Re: how is everybody doing on the diet?

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Dans un e-mail daté du 23/06/2004 20:04:03 Romance Standard Time,

thenaturalkitchen@... a écrit :

> my wedding is in a month and i want to feel vibrant!!

>

> thanks bee, and everyone ~ suz

Congratulations suz! I hope the little critters will not come to the

celebration. I am sure you will be vibrant and full of energy.

Francine

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hi bee and friends

i've been doing the diet for about a month now. but only recently

REALLY getting pure with it (ie: no goat yogurt or goat cheese in my

salads which i was having 3 or 3 times per week). tried kefir but i

don't think it agrees with me.

i'm taking betaine HCI with each meal, each meal containing protein &

veggies (sometimes a salad, sometimes cooked, sometimes both). butter

on steamed veggies, and celtic sea salt. coconut oil after each meal

when i'm at home. i eat cayenne on everything! when i'm out i order

the plainest salad (with protein like grilled chicken or salmon) or

entree i can find, no dressings or sauces, just olive oil & lemon

wedges please.

a snack is germinated & dehydrated seed crackers (mixed sunflower,

sesame & flax with garlic & sea salt). they are from mauk family

farms, still " raw " and very very tasty!! are these okay right now for

me, bee? or i'm soaking my own walnuts & almonds with celtic sea salt

& then drying in the gas oven with just the heat of the pilot light.

i make a green juice once per day about 5 days out of the week, with

fresh garlic & ginger & dandelion in it (and cuke, celery, parsley,

cilantro, lemon too).

i'm taking vitamin c w/ bioflavanoids in the form of calcium

ascorbate, around 2000 mg/day, and a hi-stress b complex every other

day or so - no bad ingredients.

i have pau d'arco tea, every other day or so, but haven't gotten my

routine down with that yet! i do drink yerba mate tea in the morning,

to help combat the extreme tiredness. then i switch to herbal tea for

the rest of the day.

i've been taking grapefruit seed extract about once or twice per day.

was taking an acidophilus (the bottle broke so i don't have the

ingredient list), but i stopped when i read that it doesn't help if

there's still alot of candida inside the pipes.

i'm going to buy cabbage today and begin rejuvelac-ing, and i got

some ground cloves which i will try as tea this evening.

haven't had much die off feelings (aside from the first couple of

days on the diet, with acidophilus & grapefruit seed extract). got

nauseated & brain foggy.

i still have my candida symptoms, so i'm ready to step it up a level

with the clove tea, rejuvelac, and will start on pau d'arco daily.

i am just so tired all the time! i look tired.

my wedding is in a month and i want to feel vibrant!!

thanks bee, and everyone ~ suz

[Guest guest]

> hi bee and friends

>

> i've been doing the diet for about a month now. but only recently

> REALLY getting pure with it (ie: no goat yogurt or goat cheese in

my

> salads which i was having 3 or 3 times per week). tried kefir but i

> don't think it agrees with me.

>

> i'm taking betaine HCI with each meal, each meal containing protein

&

> veggies (sometimes a salad, sometimes cooked, sometimes both).

butter

> on steamed veggies, and celtic sea salt. coconut oil after each

meal

> when i'm at home. i eat cayenne on everything! when i'm out i order

> the plainest salad (with protein like grilled chicken or salmon) or

> entree i can find, no dressings or sauces, just olive oil & lemon

> wedges please.

>

> a snack is germinated & dehydrated seed crackers (mixed sunflower,

> sesame & flax with garlic & sea salt). they are from mauk family

> farms, still " raw " and very very tasty!! are these okay right now

for

> me, bee? or i'm soaking my own walnuts & almonds with celtic sea

salt

> & then drying in the gas oven with just the heat of the pilot

light.

>

> i make a green juice once per day about 5 days out of the week,

with

> fresh garlic & ginger & dandelion in it (and cuke, celery, parsley,

> cilantro, lemon too).

>

> i'm taking vitamin c w/ bioflavanoids in the form of calcium

> ascorbate, around 2000 mg/day, and a hi-stress b complex every

other

> day or so - no bad ingredients.

>

> i have pau d'arco tea, every other day or so, but haven't gotten my

> routine down with that yet! i do drink yerba mate tea in the

morning,

> to help combat the extreme tiredness. then i switch to herbal tea

for

> the rest of the day.

>

> i've been taking grapefruit seed extract about once or twice per

day.

