Hey Kebbster. Your body has been through a lot hasn't it. I just kept reading in amazement. RGG was the same. Lifelong illness and on the road to perfection now!

Photos... I really like to see them. It helps me to remember who has posted what as I am very visual. But now I'll remember the blueberry photo and think of you!

I'm vain with my photos. The one I have now took me about a million gazillion shots to get and now I'm sick of it. I might get out the trusy Olympus and take some more tomorrow.

xoxoxo

Thanks so much everyone for the replies, i am actually starting to feel a little better today. I know its bad (especially since they arent organic) but today and yesterday morning i had eggs for brekky, with lots of fruit and greens of course, and i felt alot better for it. Im going with it for the moment.

So right about the food combos, i know better, but cant help myself, argh! Now i desperately want a dehydrator coz i want cookies again, lol. So ive settled for making some tasty frozen raw deserts. Hmmm, will have to try and keep them a bit better food combined. Ill work on it.

Ive given up the digestive enzymes, what initially made me feel better im pretty sure led to another bout of diarrhoea. Am so over having that happen, wipes me out for days. Its sent my sleep pattern into total chaos, sleep for 14hrs one night, 4 hrs the next, sleep till 1pm one day, and wake up at 5am the next day. Its making me insane. Im taking it easy but, letting myself rest as much as i need to, the only thing ive been out to do over the weekend is the football, coz its the last home game of the season, huge really, and since ive followed the game for the last 14yrs ive never missed that, so i pushed myself through for it. Hubby looked so worried bout me, i got so puffed walking to the stadium, just had no fitness yesterday at all, felt super sick, was awful, and worst of all had so much trouble focusing on the game.

I ate a crazy amount yesterday, was like some sort of eating machine, lol. Was like what i used to be like as a teenager a few days before my period, id just eat like crazy, back in the day when id eat a whole pizza in one sitting and still feel hungry. It was kinda fun though being able to eat and eat and eat. Mostly i ate smoothies, i am adding flax seeds to my smoothies, so fruits and fats, but seems to go down pretty well when its ground flax.

Wanting salt alot lately, think it might have something to do with the recent diarrhoea, maybe a bit depleted, and since i dont eat processed foods, makes sense i might have to go out of my way for it. So last night had some delicious truss tomatoes cut in half with some pepper and salt, was sooooooooo good, really hit the spot and made me feel alot better. Interestingly, i ate 7 tomatoes yesterday, and this is meant to be an allergy food and no reaction, all were very ripe, so maybe i must have finally beat an intolerance with the raw diet, how awesomes that? i love tomatoes too, so its good that i dont have to be restrictive anymore.

So to update whats happening with my crazy stop start supplement stuff, currently im taking some vitex in the morning (its a trial, will see how it goes over the next month), and probiotics in the morning. Have stopped the olive leaf extract again coz i think i was detoxing too fast.

Anyways off to do my online fruit shop 

Hey Kebbster. It seems a problems with bowel stuff that what works one day doesn't neccessarily work the next. My dad is constantly amazed by his bodies ability to throw off any 'cure' of any kind for his IBS, Colitis. He doesn't believe that diet has anything to do with it which is sad.

You are streets ahead of many and, I believe, on the right path. As your body starts to heal you will feel so happy to be feeling well that eating this way will become much easier and you won't even want to eat the way you were raised.

Things will get better.

xoxoxox

Thankyou so much both of you for your uplifting and helpful replies.

Ive stopped with the salt thing, the craving for it has gone, after i ate a heap of tomatoes in a day it went away, i think next time that will be a better path, i knew better.

The funny thing bout the IBS stuff, is its been a much later development in my health, so im not really used to it yet, and having to worry bout what i eat. I use to argue with doctors that there was nothing wrong with my bowels, would adamantly tell them i had no bowel pain, went easily every day, and i really did. It was only after my surgery when i had to have a bowel prep and was poked and prodded that i developed digestion problems, all of a sudden everything was an issue, so im still learning.

Im really lucky, i dont have UC (that i know of), so oranges are ok, i can have seedy fruits and flax seeds just fine. Its just the odd things i respond to but im starting to learn.

List of no-no's:

- Grains, at all, every so often i have some, a little of some so called powerhouse food grain, a small amount sprouted seems to be ok as long as i dont do it often, like a little sprouted quinoa in tabouli, but the cooked amaranth i had recently didnt work at all.

- Too many sprouts, a few in a salad are nice, a sprout dominated dish is asking for trouble, and hubby responds worse than i do to this, so im super aware of it and only have them occasionally.

- Peanuts, raw or not, just dont go well.

- Blended apple, ive never tried this without the skin, it could actually be the skin blended thats a problem. Grated is beneficial.

Ive never noticed problems with fat and fruit combos specificially, but for me it does seem to depend on the type of fat, like avo's never seem to be a problem, and ground flax, chia, that sort of thing. Nuts on the other hand dont seem to mix as well, although walnuts seem to be less problematic than other nuts, wonder if its coz the walnuts are truly raw and maybe my other nuts arent, hmmm.

I try not to get too caught up in food combining, it tends to stress me out and i dont enjoy my diet as much. I figure in time ill do this naturally, hopefully that will be the case.

Im feeling......strange today. I dont actually know how to describe it, my period is due tomorrow, so hopefully its just that. I felt so emotional earlier i had some boiled eggs and coffee and i really dont know why. It seemed to ground me but, i was kinda spacey too. Ive started a superfood powder, one of those green ones with like 13 probiotics, i got it for the probiotics, its not raw but its gauranteed dairy and gluten free, so not sure if im detoxing a little with that, it would explain the strange feeling, plus a little sniffly too.

