I'm all in a food kerfuffle. Have any of you heard about the spit test for thrush? I have no vaginal symptoms but itchy feet and majorly itchy scalp. The woman who did my colonic last Saturday told me about the spit test. Morning spit in water if it starts to streak down you have thrush....
...does everyone have yeast and some have an overgrowth and a problem?
I have basically for the last month stopped carbs (bread, rice, pasta etc) and of course refined sugar since May.
The thrush diet is no mushrooms quorn dairy sugar so I would have nothing left to eat!!
I basically am only eating protein dairy and fat just now and creamy mushrooms!!
I wish I wasn't so easily influenced by all the sensible sounding ways of eating.
I've lost a stone which is great and my blood sugars are steadily lowering and remaining in the diabetic safe zone most of the time (except for times of mega stress). I've reduced my medication back to two tablets a day. Sometimes only one if I forget!
It's been hard but I've kept at it. I'm still feeling tired but definitely not as much. Still getting mood swings but not nearly as bad.
I feel obsessed with food again, a place I hate being in. Some days I get so overwhelmed with the thought of what to eat, how many carbs are in things, how many have I had, what's the weight of this, what's the percentage of that and the whole cooking thing that I end up not eating or eating late or just having Greek yoghurt and raspberries. As you all know numbers are not my strong point.
My sister has gone all gung-ho with the low carb practically no carb diet after finding a knowledgeable woman called Mary Kemp who says diabetes can be reversed with a proper diet and she's finding it so easy and lost loads of weight and keeps her blood sugars in check really well. She can't understand why I'm not finding it as easy as her. She's not very tolerant of weakness. She was only pre diabetic and not on meds so is closer to maintaining than I am.
Basically I'm not feeling great about the whole food and health thing again. And now this thrush protocol.
I'm too scared to talk to my doc because NHS guidelines recommend at least 3 times the amount of carbs and say bread rice pasta etc is all ok as long as brown or wholewheat or whatever. And the diabetic nurse already said u was making things complicated and the group diabetes session basically recommends eating things that are 5g or less.
No carb totally makes sense and I'm doing it its just that I think I'm blocked mentally somehow or worried I'm making things worse or something. Something is not allowing me to just get on.
Sorry for ramble.
Meltdowns - had quite a lot of 'I hate you' from 8yr old
Losing the plot - beyond exasperated
Breastfeeding - yes. Still.
We seriously lowered our carb intake, sugars and grains for 6 weeks before Christmas. It was really tough for the first week or so and then became much easier. When we eat carbs we're using an energy system that our body isn't supposed to be eating as it's main system. Our brains also don't register that we are full thus we eat more! Eating fat and protein is great! Your body feels full and you lose weight too and feel great! Feeling a little sick of coconut flour though! We've slipped over Christmas to our old ways but once the rich food has gone we're back on it :-) X
ReplyDeleteI'm finding it hard to get the kids on board. They simply refuse anything I make.
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