Yesterday I started feeling a lot better. Had been taking olive leaf extract and I also read on the Internet that it would be good to have a sauna and I had a delicious one and really started feeling myself again.
However, today I've started feeling worse again - not feverish, but my cold and cough have both worsened.
To be honest, I feel a little disillusioned, for 2 reasons:
- the first is that what I thought was a consequence of my detoxing, I realise is, in fact, real flu. I forgot that my sons nanny had a bad cold when I saw her on Tuesday, and she was still terrible when I saw her again the next Tuesday, so that's my source.
- the second is that I am becoming desperate with regards to what to eat. A slight crisis point. I now have a much better idea about what's good for me and my body. In fact, a lot of it is quite obvious. The problem is that, especially now that I'm ill, I don't always fancy salads and all good things. However, when I look at something even as innocuous as a corn cake, I feel like I can't (or shouldnt) eat it, leaving me without many options at all
DH was very reassuring as he said that this is a normal response, at this point in my journey. And he reassured me that it is ok to occasionally eat less than healthy foods, especially while I am transitioning. It's best if I can to accompany it with a salad (eg. If I fancied a Chinese meal, eat what I want, but add a big salad too). But it's ok. And I can carry on my good diet, even if I do have a blow out day or evening.
This is an adjustment period and it will take a long while for the new diet to become habit and to get rid of all my old cravings. DH said that he still has the very occasional taste for something like a biscuit, but it is so not in his system that he is able to acknowlege it and let it pass. Or he, once in a blue moon, does eat one, but he immediately goes back to his normal healthy diet straight after.
That is what I am aiming for too, but it does take many months of conscious focus and determination.
Heather