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« on: February 28, 2012, 08:42:54 am »
Most people find themselves on this forum in a desperate search of a healing diet. Many feel that they have tried everything without success and are willing to unravel every social stigma in order to find peace and avoid pain. I am beginning this journal about my own incomplete search so that people may learn from my successes and mistakes, and thereby decide what is best for their body, their intestinal bacterial symbionts, their spirit, and their joy.
If you ever have any questions concerning my journals and other posts, feel free to private message me.
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2/27/12
I began eating raw paleo again after eating a week's long diet of eggs cooked with coconut oil, onions, garlic, and sea salt, as inspired by the full GAPS Diet. Eating mainly raw eggs and some meats was not providing me with enough fat (coconut oil without cooked food was unappealing), so I gave up on RPD that I have been playing around with for a month (with some success) to see if I could develop better stools and get this Candida / Gut problem in order. When I started feeling much worse, I decided I needed to give RPD a more serious try.
I bought two three pound chuck roasts and a 3 pound brisket and maybe 8 pounds of marrow bones from a wonderful local grass-fed supplier and have eaten nearly all of it over the past three days. Yes, that's three pounds of meat/fat a day. I have eaten very little of anything else (just a half cup of fermented ginger carrots this evening), so I essentially have been eating zero carb. From starting this my digestion has been killing me.
I am uncertain if my digestion is hurting because of Candida die-off or an inability to digest raw fats / raw meats. I have had intense cravings for these meats and fats once I had access to them, so instinct tells me its die-off, but it's always hard to tell, as Candida seems to be able to control the human organism to survive (Candida might like the undigested fats). My hope was to continue eating this way for a little while to see if it goes away, which would require that I take another thirty minute trip tomorrow to buy more beef / marrow.
My original plan was to buy A LOT of raw cream to make kefir sour cream as a source of fat and bacteria, but they were all out. The last time I ate kefir sour cream I felt great. I hadn't felt that way in years. I'm waiting on the farm to email me back about when they will be back in stock.
I have to be resilient in continuing the diet for a little to have enough information to decide if I am detoxing or just hurting my gut for food I cannot currently digest. Only time will tell.