring something for myself if I have to.  I've had no problems with that.  I'm there to enjoy their company.  As for restaurants, I go for salad, making sure I let them know what to leave out and get them to add extra of what I can have.  I'll order fish, poultry, or beef with that.

Ok- thanks BCgal. I did mean going to restaurants. We're going to Disney tomorrow and it will certainly be a challenge to not have my favorite foods around.  Squarepeg- I always take my supplements in the morning. I decided to stop them, wait a day and slowly incorporate each one seperately to see which is the culprit.