Questioni am currently in the process of trying to become a vegetarian and am having some difficulties getting the right nutrition. my main difficulty is all of my allergies. i am allergic to corn and all corn by-products, i am soy and flour allergic. i am also lactose intolerant. what can you suggest as far as obtaining balanced and proper nutrition?
AnswerDear Jessica,
I wonder if you are really accurate with identifying your allergies. For example, do you mean by "flour" allergy a full gluten - allergy, or it's just regarding wheat. (Some who can't cope with wheat, manage fine with spelt or kamut - a solution for bread and pastry. But there are full rye and virtually only barley alternatives, too.)
First, make sure you have the body-type to metabolize vegetable protein comfortably and can do without animal proteins all together without cravings or reduced energy levels. Otherwise, you'll have to think of including (white) fish or not cutting out fowl altogether (chicken stock at least). But if you have moral/political objections, you'll not have this option. I would, however, advise to consider whether your body might actually be rather asking for an organic (or more dynamic) diet than merely a vegetarian one.
I would not worry about losing out on protein, though. If you can manage eggs (no more than 2 a week, if consumed regularly) and love lentils you'll be okay, as long as you combine legumes and pulses with a grain (carbs that "grasp" the proteins). If you can't do gluten at all, choose brown rice, millet, amaranth, buckwheat. Quinoa is not a grain as such, but full of iron and protein. Chickpea flour makes good pancakes (with water). Oats are low on gluten and make a great (indispensible) start to the day in muesli.
Soy and corn are not very interesting nutritionally speaking, so no great loss there. Also milk and cheese are not always too beneficial for your system - and current overconsumption taxes the environment a lot. A shame about the yoghurt/curds though,and perhaps you need to take care of your intestinal flora with acidophili supplements (lactose free drinks made of yeast).
On a more esoteric note:
It sounds to me as if you have a classic case of soul-tantrums. Realise how the body being out of sorts with so many earthy, relatively protein-rich (building block) products is just a defensive reaction to what the soul believes to be foreign, hostile intrusion. Classically, so many allergies to an alternative therapist suggests the soul wants to float around the body by it self, undisturbed, like a safe fetus in a sack. Perhaps, she feels a little lost in the big, bulky, coarse world of munch and grind. Allergies of all kinds always have to do with an aspect of retarted (or undermining against) incarnation.
You might do well to "comfort" her a little, at first, with some hot stews and soups, rather than give into her more ephemeral desires to live off a lettuce leaf and prana alone. (Mind, you might not consciously, with you Higher Self WANT to do this, but your allergies show what your soul IS doing).
Also by setting aside special time and attention, when you can regularly (preferably always!) give her good honest (organic) food, at peaceful mealtimes (light a candle), she'll learn that food is not the ugly, invasive enemy that wants to make her sick. Food is a friend and support to life and its glorious opportunities.
A vegetarian diet might be just what she needs. There are even cases where intolerances subside with time on such diets, and milk and wheat products were slowly reintroduced.
Stay on loads of leafy greens (collards, spinach,watercress, kale, cabbage, but also herbs: parsley, basil) to keep calcium levels up (also citrus fruit and elderberry juice).
Thinking of food in energetic terms, rather than calorific and physically nutritious terms: have a large fruit snack daily and include plenty of nuts in your diet (especially walnuts and hazelnuts and almonds - NOT peanuts: too "subverting". This will helps give your aura some "body" and "shell/skin"- a place for seeds of health to mature.
Interestingly, your soul is steering your diet towards an overal Classical Yogic Indian. (Memories?). Although there is goats/sheep milk featured in such a diet (which most lactose intolerants can manage, so check this out to be sure, because this would greatly add to variety). Bear in mind that this diet was intended to allow only gentle plant-like/etheric energy into the system and no "coarser" matter which might corrupt the system and the spiritual sensitivities. For a Western, modern system this no longer is a relevant or especially healthy guideline. But allowing your soul some distance between the "guts and blood" of a non-vegetarian diet, might soothe her sufficiently to get you thinking more about what you can eat, love to eat, than living around what you can't eat.
Goes to show there is no fooling the tender soul: typically soy is a very animal/astral type of bean, needing hours to cook before it is remotely digestible - you might need to take care with kidney beans, too...). Corn and wheat too, are rather "yang". The soul does not think in animal/vegetable; but "reads" quite "scientifically" a sort of sum energy of particles. Try to distract her from doing this neurotically by making food a feast and a bountiful blessing. Make sure she can trust you are not trying to pollute her by preparing the food lovingly (freshly, using high quality raw ingredients).
All the very best, enjoy,
Love Evelyn.
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