Mistake+diet changes.
Mistake first: I’m pretty sure that I kind of let life down yesterday. I booked a client the day before for 3pm, she came in at 10am. I had a feeling something was up and that I should have taken her right then and there , but instead I decided to be selfish and have my own workout and told her to come back at 3. She does, I workout, no big deal. Get an sms a bit later saying that she has hurt herself, rather severly from moving furniture. I know that’s not my fault, but she came in early for a reason and I’m pretty sure that reason was to keep that from happening-because she was on the verge. Damnit. That was really disappointing. I’m decently sure that even a little pump,a little cushioning, would have kept that from happening, or the fact that we worked out would have kept her from moving furniture at all. Well, there’s not much I can do now but hope and pray for the best, but life did send me a signal yesterday; that is that I can’t just sit back on my laurels now that I don’t feel a burning to desire to talk to the alcoholics and the homeless any longer. Still have to participate.
In other news, I have been experimenting a lot with nutrition lately. For a while there, in an attempt to decrease even further my candida symptoms(which are very few to begin with), I was eating almost all animal products all the time with the exception of one piece of fruit a day, most days. Well, I stopped feeling so good on that. In fact, I felt pretty crappy as well as…now this could be bs, but I felt like I was aging faster all of the sudden-a gray hair popped up here and there, and my sleep was awful. So anyway, I went in search of more info and I came across a guy named Dr. Doug Graham who has a totally different perspective on candida overgrowth. Well not totally different, but different enough to get my attention. He said that sugar is an issue, but more so, sugar combined with fat is the real issue. He said that fat has a way of slowing the absoption of sugar(which I already knew) via coating the insulin that the pancreas secretes in an attempt to eschew the sugar out of the bloodstream. Now I didn’t think of that. His suggestion to his cients is that they drastically reduce their protein and fat intake, and increase their carb intake to 80%. That’s basically candida blasphemy, so of course it piqued my interest. I took his advice.
Now going into this I realized that I wasn’t going to do well on the new diet as is. I would have to modify it. I need 4K calories per day just to maintain my bodyweight. That’s a hell of a lot of fruits and vegetables. But to get a good base understanding, I didn’t change anything and just ate fruits all day(this wasn’t exactly his suggestion, he advices many more vegetables, but I don’t do whole vegetables). Surprisingly to me, although I don’t know why, things worked as he said they would, for the most part. By the end of the day I was noticing the candida symptoms coming up again, but that was after a whole ton of fruit, not spaced far apart either. For the most part, it was ok, and had I eaten all that fruit plus the fat I normally eat, it would have been bad news-I know because I’ve experienced it. So that’s another piece of information I didn’t have before that I can now use to my advantage.
So bottom line, I’m still experimenting, but I’m getting more info with every new day. Animal products are still in the diet but they are kept far apart from fruits nowadays. That’s been a great change. In addition to that, I’ve further solidified my belief in the perfection of life and that the point really isn’t to try and sterilyze the things around you so you can live happily, but rather to try and live symbiotically with them-candida included. I’ll tell you one thing, one of the best and worst things I ever did for myself was subject myself to numerous rounds of antibiotics(over the course of my whole life).
December 1, 2009 at 7:43 pm
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