11 month update

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hi bee and all i have nt checked in on here for quite a while now but am pleased

to let you know that i ve been sticking to the diet.

my problems wen i first come on here was a constant facial rash which came about

after i took long doses of antibiotics. after 11 months on the diet id say

perhaps 1/5 of my rash no longer bothers me. i still have to put co on it to

stop it from flaring up but the skin on that bit of my face looks normal where

as the rest is consistently red.

im very happy with that bit of progress but disheartened by the speed of the

recovery itself. i rarely cheat and when i do my skin looks all the worse for it

apart from that bit of fresh skin which doesn t seem to react too badly. one

thing that does bother me is that i seem to have got more spots since being on

the diet which seem to be getting worse ever so gradually. wen i first got onto

the diet they hardly bothered me at all as i believed i was just about

outgrowing them but now im not sure whats going on.

im still in a position of whether i want to carry on with it all or not i ve

missed some of my old foods and am kind of worried that i ll never be able to

get a bit of my life back. im a 26 year old male and from england and a bit part

of my social life involves drinking beer down the pub which was only once or

twice a week but it was what i really enjoyed doin a few games of pool a laugh

with the lads it was one of my greatest pleasure s in life. it may sound sad but

i don t want to miss out on this for the rest of my life which is why i don t

know if the diet is for me in the long term.

when i first found this group i believed it would probably take me four months

to get rid of my rash cos i only had it for 3 years or so but soon come to

realise it was gonna take longer. im 26 and started wen i was 25 so ive only

really got 13-14 months left till ive done my months in healing to take me back

to birth so for the time being im gonna stick it out as im nearly half the way

through.

this may come across as a negative post but believe me it isn t. for those of

you who are sitting on the fence with this diet i was very sceptical at first

but since all my other options failed i thought i had no choice but to give this

a shot. im very glad that i did as i ve found some sort of control with my

condition. cured no but i can control it to an extent where its not controlling

me. the people including myself who have found this diet should count themselves

lucky as although its not the most pratical or easiest of diets to live with it

certainly does good to our bodys and given enough time will help many symptons

of our bad health go away i believe. this has been a life saver to me in away as

before hand my rash seem to be spreading more and more to the point where i was

scared to lve the house due to the embarassment. now on my good days i can

nearly forget about it existing but on my bad days i still want to hide away but

still for me to have these good days is much better than having none at all.

my plan of action is to see it out for the duration of time to take me back to

day one which for me works out to be another 14-15 months once this is done if

im still suffering from my sympton s then im gonna have to decide whether its

ever gonna go away completely or not. ive got used to the diet and remember

being told that once im healed i could take a day off a week and if thats the

case and im healed in the next 15 months then i will stick to this for life with

my day off a week so i can go down the pub drink beer and eat my long missed

favourite curry food from my local curry house. i will feel very happy that i ll

be healthy and that i can have apart of my old life back even if it were jus for

one day a week.

the foods i ve been eating i ve grown to enjoy. i still miss some of my old

foods but i now actually enjoy half my meals i eat and i think that was half the

battle in the beggining.

for those that are interested i eat

for breakfast most days i have the egg drink with two tablespoons of co and 3

eggs and loads of butter and water in. probably my least favourite meal of the

day. sometime s wen im bored i ll just skip this and have omelette and tomatos

instead

for lunch:

a can of albercore tuna in olive oil with romaine lettace,and chopped tomatos

with all the olive oil chucked in and a sprinkle of black pepper.this i eat

every two days as a lunch as every day is too much mercury.

on the days im not having my tuna i have homemade burger s with beef mince with

chopped tomatos inside them and coriander leaves and herbs and a dash of salt

and in general just mixed spices of whatever tickles my fancy that day. i have

these burgers with poached eggs or omelette and tomatos and lettace as a side

part.

and for tea if im feeling lazy i ll have about 8 chicken drumsticks on their own

which seem s to keep me fairly full up providing ive had all 6 tablespoons of co

that day

but wen im not so lazy and this is most nights i have about 1 medium sized

turnip roasted with broccoli, leekes and or cauliflour served up with either a

huge portion of roasted pork or lamb or chicken or steak.

please note if you see anything wrong with this please tell me. ive never quite

worked out the fitday ratios but figured as long as my carbs are quite low then

i should be ok. as for protein i probably have over the recommended daily

allowance i somtimes eat a whole medium sized chicken in one meal but i don t

think to much protein is to much of a problem

and thats it really as i say after 11 months i don t really miss any of the bad

foods wen im at home but wen i go out or there s big meals and stuff thats wen i

feel the diet holds me back. it has created diffulculties in my social life but

with a bit of luck and alot of hope then in 14 months i should be able to have

my one day off a week and should be able to get involved abit more socially for

meals and drinks and not have to worry all the time. but untill then im gonna

keep on trucking.

if in 14-15 months my spots are still bad and my rash is still present then i

think im gonna take a risky choice and go for the roaccutane treatment i ve been

offered this twice before first time 4 years ago but ive read so many bad thing

s about this drug that im only gonna use it as a last resort. hopefully it won t

come to that though. but its good to know i ve got a bk up plan if this does

fail me.

my wish is to one day be able to have clear skin and be able to eat one or two

meals of whatever i want a week and have the option of going out and having a

few beers once or twice a week if i can get to that stage bee would ve made me a

very happy young man. if i can never get to this stage then im afraid my back up

plan will need to come into play. but for the time being im gonna keep trying to

adress the cause and not the symptoms.

recently my mum made me go to the doctors as i ve lost alot of weight and he

took my blood i went back yesterday and he said my results were excellent not

good not ok but excellent. and after the appointment he said that the diet was

probably the best thing for someone in my position as he saw the amount of

improvement on the one side of my nose i had and told me to stick to it. this

doctor is the best in my area and gos to 3rd well countrys to help the sick for

nothing. he s more of a caring doctor then the ones that just want you in and

out so they can see the next patient and make more money so im glad it got his

approval. he never really asked alot about what i was eating i think he must

have assumed it was all really good for me since my blood results were so good

best of luck to everyone on their mission towards good health and thankyou so

much bee for providing this website and guidance to us all.

just a quick couple of question s for bee.

ive been on the diet for 11 months and only had one fifth of my symptoms of my

rash dissapear since im nearly half the way through do you think this will

actually be cleared by the time i reach my number of months alive in healing.

its been slower then i expected and at time s think its gonna take probably

twice my age in months to get rid of it completely?

2 my spots getting worse could this be down to just more die off and be because

my healing is getting deeper and deeper so pushing out more stuff.

3 i very rarely get any form s of headaches or nausea or swollen throats or

feelings of sickness anymore which i used to get quite often. i always

considered this to be die off and i always knew wen it was as i t d only last

for about an hour then dissappear. its funny cause i use to enjoy getting them

as i knew they would only last a short period and thought that my body was in

its healing mode and they were making me healthy. but i really can t remember

the last time i had one and am concerned that i may not be healing like i should

be. instead my only symptoms of die off now are my spots and rashs any ideas?

and lastly apart from die off i have nt been ill once in the whole time i ve

been on the diet no raised temperatures no flu no colds nothing so thank you.

sorry ive gone on i should post more often and then i would nt have to fit so

much in but for now i hope i ve given some encouragement

thankyou

colin