The Reluctant Raw Foodist
"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 :
T. Colin Campbell - The China Study
Just made a green smoothie for breakfast - my new habit for November.
If you need recipes/inspiration have a look at my smoothie page on the front of my blog x
Good to remember! I often have to do things first then I start to enjoy them :)
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I have had several queries recently about how I gave up dairy:-
I knew this was going to be a biggy for me but I also knew instinctively that Dirk was right when he said he thought it was part of my problem.
It is somewhat ironic that all my early life I had point blank refused to eat any form of cheese apart from the odd bit of salty cheddar and to drink most milk products. Then in the last few years I had actually started to acquire a taste for cheese as an alternative dessert to sweet things and I had latterly become quite a connoisseur.
I was not a little resentful that I had to give up so many foods for the good of my health but I had started already to suspect that my favourite bread and cheese were causing me problems….
It was a great incentive (or not depending on how you look at it! ) that my body reacts so strongly to milk and cheese with rashes, diarrhoea, immense joint pain and other issues. I have to say that as I returned time and time again to eating a bit of cheese I found that these symptoms returned. You would think therefore it would be easy for me to give it up but, on that basis, we would all give up everything that is bad for us and we don’t, of course…
This is how I did it …
This works. Eat slow :)
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I now have a habit of daily meditation x
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It can take a while to change long held habits..
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My husband, who is now severely cognitively impaired following strokes, used to eat a lot of sweets in the evenings while watching TV. He had a learned habit of eating them and this was difficult to break owing to his impairment. He now has a bowl of fruit and a green smoothie instead. Every evening he now looks for his bowl of chopped fruit and munches it happily.
