January 22

Well crap. I snapped and had sugar instead of supper. It was a long day, we were later than usual getting home, I was in a seminar all day and didn't bring enough food with me, I didn't sleep well last night, Elliot was being *special* the whole way home from daycare.... le sigh.


Breakfast, 8am
2 hardboiled eggs
1 apple
Tea with almond milk

Snack, 10am
Goat yogurt with blueberries
1 ryvita cracker with almond butter
6 rice crackers

Lunch, 12:30
1/2 serving Greek Chickpea salad
1 ryvita cracker with almond butter
1 bag Corn Twists

Snack, 3pm
Green tea
2 ryvita crackers with almond butter

Sugar-binge, 5:30
1/2 cup raisins (approx 48g sugar)
2 oatmeal raisin cookies (14g sugar)
1/3 box mini ritz bits with cheese (approx 15g sugar)

Supper, 6pm
1/2 serving Greek Chickpea salad with a side of roast pork

December 15th

My sugar & no-no cravings are all over the map. Yesterday, I could feel and taste one of the square almond flavoured caramels from the old 'Pot of Gold' Christmas boxes. Today, I would have killed for simple cheese and crackers. Nothing fancy - cheddar would have been fine.



Breakfast, 7:30am
-Granola with goat yogurt & almond milk
-3 pc potato/millet toast with margarine (end of the loaf!)
-lg coffee with vanilla almond milk

Lunch, 12pm
-1 pc leftover spelt pizza
-leftover chickpeas (approx 1/2 cup)

Snack, 2pm
-75g rice crackers with hummus
-corn chips
-apple

Supper, 6pm
-1 pc baked tilapia fish with peas and rice
-grapefruit

December 9th

Brrrrrrr... it's COLD! Would love to warm up with a hot chocolate. Booo!

Breakfast, 8am
1/3 banana
Approx 2 cups steel cut oatmeal with berries
Pumpkin muffin

Snack, 10am
Pumpkin muffin

Lunch, 12:30
Vitamin veggie soup with goat cheese
2 pc spelt toast with goat cheese
32g bag plain microwave popcorn
apple

Snack, 3pm
small Tim Horton's coffee with milk

Supper, 5:30pm
Roast chicken with salad (romaine, carrot, red cabbage, feta, herbed lemon juice & olive oil dressing), blue corn chips with guacamole

Snack, 9pm
Grapefruit
Pumpkin muffin

Weight: 161, evening, unclothed.

November 27, day 11

Discouraged today, and craving pound cake with lots and lots of fluffy buttercream frosting. *drool*

Foodies

Breakfast, 7:30
Approx 1.5 cups oatmeal (steel cut) with chopped apple & cinnamon

Snack, 9am
Apple

Snack, 10am
32g bag plain microwave popcorn

Lunch, 12pm
1 cup tuna noodle casserole

Snack, 1pm
4 Spelt banana blueberry muffins - homemade, no sugar added. (3.7g sugar each, though.)

(Click for larger - bake muffins at 350 for 30 minutes. )

Snack, 4:30
Yet another spelt muffin

Supper, 5:30
2 pieces homemade pizza: brown rice flour crust (no yeast), boiled tomato & garlic sauce thickened with corn starch, ham, broccoli, goat feta and goat mozza. YUM!
Approx 1/2 cup homemade brown rice pudding made with cinnamon & almond milk

Snack, 7:30
Yep, another spelt muffin. I really need to stop. I have a problem. They are so good... help!

November 21, day 5

Today, I'm craving raisins. Go figure. Picked up some Yoso vanilla soy yogurt at the grocery store this morning. Haven't tried it yet. It contains dextrose, fructose, cane juice, & yeast extract, so it's definitely not candida-diet approved, but maybe I can work on my "all things in moderation" problem. Still, it supposedly only has 4g of sugars per 1/2 cup serving. (Hmmm, the nutritional info on their website doesn't match up with what it on the container in my fridge. Curious.)

I woke up with a headache this morning and it's still there. Trying to flood it away with lots of water, but no luck so far. Maybe some tea will help? Or, maybe it's just residual aching left over from my chiro appointment yesterday. Nah, it's in the front of my head, as well as my neck.

~Today's Foodies~

Breakfast, 9am:
Organic, plain puffed corn cereal with plain soy milk & a banana, lg coffee with plain soy milk (Plain, but it still has added sugar. Once this carton is empty, I'm switching to the unsweetened version.)

