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 :
So many of us have a lot of negativity to deal with surrounding our health issues. This post from a friend of mine who has recovered from her own illness caught my eye today.. Click here for the link.
I use Helen’s method of dealing with issues a lot - It works for me…
Helen lived with me…
Gonna try this. : )
This is for any of you that suffer from fatigue and or anxiety. My friend Helen’s post (click here) is timely advice.
Helen is staying with me for the weekend helping me with my husband as his usual live in care giver is on holiday. It’s great to see a once very ill person now have so much energy. She is buzzing around the place at the moment cooking for us all as well as sorting out my husband’s clothes and helping him, as necessary, to get up, shower and dress…
To think I once used to have to look after her as she was confined to bed with CFS …
So many of us have a lot of negativity to deal with surrounding our health issues. This post from a friend of mine who has recovered from her own illness caught my eye today.. Click here for the link.
I use Helen’s method of dealing with issues a lot - It works for me…
Helen lived with me for a while while when she was at the height of her illness and she left me in such a state that she had to be escorted to her parents’ home by car as she was otherwise too ill to travel. It is great to see her now so much better, now able to work again, setting up her own business and even getting married. All things she could not imagine a few years ago… . :))
My light reading LOL . When you no longer have a doctor who understands your condition then you do your own research!
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
These worked for me.. Actually my friend Helen writes about ME but these recovery tips are excellent whatever the issue :)) x
(via liligiworld)
These worked for me.. Actually my friend Helen writes about ME but these recovery tips are excellent whatever the issue :)) x
Yoga! I need to get back into it. It;s been so difficult with my frozen shoulder but it is now starting to thaw.. Yeeaay! I am so flippin’ glad.. at last, at last x
(via melanie-is-healthy)
My dear friend Helen visited me over the weekend. For a time, she used to live with me here to help me with my husband. She has suffered with M.E for 15 years and so we used to try to arrange it so that she could take frequent rests etc throughout each day. Finally, a couple of years ago I had to…
Thank you so much for the support Helen has received. Do have a look at her website if you have not already been there. Her recovery story is remarkable and she may very well be able to help you if you have ME or any anxiety issues x
(via lowhistaminegirl)
