Well obviously I've been pretty danged busy to not be posting. At any rate, I have photo's but no time to process them, as I'm behind on my clients edits. I had a computer virus that took my computer down for a while as well.
My youngest has been really struggling with the what to eat thing. He decided his is a 'flirt' WHEW! I'm so relieved. I mean sure I'd be way happy if he was able to do the Vegan with me and my daughter, but he is just does not like veggies enough. I couldn't get him to eat enough things.
I ended up eating a taco out when it was just the two of us. He watched me so closely, searching for signs of regret on my face. I told him I felt fine and it tasted really good. Then a few nights later I made taco's, my husbands favorite, he's been suffering in the dinner department (dearly supportive loved one he is). I've honestly not been cooking enough.
So my son was really hungry and admitted it smelled super good. I told him it was because his body was telling him that it needed protein. He ate a taco and I was so relieved! He's been trying to copy me and he is just too young and too picky to be a healthy vegan. Since then he has also had two chicken legs for different dinners. I made an organic fried chicken (from Fresh Earth Farm), my husband's other favorite. I was able to resist, my daughter fried her and I up some fresh veggies. :-) We all enjoyed our dinners, and all the sides over lapped into my Vegan diet.
I love Cole Slaw! I've never liked it before, but fresh cabbage, carrots, Umboshi Vinegar, Vegenaise, salt, pepper, and tiny amount of Agave.... it's Soooo good! We've also had clean mean burrito's, but basically we've been eating super simple meals, soup, and sauteed veggies for the most part. My daughter loves what I did with the rice this week. I used Wild rice and Arborio Rice, black and white. I knew the Arborio isn't one you want to use all the time, but she wanted it for one of the Kind Diet recipes (remind me to discuss this topic in a minute). So anyhow, it's white and not really one you want to eat all the time, so I used half of each to keep it more in balance. She says it's her favorite rice combo now. ;-)
Ok so this is an issue I've got to resolve, she has been making up the list for me. Things she wants to eat and make right? So you would think that the page numbers or something would be saved. Nope! So I go buy her all this food, to make 'recipes' with. And she doesn't cook anything? What is up with this? I mean she wants to eat certain things, I use up my budget to buy what she wants and then she can't remember what she wanted to make and doesn't have the time to cook. It's a problem. The thing is I've been too busy to get on her about this time. I went and bought LOTS of veggies and honestly we won't be able to eat it all before we head out for a 3 day weekend.
I'm a bit frustrated, but too busy to deal with this lack of preparation, organization, and communication, let alone the wasting food of not cooking things you ask for. ugh
When I get back home, I'm really hoping we can get into a better routine and I can have time to cook, photograph, and relate how we are doing. Mostly I'm doing very well, most every day I'm 100% Vegan. Sometimes I'm Vegetarian when I'm eating out at times it's happened. I don't go nuts about it though. My IC is also in remission for now, and so life has been easier on that front. WHEW! I know my PH water has made a huge difference for me.
OK well until I can post images I won't take any more of your time for this post. Have a wonderful first weekend of Summer!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tuesday Farmers market day!
So I've made it, until last night I had some delivery pizza. BUT until then I had stayed completely vegan from when I said until last night. We had just enough foods to get me buy. The thing is though, not even close to being super hero. So I still feel terrible. This morning I woke up sick in pain with my neck, shoulders, and stomach, and working on being a migraine day. grrrr!
I could NOT be more tired of feeling bad! Ok enough venting.
We're going to the market this afternoon, then to Whole foods maybe even Trader Joe's. I want to stock up and restart and get back on track. I've realized in the past two days I failed on the Candida front, it's not out of my system yet. For now I'm going to be Vegan and try to get that feeling back where I was before this Candida battle.Then I'm going to try again, but better prepared, and I will allow for the weeks I need meat when I tackle it and I won't go with that extreme 16 food list. That was well, frankly it was dumb. ;-)
Here are two images of foods we have made that I really enjoyed. Spaghetti squash is SO good and SO easy. I know lots of you already knew that, even non-Vegans know this. I've just never had it or it's been so long I do not remember having had it.
