The Reluctant Raw Foodist

Are you what you eat?

"I used to be a' foodie' and now I am a "foodist'"

Welcome to my health and wellbeing blog.

I’m not a raw foodist by choice. I was recently diagnosed as having a complicated autoimmune condition including severe Histamine Intolerance and a form of reactive arthritis. I have become hypersensitive to high histamine foods, pollen, dust and some everyday chemicals. My condition affects every area of my life.

I have Mast Cell Activation Disease (MCAD).

I was prescribed a low histamine diet and then a raw food diet to ease my symptoms and over the past 2 years I have overcome my reluctance to a new way of eating and living. I have been experimenting to combine the two diets and I have been learning how to eat a diet comprising mainly of low histamine raw fruit and vegetables and how to change the habits of a life time.

I am starting to feel healthier than I have ever been before. I have also lost 35 lbs in weight.

I will be sharing with you how I got here and I'll be exploring low histamine raw recipes, natural beauty products, how to cope with being "allergic to everything" and generally how to regain health and fitness and live life to the full despite my unusual condition!

Please feel free to message me with any suggestions, questions, or comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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These are some ads for where I buy my coconut water and stuff like that :

 

 

 

Obsessing over each meal  and weighing oneself everyday, many times a day, is futile. I used to do this when I could not understand why I was putting on weight especially while I was following a weight watchers regime.  Weight fluctuates. In my experience, this is when I have eaten and especially when I have recently eaten something that my body cannot deal with very well. When I stopped eating all foods containing processed sugar I dropped about 7 lb in a week. This was obviously not fat loss. I did not stop eating thousands of calories or starve myself in any way, I just cut out my daily sweet stuff.  I wasn’t eating that much but I was regularly eating processed foods containing sugar. As I cut out the sugar I added in lots of fresh fruit to compensate but the weight still just dropped away. I believe my body must have been bloating while dealing with the sugar which was poison to me. 

Obsessing over each meal  and weighing oneself everyday, many times a day, is futile. I used to do this when I could not understand why I was putting on weight especially while I was following a weight watchers regime. 

Weight fluctuates. In my experience, this is when I have eaten and especially when I have recently eaten something that my body cannot deal with very well.

When I stopped eating all foods containing processed sugar I dropped about 7 lb in a week. This was obviously not fat loss. I did not stop eating thousands of calories or starve myself in any way, I just cut out my daily sweet stuff.  I wasn’t eating that much but I was regularly eating processed foods containing sugar. As I cut out the sugar I added in lots of fresh fruit to compensate but the weight still just dropped away.

I believe my body must have been bloating while dealing with the sugar which was poison to me. 

(via runningkitty)

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