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I was asking around about something that might help my sister with the 'Lichen Panus' that she has been recently diagnosed with and was told about Colloidal Silver. I know that Mel is taking it...anyone else here?

The Struggle

myCatholic.com � Customizable Catholic Homepage:
"The Struggle

How are you going to get out of that state of lukewarmness and lamentable languor if you do not make use of the means? You struggle very little, and when you make an effort, you do so as if annoyed and uneasy. You even hope that your feeble efforts will produce no results, so that you can then justify yourself and you will not have to make demands on yourself and others will not ask any more of you.

It is your own will you are following, not God's. If you don't change in earnest you will neither be happy nor be able to obtain the peace you now lack.

Humble yourself before God, and try really to want to.
� St. Josemaria Escriva, Furrow, #146"

I thought this quote was perfect for our journey to health.

Oat and Orange Muffins

Getting back on track with a healthy breakfast...

2 cups oat bran cereal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup unsweetened soy milk
2 large eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup pure vegetable glycerin
2 teaspoons special orange flavoring
1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 400 F. Place all ingredients in a large bowl; mix until well blended. Batter will be lumpy. Sppon batter into greased muffin or paper baking cups, filling 2/3 full. Bake 15- 18 minutes. Test for doness with a toothpick.

I made it this morning and they were pretty tasty (not very sweet, but good).

Weekends are hard!

Anyone else have a hard time with weekends? I can hang in there pretty much through out the week, but I find the weekends such a challenge. There tends to be more socializing and parties to attend and eating out. I did fairly well with sweets...even though everything in me was screaming out for an Iced Caramel Latte...I didn't give in. The other stuff though...not so well...can't beat myself up too much though since I think I really did the best I could with the choices available...but let's just say that there won't be massive die-off going on this week.

I'm already getting worried about next week when vacation starts...yikes!

Preparation!

Canada finds bird flu case, plans further testing�|�Reuters.com: "Canada has detected a case of H5 avian flu in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island and plans further testing over the weekend to determine whether it is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, government officials announced on Friday."

I think this whole thing needs to be taken seriously and the best thing that we can do right now is take care of ourselves...be the healthiest that we can be. I praise God for leading us forward in this area.

Ofcourse preparing for this or any other 'natural disaster' also involves prayer and getting the other areas of life in order...so 'A Mother's Rule of Life' is a must! We are doing a study of it right now at Simply Living a Life of Grace

Simply Living -> Guideline #5

Simply Living -> Guideline #5: "I didn't really know back then what it was to 'feel good' after a meal(never really grasped the concept that the whole point of eating is to replenish our energy and makes us feel good...duh!)...but I have experienced it now and don't want to go back. "

Wow...I feel like I've come to a major breakthrough. I 'get it' now. Eating is to replenish energy! Ahhh...ofcourse! What the heck have I been doing all these years? I went directly against this time after time. I ate for pleasure...mostly things that would sap my energy...and I ate for emotional reasons...this time not only did the foods sap, they allowed for a sort of numbing that never allowed me to feel my pain and get beyond it.

Getting our husbands healthy too...

Not By Bread Alone: CALCIUM TO MAGNESIUM RATIO:
"i am just itching to start my dh on some magnesium... but really want to proceed with caution. he's on bp pills, cholesterol pills, a diuretic, diabetes meds... his diet is terrible to boot. i don't know where to begin with him. i'm hoping to persuade him to talk to the doc about the magnesium so she can keep an eye on him...

any thoughts?"

Just thought I'd bring this up from my comments section and see if anyone had any input. I'm having similar issues with my husband, but he's not even on meds because he's too stubborn to even go to the doctor...yikes! I really would like him around for a few more years...I'm sort of used to him, you know...lol.

As to the Magnesium...I just hand him one in the morning and he takes it...but I know that that is no where enough...men's requirements are even higher then ours...and they often have so many things going on that deplete it. I'm also trying to get my brother on it...he's been sick like for ever. I also got my sister to get it for her husband.

