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 :
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My grandmother said this to me often x
Thank you for my food! A raw foodist prepares to eat x
rabbit cleaning by Pickle09 on Flickr. :)
I read all these worries on my dashboard. How you binged and now hate yourself. How you cannot cook and eat takeaways and get fat. How you cannot give up sodas, or sweet things. You cannot imagine life without alcohol, cannot lose weight, cannot eat without purging…. the list goes on.
It is human to do these things. You will not get anywhere by mentally, verbally, even physically beating yourself up. Self hatred will not help.
Please treat yourself with kindness and understanding. Be your own best friend. Would you smack a child who is learning to walk when she falls down or would you encourage her, lovingly, to get up and try again? Love that little child within you who needs help to change to better habits.
Let’s just make small changes and take it one step at a time. Kindly. Together.
I still rebel, eat rubbish and give myself joint pain and even diarrhoea! Sometimes! Not so often as I used to. Why do I when I know? I don’t know. That is the way I am, imperfect, human and improving- Carrying on, trying to get it right. One day! It is my life’s journey. I may never arrive.
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Make someone’s day today x The Reluctant Raw Foodist
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Og Mandino (American Essayist and Psychologist, 1923-1996)
Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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We need to look really hard sometimes. The Reluctant Raw Foodist
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