So I put myself on a candida detox for a month. Its not a liquid detox, so its actually much easier to do than your regular cayenne, lemon yada yada detox. I personally believe that the body should never go through such a detox unless you are going to be laying around the house for a week and a half letting your body REALLY detox. People who try to do juice fasts, while working out/doing sports/etc. ends up really fatiguing your body rather than recharging. I am all about balance.
Although I already eat pretty well (gluten dairy and for the most part sugar free), I still seem to have problems with my skin, and digestion along with other things that come and go. Ive also been getting headaches lately that could be related. If you want to read more about candida overgrowth in the body, you can check out - Holistic Help - Candida.
Yesterday, I started my cleanse by taking a Yeast - Cleanse herbal supplement with pau'darco, grapefruit seed extract, caprylic acid, and a couple other things.
For breakfast Cheese Louise made me a vegetable omelette with sauteed rainbow chard, onions and fresh garlic. She put the garlic in the omlette raw to keep the antifungal/antibacterial properties alive instead of cooking them away. I swear by garlic. Its magic. We also made a large batch of organic short grain brown rice to eat throughout the day since its something thats not restricted by this diet.
For lunch I heated up some more brown rice, and sauteed some more veggies - Kale, onions, chard, collard greens, fresh unrefined olive oil and again fresh garlic on top. I have been seasoning almost everything with either natural herbs, or Bragg's Liquid Amino Acids.
I snacked throughout the day on some raw almonds, and finished off by making a seafood rice pasta which consisted of calamari, shrimp and scallops. I threw some onions and raw garlic in there along with some organic fresh basil and organic pasta sauce. Unfortunately, eating this meal made me feel really tired and heavy which wasn't so good before derby practice. I'm beginning to think it was from the rice pasta. Ill remember in the future not to eat something so heavy only a few hours before practice. I actually know not to do that but clearly forgot!
During practice I felt fatigued and slow. My mind also felt pretty foggy. I couldn't seem to focus clearly at all. I'm hoping with this diet, I can have a clear mind, along with no stomach cramps, or itchy skin. Having to worry about the burning in your stomach while trying to scrimmage is not easy.
When I got home I blended up a raw oatmeal shake. I added raw oats, unsweetened soy milk, some ice, cinnamon, and a drop or 2 of stevia. The flavor was delicious, although I accidentally added a bit too much ice to the mixture. Next time I will blend everything before adding ice, then slowly add some in cube by cube. The oatmeal thickens it up already so I think the ice is just there to keep it cold and just a teeny bit thicker.
Before bed I took another 3 yeast cleanse pills and passed out almost instantly.
I slept like a rock. My body needed it. I woke up and took my 3 yeast cleanse pills and headed over to the YMCA with Cheese and worked out in a gym for the first time in over a year! I still felt pretty fatigued, so I took it easy. I feel like my body is already beginning to clean itself out which could be the reason for all of this fatigue. I know that with any cleanse or new diet, your body goes from worse to much much better. We will see how I feel at derby practice tonight.
let me ask you something lady lola... i've heard that soy is bad for people with hypothyroid disease, which is something i unfortunately have had for the majority of my life. something about it blocking the effoects of the medication. do you know what could be replaced by milk besides soy?
ReplyDeleteAlmond milk is really good, and so is Hemp milk. Rice milk is a little more watery than the consistency of cow's milk. If you can, get the unsweetened kind. It's really delicious without adding sugar or cane juice, so why even add it in?
ReplyDeleteI try to stay away from soy milk just because soy is a filler in so many products and there are some that say soy increases estrogen levels. Good lord, please no more estrogen around here! But alas, I haven't found anything that mixes with coffee better than soy :(