I guess along with taking supplements it is important that they cut down on the stuff that depletes it...especially sugar and alcohol. Now, what guy is going to be on board for that? I don't know...maybe when they see how healthy and fit we've become they'll just desperately want to follow suit.

Soft nails

Soft nails: "
Do you suffer from soft or brittle nails?"

Well...who knew that this 'diet' would also improve my nails. I hardly ever have nails...they are always splitting and then I pick at them...just a mess. Well...now I'm starting to get nails. I don't want them too long because that's just not my lifestyle these days...but hey cute nails that can be polished once in a while for special occasions makes a girl feel good. :)

Good News...Bad News...

Here's the bad news...last night after driving around and playing at the beach with the kids for a little while we found ourselves at Wendy's and I was hungry. The good news...I just made the best of a possibly bad situation and decided to still make some positive choices (I would have caved in the past for sure). Now for the good news...I ordered a hamburger with lettuce and tomato (no sauces), a plain baked potato and some mineral water. I took the bun out and added some salt and pepper to both the burger and the potato along with a touch of butter...pretty yummy...who would have thought?

Then this morning I made some gluten free waffles. I REALLY wanted some syrup on that darn thing...but chose not to give in...so to satiate my taste for something sweet, I caved in a little bit and cheated with just a tiny amount of banana spread on my waffle and a few blueberries on top of that. Again...very yummy...and if you are going to cheat...might as well stick to something that will nourish you also.

Foods you can eat...

Free recipes for people with a food allergy or food allergies

This is a great site that comes up with recipes for you based on what you can and cannot eat.

Lend Me Your Hope

(Just got this in my E-Mail today and thought it really spoke well to how we can at times feel on this journey.)

Lend me your hope for awhile, I seem to have mislaid mine.
Lost and hopeless feelings accompany me daily, pain and confusion are my companions.

I know not where to turn; looking ahead to future times does not bring forth images of renewed hope.

I see troubled times, pain-filled days, and more tragedy.

Lend me your hope for awhile, I seem to have mislaid mine.

Hold my hand and hug me; listen to all my ramblings, recovery seems so far distant.

The road to healing seems like a long and lonely one.

Lend me your hope for awhile, I seem to have mislaid mine.

Stand by me, offer me your presence, your heart and your love.

Acknowledge my pain, it is so real and ever present.

I am overwhelmed with sad and conflicting thoughts.

Lend me your hope for awhile; a time will come when I will heal, and I will share my renewal, hope, and love with others

(adapted from the poem "Lend Me Your Hope," author unknown)

Magnesium - a Miracle

Magnesium - a Miracle

I'm not sure if I've posted this one here already or not.

Anti fungals

Anti fungals: "Killing the yeast with anti-fungal herbs and supplements - Pau d'arco, garlic, echinacea, grapefruit seed extract, olive leaf extract, oil of oregano, caprylic acid, goldenseal, black walnut, tea tree, MSM, flax oil, fish oil and digestive enzymes have anti-yeast properties and are effective against Candida. Proteolytic (protein digesting) enzymes literally dissolve yeast by digesting the protein substances in the yeast cell."

I have Pau D'arco tea but I HATE the taste...any ideas? I do love garlic and am trying to add it to everything now...lol. I swear by Echinacea too...but didn't know of it's anti fungal qualities...I usually just take it when I'm coming down with something....hmmm...maybe it helps me because it kills yeast and it's most likely yeast that was causing my ailments? What are your favorite anti-fungals?

My Journey...

(posting this again...since the original seems to have gotten lost.)

Thought I'd post a little bit about where I've been and what got me here.

I've been struggling for many years with both health issues and weight issues...never fully getting that they were intertwinded. My health issues I think have been mostly kept private (I think), with only my husband and closest family members actually knowing the full scope of things.

