Big Fat Failure

So my friend Meredith recently wrote this post and it just rings so true for many of us these days. Feeling a lack of energy and tired all the time. Getting the dreaded "leaky gut" diagnosis. It blows!!

I have done a super job staying off sugar the last few months until this last week when all hell broke loose! I had some sugary treats at a couple parties. Then the following days are a blur of intoxication by sugar. It's amazing how when it comes to candida/leaky gut/food sensitivities that one slip up can have a HUGE affect on my body. So even though I have not been eating as much sugar this last week as I was in the past, I still am feeling tired and easily overwhelmed which just makes me feel like a failure. So I go off sugar...again.

Then I have a friend who is HARD CORE into natural health. She could have written the book "Nourishing Traditions" she is so hard core. But she told me that even her and her family will eat junky at least once a week because if they don't they get sick and extremely ill when they are confronted with something toxic. (for example: scented candles, a couple fries, harsh cleaners someone uses in their kitchen...all these can make them severely ill). This actually happened to me and Alivia a couple months ago. We went to a birthday party for one of her friends. The lunch they served was gummy bears, cupcakes, peanut butter and jam sandwiches and cool-aid! So of course I don't want to embarrass Alivia and make her feel totally left out and weird. So I just let her eat what all the other kids were eating. On top of that this family had a thing for artificial strawberry scented candles. Both Alivia and I got really ill that evening! I was ill from the nasty candles and she was ill from eating crap!

So how do you do both in a toxic world?? How do you eat 100% healthy but live on an extremely toxic planet? How do you eat junk once a week and completely rid your body of candida?? Anyone have any answers for me because I can't figure out the balance...and maybe I'm just looking for an excuse to have some sugar. :)

I Have Issues

I've substituted one addiction for another. Although I've been off sugar I started drinking coffee again and now crave about 3 cups a day. I had been off coffee (except for a random decaf here and there) for almost 4 years due to pregnancy/breastfeeding. Because I almost never drank it, I really never craved it. Well, the last few months I've slowly started drinking it again. And now I"m a coffee monster. I can't get enough...which means I need to stop. Geesh, if it's not one thing it's another! Why can't I get addicted to something like carrots. I imagine that would make me feel much better than I do right now!

Detox time!

I don't really do the new year's resolution thing. Never really have. But for some reason when January 1st rolls around each year, it feels like a good starting point for something new. I guess it's just how my brain works. So this January first I will start my detoxing of the "white stuff". No, not cocaine...just sugar. :)

I go through seasons where I eat very little sugar or a lot of sugar. Ever since moving back to the states I've been eating WAY too much sugar. My candida loves it but the rest of me totally doesn't. And since an estimated 80-90% of Americans have candida then I'm sure your candida loves it too. :)

Anyway, I will be completely going off the "white stuff" which means no packaged/processed foods either. No chips, no pastuerized juices, no stevia...seeing as it's white and all. :)

Fruits in moderation, raw honey, kombucha, coconut oil...things like that will be my sweet friends. The last time I went 100% off sugar I was scary to my family for a few weeks until I got over the difficult hump. My poor family. :)

Anyone else doing anything health related this January 1st??