The journey begins . . .

Today marks day one of our journey.  We spent all last week prepping by cutting out sugars and wheat.  I worked hard to reduce my coffee intake and we both made an effort to reduce starchy vegetables.  It was a slightly more difficult week to do this as we not only had our jobs to work around but we also had a 13hour car ride to Edmonton, a wedding and a 13hour car ride back all in 56hours, YEESH! 

We have been reading through two books and a number of websites that have inspired our next months food plan;  Overweight Kids In A Toothpick World by Brenda Wollenberg and (along with a bit of internet research) The Candida Albicans Yeast-Free Cookbook by Pat Connolly.  After doing a 8 week program with Brenda Wollenberg including metabolic typing and a Candida questionare we realized we both likely have some candida issues.  Because of this we are doing a month of strict yeast free and candida reducing eating to begin our journey.  This means; no dairy, no grains other than quinoa, no starchy vegetables, no fruit other than cranberries and lemons, NO CAFFINE, NO ALCOHOL!!!  We will be eating only vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, meats (no shellfish or pork), oils (grapeseed, olive oil, coconut oil) and good clean water for this next while.  We have done things like this before but not for a month.  We are both excited but it does mean a lot of work as we will have to have homemade mayo, salad dressing, hummus and beans all ready to go for quick lunches and suppers. 

Also this week we will begin implimenting a bed time; 11pm.  We are very bad for getting to bed on time and almost never get more than 6 hours of sleep which is especially hard on Ian.

We have begun taking suppliments upon reccomendation by our Nutritionist and our Naturopath. 
They include, vitamins; D, B, C, probiotics, Ambertose (a prebiotic), Omega 3 and 6.
Corie also takes: Evening primrose, Endocrine support, a multi vitamin, Mg, Cranberry, Eye antioxident support
Ian also takes: Vitamin E
Many of these we will be phasing out as our bodies become more balanced in the next little while and all of our vitamins and minerals are being met by healthy whole foods.


This month will be a tough one but hopefully very rewarding.  We will be doing weekly updates including recipies and success stories. 
Please give us encouragment, suggestions, more research material or your own personal health journey stories.

Talk to you soon.
Corie and Ian