From early on I had lots of child hood illnesses...I had my tonsils out at the age of maybe six...took anti-biotics for that. Had bladder infection...more anti-biotics...then a slew of strep throat incidents...one after another, after another through out my adolescence...and ofcourse along with the usual course of antibiotics. Lots of days off from school, very sedate life for a child...never really had the energy or drive to do what other kids seemed to be doing all the time. But life continued...and along with it labels like 'lazy' stuck.

Things seemed to go on pretty 'normally'...at least what I had been thinking of as normal until the early 90's when my mom became sick with cancer. I was working in Boston at the time with a very long comute to where I was living, I'd get home exhausted and VERY stressed. I started getting sinus infections pretty much constantly...and again put on antibiotics. The thing that blocked that track (thankfully)was developing an allergy to one of them (a sulfa drug)...I finally said enough and started looking towards herbal remedies to help me and discovered 'Echinacea'...a God send.

The last year of my mom's life (1997)was one of the most taxing years of my life. I was constantly in the hospital to be with her...eating whatever I could manage from the cafeteria and vending machines...not taking care of myself at all. My weight just sky rocketed, along with my health issues. I would experience moments of anxiety and panic at times, and severe depression at others.

The thing that got my attention though wasn't my health...but my weight. Sometime after my mom's death, I came across a book called 'The WeighDown Diet' and there started my 'non diet' journey. I lost incredible amounts of weight by simply waiting for hunger and stopping when full. I would eat whatever I felt like (mostly sugary sweets)and was thrilled that the weight kept melting. However I still wasn't feeling all that great physically. In fact my anxiety got so bad that I could hardly swallow my food...I couldn't even go to restaurants because that seemed to make it all worse...so the weight kept dropping.

I don't blame the 'non diet' approach for any of this...I still think that this is the way to go...that you need to listen to your body's signals and feed it what it needs. However, I believe that there are illnesses and situations that can prevent us from interpreting those signals properly. I now realize that the yeast in my body caused by all the antibiotics that I had taken, was what was calling for the sugar...it wanted to be fed!

I came to this conclusion when I started telling a friend of mine about some of the problems that I had been experiencing and she told me about food intolerances and specifically about Gluten Intolerance and Celiac disease. When I read the symptoms of Celiac, alot of it clicked for me...so I tried going gluten free for a little while and things did start to improve. However, I was also noticing that at times I would eat other foods and would still get very sick. I was just starting to see the sugar connection then. I already knew that dairy did a job on me...that was instantaneous...but other foods weren't so easy to recognize.

In the meantime I found an MD who practiced Holistic medicine and had her check for Celiac...all came back normal but she thought that I was on the right track with food intolerance idea. She perscribed probiotics and talked to me about doing an elimination diet...which we would talk more about the next time we met. I went home and started researching more on my own and came across the Yeast Overgrowth information...eliminated sugar right away along with some of the other stuff that I already knew made me sick (milk, bread...etc.) and started having marked improvements with my digestive system. The first week was very, very difficult since I had been such a sugar junky for such a long time, not to mention chocoholic. The cravings were really intense and I developed headaches for several days straight along with several other symptoms, as my body struggled to clean itself out.

So..the journey has now come to a new phase...I still want to eat within the boundaries of hunger and fullness...but when it is time to eat, I want whole, nourishing foods that are not filled with so much sugar and other additives that they make me sick. I want to exercise my body and take vitamins. I want to do whatever it takes to take good care of this body that God created in order to serve Him better. I still have a whole slew of symptoms that haven't shown much improvement yet...energy level is still very low...but there have been enough good changes to encourage me forward...improved bowel regularity, less gassiness and bloatedness, weight loss, clearer skin etc. So I'm hopeful that this is at least another piece of the puzzle. So, keep reading this blog and walk with me as I go forward towards finding the health and vibrancy that I need to live the life that God has in mind for me.

Food Journal

I've started keeping a food journal again and I'm finding that it really helps me to stay on track. I'm just using a notebook and adding in all the things that are important to my health...especially what I eat, when, my hunger levels before and after and how I'm feeling.

