I've cut soy from my diet and feel great!

Cut soy from my diet too?  I've already cut out coffee (yes, after writing the article about how wonderful it is), soda, and artificial sweeteners.  Now, I've added soy to the list after reading a small part of Jillian Michael's book, "Master your Metabolism" in a bookstore.  I've ordered the book, along with the cookbook of the same name off Half.com and am anxiously awaiting their arrival.

I really like her premise that most health issues, including many things associated with being overweight, can be solved by balancing your hormones (insulin, thyroid hormone, estrogen, progesteron, etc.).  I didn't get to read very much in the short amount of time that I was in the bookstore, so I'm really excited about learning more when the books arrive.

One of the things that I did read was that most forms of soy aren't good for the human body.  There's something that's incompatable with the digestion system.  She said that there's only one good form of soy: soy sauce.  It hasn't been processed the same as other forms.

Most of the protein bars that I've been consuming have soy in them.  It's a major ingredient in many diet products.  There's been the huge debate on whether a protein meal bar is just as good as an actual meal.  For the past few months I've been having a Special K protein meal bar every day for breakfast, and wondering if it's the best choice (compared to "real" food).

So I've cut out the protein bars a little over a week ago and I'm feeling great!  I've been trying to isolate what's in my diet that makes me feel so lethargic sometimes.  I hate getting up to face the day and still feel tired.  It's much more pleasant to be energetic to conquer the tasks at hand!

I understand that now they can give you a blood test to find your allergies, rather than all the scratches on your back.  I'm going to have to have it done, as I haven't been very successful in trying to isolate certain foods to find what causes me to feel poorly.  It seems that if we stopped ingesting everything that we're intolerant to, or allergic to, we'd feel a lot better, and our general health would go up.

Maybe it's just that there's things that none of us should be eating that are sold regularly in the supermarket (instead of individual allergy cases for each person).  For instance, my brother-in-law, Wayne, who's also a chiropractor, pointed out that we shouldn't be eating something found in so many items because it's cheap:  cotton seed oil.  It's not a food and we shouldn't be ingesting it, and yet it's in so many things... like certain brands of Saltine crackers.  There's still MSG in some canned soups... like Campbell's (not the "Healthy Request").  This information makes me feel like I want to grow my own food.

Anyway, I'm excited for my new books to arrive in the mail!