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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Posts tagged "colourful"

I told you I eat rainbows! Actually I am careful with tomatoes and with peppers as I find they increase my histamine load for the day but I do eat some in preference to other “histaminy” foods.

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I eat rainbows everyday :)

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Yum!

Return of carrots!! LOL!

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Pretty!

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Visiting my friend Jane this afternoon. My hot water and fresh lemon served in this ..

Lunch yesterday. Pretty low in histamine with a veggie stew, some sweet potato and butternut squash mash, steamed asparagus and sugar snap peas, onion, some plantain cooked with ginger and garlic, and a variety of roast vegetables, parsnip, sweet potato.

We had sprightly senior guests (n their 80’s), my disabled husband who can have swallowing difficulties, as well as my mother who has both dementia and a version of my condition.

This was for a guest who has no histamine issues and she has tomato and sweet yellow peppers on her plate. We make food like this a the weekend so there is a choice for everyone. No matter what their palate, diet or disability.

Variety like this means mum has things to choose from. Important as she likes to feel she has some control. Mum also likes to eat a colourful meal. Eating rainbows.