I also just got 'The Candida Control Cookbook' from the library and am looking forward to doing some of these recipes. I'll keep you all posted on how I like it...but so far, it looks good.

CALCIUM TO MAGNESIUM RATIO

Enerex.ca | CALCIUM TO MAGNESIUM RATIO:
"CALCIUM TO MAGNESIUM RATIO

From the information presented here it is apparent that the ratio between calcium to magnesium is very important in dealing with the causes and prevention of a number of disorders including myocardial infraction or arrhythmia, atherosclerosis, hypertension, urolithiasis, and infant-death syndrome. In all cases, a lower calcium/magnesium ratio or a higher magnesium/calcium ratio is desirable. This need is further underscored by the fact that magnesium intake is generally suboptimal and that hypomagnesmia is more prevalent than generally believed.

The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for calcium is 800 mg/day, whereas for magnesium it is 400 to 450 mg/day. Only about one-third of magnesium is absorbed from dietary sources. Therefore, a daily magnesium intake of 1200 mg/day has been recommended by some researchers (22). The traditional ratio of approximately 2 parts calcium to 1 part magnesium needs to be upgraded to increase magnesium intake in view of the overwhelming beneficial role of magnesium. The ideal ratio for most people's needs is an equal ratio of calcium and magnesium.

The absorption and metabolism of calcium and magnesium is one of mutual dependence, and therefore, the balance between these two minerals is especially important. If calcium consumption is high, magnesium intake needs to be high also."

Cramps...

the pain is starting to set in now. I hate taking pills. Anyone have a good home remedy? I'm hoping that this is one of the things that will be dealt with as the Yeast gets back under control. I've always had menstrual cramps as far back as I can remember. Don't know if it had a direct link to my infertility or not...but you would think it might. I just feel so 'broken'.

Oh and by the way...the PMS might not have been bad but the irritability has now caught up with me anyway.

Colon cleansing...

Have you tried this yet? I'd love to hear about it. I'm seriously considering doing it...I'll ask my doctor about it when I meet with her again next month. I saw this thing on tv about it yesterday and just now I clicked on the googles add here on this site that said 'is your insides clean' and it provided some pretty graphic pictures of what can come out of you. If that stuff is inside of me...I want it OUT!

Sorry...but it seems that you just can't get away from poopie talk when you are dealing with these types of health issues.

ooops!

Time to back down a bit on the Magnesium. Got AF this morning...I love the fact that there was no PMS to warn me of it's coming anyway. Now on top of that my intestines have decided to let me know that it is time back down a little bit on Mg...lol...actually, I wasn't laughing a few minutes ago...ouch!

I'm taking the stuff that everyone says doesn't absorb well...so I figured that I could easily go up a bit with it. So I started taking 250 mg. three times a day...I'm going down to 2 times a day and see what happens. This morning's reaction could be a fluke too...having more to do with AF stuff then the Mg...I don't know.

Progress report...

Went to BJ's earlier and got my blood pressure checked while I was there. It was 114/ 79 and my heart rate was 69! I'm especially amazed at the heart rate...believe me...it is never that low and I'm on Atenelol which is supposed to keep it low. I think it is the Magnesium and ofcourse not consuming sugar will do it too.

Another thing that I was proud of is that Roy and the kids had pizza and hot dogs there (arghhh...my family is into pizza and hotdogs...lol) and I wasn't even tempted one little bit even though I hadn't eaten yet. I came home and made my self some scrambled eggs!

Thank You Lord! Now it is off to bed I go, so that I can get a good night's sleep. Could you all say a prayer that my kids sleep through the night?

