Second checkup after two weeks detoxing

I went to my naturopath Winona at Sydney Health Clinic last Friday again, to discuss the current development. Was looking forward to that as the diet started pretty good, the thrush did nearly disappear completely, but than came back again, so I was eager to know why. As I was a bit early, I spoke to her colleague specialized in eastern medicine (Chinese medicine) and I got some new ideas.

Candida Diet Day 10

Day 10 of my candida and detox diet already. Have to say, the first 5 days have been the hardest, now I finally know what I can eat easily and know definetly the no-nos. Our friends actually take pretty care, went to Dinners twice and both times I got a diet-conform meal. Of course a bit of teasing and joking, but that’s fine.

The most important thing right now is realizing how much cool stuff there is to eat. Just nothing artificial, no frozen foods, pizzas or prepared meals. Rather a lot of cooking. So today I made ‘Chili con carne’, enough for the next day, the next will be Pumpkin soup. There are so many cool recipes, it’s not hard to find something nice. And I finally learn preparing proper meals from fresh ingredients. Once you start looking at the list of ingredients in the foods in your super market, you actually be surprised how much artificial stuff ends up in your body.

The headaches from the first days are gone. Though I realized, I have been a bit moody these days. I guess there are enough reasons for that with constant headaches and the all over adjustments to better nutrition. It’s getting better.

Candida and detox diet – Day 5

Honestly, it could be worse. But it could also be much better, as all of that stuff that I loved to eat, especially some nice treatments in between, is not allowed anymore. But I keep telling myself it will be worth it. At least the weight is going down already. Anyway, the detox with the herbal medicine Costat is now on full strength. I have a little but constant headache and feel pretty exhausted, but that might be due to the changed nutrition as well.

My practitioner answered me an email and cut down on some last resorts for nice stuff:

Yes sour cream is dairy so NO you cannot have it! Wedges are fine if you bake them and dont use any oil. Not sure what you will dip them in? your nuts should be raw, not roasted or salted…as for the pizza just make sure theres no cheese…Im not sure if you misunderstood me but the anti-candida diet is minimum 4 weeks!

sorry the gods leave the building during anti-candida diets

Oh no! I was in the god section to my nutrition god for some mercy. But no, nothing on the spiritual front. Now i know I will have to stick the Corn chips, which are not exactly good, but I got allowance from Winona to cheat a tiny little bit. I believe it will now become better anyway, as the first five days is the time to adjust to changes and see all the no-nos everywhere. Now I actually only look for the good stuff and still manage to get something nice to eat during the day. Yesterday was a good example:

Breakfast: Omelette of two eggs, with fresh tomato slices
Lunch: Did not really exist as I was in the town. But not really hungry
Dinner: Plenty here though. Oven baked chicken breast (just some pepper, salt and garlic on top), oven baked potato wedges (no oil, no salt) along with some pumpkin and Peppers. Pretty nice, leftovers will be my lunch today.

Luckily I finished adding about 7000 foods to my personal nutrition tool web site. I also started tagging the foods I can have during my candida diet, so it will be easier to find good combinations and keep track and plan. I guess I will be able to upload it to www.ntandme.com in the next week for alpha testing.

The current stats:
weight: 83.8 (down 700g in 5 days)

Candida Diet Reloaded

I just re-posted my first experience with a Candida Diet two month ago. It wasn’t a full success, mainly due to missing supervision by a doctor, but at least proofed for me it was a candida infection, that I could reduce due to little medication and change in nutrition.

But now I finally decided to do it properly and went to see a docter, to get proper medication and fight this till the end. I went to a Naturopath in Sydney, it is a clinic of combined eastern and western medicine. I found them via google search and especially liked they have a price list online. So went there on Wednesday for a Candida test late afternoon.