The other memorable dinner we had was Dolma. Miranda made this and it had wonderful flavors. We did the grape leaves version.
Miranda has also made tofu scramble for breakfast, with asparagus, broccoli, leaks, it was really good! I do not remember which day she was inspired to cook though, and the photo did not look very good. ha I've had miso a couple of times again and it makes me feel SO good! I do not know why, but whatever is in there my body really needs this soup. Even though aspects of it are bad for my IC the digestion benefits are well worth it the precautions and extra things I have to do so my IC isn't irritated to keep Miso in my diet.
I think I'll bring my camera to market this afternoon. ;-) Maybe some fun shopping images will be nice to blog.
I could NOT be more tired of feeling bad! Ok enough venting.
We're going to the market this afternoon, then to Whole foods maybe even Trader Joe's. I want to stock up and restart and get back on track. I've realized in the past two days I failed on the Candida front, it's not out of my system yet. For now I'm going to be Vegan and try to get that feeling back where I was before this Candida battle.Then I'm going to try again, but better prepared, and I will allow for the weeks I need meat when I tackle it and I won't go with that extreme 16 food list. That was well, frankly it was dumb. ;-)
Here are two images of foods we have made that I really enjoyed. Spaghetti squash is SO good and SO easy. I know lots of you already knew that, even non-Vegans know this. I've just never had it or it's been so long I do not remember having had it.
I think I'll bring my camera to market this afternoon. ;-) Maybe some fun shopping images will be nice to blog.
Friday, June 11, 2010
A little lost for now
I have been photographing the few meals we've prepared. I've been too busy to process any of mypersonal images. Yesterday I made spaghetti squash it was so good! This is a super easy squash to make, and I'm dreaming up lots of ideas of what to put with it beside spaghetti sauce.
The other day I made my first bowl of Miso for breakfast and it was beyond yummy. My IC is going back into remission for now, and it's a huge relief. I've been plagued with mega stomach cramps though for days of this week, it's been a long week. I've felt awful most days. I was suppose to be using a fiber while dealing with the Candida weeks, and when I did it was terrible on me! I just do NOT do those fiber drinks well at all, ugh, this one even had lots of IC soothing organic things in it and I thought I'd found the perfect one. So never going to use a fiber supplement again EVER.(remind me I said that when I get stupid again lol).
So anyhow, the Miso was ALL I need to get my body back on track, the past two days everything is easing up. All my symptoms from both situations. So I was able to tolerate the Miso again w/o IC pain. WHEW! Because I just love that soup and it works wonders for my digestion.
In all of this, I've been skipping meals not eating, or choosing things that were not very vegan every time, I've eaten out and had chicken, and shrimp once each. I've even slipped up twice on the sugar front. Man does sugar make me feel like crap, even in the tiniest amounts.
I had planned on going to the farmers market which is now open on Tuesday evenings in Franklin. But that day got all messed up schedule wise and I had a bad stomach ache and migraine to boot.
So for now my budget is shot, no cash flow for new groceries until Tuesday. Lots of veggies got put into the compost bend yesterday, with feeling so bad many things got old. Fortunately I have stocked up some on frozen organics when they've been on sale just for such emergency's. ;-) Miranda has been cooking out of desperation as well. I just have not been in the kitchen.
This morning she made tofu scramble with asparagus, broccoli, and leaks, with a side of Mochi. It was so good! I've had to stay away from Tofu things while I was in flare. So I'm still limiting it and being careful. I soaked some strawberries my youngest requested in my alkaline water over night, and they are so smooth and sweet now. I let myself have one bite of a slice this morning. I had some the other day at a friends house and drank lots of alkaline water after I got home, and didn't suffer with my IC. (strawberries are a huge IC trigger food for me).
