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 :
… and everything to gain!….I told myself this when I decided to go for it and make the changes to my diet and lifestyle. I have missed some things but have never regretted my decision.
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I know this one!
I don’t think of myself as “cured”, I think of myself as symptom free. I eat the wrong things and or miss the greens out and it returns…. my sleeping dragons are always there…
So money was tight, tighter than usual, this week. Groceries would have to be the necessities. I, since having babies, have grown accustom to putting myself last; I didn’t buy for juicing.
BIG mistake.
I haven’t had my morning juice in four days. Yesterday my muscles were beginning to feel…
Mouth watering already!
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This sounds so much like me in my olds days and I can still do this on occasion if go off diet. I worked out that the extreme cold from inside is my immune system trying to bring down the inflammation. One piece of toast used to send my body into heat as I inflamed presumably in response to the histamine.
I always seem to be either too hot or too cold. This morning I woke up boiling, decided to do a little housework, then I instantly ended up with the chills, and had to bundle up. These freezing spells seem to come on suddenly and often lately. Is this a normal fibro/CFS thing?
Wow! Inspiration for all of us x
It has been 85 days since I started my grand vegan experiment. I had hopes that it would improve my fibromyalgia but what I got was SO much more.
I did not expect it to have such an enormous affect on my entire view on food. I now have so many more reasons to be vegan; to raise my little hobbits…
I am sure I would have been dead by now if I hadn’t changed my diet and lifestyle.
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Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is an inspirational film showing how Joe and Phil lost a lot of weight and got rid of their autoimmune conditions (and all the prescribed tablets) in the process. So worth watching x
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I am really starting to believe this now …
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