Stage 2

Well I made it 19 and 1/2 days through the detox stage. I was very close to the full 21 days, but I have a migraine today and I couldn't stand the thought of eating another egg, almond, or rice-based food. So I have had a tiny bit of agave nectar, and about 1/4 cup of frozen blueberries. I'm not sure if I should have taken an advil or not - it might feed candida too, but I know my migraine is tension based, not anything to do with candida die-off, and I need it to be gone by tomorrow, so I felt I had to take something for it. And of course I don't take ibuprofen on an empty stomach, so that is when I ate the blueberries. Blueberries and agave nectar are ok for stage 2, and I am only a day and a half away from my intended stage 2 day, so I figured I might as well just move on now. I won't be eating fruit or any stage 2 foods every day, and I'll be taking oregano oil as an anti-fungal starting either tonight or tomorrow (depending on how well I'm feeling).

Friday is the beginning of the novel marathon, which will mean being in a group setting with lots of snacking for 3 full days. I've already begun planning a list of foods to make to bring, and I timed it so that I would be on stage 2 and able to eat a bit of a wider variety of things for this time, but I am worried it's going to be difficult to resist my cravings. Now that I've had some agave and blueberries though, I'm not craving cake nearly as much as I had been. Maybe I should have suffered through, as those uncontrollable cravings might have only been the beginning of the dying stage of the candida, but I'm hoping with the start of the anti-fungals my efforts up to now will not have been wasted.

I don't know if it was the advil or the blueberries, or both, but I have started to feel a bit better already. The first few bites made me actually feel a little bit sick, but again that could have been the headache just as much as it might have been the sugar. Whatever the case, I'm certainly feeling better right now, and I think it will be a lot easier for me to get through these next four weeks now.