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Man Tai,
I can stop everything else, but no moldy foods?
Tai:
You are very brave and I am with you 100%.
This reminds me of the time when I was feeling like you: lethargic,
depressed, wanting to sleep all the time, gaining weight and super
sensitive. At that time I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia; you were
about or 3 or 4. It was exhausting to fulfill my responsibilities as a
working mom. Around that time I found Reiki and a new ray of hope
entered my life. Because of the impact of Reiki in my life, I started
making changes in my life style so I started dong yoga more consistently
and found a wonderful book wrote by a naturopath on the subject of
hypoglycemia. At that time I changed my diet radically, and that is what
you remember fro your childhood, fa little fish and chicken were OK but I
removed red meat, sugar, refined products, etc. from my diet. As you
well remember, we ate lots of veggies as you were growing up.
In a house where meat and meat products as well as white rice, were
staple foods, this was a big change. But it paid off. With time,
patience, and the support of your father, I recovered my health, my joy
of live and hypoglycemia was out of my life. In the process I lost many
unwanted pounds!
So, you can do it. You are strong and determined, have a supportive
husband and family and friends that will support you all the way.
When Cantu goes to college in August, and we don't have to cook pasta,
rice or other carb filled food for the athlete, I would like to do a diet
like yours. Lolo will cry, but Abuela will join. She likes those
challenges.
Any way, what is the way to proceed now? Should I blog back to you? How?
or Should I email you my comments with my comments to your blogs and to
give you support?
You can do it.
If you focus on what you want, set your mind to it, and make the
necessary changes in your life style, you can even beat genetics.
SI SE PUEDE.
Love, Mom
Hi Taina,
I am sorry to hear that you are not well. I hope your new diet makes you feel better. I remember your crazy Costa Rica diet, trits and coke for breakfast, so I am happy to hear you will be eating better.
tiners!
i'm glad to see that you are being proactive about getting better! we can go out for steamed veggies any time :-)
love this tai. you can do it!
good luck with all this and thanks for including me. i think i've got a few health issues that need to be sorted out myself.
Thanks for including me, Tai. I am a big fan of you and feel honored to share the journey! I will be tuning in - Good luck :)
Tai, sorry to hear you are so miserable, but hey, at least you are taking action. My tia and a niece switched to gluten free diet after years of misery and are feeling much much better. So every time you want to pig out and eat something delicious I mean bad for you, just remember that there is a healthy you just waiting to re-emerge. Also, just as a reminder, your gene pool may have some health issues, but look at all the positives!
Queridisma Taina:
¿Te paso alguna vez que escribistes largo y tendido y de repente se borro todo? Eso me acaba de pasar a mi con una carta que te estaba escribiendo, asi que aqui empiezo de nuevo.
Te contaba que tenes razon diciendo que del lado de tu papa hay propension a las infecciones con candida y yo creo que viene de mi lado.Yo he sufrido episodios de candida muchas veces en Argentina sin saber lo que era hasta que llegue aqui y a traves de libros y luego con el Internet me fui enterando mas y entendiendo muchas cosas. No se si sabes que Maren Cristina desde que nacio hasta los seis meses estuvo muy enferma con una fiebre muy alta de noche y que bajaba un poco durante el dia, le costaba mucho respirar y por lo mismo no pudo tomar pecho ni mamadera.y casi no comia solo unas cucharaditas de leche. Peregrinamos de medico en medico y no encontraban que le pasaba hasta que uno mas inteligente que los otros le mando a analizar mucosidad de la nariz y encontraron que las amigdalas y los sinus estaban llenas de monilias (otro nombre de la candida) y que esa infeccion le provocaba la fiebre.y el no poder respirar bien.La operaron de las amigdalas y vegetaciones (sinus) a los seis mese y la fiebre desaparecio para siempre. Te aseguro que esos mese fueron de pesadilla. El abuelo estaba seguro de que se iba a morir y a todo el mundo le decia que su nena se estaba muriendo, no se por que yo no pensaba asi. Preguntale a tu papa que tenia 7 años cuantas veces tuvo que dejar de jugar para turnarse con Bernardo para tratar de hacerla dormir moviendo su cuna mientra yo estaba ocupada cocinando o haciendo otra cosa.Yo supongo que Maren Cristina se contagio la candida de mi durante el nacimiento.
Aunque muchos medicos no lo creen la candidiasis no solo produce infeccionews vaginales sino un monton de trastornos mas como muchos de los que vos tenes. La dieta de la que vos habla a mi me ha dado excelentes resultados, hay un libro que Bernardo me presto que se llama "The Yeast Connection" Que explica perfectamente todos los sintomas y da casos especificos entre otros de mujeres que practicamente estaban tan agotadas que no podian hacer nada, otras con problemas intestinales graves, dolores de cabeza, inclusive perdida de memoria
En el libro especifican paso a paso la dieta que ellos dividen en cuatro etapas y detalla exactamente que se come en cada etapa Te recomiendo que lo leas por que clarifica completamente lo que pasa cuando la candida se sale de control. Entre otras cosas el libro dice por que los primeros dias de la dieta uno se siente peor, pero que es pasajero y en la medida que pasan los dias esos sintomas desaparecen.
Acabo de chequear y en Amazon tienen el libro y solo cuesta 11 dolares.
Te recomiendo que lo leas te va ayudar a mantenerte en la dieta ademas en el libro recomiendan algunos remedios naturales que podes encontrar en cualquier health food.
La dieta es dificil por que hay que privarse de muchas cosas a las que estamos acostumbrdos y que se han convertido en aditivas pero te aseguro que vale la pena el sacrificio cuando uno empieza a sentirse como no se sentia en años.
Te deseo el mejor de los exitos con la dieta y que pronto te sientas como nueva.
Un abrazo muy grande, te quiero mucho
Abuela
Hola Tai:
Aunque la dieta de Atkins no es igual y es por distintas razones se parece un poco a la tuya aqui hay algunas de sus sugestiones para comer afuera
Restaurante Italiano
antipasto: tuna,sardines, olives, pimientos morrones, greens,
Soup:straciatella a clear amber broth with green spinach leaves and Parmesano cheese.
Entree: scampi of veal, chickens or fish
Chinese Restaurant
Soup:egg drop soup,m birds' nest,sharks' fin soup
Chinese vegetables, lobster, shrimps, chicken duck you have to say that you don't want cornstarch in your gravy, you can have egg foo yung without the gravy.
Greek or Armenian Restaurant
Shish kabob
French restaurant
Quiche Lorraine and don't eat the crust, veal or cok au vin, coquilles St Jacques,pate
Russian restaurant
Chicken Kiev, beef Stroganof and ask to change the noodles for saute spinach
Jewish delicatessen
Lox and eggs,cold cuts:galore-brisket,corned beef, pastrami
For dessert
Berries, melon
and have always a salad with vinaigrette
The hamburger are not a good idea to eat outside because many time they are mixed with some kind of carbohydrate like soy flour. You only can be sure that they are real meat when you do it yoursel
BUENA SUERTE
Muchos besos
Abuela
