After Ana

For most of my life I have been tired. Tired when I wake up, go to work, get home, go to bed, wake up.

My husband commented the other day: “You have to get your candida under control, you’ve got to stop feeling so tired! It’s not normal!” I have to admit, I am abnormally tired a lot. Despite changing my diet in the last year, I haven’t (as yet) undergone a candida flush.

I know I have a problem with it, because when I eat carbohydrates, even if it’s just a single slice of sprouted bread, half an hour to an hour later I get terrible gas. I mean, embarrassing, smelly gas. The worst part is I CRAVE the foods I know do me harm… bread, biscuits, sugar, cakes, chocolate, sweet drinks, alcohol, nuts, pasta, rice and oats.

This is not something I can easily control. Despite all I know about diet and nutrition, it is like a force beyond my control sometimes! I go into the supermarket for some free range eggs or a carton of organic milk and I come out with butter shortbreads, the only biscuits I can find that don’t have preservatives, additives or vegetable oil. STILL… why am I holding a packet of biscuits? It is a mystery to me. We have installed a padlock on the biscuit barrel to assist me to make better snack choices, but sometimes I wake in a fog holding the crumbs, blinking in a post-biscuit bleary-eyed stupor, with no memory of how I got there.

To tell the truth I’m exaggerating a little, I don’t eat in a bad way, I probably eat better than anyone I know. It’s important to eat correctly for good health, it’s just I haven’t ever ‘got rid of’ my candida, so with me it will stay.

Tomorrow I have and appointment with my naturopath. It’s time to nip this in the bud once and for all! I don’t want to be a slave to sugar my whole life (let alone endure the socially crippling side-effects). Although, I have to admit, I am NOT looking forward to the die-off, not to mention no more biscuit ‘crack’! Hey man… I need that stuff! Has anyone gone through this before? Hopefully it was a breeze for you (I suspect it will be the battle of my life) and you can cheer me on!

Ick, the headaches, flu-symptoms, swollen glands, tiredness…. hmmm hopefully it’s not THAT bad… (thinks as she mentally composes a last supper in her head of pasta, french bread, wine and cheesecake…)

About the Author...

I've finally overcome my destructive eating habits by learning to accept myself, applying the WAPF nutritional principles daily. I'm now at a stable, healthy, slim weight, have lots of energy and no more guilt. I've been happily married for 7 years and am a graphic designer. In the near future I'm hoping to start a nutritional course and start practicing as a qualified nutritionist. At the moment it's all self education.