Posted by bleauberry on August 23, 2009, at 18:21:50
In reply to How do I start?, posted by Dima on August 22, 2009, at 21:09:14
Just a quick followup.
First, I want to applaud you with a standing ovation. Taking charge of your own health is what most people miss, and wonder why their lives are a mess. We are what we eat. Literally. If we eat chemicals and aluminum, we will feel like that. Sugars don't make us sweet.
A little warning is deserved though. Please do not expect to see overnight improvements. Your body has been sick a long time. As you change your diet, you will likely feel a healing process...what some call a healing crisis. Fatigue might actually get worse. Symptoms might temporarily get worse. That is a good thing. It means healing is begun. It means the adrenal glands are readapting. It means neurotransmitters are readapting. It means yeast is dying. It means every nook and cranny is being detoxified.
If you begin to really crave sugars super strong, that is solidly diagnostic that you have candida overgrowth as a major contributor to your fatigue. You are accustomed to their toxins. As they die, you are going through toxin withdrawal. Your body knows the way to fix the withdrawal...feed the yeast some sugar so they stop dying. Thus the cravings. It is not your sweet tooth doing the craving. It is the bad bugs. The stronger the cravings, the stronger the healing you will feel on the other side.
Stick with it. If you fall off the wagon here and there, no big deal. Get back on. Reward yourself once a week with something on your forbidden list to avoid falling off the wagon.
What will happen is that you probably won't notice much right away. But I guarantee you, you will in about three months look backward in time and say, "wow, I do actually feel a lot better than I used to." For me it has been significant enough that, even though I still have diseases I am fighting and I still have symptoms, I have been better off psych meds than on.
The right food choices do me more good than prozac. Go figure. A year of a good diet took my adrenal cortisol lab readings from far below the normal range up into the low normal range.
One last thing. It took me about a month to begin to get comfortable with a new diet. But really, about three months to accept it as my new life. Everyone who does this experiences the same thing...that is, after a few months, you will actually prefer your new foods over the ones that you used to eat. Given the choice a fat juicy pizza or some other healty dish you invented, you are going to choose your own dish willingly. And on the rare occassion when you take the pizza, you are going to feel toxic from it and know it was a mistake to avoid doing again. Sure it tasted good, but the feeling afterward wasn't worth it. The foods that are your friends today will be foods you gladly easily effortlessly avoid in about 3 months. It takes a while, but the body and the taste buds do get trained.
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