My daughter and I are both off kilter, she has been very stead fast in her Vegan choices though, and I'm proud of her. I've had to eat some meat here and there, because I wasn't suppose to eat beans and grains. Now I can, but have to wait until I can restock our kitchen next week to get everything back on track. I can not wait! This whole deal of having changed my diet for a while has just been demoralizing! I even think I may have gained a little weight if only due to the few meals I've had out that weren't vegan.
So I didn't get back on track as soon as I had planned, because I have felt so bad physically I just haven't been able to get it all together. Next week though it's going to be shopping, cooking, pictures! and VEGAN!!!! I miss it so much, the commitment and how it made me feel physically. I felt better after I ate, and my body had more stable energy I had no migraines, no other stopped up issues. TMI sorry about that.
OK anyhow.... its been hard to write, because every day I bounce back and forth between feeling bad not eating, having something very veggie and vegan, to having something with meat, and even the two time I had a little sugar.
I have a pot of azuka beans on this morning, and we'll be having them with some yellow squash and rice for lunch today. I think I have enough in my freezer and pantry to be vegan this weekend. It's my goal.
Well this is all random and disorganized as far as a fluent readable post, but it sure is indicative of how my brain has been a jumble this week! I know your with me on can't wait till I'm back on track! Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday!!!! lol
The other day I made my first bowl of Miso for breakfast and it was beyond yummy. My IC is going back into remission for now, and it's a huge relief. I've been plagued with mega stomach cramps though for days of this week, it's been a long week. I've felt awful most days. I was suppose to be using a fiber while dealing with the Candida weeks, and when I did it was terrible on me! I just do NOT do those fiber drinks well at all, ugh, this one even had lots of IC soothing organic things in it and I thought I'd found the perfect one. So never going to use a fiber supplement again EVER.(remind me I said that when I get stupid again lol).
So anyhow, the Miso was ALL I need to get my body back on track, the past two days everything is easing up. All my symptoms from both situations. So I was able to tolerate the Miso again w/o IC pain. WHEW! Because I just love that soup and it works wonders for my digestion.
In all of this, I've been skipping meals not eating, or choosing things that were not very vegan every time, I've eaten out and had chicken, and shrimp once each. I've even slipped up twice on the sugar front. Man does sugar make me feel like crap, even in the tiniest amounts.
I had planned on going to the farmers market which is now open on Tuesday evenings in Franklin. But that day got all messed up schedule wise and I had a bad stomach ache and migraine to boot.
So for now my budget is shot, no cash flow for new groceries until Tuesday. Lots of veggies got put into the compost bend yesterday, with feeling so bad many things got old. Fortunately I have stocked up some on frozen organics when they've been on sale just for such emergency's. ;-) Miranda has been cooking out of desperation as well. I just have not been in the kitchen.
This morning she made tofu scramble with asparagus, broccoli, and leaks, with a side of Mochi. It was so good! I've had to stay away from Tofu things while I was in flare. So I'm still limiting it and being careful. I soaked some strawberries my youngest requested in my alkaline water over night, and they are so smooth and sweet now. I let myself have one bite of a slice this morning. I had some the other day at a friends house and drank lots of alkaline water after I got home, and didn't suffer with my IC. (strawberries are a huge IC trigger food for me).
My daughter and I are both off kilter, she has been very stead fast in her Vegan choices though, and I'm proud of her. I've had to eat some meat here and there, because I wasn't suppose to eat beans and grains. Now I can, but have to wait until I can restock our kitchen next week to get everything back on track. I can not wait! This whole deal of having changed my diet for a while has just been demoralizing! I even think I may have gained a little weight if only due to the few meals I've had out that weren't vegan.
So I didn't get back on track as soon as I had planned, because I have felt so bad physically I just haven't been able to get it all together. Next week though it's going to be shopping, cooking, pictures! and VEGAN!!!! I miss it so much, the commitment and how it made me feel physically. I felt better after I ate, and my body had more stable energy I had no migraines, no other stopped up issues. TMI sorry about that.
