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Post by chloelouise on Apr 11, 2007 10:33:42 GMT -5
Hi guys, Ive always been a vegetarian and have been looking at diets that can help endo pain,
Apparenty a good one is the raw food diet, eating all your veg raw and cutting out dairy completely. I was wondering if anybody has tried it?? and if so what they thought?
Im very unsure of weather to try it or not.
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Post by viper on Apr 13, 2007 11:37:19 GMT -5
Hi! Going all raw can be extremely difficult and surprisingly time-consuming (I have a few friends who do it here in the Bay Area). Have you tried the Endometriosis diet? It's also pretty difficult, but much easier and more flexible than raw. It's worked really well for me, and has cleared up some issues I had that I had no idea were diet related (this is the first year in my life that I haven't had seasonal allergies, and my knees stopped hurting). Here's the link for it: www.endo-resolved.com/diet.htmlThe basics are: no animal products (meat or dairy), no wheat/gluten, no refined sugar, no alcohol, no caffeine, no soy, no additives/preservatives. From what I've studied, getting rid of the animal products mostly and the wheat ENTIRELY are what counts the most when you are starting out. If you are determined to try diet as treatment, I would start here for a few months before trying raw.
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Post by kb on Mar 18, 2008 2:06:27 GMT -5
Hey hey, havent been on the forum much of late, to be honest, lost a bit of interest in being on here. Im sure ill get back into it.
Anyways, thought i should report my progress, and let you all know whats been greatly occupying my net time (takes alot of learning making big diet changes, not so much time on here).
A little while ago i decided to start the raw food diet. The green smoothies is what encouraged me to do this. I found with the green smoothies i would feel good for a little while after i had one, so they were a bit addictive, and id have more and more. So i kept reading more and more and decided it wasnt that big a step to try the raw food diet. Frankly im sick of being sick, and im willing to try anything, i was more than ready to take this step.
While my endo issues are resolved, the fatigue issues arent. I want to get my life back, so i went ahead and started reading reading and reading some more.
Its a hard adjustment, but im getting better and better at it, and the more i do it, the more committed i get, and less likely to fall off the wagon.
Im not quite 100% yet, but am getting closer and closer to that, im easily 95%, but need to learn more in regards to dressings and things like that. Plus, have to learn to shop better, still mastering that one.
Anyways, bout 4 wks in, had a really bad run, initially on the diet i felt great, had loads of energy, was walking often, doing things round the house, felt good. But then the bad run hit, and yet again became fairly useless.
Fortunately thats now over, lasted couple of weeks maybe, some days better than others. But the last two days ive just picked right back up, and better than ive been in a really really long time.
Yesterday i do yoga, went for a walk, cleaned the kitchen, and prepared dinner with energy to spare. Today, was amazing, did yoga, and then spent hours cleaning, and reorganising the kitchen. Im feeling fantastic and its all from the diet.
Still yet to see if my period improves on it, but will keep you all updated on that one.
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Post by kb on Apr 10, 2008 7:21:26 GMT -5
Update on my progress:
Doing great on the raw food diet, feeling so much better, cant see myself ever stopping this it works so well. I just keep getting better and better, im so well im returning to work in a couple of weeks, just for 2hrs a week but its a start.
Been able to do heaps more around the house, still unwell in the mornings, but its not taking as long as it used to to pick up, and im always fine in the arvo.
Still getting bad days, but even on a bad day i can function reasonably well. There have been detox symptoms, but they are mild now, generally just feeling like allergies, or like im about to get a cold, headaches, that sort of thing.
My progress has been astounding, i am now able to handle big social weekends pretty well, am doing the shopping on my own now, wash the dishes most days, prepare dinner every night. Even doing the odd extra job to keep the house presentable.
My last period was without any herbs or supplements in the month, diet alone. It worked, my period still went for 6 days, but the last two days were spotting only, and the rest was light to moderate, never heavy, and i only had mild pain on day 1. I still had that normal wiped out nauseated feeling on day 1, but otherwise coped really well.
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Post by JackMcFarland on Apr 10, 2008 10:22:50 GMT -5
Wow Kb! Great news! I've changed my diet, as well. I'm not fully on it 100%, but am taking it one step at a time as I have my plate extremely full and it's difficult to bring it all together at times. Either way, I've yet to feel the effects of it, but am still hoping. I've cut out things that I believe were doing me wrong, i.e. my love for ice cream I miss it. Haha. But I've filled my diet with well balanced meals and protein. That gives me a good amount of energy. I'm also going to see my mothers Dr who is going to help me with a fully naturalist and organic approach to treatments. I'm worried, though. Getting my period is such a painful experience that I fear it every month, and my cycles are SO short. Not even a full 28 days, and I bleed for 7 sometimes more. I'm hoping and praying he can at least shorten my actual periods, even if he cannot lengthen my cycles
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Post by tmichelle on Apr 11, 2008 15:31:35 GMT -5
This is encouraging. I've been looking into raw foods. I LOVE the endo-resolved endo diet book. I found these yummy raw tropical cookie recipe that I posted on here somewhere and it has encouraged me to look for more raw foods because a lot of raw foods fit into the endo-diet or you only need one or two substituions. In fact I am here waiting for dh to get home so we can go to the book store and I can pick up a couple of raw cookbooks I read about on-line. While I am pretty sure I won't go entirely raw (our church always has an excuse to get together and eat and I would hate insult anyone by not eating anything at all), I do plan to start going perhaps 50% raw. I am so excited!!!
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Post by kb on Apr 16, 2008 2:00:36 GMT -5
Good luck tess with the natural approach, is a long and slow way to get results, but is worth it long term i think.
tmichelle great to hear your interested in raw. 50% is a really really good start, from things ive read anyone can benefit from at least 50% raw, going 100% is extreme and not easy or a good idea to jump straight into. The more raw you eat the better you will feel. I remember reading that cookie recipe, it inspired me to make some sweets actually, usually now i just make some fruit and nut balls with dried fruit, nuts, and bound together with ground flax seeds.
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