Raw almonds raisins, celery, and natural peanut butter with only salt added. This has become a common snack around here. A handful of almonds and raisins or add apples or celery and peanut butter and you have a very nutritious snack that doesn't include crackers or cookies. When anyone asks, "What can I do to change my eating habits?", I usually say that changing snacks is the first step we did. We quit eating the crackers, cookies or bread and replaced it with fruit or nuts. It is the smallest and easiest meal to begin with if you are planning to overhaul your eating habits. Then I would look at breakfast. Breakfast and snacks are the two meals that I see tend to be the most unhealthy. As we have discovered with most of us having a Candida (yeast) problem, breads, grains and sugar keep the problems going by feeding the bad bacteria in your gut until it is out of control and causing trouble. I have to add also that we have discovered Candida overgrowth can affect your whole well-being. It can cause digestive problems, other bacteria to grow too much, your insulin balance to be off because you crave sugar and bread stuff when you have Candida taking control.
We continue on the full-GAPS diet and enjoy more variety. We had a birthday party where most of us did "cheat" and eat a hot dog on a bun and then we had graduations yesterday where everyone had one sandwich. Eating a small thing didn't seem to affect anyone but I know if they eat too much somewhere they could get sick. Technically, we should not have done that. According to the GAPs protocol it interferes with healing. I am looking at healing the gut for everyone but also know that this process has already improved our digestive health and have seen such immediate results with all three girls who had eczema having cleared up.
No comments:
Post a Comment