OK anyhow.... its been hard to write, because every day I bounce back and forth between feeling bad not eating, having something very veggie and vegan, to having something with meat, and even the two time I had a little sugar.
I have a pot of azuka beans on this morning, and we'll be having them with some yellow squash and rice for lunch today. I think I have enough in my freezer and pantry to be vegan this weekend. It's my goal.
Well this is all random and disorganized as far as a fluent readable post, but it sure is indicative of how my brain has been a jumble this week! I know your with me on can't wait till I'm back on track! Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday!!!! lol
Friday, June 4, 2010
Pandora's Box
In Greek mythology, Pandora's box is the large jar (πιθος pithos) carried by Pandora (Πανδώρα) that, when opened by her, unleashed many terrible things on mankind – ills, toils and sickness, but there was one good thing left inside, hope.[1] Contrary to popular belief, in the original story, Pandora's "box" was not actually a box at all, but rather a jar. Hence, the historically correct term would be "Pandora's jar".
Key word up there for me is 'hope'. Because I opened my own jar when I added meat to my diet again. I had my first fast food burger in 2 1/2 months, on Wednesday.
It seems lately, I've been either sick, trying to get well, trying to not be sick, working, or exhausted in bed. So the 'real deal' grocery shopping hasn't happened in weeks! I've grabbed a few things here and there, bought things for my family to survive on. Treated myself to veggies out a few times.
I've had of course some eggs and chicken, lots of veggies over all. Still I've felt it creeping in this 'lack' of commitment. On Wednesday I had been pretty whipped, and too dragging to get out the door on time, hadn't eaten and it was past lunch time. I caved into my weakness, I drove thru Steak and Shake on my way to photograph my gorgeous new nephew. I've done well enough since this one meal. Veggies, and lite protein add ins.
The thing that dawned on me though yesterday as I opened up my mind to let my reality in. Is that when I allowed in the protein from meat sources some of my commitment to this path dropped to the way side. I'm almost past the two week point on taking on the Candida. I am sure I've put a dent in it's strength, and if I get myself on track fully as a Vegan again, continue with supplements, and my new water. I'm pretty sure that the Candida war will be won, as I continue my battles in all other areas.
So I've resolved that being Vegan fully is the only way that I will succeed fully. I'm just a too much all or nothing person and I will continue to justify foods, on occasion over time and before I know it, I will have let go of all I've been working for. I know myself too well to not see it coming. Denial of this inevitability is not an option here.
I have a wedding to shoot tomorrow. After that I'm home for a couple weeks, I'll still be editing, schooling my kids, and living up to all my other 'jobs', but I'm planning on focusing back on what started all of this for me. The Kind Diet. I am missing the shopping, cooking, and connection with what I'm eating. I was feeling really proud of myself, and loved what I was doing (even when it was hard the rewards were worth it). Now I'm not forgetting I've been sick, and dealing with the Candia curve. It's just I know now I must go back to Vegan right away or momentum may be lost for good.
My plan for now is to get through the next couple of days, spend a day after recouping then putting together my menus and start preparing my Vegan meals again. :-)
My beautiful nephew:
It seems lately, I've been either sick, trying to get well, trying to not be sick, working, or exhausted in bed. So the 'real deal' grocery shopping hasn't happened in weeks! I've grabbed a few things here and there, bought things for my family to survive on. Treated myself to veggies out a few times.
I've had of course some eggs and chicken, lots of veggies over all. Still I've felt it creeping in this 'lack' of commitment. On Wednesday I had been pretty whipped, and too dragging to get out the door on time, hadn't eaten and it was past lunch time. I caved into my weakness, I drove thru Steak and Shake on my way to photograph my gorgeous new nephew. I've done well enough since this one meal. Veggies, and lite protein add ins.
