… And The Detox is Done!

It is Thursday night and I have finished the detox.  I am very proud of what I have accomplished and so thankful for all the support I have received along the way.  It has really made a difference.  I have heard from so many of you with ideas on how to keep me going after the detox is complete.  I want to take a minute to fill you in on days 7 through 10.  Day 7 and 8 we could add cooked vegetables.  For me, (I think really for all of us), that meant adding green beans.  I probably could have added more things but the combination of cooked green beans and a salad was just heavenly.  Now I was starting to see my pain level subside, I had gotten over my weakness from the weekend and I was feeling so much better.   I was finally doing something pro active to improve my Fibromyalgia.  Then on day 9 and 10 came the best part.  We could add meat.  Any kind of meat, chicken or fish.  We all brought grilled chicken to work to put on our salad and we could see the end of the tunnel.

The end of the tunnel really had me concerned.  My pain level is down and my fatigue is down.  I need to make sure that I continue on this path.  My thought all along was that I would follow a gluten free, dairy free diet and I had been researching gluten free for many days now so I had determined what I could and could not have.  I can say that after the 10 day detox, I was no longer craving sweets or carbs and I find that so hard to believe but it is true.  I still am struggling with the water almost as much now as I was on day 1.   It was funny because we would look at the gluten free diet and say,  we can have meat, and we can have fruit and we can have this and that.  It was no longer what we couldn’t have but what we could have.  I was still uneasy.  I kept going back and reading and re-reading what the doctor told me.  No yeast, no sugar, no carbonation and no dairy.  I think I was going forward correctly but what if I didn’t and my pain level returned to and 8 or my energy went down again.  I sure didn’t want to mess this up.  Vegetable Juice and Water for 2 days is something I don’t want to ever do again.  It is lunch time on day 10 and I am eating a grilled chicken salad and I decide to Google the following:  Is a gluten free diet the same as a yeast free diet?  First thing that came up was No a gluten free diet and a yeast free diet are not the same.  Oh Crap.  I would say they are not the same.  I started reading foods you could not have on a yeast free diet and started to panic.  My Oh S – - – echoed all over the office.  I am still so glad that I didn’t start out Thursday on the wrong diet though.  I feel like that would have negated everything I went through for the last 10 days.

So today I want to end by first thanking all of you for your support.  I want to thank my wonderful husband, daughters and son-in-laws.  Most importantly I want to thank Lisa and Jami my co-workers.  They made this so much easier and bearable.  I now know for sure that if you are going to embark on a journey like this a buddy is great.  We talked almost non-stop for 10 days about what we were doing and what we were accomplishing.  Jami lost 4 pounds, walked every day and was feeling great.  Going forward she is going to continue to eat healthy unprocessed foods.  Lisa lost 9 pounds, the pain in her feet and ankles is completely gone and going forward she is going to continue to follow the gluten free diet.  I am glad someone is because we researched the heck out of that one.  I lost 7 pounds, my pain level is down, the fatigue is so much better and that really means a lot to me.  Going forward, I am going to follow the yeast free diet and next blog I will tell you more about that bad boy!. Now… the real journey begins.

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