> was taking an acidophilus (the bottle broke so i don't have the

> ingredient list), but i stopped when i read that it doesn't help if

> there's still alot of candida inside the pipes.

>

> i'm going to buy cabbage today and begin rejuvelac-ing, and i got

> some ground cloves which i will try as tea this evening.

>

> haven't had much die off feelings (aside from the first couple of

> days on the diet, with acidophilus & grapefruit seed extract). got

> nauseated & brain foggy.

>

> i still have my candida symptoms, so i'm ready to step it up a

level

> with the clove tea, rejuvelac, and will start on pau d'arco daily.

>

> i am just so tired all the time! i look tired.

>

> my wedding is in a month and i want to feel vibrant!!

>

> thanks bee, and everyone ~ suz

[Guest guest]

Hey Chef Suz,

My you do have it great being a cook. Again you make my mouth water.

>>>>>i've been doing the diet for about a month now. but only

recently REALLY getting pure with it (ie: no goat yogurt or goat

cheese in my salads which i was having 3 or 3 times per week). tried

kefir but i don't think it agrees with me.

===>Good for you. You'll only know when you try getting off goat

products and if kefir doesn't agree it's not good at this time. Even

now I can't handle very much store bought kefir at a time. Maybe one

day I will make it the right way. lo?

>>>>>i'm taking betaine HCI with each meal, each meal containing

protein & veggies (sometimes a salad, sometimes cooked, sometimes

both). butter on steamed veggies, and celtic sea salt. coconut oil

after each meal when i'm at home. i eat cayenne on everything!

====>Good plan Chef. Does your Hcl contain pepsin too? I'm learning

that pepsin is quite important, and it fact it makes Hcl in the

stomach. I originally thought cayenne was good, and it may be good

for you too, but recently I learned that it contains a " natural

aspirin " which may not help with candida. That's new information to

me.

>>>>a snack is germinated & dehydrated seed crackers (mixed

sunflower, sesame & flax with garlic & sea salt). they are from mauk

family farms, still " raw " and very very tasty!! are these okay right

now for me, bee? or i'm soaking my own walnuts & almonds with celtic

sea salt & then drying in the gas oven with just the heat of the

pilot light.

====>Maybe think about whether the gas from the stove is getting into

the nuts - I'm not sure. Air drying can take a long time. The

crackers sound like tasty treats. Yum. Whether they are okay

depends upon how many you eat and how you respond to them. Do you

soak the seeds too?

>>>>i make a green juice once per day about 5 days out of the week,

with fresh garlic & ginger & dandelion in it (and cuke, celery,

parsley, cilantro, lemon too).

====>Sounds great Chef. Is there enough garlic to act as an

antifungal for you?

>>>>i'm taking vitamin c w/ bioflavanoids in the form of calcium

> ascorbate, around 2000 mg/day, and a hi-stress b complex every

other day or so - no bad ingredients.

===>That's good too.

>>>>>i have pau d'arco tea, every other day or so, but haven't gotten

my routine down with that yet! i do drink yerba mate tea in the

morning, to help combat the extreme tiredness. then i switch to

herbal tea for the rest of the day.

===>Is yerba mate a herbal non-decaffeinated tea?

>>>>i've been taking grapefruit seed extract about once or twice per

day. was taking an acidophilus (the bottle broke so i don't have the

> ingredient list), but i stopped when i read that it doesn't help if

> there's still alot of candida inside the pipes.

===>Interesting that the bottle of acidophilus would say that. Was

it liquid or powder? Do you feel you still have " a lot of candida? "

Because you do take acidophilus at a different time than antifungals -

it's like kill the enemy and then bring in the peace corp

(probiotics); and keep repeating it 3-4 times a day.

>>>>i'm going to buy cabbage today and begin rejuvelac-ing, and i got

some ground cloves which i will try as tea this evening.

===>I'd be interested in how the rejuvelac goes for you.

>>>>>haven't had much die off feelings (aside from the first couple

of days on the diet, with acidophilus & grapefruit seed extract). got

nauseated & brain foggy.

===>Clove tea helps alleviate die-off too, so does extra vit. c and B

vitamins.

>>>>i still have my candida symptoms, so i'm ready to step it up a

level with the clove tea, rejuvelac, and will start on pau d'arco

daily.

====>Good plan. You should do well the way you are going Chef.

>>>i am just so tired all the time! i look tired.