The thing that dawned on me though yesterday as I opened up my mind to let my reality in. Is that when I allowed in the protein from meat sources some of my commitment to this path dropped to the way side. I'm almost past the two week point on taking on the Candida. I am sure I've put a dent in it's strength, and if I get myself on track fully as a Vegan again, continue with supplements, and my new water. I'm pretty sure that the Candida war will be won, as I continue my battles in all other areas.
So I've resolved that being Vegan fully is the only way that I will succeed fully. I'm just a too much all or nothing person and I will continue to justify foods, on occasion over time and before I know it, I will have let go of all I've been working for. I know myself too well to not see it coming. Denial of this inevitability is not an option here.
I have a wedding to shoot tomorrow. After that I'm home for a couple weeks, I'll still be editing, schooling my kids, and living up to all my other 'jobs', but I'm planning on focusing back on what started all of this for me. The Kind Diet. I am missing the shopping, cooking, and connection with what I'm eating. I was feeling really proud of myself, and loved what I was doing (even when it was hard the rewards were worth it). Now I'm not forgetting I've been sick, and dealing with the Candia curve. It's just I know now I must go back to Vegan right away or momentum may be lost for good.
My plan for now is to get through the next couple of days, spend a day after recouping then putting together my menus and start preparing my Vegan meals again. :-)
My beautiful nephew:
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
So much harder than anticipated... really long post!
It's Tuesday already? How time flies when your struggling with a manic balancing act! ugh
So pictures, a bowl of fresh organic cabbage, lightly stir fried in coconut oil.
Zucchini and yellow squash with broccoli all organic and lightly steamed. This bowl I cheated and had Umboshi Vinegar, along with no cheat Flax oil. (the vinegar isn't great for my IC, but tastes oh so good and I really needed something to have flavor!).
There you go things I was eating and trying to tell myself it was enough and I'd get through. It wasn't and I didn't. There was no real way to meet my protein requirements, and fight the Candida and stay Vegan. I really gave it my ALL, and then some. I found myself in town driving my daughter to her class and back to the hospital to visit my new nephew, and just not having enough brain function to be a safe driver even. So I stopped at a place they serve non fast food chicken tenders. (well not in that gross traditional over breaded crap you get at a drive thru, no drive thru here). I got 3 tenders (couldn't even eat 3 turned out my stomach has shrunk), pealed off the very light breading and felt so much better physically and really down about having to blog about it. So I've been procrastinating.
I resorted to chicken three times this weekend. Even though I did, I was so very depleted that I faltered physically at the wedding I was working. I nearly passed out twice, and twice I could not get back up after getting on my knee to get a shot. I had tried to eat a little chicken, but with my time constraints had gotten McD's, they were just too gross and I couldn't get them down. I had my bowl of almonds with me and my amazing water. I'd just been hungry and taking all these supplements, detoxing the Candida too many days. I was spent and didn't have what I needed to get through my work day.
I ended up having to drink some of the sweet tea offered with the wedding meal at the reception. I really thought I would have a serious back lash from this, one the tea is very bad for my IC and two the sugar undoes everything I had been fighting for to kill the Candida. (seems though I've been OK and I didn't suffer too badly)
It did what I needed it to do, I had a baked chicken breast, green beans, two bites of corn bread and that glass of sweet tea. I guess the chicken kept me from having a sugar crash on the drive home? I'm not sure, but I did regain my strength enough to not pass out (although my muscles still rebelled about getting back up off the ground once, embarrassing! ugh)
Wedding teaser image:
Sunday I took it easy, we had a late breakfast as a family, I had 2 scrambled eggs with a side of avocado. We were going to eat out as a family after our bible service, but Hubby ended up not feeling good. So the kids voted for a Greek place we've not been to in ages. We loved it, but when my IC flared for 6 months last year I couldn't eat there anymore. We got out of the habit. I didn't think I could eat there anyway as a Vegan. Boy! was I wrong about that. We went and turns out they have this wonderful veggie dinner plate, I skipped the rice and order it with Tabbouleh salad, so all veggies (and there was very little Bulgar wheat in the salad almost entirely fresh parsley.. IC friendly soothing food yes!).