Candida Diet

WholeApproach.com - Diet: The Three Stage Self-Customized Candida Diet �����������������������:

"Stage One Diet - Follow these guidelines for the first three months and continue until a MODERATE score on your Questionnaire has been maintained for one full month.
OK (green) foods according to your nutritional needs.
One serving of LIMIT (orange) foods and up to one serving of high protein, gluten-free low-glycemic grains daily (see PDF lists below). * "

PDF Food List

**Only fruits allowed on stage one are what is on the green page.

Eating only when Hungry

Simply Living -> Eating only when Hungry: "An interesting observation...I find waiting for hunger a lot easier when I'm 'eating the way I should' to begin with. First because it actually takes some thought on what I'm going to eat, so I just can't pop something into my mouth and not worry about it...but also as I get more stamina, I'm finding that I just plain want to...it's an awesome feeling...one that I don't want to lose. "

We are doing an over view of the 'Thin Again' book at my Simply Living a Life of Grace site (link above) and I just noted the above regarding waiting for hunger.

Another observation having nothing to do with the topic at hand...lol...and may just be way too much information...but WOW...who knew that I was capable of moving my bowels more then once a day...especially after suffering with constipation for so long. I'm sure that alone is helping me tremendously as all those toxins get flushed away!

Nice start...

Well...I'm off to a nice start anyway. Yesterday went well...I even did a bit of exercising (see video on side bar)and felt pretty good while doing it.

I had my doctor's appointment and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. She's very supportive as far as the diet goes and so forth...but I feel like I'm the one that's brining stuff to her attention here and meeting with her is basically a waste of my time and money. Anyone else feel like that about their doctors?

When I told her I started taking the Magnesium she looked at me like I had two heads...she finally conceded that it was a good thing and that the majority of the population are Magnesium deficient...WHAT...and you weren't going to tell me? That kind of ticked me off a bit. Her plan is very laid back(diet first and then tackle supplements and so forth)...but if you are on this side of things and suffering, you want to get on with it and start feeling better as soon as possible.

My husband said that she's probably just not used to dealing with someone like me...lol. really? Am I really that un-usual? Don't people like to have control of their health and lives? That's so strange to me, that they might not.

Need breakfast help...

I'm in desperate need of some help in knowing what to make for breakfast. Take away bread, cheese and coffee and I'm at a loss...lol. Hey...I'm Portuguese, you know.

Please, please...any ideas?

Heal Me...Lord!

I'm not sure you want to heal me, Lord.
Are you willing?
Or are you eager to punish?
Are you the god-of-impossible-expectations?
Are you pleased when I suffer?
Or are you willing to heal me?
I need healing, Lord.
But, more than healing, I need you.
Help me today to experience your desire to heal.
Help me today to experience your eagerness to heal, Lord.
Prepare me to receive your gift of healing.
Heal me.
Amen

--from NACR daily meditation

If at first you don't succeed...

So here I am back on the road again. Most of the day went pretty well...we went out to lunch and I only made one mistake...ordered mashed potatoes with my salmon...that's what happens when you don't cook a lot yourself...you forget exactly what ingredients go into making something...yes...mashed potatoes take MILK. But on a positive note...I ordered water with a bit of lemon for my drink instead of getting a soda...yeah for me.

Well...here's the not so good part. My husband and kids dropped me off at church for Holy Hour and they went to the play ground...then when they picked me up, I guess they had worked up an appetite because they wanted to go out for pizza and hot dogs...lol. So...who can sit through that and not pick? Certainly not I! Then to top it all off...each kids meal comes with a chocolate chip cookie and since they had two hot dogs and once slice of pizza...that equals three kids meals and there are only two kids...so that leaves on chocolate chip cookie that just kept calling me and calling me and I'm WAY too weak to say 'Go AWAY'...so I ate it!

Another positive for today is that other then my tummy being bloated...I'm feeling pretty good. I've started taking the Magnesium and even though it's probably supposed to take longer to take effect...I think it's working for me already...I feel 'different'...very calm...I can't explain it really...just like I can breathe easier(no depression...no anxiety). I had a really good night sleep last night too and woke up early, all refreshed...and the sun was shining...praise God. Here's to another good night's sleep.

My GOALS...

1)Go back on Anti-Yeast diet. Drink more water...stay away from sodas and coffee.

2)Supplement my Magnesium intake/ take my pro-biotic and my daily vitamin

3)When I get my strength back a little bit, I will start exercising.

