Step one of the journey - throw away everything in the cupboards and refrigerator that contain any form of sugar! We already don't buy soda but we realized even potato chips have a really bad form of sugar that tops the charts on the glycemic index at 100...maltodextrin. It is used as a filler in lots of packaged products so, really, we were tossing the packaged products in our home. That alone will improve our health. We threw out a 5 lb. bag of sugar aka "kiddy cocaine", a candy bar, Christmas candy, cookies, butterscotch chips, marshmallows, sweetened coconut, junk cereal (that my kids get once a year for Christmas and they didn't even want to eat it!), graham cracker sticks, hot cocoa mix, sugar-free gum (it's made with a sugar alcohol that feeds the yeast), chicken bouillon, rice wine vinegar and all other vinegars except organic apple cider vinegar for salad dressings. Yep, the yeast feed on vinegar too so even mustard and mayo had to go! When we finished cleaning house we had to ask ourselves, "What can we eat?"! Well, we got 6 books from the library for making desserts with stevia and cooking with quinoa, buckwheat, millet and amaranth. Yes, gluten in flours feeds the yeast and the lactose in milk does too. What that means is that a sugar-free diet that will kill off a yeast overgrowth is really dairy-free and gluten-free too! Sounds too hard to do doesn't it? That's why most people will just keep getting sick so they can eat whatever they want whenever they want. No one wants to make the connection with sugar and all the illnesses in our bodies. When you are 40 with a baby, you'll do whatever you can to have energy and feel good again. The journey begins!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Cleaning House
Step one of the journey - throw away everything in the cupboards and refrigerator that contain any form of sugar! We already don't buy soda but we realized even potato chips have a really bad form of sugar that tops the charts on the glycemic index at 100...maltodextrin. It is used as a filler in lots of packaged products so, really, we were tossing the packaged products in our home. That alone will improve our health. We threw out a 5 lb. bag of sugar aka "kiddy cocaine", a candy bar, Christmas candy, cookies, butterscotch chips, marshmallows, sweetened coconut, junk cereal (that my kids get once a year for Christmas and they didn't even want to eat it!), graham cracker sticks, hot cocoa mix, sugar-free gum (it's made with a sugar alcohol that feeds the yeast), chicken bouillon, rice wine vinegar and all other vinegars except organic apple cider vinegar for salad dressings. Yep, the yeast feed on vinegar too so even mustard and mayo had to go! When we finished cleaning house we had to ask ourselves, "What can we eat?"! Well, we got 6 books from the library for making desserts with stevia and cooking with quinoa, buckwheat, millet and amaranth. Yes, gluten in flours feeds the yeast and the lactose in milk does too. What that means is that a sugar-free diet that will kill off a yeast overgrowth is really dairy-free and gluten-free too! Sounds too hard to do doesn't it? That's why most people will just keep getting sick so they can eat whatever they want whenever they want. No one wants to make the connection with sugar and all the illnesses in our bodies. When you are 40 with a baby, you'll do whatever you can to have energy and feel good again. The journey begins!
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