This blog is the beginning of my health transformation. Here is my embarrassing truth and torment. I have been struggling with bacterial and yeast infections for THREE years! That alone is enough to make any woman weep. Not only having to constantly deal with the physical symptoms, but the psychologically ones as well. And my poor husband has been so patient and supportive, even though he can't fully understand completely what I have been suffering with.
Along with those symptoms I have also been dealing with embarrassing psoriasis and dermatitis, hormonal imbalance problems, mood swings, migraines and more. I attributed it to having my fourth child and turning 30 all in the same year. I heard that when you hit 30 everything just goes to pot. I refused however to just live with my ailments for the rest of my life. My infirmities albeit mild compared to what some have to suffer on a daily basis, it was VERY hard for me to bear at times and lately I had finally just worked myself into a cycle of depression and acceptance because nothing was working.
And when I say nothing was working, I mean that WESTERN MEDICINE WAS NOT WORKING!
I have visited the doctor SO MANY TIMES, and have taken EVERY ANTIBIOTIC and EVERY anti-fungal cream and pill. I took medication for my dermatitis and psoriasis and also was taking synthetic hormones for my imbalance problems. My persistent plight baffled the doctors and so they just continued endless rounds of antibiotics. They couldn't understand it anymore than I could. I am a young active, healthy mother with no previous health problems in my history. But yet, there I was, month after month.
I started to do my own research and found that what was most likely happening was that the antibiotics were killing my friendly, good bacteria and the bad bacteria was thriving and wreaking havoc on my system. I tried a few holisitic rememdies but with little success. Not even much relief of my symptoms. So, back to the doctor's I went.
Craig and I were talking one night and I was again complaining about my situation. I was just Soooo tired of it and wanted relief badly. Long term relief that is, like a CURE. So my wonderful husband did some research and found this e-book written by Linda Allen called "YEAST INFECTION NO MORE." She had been a sufferer for years and as I found out, there are a lot of women out there who have suffered like I have. Over years of research and study she put together her own Holisitic Healing system that has worked for thousands of women. I purchased it immediately and read the whole 260 page e-book in 2 days. Craig also read over it and we decided that it was something that I needed to do.
I have not felt this hopeful and scared in a long time. Hopeful, that this might take care of the problem once and for all! Scared because it is an intense program and it is going to be hard. Physically and maybe even more emotionally. I will not only be healing myself through specific steps and procedures, but I will be rebuilding myself by changing more drastically my eating habits that attribute greatly to my disease. Because as it turns out, it is as persistent as a disease at this point. My organs have been flooded with bacteria and toxins and have made it next to impossible for the good and healthy bacteria to grow and heal my body.
The program is a several step program. First I change my nutritional habits. I have to cut out ALL refined sugar, all dairy, all processed foods, little to no red meats and all gluten. It is encouraged that you should eat 75% raw everyday. Bacteria feed on these foods and for this purpose I need to exclude them from my diet and really consider cutting them from my diet forever to stay healthy. I also will be using her prescribed vitamins, supplements and oils to aid in each stage of healing.
After I change my diet and become accustomed to it, I then begin a cleansing process where I begin the detoxifying of my organs. This can be unpleasant as the toxins will be moving thru my organs and I will really be limiting my food consumption then. I can only consume what I can juice along with water and herbal teas. This includes an all over organ cleanse followed by a liver and parasite detox. This whole process can take up to a month with breaks in between each cleanse.
At this point I should be feeling really good. My energy should be thru the roof and my symptoms gone. Then I will take specific supplements and oils that will kill any bad bacteria left in my system, followed by a flooding of my system with healthy friendly bacteria.
If all goes as planned, I should be bacteria and yeast free forever within 12-16 weeks. Just before I head off to Hawaii! I then will have to do the cleanse twice a year and should decide if I want to reintroduce any specific foods back in to my diet.
The whole diet and food restrictions thing is going to be difficult for me. I have always pretty much ate whatever I wanted and I definitely have a sweet tooth. I am also an emotional eater so the psychological transformation that I am required to make will be tedious. That's why I named this blog SUGAR FREE ME because I honestly feel like this will be the most difficult step for me.
To help me prepare to become SUGAR FREE I got another e-book by Sara Wilson called I QUIT SUGAR. She outlines some really great steps that I am going to follow as I detox from sugar. It also outlines why we should all take this step in our lives to one degree or another. We were not ever meant to consume the amounts of sugar that we do. It leads to a multitude of health problems and diseases that most people never attribute to their sugar and processed foods consumption.
Anyway, I am going to try to blog as often as I can on my progress and daily assess my mental state as I take this journey. I think this will help me every day to remind myself why I am doing this. BECAUSE I WILL FEEL SO GREAT AND I CAN'T WAIT!