My sleep pattern is still awry, every time it seems to be settling it goes out of whack again, it hasnt likely helped that last night i was working on my assignment till 1030pm, i was on a roll so i kept going, and now its finished with plenty of time to get my referencing done. Was so naughty but, i had a coffee yesterday to get my brain going to start, it was in such a fog. It worked but an hour later i crashed. I seem to be going to coffee again alot, it all starts with just one, i had one on the weekend coz my in laws had some 'special' coffee that was sent from england, and i wanted to try it. I was certainly not pressured, i chose to, i even got the, are you sure? Everyone knows i shouldnt have coffee, ive explained why, so when i do it i get questioned. Its a good thing, coz often it stops me, but ever since i had that one i keep wanting it, grrr, coffee is so evil.

I am testing the eggs atm, i seem to be really craving them, so maybe im a little b12 deficient and my body is asking for it through a source it knows, but if my period is worse ill cut them out again. They are actually helping my energy levels, but since i have endo to worry bout as well, i have to choose what is good for both, its been a problem in the past, some things that make one better make the other worse.

Im going to try and do controlled cooked food if that makes sense. Eggs often, but with raw food at dinner (i broke that today already, lol, but i had some fruit before rather than after so it was still with raw food). Ill allow the odd meat, but no more than fortnightly, and ill try and cut that back later. One cooked meal a week, generally speaking this will be steamed veges with a raw dressing, so still pretty healthy.

Hopefully can stick to my new plan, i think i need rules or its just a slippery slope. The probiotic powder i bought has b12 in it apparently, its got spiriluna, so not sure thats really a reliable source, but maybe it will solve my egg cravings.....hopefully.

My bowels have settled down now, but my energy is still rubbish. Havent exercised for about a week now, just have been too weak, getting really achy. Im hoping once ive submitted my assignment ill pick back up, will be no real stress than, and hubby has started his new job so things are settling down again.

Am still very high raw, even with all my talk bout cooked food, i think i just like to discuss what im doing wrong, am still doing alot right. Hmm, maybe i need to try and be a little more proud of my efforts, i eat healthier than most people, and my diet is better than its ever been. Despite all my complaints, i am still making progress, every month im a little better, just such a long way to go still, but even with all i do wrong i still progress. I think i made the mistake of diving into raw food headfirst, and now am having to step back a little. The diet stopped being work when i allowed myself more room to move and said 80-90% rather than 95%.

On to raw food fun, hehe. Made a delicious smoothie this morning, was in a mood (probs pms) and just didnt want to see anything green, so made one with 2 passionfruit, 1 banana, 2 oranges, 1 tablespoon of chia, and 2 dates, and a little water. Yep, thats defo a bad combo, i know it, but it tasted amazing! Is without doubt the tastiest smoothie ive ever made, i think ive found a new fav, plus it was really filling and kept me going for hours.

Hey Kebbster...i would say you arent doing anything "wrong"just perhaps not the best choices,for you...X

coffee is a shocker for ibs,just bare that in mind ...

you are doing so well...its a toughie when you are new to a health condition you arent use to...ive had ibs then colitis then ulcerated colitis for most of my life....the body heals itself so very well though,each day we are healing ,its very exciting and very promising!

i will always need to be careful with some raw foods i ingest...but i am almost healed,and i want the same for you too..

cant wait to see a photo of yourself up here....much as i love blueberries,lol....

Kebbs you are stunning hon...just beautiful...glad you shared with us X

 

Thankyou so much for such lovely replies! Was really nice to come on and read those, especially since last two days feeling a bit down.

I think im just wiped out from working so hard on getting my assignment done, and now that its done and dusted (thankgod) ive got that superlost feeling, even though i still have heaps of things i could be doing.

Anyways, feeling much brighter now 

Sitting here having a nice green tea, mmmm, so so cold today. Im always a bit worse on cold days, but even though im exhausted i actually otherwise dont feel too bad. Have just battled the dishes and stopped half way through coz i was getting short of breath (it happens sometimes), having one of those i just have no fitness days. Oh well, at least i got some done, im proud the kitchen looks a little cleaner and is useable now anyways. It was an achievement for a bad day thats for sure.

Been eating like a crazy women lately, not complaining, i love eating, hehe. Am pretty sure im easily reaching 3000 cals a day, which is great, ive thought for a while i probs need more calories to allow for healing even though im fairly sedentary, so a great appetite is brilliant. Best of all most of it has been fruit, with very little of it overt fats, although i admit to finishing off the tahini last night straight from the jar with a little honey, haha, felt like a pig, but there wasnt much left so wasnt actually that bad.

Got to enjoy today picking some greens for dinner while they were wet from the rain (had to be out in the rain to get them though), but the smell of the fresh picked basil wet from the rain was brilliant! Cant wait to make dinner and rip up all those green leaves, going to make a real simple tomato basil and greens salad, and using the basil flowers to make it prettier, and serve it with some grated beetroot (might put a garlic and lemon dressing on the beetroot, mmmm). All this food talk is making me hungry again, lol. Ok, im defo back in a better mood, thankyou so much ladies!!!

ahh KEbs...each day is bright and shining and new.....dont worry

aside from eating the cooked meal,it was a rather combo abombo(hence the runs....)cooked spud with oil etc,and exotoxins such as the herbs....and then fruit etc eaten on top of it.....thats where your issues would stem from....

i understand not wanting to hurt your mums feelings...in the old days~when i started raw i would say...ohh im soo full,it looks lovely...can i put into into a container and i will take it with me,so technially i hadnt refused the offer..and id also never said i would eat it ....like most things its all based on assumption....that way they're happy and i wasnt sick!

i find once i have laid out  the ground rules in a definite manner,then there is no 'room to move'...and you aren 't left suffering the consequences of eating food you dont want to,and then suffering for it,for the next week....