===>Have you considered doing the nifty " dry skin brushing " to

stimulate your adrenals? And Epsom salt or salt baths to pull out

toxins thorough your largest organ, the skin? Or have you ventured

into doing an enema. It was unbelievable to me how much better they

made me feel. First I did the nystatin enema (you could make the

garlic tea and use that), about 3-4 days later the coffee one and 3-4

days after that the acidophilus. They are trully rejuvenating.

>>>>my wedding is in a month and i want to feel vibrant!!

===>Wow! Congratulations my friend. How exciting for you. I want

to to feel vibrant too. Write directly to me if you wish, on

anything. Okay?

Warm regards,

Bee

[Guest guest]

BEE! thanks for your individual answers to all my comments - wow!!

here's my responses

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bee wrote:

>You'll only know when you try getting off goat

>products and if kefir doesn't agree it's not good at this time.

======> yes, cow dairy (except butter) doesn't do well for me, so i

wasn't really surprised that the kefir seemed to cause discomfort.

i'm fine without the goat cheese, it was a new thing for me anyway,

so i'm not attached! and butter is such a delicious re-discovery, i'm

loving it!

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bee wrote:

> Does your Hcl contain pepsin too? I'm learning

> that pepsin is quite important, and it fact it makes Hcl in the

> stomach. I originally thought cayenne was good, and it may be good

> for you too, but recently I learned that it contains a " natural

> aspirin " which may not help with candida. That's new information

> to me.

======> yes indeed it has pepsin... the whole list is:

calcium carbonate ..................100 mg

betaine (from 1200 mg betaine HCI)..912 mg

pepsin (USP 1:10,000)...............36.4 mg

papain (2,000 USP units/mg).........10 mg

bromelain (2,000 GDU/g).............10 mg

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bee wrote:

> Maybe think about whether the gas from the stove is getting into

> the nuts - I'm not sure.

======> i don't think so, the pilot light is pretty warm in there, so

it's burning up the majority of gas. i actually tried my electric

dehydrator for the first time in a long time yesterday, it made some

really great crispy walnuts, but it seems to suck up so much

electricity, we decided to go back to the oven method, since its

already there anyway, with the pilot light just burning away...

> The

> crackers sound like tasty treats. Yum. Whether they are okay

> depends upon how many you eat and how you respond to them. Do you

> soak the seeds too?

======> yes, they are soaked and germinated (just beginning to

sprout) before being crisped in the dehydrator. i don't make these, i

buy them, they are a great convenience food. i try not to eat too

much at one time, i don't feel any reaction to them. maybe an amount

equal to an area the size of my palm, or a palm and a half.

in general, are soaked nuts and seeds okay for a beginning candida

program? i'd like to make pumpkin seeds this way too for snacking.

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bee wrote:

> Is there enough garlic (in the green juice) to act as an

> antifungal for you?

======> i put one med-large clove of garlic in each juice. probably

not enough to do a whole lot, but more than that and i reek!!

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bee wrote:

> Is yerba mate a herbal non-decaffeinated tea?

======> it is an herb, a green bush grown in the rainforests of

paraguay & argentina (check out www.guayaki.com). there is a mild

stimulant quality to it, but its not the same as caffeine. i have

loved and been drinking this tea for over ten years now. i drink it

very watered down, but i do love it! i believe its really a good herb.

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bee wrote:

> Interesting that the bottle of acidophilus would say that (it won't

work if there is still lots of candida in the body). Was

> it liquid or powder? Do you feel you still have " a lot of

candida? "

> Because you do take acidophilus at a different time than

antifungals -

> it's like kill the enemy and then bring in the peace corp

> (probiotics); and keep repeating it 3-4 times a day.

======> oh, i read that somewhere on the forum a while back, i

thought i did anyway! (as opposed to on the bottle of acidophilus).

mine is a powder.

i DO feel like i still must be teeming with candida. i'm really

tired, people tell me i look tired (its been foggy here 5 or 6 days

straight, which isn't helping). i am still having digestive troubles

regularly. i'll be fine for a day or two, then i get constipation &

gas. i tried mega doses of vitamin c on sunday, it worked very well,

but its still a bummer to get this problem so often.

that is a great lesson on acidpohilus/anti-fungal timing. maybe i'll

try it again, taking them at different times as you recommend!

i do skin brush, but not regularly, same with salt baths, but i love

them both. i think i'm due for an enema. i've never done one, but all

i hear is good things. i'll check more into that tomorrow.

just made my first clove tea. wow! strong! i'll have to check the

recipe for that. is it normally really bitter upon first sipping?

thanks again bee, nite nite ~ suz