I ate the entire plate and it was no small platter of veggies. lol I was so hungry for veggies. ha Not all of them were Candida starving, but at this point I've been so starving, I'm wondering how healthy it is to starve yourself for two weeks? How can I fight and detox while being so depleted I can barely function? OK so yep that was me justifying cooked carrots they taste so good, but do go to sugars too fast.
At any rate, between eggs, and large amounts of veggies for two days in a row now. I'm starting to feel my self! I also took a 40 min walk yesterday and today with my daughter and our dogs. I endured the muggy heat, and the hills so much better than I've been able to do in any recent memory.
I have actually lost weight at this point. Weight I can see, feel and few others have noticed as well.
I know I've slipped up with the foods that the Candida can feed on this weekend with a few of my choices. I know that I've slipped up bad on the Vegan commitment. I am reminding myself that the entire reason for this journey was to restore my health. So if what I'm trying to do is making me sicker/weaker than I have to face that I must make adjustments.
To keep the foods that turn to sugar out of my diet, I have to add in meat proteins. It's a bit burdensome emotionally though, I mean I feel loyal to my Vegan life I had created. I want to go back to it. I'm not sure when I can do it and not feed the Candida too much from grains and beans? I've read that it can take up to 3 years to beat Candida if you do everything and have realistic understanding of the imbalance.
So bare with me if you like, this is still a work in progress. The one new major thing on my side is my water. If you want to know brand and such you'll have to comment me .... This machine takes my tap water and transforms it. Everyone in my house gets to drink it and they all say it makes them feel better, and they are all drinking lots more water! You know kids this is a mega accomplishment. This from a family that bought 6-9 cases of water at Sam's Club each month. (because of the IC even the filters we had bought didn't get enough of the chlorine out of our tap for my IC)
Anyhow, it gives me a PH of 9.5 the highest PH for drinking water, it adds in extra oxygen, minerals, ionizes the water too! Rids it of all the chemicals and makes it a pure bio-available water by making the molecules even smaller. How I know it's working? One my skin is hydrated and I'm not full of edema. Two it is making me sweat it out, when I walk man I am really sweating out toxins big time! Three, when I drink it I don't have to pee 10 mins later, not 30 mins later, not an hour later, not even 3 hours later. I can drink several glasses and it's not running straight through me like bottled water did, (btw my bottled water had a PH of 6 which is considered acidic, hmm wonder why I didn't really get better? uh? irrrr). So then when I do go I really go, and it's also apparent that the toxins are being eliminated. Sorry very TMI here, but it's a huge factor in our health! When your unhealthy and the one thing you body really needs, clean, healthy, usable water, is finally being taken in! All I can say is Ahhhhh! I'm so happy! The PH factor also allows me a little more freedom in what I can eat and not aggravate my IC! As PH is everything when your in flare if you don't want those painful blisters burning.
Hence I was able to have Umboshi Vinegar, I was able to drink acidic tea and not die after-wards, not only that my bladder is being so soothed by this PH level, and I've been walking w/o side effects the past two days.
