November 03, 2004

Well, the reason it has been a while since I wrote is that Ross and I got married on the 24th October and have been on honeymoon in Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand. We ate raw up 'til the wedding day and even took our own raw seaweed rolls but did share a bit of the wedding cake with the guests. We then went on honeymoon for 9 days and had made the decision that we would include some cooked food to make things easier and to enjoy the experience completely.

We managed to eat between 50% - 80% raw each day and had a wonderful honeymoon. We did notice though the return of aching joints, feeling tired in the afternoon and the return of food cravings, more so me than Ross and mainly because of the candida. We also noticed that we ate more and felt uncomfortable and that the food was heavy and sat in our stomachs for longer. We didn''t realise how used to the raw food we had been getting. We were both looking forward to getting back to the 100% raw and now are starting on a 4 -5 week cleanse to clear mucoid plaque out of our intestinal tract and colon.

We are following Richard Anderson's regime and the herbs for it are arriving this week. We are combining it with Gabriel Cousens cleanup diet which we will be on for 6 months and involves having no fruit or high glycemic vegetables. These were the only guidelines I found for dealing with the Candida from a raw food point of view as neither Victoria Butenko or Alicia Cohen replied to my email requests on how to deal with Candida - even though they had both replied quickly to other emails regarding book orders and followup. I think it must be a difficult problem to get a handle on.

Ross and I are booked in for colonics in 2 and a half weeks with another follow-up one in 2 weeks after that. The colonics are excellent for speeding up the cleansing process. We are taking okra capsules until the Arise and Shine herbs arrive and a few days before the wedding they shifted some mucoid plaque in me. We were both excited about it and photographed it. We are hoping to get a lot more than that. Once we introduced the cooked foods in Queenstown it stopped the shifting of the plaque even though we were still on the okra capsules. In Richard Anderson's book it seems that the average is anywhere from 30 feet to 40 feet of plaque at one cleanse, so bring it on. Who needs that stuff in you. He also talks about releasing old negative emotions that actually get trapped with the plaque and that once released the feelings of love and joy flow more freely. Can't wait.

Starting weight for the cleanse is 65 kilos for me - don't know what Ross is at the moment, will have to weigh him tomorrow. See ya later.

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October 12, 2004

This week has certainly been challenging. Remember how I was talking about having candida and wondering how to deal with it? Well, I was reading a thread on Curezone where someone got rid of their candida by taking up to 1/4 of a cup of xylitol a day, so Ross and I decided to add it to our regime until it did the job. We got to day 2 and the cravings to eat cooked food were so strong that they nearly overwhelmed our resolve. We came so close to actually going and having a cooked meal that it was frightening. We weren't even enjoying our salads as much and were losing the taste for the raw foods.

I realised what it was and so we stopped having the xylitol straight away after a narrow escape. So back to the drawing board. We have decided to do a serious bowel cleanse and colonic to clear out old pockets plus I have ordered Gabriel Cousens book that talks about dealing with candida from a raw perspective and apparently lays out menus and guidelines to follow. Can't wait for the cravings to be gone completely, they are still hanging around a little and I don't like having them back at all. So beware any of you that are thinking of trying xylitol as a candida cure.

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October 02, 2004

No. 1 priority this morning - to weigh ourselves. Well, I weigh in at 63 kilos (loss of 5 kilos in 4 weeks or 11lbs) and Ross weighs in at 63 1/2 which means I finally weigh less than him, yeah. I did a liver cleanse on Friday night with the olive oil, grapefruit juice and epsom salts and so still feeling a little weak from that. Didn't get many stones out this time ( last time in May I got out a 2cm gallstone plus hundreds of pea size and bigger ones). Ross couldn't do one because his adrenals and thyroid are weak at the moment which means your liver doesn't have the oomph to push the stones out.

My hip and back are still giving me grief and I am so hanging out for the day when the pain fades and disappears. It fuels my determination more than anything. My candida is still going strong so I am cutting out fruit for the next 3 weeks or in other words, until our wedding. We are both eating very simply and really enjoying coleslaw (salad made with cabbage) plus olives, avocadoes and tomatoes are pretty high on the list. Felt pretty good this last week and can feel improvements in energy levels with each day that passes. Have started sprouting and did some chickpeas then made them into hummus but Ross and I decided that we didn't like that so back to the simple stuff.

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