I'm so Skinny, I'm on a Diet!

I am six feet even ( aren't we all?), with a slim built, and I am on a diet. I grew up very athletic, playing most high school sports. All my life I have been a martial artist. I work out regularly and yet, I am on a diet. Every time someone sees me eating, they comment on how healthy I eat. I usually reply that I am on a diet. That's when the remarks begin: "what, you on a diet? You're already so skinny!"

It is unfortunate that so many people only understand a diet to be a weight loss program. I am on a diet, but not to lose weight. I am on a diet to be healthy! I know, what a foreign concept! What the heck does this mean!?

Two years ago I became very sick. I ended up in an emergency room not breathing. In fact, I almost died. I was very lucky. When I became conscious, one of the first things my doctors told me was I needed to go on dialysis immediately. I faced the real prospect of losing both of my kidneys. As a bonus, I learned I had very high blood pressure and an enlarged heart (there was more but why bore you).

I spent the next ten days in the heart unit. I felt crushed from the news I was getting from my doctors. However, being a martial, I kept faith in alternative medicine and believed I would heal my body despite what my physicians were telling me. As I laid in bed, only allowing myself two or three days to feel sorry for myself, I set about formulating a plan to heal.

The right mindset was the first thing I had to work on. Even though doubt and panic will bite at you, it is just a matter of practicing relaxing your mind back into a positive state. All medical studies today confirm that positive thinking contributes to the healing process.

At first I was on what could only be described as a "breakfast" of pills. Drugs that I refused to take for too long. My plan was to use these medications- that I was told I would be taking for the rest of my life- as a crutch. I knew my plan (which I will get to shortly) would bring me back to health and off of these multi-colored pellets.

When I got out of the hospital, I had some other factors trying to extinguish the flame of positive thinking. My girlfriend cleared out while I was still in the hospital, so I came home to an empty apartment. I would be out of work for months so I had to try and reason with my landlord who eventually did evict me. No need to say "the pressure was on."

So, to recap: I was very sick; on a lot of medication; my woman left me; I was homeless and I had no money. Later on after I came back from all of this, friends would comment that I had hit rock bottom. I told them I was UNDER the rock!!

I need to add right here that I told no one, friends or family, how bad I was doing. I took full responsibility for my condition and I took full responsibility for getting better.

Somewhere in this article I mentioned dieting. Here we go: You see, I am on a diet. Not to lose weight, but to be healthy. I regained my health and maintain it by eating healthy. All of those pills I was told I would be taking the rest of my life? Gone!

My diet is fruits, vegetables and usually nothing else. I followed a strict diet designed by a man named V.G. Rocine, who said, "If we eat wrongly, no doctor can cure us; If we eat rightly, no doctor is needed.

Occasionally, I diet to cleanse my liver. Other times to cleanse my colon. But never to lose weight. I don't need to lose weight. If I did, I'd be on a diet.