I can say today that I will successfully complete the 4 week diet without any sugar or grains, as of tomorrow. It definitely has not been easy. I had been on this diet 6 years ago, and it seemed so much easier than, then it did this time. I am suppose to do this diet once a year according to my preventive Dr. in Texas. I have not done it because it is not much fun to do. When you give up the sugars, carbs, and grains, the bad bacteria in your gut dies off. When they die off, you can have many unfavorable symptoms due to the toxins being dumped into your blood systems from the dead yeast. The symptoms I dealt with this month were headaches, irritability, (poor Joe), dizziness/lightheadedness, nausea, food cravings, decreased appetite, bathroom changes and bloating. There are other die off symtoms on the list, but these are the ones I experienced. I had a Magic Bullet that I use to make smoothies with, but it died last summer. I went out and bought the NutriBullet to replace it for this month. This morning I made a smoothie recipe that was in the NutriBullet recipe guide. It called for two handfuls of spinach, 1 orange with rind, 1/2 lemon with rind, 1/2 lime with rind, 1" chunk of ginger, sea salt and 2 Tbs raw honey. I couldn't have the honey, so I put in Stevia instead. It was not drinkable as far as I was concerned, but it did blend the orange, lemon, and lime rinds completely to my surprise. |
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