4)I've added some down time to my schedule...specifically the half hour just before my husband gets home from work...so that I can clean myself up and recharge a bit and then I can be sane when he walks through the door.

5)I've also started soaking in a hot tub with Epsom Salts and need to take more steps in detoxification. I bought some detox tea too. I'm very given to die-off.

6)I'm also making sure that I have a daily bowel movement...I think the magnesium will help with that as well.

7)I've set up a schedule of when to visit my dad (every other day) so that I'm not compromising my family life and stressing myself out too much.

8)Pruning all in my life that is not giving fruit. I'm in the process of re-evaluation all my 'attachments' and 'involvements'...if it is not 'life giving'...if it doesn't in some way promote or enhance my relationship with the Lord, then it is history.

9)Blog about my journey.

10)Allow the Lord to lead me on this path...obviously this one is the most important one of all...so the above are not in any particular order.

Master Cleanse Lemonade Fast

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Stanley Burroughs’ Master Cleanse Lemonade Fast

Required ingredients:(preferably) organic lemons, organic Grade B Maple syrup and organic cayenne. Organic cayenne seems to be less “hot” than cheaper store brands, so this may be an incentive to spend the extra money on this. Only use fresh lemon juice, not packaged.

See link above for details...

Magnesium Daily Requirements

Magnesium:
"Pediatric

Infants birth to 6 months: 30 mg
Infants 6 months to 1 year: 75 mg
Children 1 to 3 years: 80 mg
Children 4 to 8 years: 130 mg
Children 9 to 13 years: 240 mg
Adolescent males 14 to 18 years: 410 mg
Adolescent females 14 to 18 years: 360 mg

Adult

Males 19 to 30 years: 400 mg
Females 19 to 30 years: 310 mg
Males 31 years and older: 420 mg
Females 31 years and older: 320 mg
Pregnant females under 18 years: 400 mg
Pregnant females 19 to 30 years: 350 mg
Pregnant females 31 to 50 years: 360 mg
Breastfeeding females under 18 years: 360 mg
Breastfeeding females 19 to 30 years: 310 mg
Breastfeeding females 31 to 50 years: 320 mg "

Candida

Candida

Leaky gut

The Biamonte Center for Clinical Nutrition | Health-Truth.com:
"Other factors that cause or worsen Leaky Gut Syndrome are:


*Alcohol and caffeine, which irritate the gut wall, this includes cokes (diet and regular), chocolate, coffee, and cocoa.
*Contaminated foods, E. coli and other bacteria�s can develop due to poor food handling.
*Chemicals found in processed and fermented foods (dyes and preservatives), wine, vinegar, soy sauce, tofu, etc.
*A diet high in refined sugars and other carbohydrates (e.g. candy, cookies, sodas, processed foods and white bread).
*Foods contaminated by parasites (pork, chicken, fresh water and hatchery fish).
*Antibiotic use-this causes an overgrowth of fungi (yeast) in the gut due to the immune suppression that occurs.
*Ingestion of animal products that have been given hormonal and antibiotic treatments.
*NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). "

The Magnesium Connection

Magnesium and Calcium Absorption:

"A magnesium-rich diet can be helpful both for arthritis and to help prevent osteoporosis. This consists of nuts, whole grains such as brown rice, millet, buckwheat (kasha), whole wheat, triticate, and rye, and legumes including lentils, split peas, and a varieties of beans. A whole grain cereal or bread in the morning, a cup of bean soup at lunch, a snack of a few nuts, and serving of brown rice, millet, or buckwheat with dinner should help increase magnesium when a deficiency is suspected.

More on Magnesium

http://www.mbschachter.com/importance_of_magnesium_to_human.htm
http://www.mgwater.com/calmagab.shtml


At the same time, refined sugar and alcohol should be reduced, and eliminated when possible to prevent magnesium from being excreted in large quantities in the urine. You may also want to re-evaluate the amount of dairy in your diet."