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 :
UK is much the same.
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True, who needs fake food :)
THIS THIS THIS.
I’m always telling my sister about how my children are not going to know what processed chicken nuggets, fake cheese, and hot dogs taste like. No way. They’re going to love healthy food as much as I do :)
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(via thevegancheese)
It is a good idea not to buy things that might tempt you to crave/binge later. As I do not buy processed foods such as these I never even walk down the “potato crisps” shopping aisle any more so I never see them. If you pick up a packet like this do read the list of ingredients and see if you can actually identify everything as real food. If you cannot then neither will your stomach!
If it’s not in your house, you can’t binge on it.
(via colortheplanetfitness)
I have been around the block when it comes to diet and health…
There are no quick fix diets that work long term ..
Losing weight quickly, such as I did when I gave up sugar - 7lb in a week, was a loss of water not body fat. My body was storing water to try to fend off the poisons I was eating.
Too little food results in starvation and may lead to other problems such as bingeing and purging. It can really harm your health to keep yoyo dieting and it can really harm your purse to keep buying diet plans!
Eat healthy for long term sustainable health and fitness. Eat good clean wholesome foods that your grandmother would call food. Cut down or preferably cut out the processed toxic stuff. Eat enough healthy food to sustain your energy and health and no more. Do a little exercise.
My basic diet for life plan diet for free xx
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