Now don't get me wrong this is no miracle, this is in junction with so many changes in my life as you know. I know it's ALL working hand in hand. Yet, as an IC patient this water is a chance at life again. A life that just may be almost normal one day. I'm just a tiny bit thrilled it's already helping me so much. :-)
At any rate, I'm still eating my veggies! I'm drinking my water. I'm taking my supplements (which btw the one ones for my girl hormones if I don't take them I can tell right away my patient stops nearly cold I have to take them and give them an hour and suddenly I have the patience of Job. LOL
I imagine this may be my longest post yet. I may have temporarily added in the occasional egg or piece of chicken for now. Do not count me out as a Kind Diet Vegan convert. I am hoping to ease back into some of these carb based grains and beans and phase out my need for other protein sources and see if the Candida stays in balance. ;-)
At any rate, I'm basically doing very well. I have more energy, more stable all day energy, and my sleeping wow! It's such hard rest, oh which reminds me he (my doc) has me taking a Zinc before I go to sleep, he said it helps the body regulate sugar, but I tell you what it's like a sleeping pill for me. When I don't have it I can tell, when I do I sleep like a rock! So maybe if your having sleep issues you just might want to try a Zinc instead of some drug. ;-)
(remember I am NOT a doctor of any sort here, so do your own research and check with your doctor first! before copying anything I've been doing for my health).
So pictures, a bowl of fresh organic cabbage, lightly stir fried in coconut oil.
Zucchini and yellow squash with broccoli all organic and lightly steamed. This bowl I cheated and had Umboshi Vinegar, along with no cheat Flax oil. (the vinegar isn't great for my IC, but tastes oh so good and I really needed something to have flavor!).
There you go things I was eating and trying to tell myself it was enough and I'd get through. It wasn't and I didn't. There was no real way to meet my protein requirements, and fight the Candida and stay Vegan. I really gave it my ALL, and then some. I found myself in town driving my daughter to her class and back to the hospital to visit my new nephew, and just not having enough brain function to be a safe driver even. So I stopped at a place they serve non fast food chicken tenders. (well not in that gross traditional over breaded crap you get at a drive thru, no drive thru here). I got 3 tenders (couldn't even eat 3 turned out my stomach has shrunk), pealed off the very light breading and felt so much better physically and really down about having to blog about it. So I've been procrastinating.
I resorted to chicken three times this weekend. Even though I did, I was so very depleted that I faltered physically at the wedding I was working. I nearly passed out twice, and twice I could not get back up after getting on my knee to get a shot. I had tried to eat a little chicken, but with my time constraints had gotten McD's, they were just too gross and I couldn't get them down. I had my bowl of almonds with me and my amazing water. I'd just been hungry and taking all these supplements, detoxing the Candida too many days. I was spent and didn't have what I needed to get through my work day.
I ended up having to drink some of the sweet tea offered with the wedding meal at the reception. I really thought I would have a serious back lash from this, one the tea is very bad for my IC and two the sugar undoes everything I had been fighting for to kill the Candida. (seems though I've been OK and I didn't suffer too badly)
It did what I needed it to do, I had a baked chicken breast, green beans, two bites of corn bread and that glass of sweet tea. I guess the chicken kept me from having a sugar crash on the drive home? I'm not sure, but I did regain my strength enough to not pass out (although my muscles still rebelled about getting back up off the ground once, embarrassing! ugh)
Wedding teaser image:
Sunday I took it easy, we had a late breakfast as a family, I had 2 scrambled eggs with a side of avocado. We were going to eat out as a family after our bible service, but Hubby ended up not feeling good. So the kids voted for a Greek place we've not been to in ages. We loved it, but when my IC flared for 6 months last year I couldn't eat there anymore. We got out of the habit. I didn't think I could eat there anyway as a Vegan. Boy! was I wrong about that. We went and turns out they have this wonderful veggie dinner plate, I skipped the rice and order it with Tabbouleh salad, so all veggies (and there was very little Bulgar wheat in the salad almost entirely fresh parsley.. IC friendly soothing food yes!).
I ate the entire plate and it was no small platter of veggies. lol I was so hungry for veggies. ha Not all of them were Candida starving, but at this point I've been so starving, I'm wondering how healthy it is to starve yourself for two weeks? How can I fight and detox while being so depleted I can barely function? OK so yep that was me justifying cooked carrots they taste so good, but do go to sugars too fast.
At any rate, between eggs, and large amounts of veggies for two days in a row now. I'm starting to feel my self! I also took a 40 min walk yesterday and today with my daughter and our dogs. I endured the muggy heat, and the hills so much better than I've been able to do in any recent memory.