Snack, 10:30am:
Apple, 1/4 package rice crackers (25 g)

Lunch, 12:15pm:
Brown rice noodles with homemade sauce: cooked & pureed tomato, red pepper, squash, garlic, spices. Pecan Larabar (oops - 18g naturally occurring sugars, from the dates. But, damn, it was good!), 3 Ryvita & sesame crackers with almond butter (Rye grain still contains gluten, though it's supposedly much less of an allergen than wheat gluten.)

Snack:, 3pm
Pomegranate green tea, 1/2 package rice crackers (50g), lemon dill hummus

Supper, 5pm:
2 black bean burgers (made with freshly ground puffed rice cereal crumbs instead of bread crumbs), sweet potato fries, sliced tomato, guacamole, applesauce (100ml)

Plus side:
165 lbs this morning, after breakfast
2 km walk wearing Felix

Sugar & dairy free, Day 4

Yep, you read that title correctly. I have been (mostly) sugar, dairy & gluten/yeast free for 4 days. Loosely following the Candida Diet my naturopathic doctor is always telling me I need to do. Holy crap, who'da thunk I'd actually go through with it?! The shortest term goal was to keep it up while Jay was away. (He's away for work and back late tonight.) I figured if I could make it through 4 days with the kids all by myself, I could make it through anything. Next goal is 2 weeks, which takes me to December 1st. Long term goal is 6 weeks, but that's probably unrealistic as it extends beyond Christmas. But if I can keep it up for 4 1/2 weeks, to the end of the last week before holidays, then I should have a good idea of how well this detox is going. And then, maybe, I can ease myself back into things. Wheat/gluten isn't as huge a problem are for me, except that I gobble down grain products like no ones business. But hey, who am I trying to kid? I gobble down everything like it's my last meal.

*Breakfasts over the last 4 days have consisted of some combination of oatmeal (steel cut or instant), eggs (hardboiled) and a piece of fruit (pear, apple, banana), plus coffee with plain soy milk.
*Snacks have been almond butter, popcorn, corn chips, Ryvita crackers. Lots of herbal tea and water. Whole plain almonds. Feta cheese (but only because it was about to expire and I didn't want it to go to waste. Mmmm, salty goodness.) Baby carrots.
*Meals have been veggie wraps, soups, rice noodles, meat & potatoes. (I'm shoveling in a large potion of Shepard's Pie as I type.)

So yes, lots of fruit sugars in there, but I figure it's better than what I was eating before. And hopefully I can wean myself down to one piece per day. And I'm allowing myself to make my Freezer Fudge again today. I have a good supply of almond butter, which will be yummy in it. Now, the test is to make sure I don't eat it all. Maybe 2-3 pieces a day. It's made with pure maple syrup, so at least it's unrefined, but it's still sugar. Maybe I shouldn't make it?

I almost screwed myself up big time by making Chocolate Avocado Pudding on day 1. I found the recipe in the Deceptively Delicious cookbook and it looked intriguing (a GFCF version can be found here.) I only had 1 avocado on hand, so I halved the recipe. Still, it had 1/2 cup of icing sugar in it (YUM!) but, luckily for me, the avocado taste was too overpowering and reminded me very much of my extreme avocado aversion days while prego with Elliot. Ugh. Vomit memory is a terrible thing. So I only had a few bites. Felix tried one tiny spoonful, squeezed his eyes shut, shook his head vigorously and pushed it out of his mouth with his tongue. Elliot loved it and ate every last bite in 2 sittings.

You know what I'm craving the most right now? I figured it would be chocolate (and let me tell you, borrowing "Curious George Visits a Chocolate Factory" for Elliot from the library on day 1 of this adventure was a dumb move on my part!), but surprisingly, it's yogurt. All I want is creamy, fruity yogurt. Blueberry. Or peach. Which probably means my body wants some calcium, so I should take a supplement or eat some more leafy greens. Or maybe I can find a good sugar-free plain yogurt. Or goat yogurt. That might take the edge off. I've always been able to tolerate plain yogurt better than any of the flavoured ones. Hmmm, is this true of all lactose intolerant people or just me?

Other than a wicked headache last night, I've been feeling good. Happier and more patient with the boys, which surprised the crap outta me, since I've been on-duty non stop since Tuesday. I remember getting sick somewhere around day 5-7 each time I've done this candida diet in the past, so we'll see how I'm feeling in a few more days. Though, to be fair, I'm not sticking to it as strictly as I have before. Not sure if that's to my benefit or not. But we'll see where I end up.