To share a little about myself and my history, I was diagnosed with G.A.D. - General Anxiety Disorder. I was recommended to take Paxil and I decided to grab it. First of all, it does really help me a lot for first few years. I did notice myself to be much mellow and more stabilized than before. Before taking Paxil, I had a lot of anxiety attacks such as worrying endlessly over a simple project facing the deadline which will not end my life. I even suspected my own family and friends for backstabbing, which was not even true. Anyway, it was my struggle years ago. As few years passed, I tried to stop Paxil, but I noticed that my "bad" self is coming back. Some of my good friends wonder why I had been gone "nuts." I realized I didn't take Paxil and resumed taking them. I became normal in a couple of days.
Now, how did I discontinue taking Paxil without having any anxiety disorder or effects? The truth is that it's the FOOD you are eating and how often do you exercise for your body. First of all, if you want to know how much junk foods affect your health, please do check the links as following:
You can easily google by typing "junk food health" and you will be shocked to see the information given to you.
Therefore, the important question we need to keep in our mind - how much healthy food did we eat daily? Truth be told - I used to love Panda Express, Carl's Jr, McDonald's, and etc. so much that I ate one of those at least twice a week. Of course, it did affect my weight greatly. How did I decide to change? After a visit to doctor who said that I am slightly overweight, it hit me so hard that I decided to change my eating habit. So, I cut out junk food immediately. I started to eat cereal, yogurt, fruits, salad (Romania lettuce or Spinach), smaller portion dinners, and so on.
Eating raw food is very important because it contains a lot of enzymes that will help stabilizing your body. (To learn more about enzymes, please visit this site: enzyme) That's vital part of healing your brain and your body by natural food. (I wish I did that years ago, but at least, I
started last year.)
Secondly, it's very important to exercise because it does help me in many ways. Exercise will release natural chemicals which are considering as "drugs" that will help balancing your mind and your body. In short, our bodies are amazing with endless complications that there are many endless researches about our bodies.
What I did is workout five times a week. I had been doing this since June 2009. At first, it was not easy for me to commit, but I determine to invest in my health and to the better life and happiness.
Here is the result of myself (before and after).
BEFORE (That's me in red shirt on the left) - it was when I loved eating a lot of junk food. I even EXERCISED at the gym!
AFTER (That picture was taken very recently):
My purpose of this blog is to encourage you all to watch what you are eating and to commit yourself to exercise. I look back and realized that those two factors really change my life dramatically.
As you can see, on the first picture, I looked little older than the second picture. Because of food intake and exercise, it's like taking a drink from the fountain of youth! After almost an year, my body changes a lot and I noticed that I missed Paxil several times, but my "bad" self was not coming back. So, I started to withdraw by cutting down the dosage. Today is the day I announce that it's been nine days since I took the half dose of Paxil.
Please don't be discouraged because you can do it! I hope my blog helps encouraging all of you to make a difference in your life.
As Spock said, live long and prosper!
Cheers!
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