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I have been having one good day where I have very little symptoms and then the next day is horrible whether with frequency or anxiety or pain or all of them or just a combination. You all speak of due offs. Could just going on the stage one diet with no herbal remedies cause die offs? Maybe that is why my anxiety is do strong? Is anxiety a form if a die off? I meant die offs not due offs!
You defenitely can have die
You defenitely can have die off when you eliminate sugar from your diet. You also get more stable on the protocol, so hopefully there will be ups and downs but for the most part will be easier to manage.
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
Mimi,
Mimi,
I never really had sugar in my diet. I have been on the diet for about 4 weeks now too.
So it's can be like this? Back to back to back bad days and good days? I mean I am really glad for the good days obviously, but the bad days, which can mostly be the extreme anxiety and frequent urination and sometimes pain and spasms can be a normal progression of healing? It throws you off. I have been going to the bathroom every hour or more and can't get off my anxiety or panic attack. Yesterday was a pretty good day. I just don't understand this.
It seems like early in
It seems like early in treatment things can be really up and down. Once you are on your protocol things seem to smooth out for many. I would ask Dr. B what she expects your normal progression of healing to be. But just being on the diet alone is not going to progress you past a certain point. At least that is what I understand from what I have read here...
When you say you never really had sugar in your diet, what does that mean? Did you have "natural" sugars, like honey or anything? Or stevia, or splenda? Sugar in coffee or tea? I am just trying to understand. You mean that before you got sick, you never ate cereals, or crackers, or sauces, or morning fruit spreads, or any processed foods from the store with even small amounts of added sugar? Did you eat fruit? The reason I am pressing on this issue is that yeast (candida albicans) will eat any small amount of sugar that you give it, even from fruit, no matter how small the amount. And once you completely cut added sugar out of your diet, you are starving the yeast and they die and that releases chemicals in the body (and the brain) that cause all kinds of temporary but wierd symptoms.
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
Mimi,
Mimi,
Yes idid have some sugar. I don't really have a sweet tooth tho. Sometimes I put maple syrup in my oatmeal. No sugar in my teas or coffee. Occasionally honey. I'm sure I had it in some processed stuff but didn't have a lot of that. When out for dinner often had dried cranberries or some pears in a salad. But not big on fruit. I did enjoy apples occasionally. So yes. I did have sugar. Also occasional glasses of wine.
Didnt know that by eliminating that I could get symptoms. Thanks for explaining that. I have her book. I am afraid to read it for some reason. Maybe I will read things that will indicate I am not a good candidate or something. I know that's stupid but, there goes my worrying.
I am forcing myself to go out to an event with my husband tonight. Mimi, I have some questions but will need to post later.
Sue