I have actually lost weight at this point. Weight I can see, feel and few others have noticed as well.
I know I've slipped up with the foods that the Candida can feed on this weekend with a few of my choices. I know that I've slipped up bad on the Vegan commitment. I am reminding myself that the entire reason for this journey was to restore my health. So if what I'm trying to do is making me sicker/weaker than I have to face that I must make adjustments.
To keep the foods that turn to sugar out of my diet, I have to add in meat proteins. It's a bit burdensome emotionally though, I mean I feel loyal to my Vegan life I had created. I want to go back to it. I'm not sure when I can do it and not feed the Candida too much from grains and beans? I've read that it can take up to 3 years to beat Candida if you do everything and have realistic understanding of the imbalance.
So bare with me if you like, this is still a work in progress. The one new major thing on my side is my water. If you want to know brand and such you'll have to comment me .... This machine takes my tap water and transforms it. Everyone in my house gets to drink it and they all say it makes them feel better, and they are all drinking lots more water! You know kids this is a mega accomplishment. This from a family that bought 6-9 cases of water at Sam's Club each month. (because of the IC even the filters we had bought didn't get enough of the chlorine out of our tap for my IC)
Anyhow, it gives me a PH of 9.5 the highest PH for drinking water, it adds in extra oxygen, minerals, ionizes the water too! Rids it of all the chemicals and makes it a pure bio-available water by making the molecules even smaller. How I know it's working? One my skin is hydrated and I'm not full of edema. Two it is making me sweat it out, when I walk man I am really sweating out toxins big time! Three, when I drink it I don't have to pee 10 mins later, not 30 mins later, not an hour later, not even 3 hours later. I can drink several glasses and it's not running straight through me like bottled water did, (btw my bottled water had a PH of 6 which is considered acidic, hmm wonder why I didn't really get better? uh? irrrr). So then when I do go I really go, and it's also apparent that the toxins are being eliminated. Sorry very TMI here, but it's a huge factor in our health! When your unhealthy and the one thing you body really needs, clean, healthy, usable water, is finally being taken in! All I can say is Ahhhhh! I'm so happy! The PH factor also allows me a little more freedom in what I can eat and not aggravate my IC! As PH is everything when your in flare if you don't want those painful blisters burning.
Hence I was able to have Umboshi Vinegar, I was able to drink acidic tea and not die after-wards, not only that my bladder is being so soothed by this PH level, and I've been walking w/o side effects the past two days.
Now don't get me wrong this is no miracle, this is in junction with so many changes in my life as you know. I know it's ALL working hand in hand. Yet, as an IC patient this water is a chance at life again. A life that just may be almost normal one day. I'm just a tiny bit thrilled it's already helping me so much. :-)
At any rate, I'm still eating my veggies! I'm drinking my water. I'm taking my supplements (which btw the one ones for my girl hormones if I don't take them I can tell right away my patient stops nearly cold I have to take them and give them an hour and suddenly I have the patience of Job. LOL
I imagine this may be my longest post yet. I may have temporarily added in the occasional egg or piece of chicken for now. Do not count me out as a Kind Diet Vegan convert. I am hoping to ease back into some of these carb based grains and beans and phase out my need for other protein sources and see if the Candida stays in balance. ;-)
At any rate, I'm basically doing very well. I have more energy, more stable all day energy, and my sleeping wow! It's such hard rest, oh which reminds me he (my doc) has me taking a Zinc before I go to sleep, he said it helps the body regulate sugar, but I tell you what it's like a sleeping pill for me. When I don't have it I can tell, when I do I sleep like a rock! So maybe if your having sleep issues you just might want to try a Zinc instead of some drug. ;-)
(remember I am NOT a doctor of any sort here, so do your own research and check with your doctor first! before copying anything I've been doing for my health).
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