Today was a good day with little areas of drag during the
day. Woke up to 2 very bright-eyed boys
turning on the bedroom lights and jumping in our beds at 6:15am this
morning. I’m not sure why the sudden
change from closer to 7:00am to now closer to 6:00am… hopefully it’s not a new
trend for them. We did have 8 new inches
of snow so I had to go snow blow the driveway again—however; the snow was much
more powdery than yesterday and was easier to snow blow.
Anyway… breakfast consisted of the great standby steel cut
oats with almond milk and sprinkled with cinnamon. We changed up the green drink a tiny bit by
adding parsley; making the concoction Parsley, celery, lime (and lemon this
time), ginger, romaine, cucumber and spinach mixed with water. The good news is we picked up some kale and
collard greens so our juices for the next couple days may have a little more
variety.
The snow was still falling this morning—although not as
heavy as it was last night—and the roads were awful driving around town trying
to get everything done we needed to get done and I’m sorry to say that from a
story perspective the day was rather uneventful; however, from a candida
perspective it was very exciting. My
sinuses continue to get better and in fact, during the night last night my ears
made a sound similar to popping (although not as loud) and then I felt the
sensation of something almost draining letting me breath even better than I
have before.
The symptoms to keep getting better and it gives me hope for
what lies ahead—feeling better than I have in years. But… my wife had an awful day; perhaps her
worst yet. During the cleansing process
people generally experience what are called “health crisis” days. Essentially what that means is people will
start to experience symptoms that resemble the cold or the flu, or may even
experience symptoms from previous problems they have had in the past. Each health crisis generally does not last
very long—usually can be up to a few hours at a time for each problem, but the
body can display different problems in different ways at any time so it can be
rough.
This morning my wife woke up with a sty in her eye—she’s had
these before and they are really extremely painful and usually will stick
around for longer than a day. Needless
to say she was very worried about the sty in her eye. Well… a few hours after waking up and feeling
like her eye was going to explode the sty was gone (looks like that crisis
stuck right to a couple of hours).
Unfortunately that is not the only thing she has dealt with today. As part of the healing crisis the body will,
or at least can, become extremely tired, which is what happened to her. Well she needed some rest and my brother
called inviting us to go sledding so I decided I would take the boys with their
cousins and go sledding.
To save time we decided to eat some of the leftover tomato
basil soup from last night. Although we
are generally good at and with eating leftovers we have to be extra sensitive
right now. You see, we don’t mind eating
leftovers that are up to 1 week old, but I do have my limits and they don’t go
beyond that so on the 8th day the leftovers are gone. However; with this cleanse program we
admonished not to eat any leftovers that are over 3 days old. Evidently the idea is that food begins to
grow mold on it after that amount of time.
I had not considered that before because I do throw food out if it goes
moldy even if it had not been my standard “over 7 days.” But, as it seems, mold can begin to grow and
you don’t even know it. Since candida
thrives on mold that’s why there is the 3 day rule—which, considering the
existence of unseen mold, I may stick to anyway after the diet is done.
Anyway… back to the sledding story—since our time in school
our boys have not been able to do a lot of sledding and in fact this may have
been the first time for both of them (on a good size sled hill anyway, not just
in our yard or somewhere else smaller).
My 8 year old is fine and rearing to go, but my 4 year old is not so
brave. Well… they both got a little
braver today!
The kids sliding next to us on the hill had been creating a
good size jump on their hill—not monstrous, but good enough to get some air
when you go off it. My 8 year old
decided he would like to try his luck on that hill so I thought a moment and
decided to let him try. I was already at
the bottom of the hill so I pulled my phone out to start recording his grand
feat. I no sooner got the camera going
when I caught film of his cousin going down the trail just before him. She is about his same age and pretty daring
herself.
I didn’t know what to expect, but filmed as I watched
helplessly. I’m not sure she had been on
a jump before and this one (in hindsight) had a pretty good lip on it to launch
the rider a little further into the air.
Well, she was sitting on the tube and got to the lip, as she cleared the
crest she proceeded to do a full back flip and started heading to the ground
head-first. I watched as she hit what I
initially thought was her head—she would later tell me she didn’t get hurt
because she landed on her face—and then began yelling at my son to not go down
the hill, I stopped recording and ran up the hill just fast enough to catch him
about 10 feet from the jump. He was not
too happy with me, but I was glad to have my son alive. I’ll have to make it up to him by taking him
again and letting him hit a good jump.
I thought our kids would be finished before I was (it was 15
degrees outside), but they both loved it so much they didn’t want to go
home. My 4 year old went from closing
his eyes and cringing with me on the tube to going by himself and not wanting
me to even sit on the tube with him. I
was so excited about his progress that I called his mom to tell her on the way
home what he had done—he was quick to point out (calling from the back seat)
that I had also gone down the hill by myself.
I love those kids!
We had my wife’s parents over for dinner tonight so we
decided to go all out for them.
Initially we thought this would be very hard to do, but it turns out you
can still have great varieties and great tasting food while on a candida
diet. I stopped by the store to grab the
rice noodles and a few other things. My
kids by this point were done—it’s amazing how quickly they change their tune
going from not wanting to stop hiking up a hill to ride a sled down to their
legs being ready to fall off because they are “so tired” as my future Oscar
winner 4 year old loves to say.
Dinner was AWESOME!
We had a coconut soup, which included some coconut milk, chicken,
cilantro, salt, pepper and other seasoning and of course rice noodles and
sliced ginger. This is typically one of
our favorite soups, but when you cook it to be candida diet friendly there are
a few things you are forced to leave out, such as the chicken bullion or as we
like to use (better than bullion). While
I was at the store with my little actors earlier tonight I was able to find a
vegetable base that did not include sugar—I had no idea it would be so
difficult to find a base that didn’t have any sugar but evidently it is, even
on the health food isle.
Along with the coconut soup we had a brussel sprouts and
avocado dish which included the brussel sprouts seasoned to perfection (since
my wife began cooking the meal before I got home I’m not sure about everything
that was in this, but it was delectable as well). After the concoction is cooked you add diced
avocado pieces and then let the whole mixture warm before serving it. We did add the salad with cucumbers and
peppers mixed in with the rest of dinner with awesome lemon as a dressing.
Our first real treat also came tonight. My wife’s mother has been the one helping us
with the hers and other items we need to complete the whole candida cleanse and
she brought some meal replacement (snacks) for us to try, we mixed a chocolate
one which used stevia for the sweetener.
Now I have never been and may never be a real big fan of stevia—I really
see almost no difference (at least to the way they taste and make me feel) to artificial
sweeteners.
I know, I know, there are those who probably adamantly
disagree with me, but I stand by my feelings on this one—I think there is
something about stevia that doesn’t seem natural and I won’t be at all
surprised if science finds out some day that it is actually bad for you. Notwithstanding, the chocolate mix, ice and
almond milk mixed in a blender was to die for.
I fee like we deceived our bodies—my mouth was receiving those happy
sweet feelings and passing the signals on to my body to expect the affects of
sugar, but they never came. My poor body…
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