Greetings!
Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath.
Author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the CanXida range of supplements.
It's great to be back.
Thanks for checking out my video.
Today we're going to talk about introducing foods back into your diet after a successful
Candida treatment.
Many people contact me and say, "Can I eat this food?" and "I'm feeling better, can I
eat that food?"
I've already done some videos on this topic, but I think it might be good to sort of go
over a few things with you again.
The thing with reintroduction of foods is you've got to think about it very carefully
and logically.
How are you going to introduce the foods?
What stages are you going to introduce them in?
Don't make the mistake of introducing lots and lots of different foods at the same time.
It's not a good idea.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again.
This is how you do it.
You make a list of the foods that you've avoided or that you want to introduce back into your
diet and you want to grade them.
Now for simplicity's sake, you can just do it in two categories, but three's probably
better.
You can say for example: "The foods I love the most," and "The foods I love."
Just say A and B. Foods that you like the most and the foods that you like.
Now every food that you're going to reintroduce, you either put A or B next to it.
Simple.
The foods that you're going to introduce first are not the foods that you love the most.
The reason being, is if you like them the most, that probably means you're going to
overeat them the most, too, and probably get a reaction again.
So introduce the B-grade foods first, and introduce one food a day for a three or four-day
period.
Just one serving of that food per day or maybe two small servings for a three-day period
and then tick it off your list and move to the second B food.
Don't put like eight B foods back in on a Wednesday and on Thursday three A foods back
in.
Don't do that.
Have a slow gradual introduction.
Make haste slowly.
I much prefer you to take your time.
Now when you've got your A column of the foods you like the most, if you think carefully
about it, you can put the foods that you really like the most and the foods that you like.
So you can A+ and A.
The A+ foods are the foods you introduce the last.
Because again, there could be a tendency for you to want to eat those foods every day,
twice a day, or after dinner every day.
Remember, if you've got a very powerful relationship with a food, it's going to have a very powerful
relationship with your gut or your immune system.
You may find it hard to say no to that food when you reintroduce that food.
So take care.
It could be something like ice cream for example.
Not a great food to eat.
We've got some beautiful ice cream in New Zealand.
Really good ice cream.
I do eat ice cream, but it may be once every week or two.
It's not a food I would commonly eat every day.
It's very congesting, it gives me phlegm and mucus, but I tell you what, there's nothing
better guys, than a nice bowl of beautiful New Zealand Kapiti ice cream from a region
called Kapiti Coast with a couple of nice slices of peaches on there, fresh peaches
out of the garden, with a tiny bit of cream on top.
It's beautiful.
It's one of the pleasures in life.
Eating beautiful ice cream.
But we're not talking nine scoops in a bowl covered with a gallon of chocolate sauce on
top of that, we're talking a small helping.
Common sense.
So remember, if you like it, it's either illegal, immoral or fattening, usually.
One of those three.
So just go slow on it if you like it.
Take it easy with this food.
Don't be in a hurry to introduce the foods you like the most.
Give yourself quite a few days between the spacing of these really high desirable foods.
If you take your time and do a proper introduction, particularly when you start feeling good,
you'll find that you don't have to go on a roller coaster anymore of feeling good and
feeling bad as your immune system may go to town on that food.
When you reintroduce foods, it's like reintroducing people into your lives.
There could be a few relationship issues until things settle down.
Try and understand that you have a relationship with every food you eat.
Now you either hate that food like brussel sprouts, or you love that food like ice cream.
So don't forget: Take it easy, do it slowly in a regulated sense and you'll have no problems
reintroducing foods into your diet.
I'm a firm believer that when you've got really good health like me, you can eat all foods.
You can eat a little bit of bread.
You can have a bit of meat.
You can have some eggs.
You can have chicken, a bit of ice cream.
You can have maybe a cold beer.
All these things are possible when you're healthy, and don't let anyone tell you that
foods are poison and you need to avoid them.
I hope you've got some good information out of this video.
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