The Budwig Diet, unfortunately modified for now
At the beginning of last month, my friend’s brother told me about the Budwig diet in relation to helping me with the Endometriosis. I couldn’t find the books in the local libraries, so I ordered them.
Yesterday was my first day trying the Budwig recipes and you know, they’re pretty tasty! Though there’s no meat, so I was pretty loopy all day yesterday because my blood sugar was going WTF?
I’ve incorporated more nuts and a protein bar today.
I can’t seem to find coconut fat - it’s a main ingredient in the Budwig diet. I’ve gone to two chain stores and called a third. I was directed to a Latino grocery but I only get a fax line there. I just called a health food store in Pacifica that I used to frequent when I lived over that way, and they have coconut oil, so I’m gonna go check them out this weekend.
In the meantime, I’ve omitted that recipe, even though it’s one of the primary parts of this diet.
There’s other changes, too. Like, I can’t have cottage cheese - it brings on the pain even before my cycle is due. I’ve been subsituting yogurt in place of cottage cheese (the book says I can do that). I can also have the small amounts of milk called for in recipes - it only make my stomach gurgle and I can live with that.
And the Linomel™ meal - I might still need to order that. In the meantime, I’ve been creating it myself with flaxseed meal, some milk and some honey, cuz that’s what the Linomeal is made of, anyway.
Today I’m not so loopy. My blood sugar feels stable.
All of this is just another step in the series of holistic self treatment for the Endometriosis and cancer prevention. And for years I’ve had GI tract issues anyway, so this diet can only help with that. Of course, I’m definitely hoping that it helps calm the Endo.