Week 3: The Microbiome Diet (Phase 3)

It’s been awhile since I posted on here. And mostly because I have been trying to figure out this Phase 3 thing for a bit. Let me fill you in: week 1 consisted of cheating with sourdough bread, coffee and creamer, candy, etc. I definitely ate too much of the “Thin Bark, Dark Chocolate Snack” from Cost Co. I pretty much polished off the bag during week one of phase 3. I started feeling like I was getting a cold during week 1 as well. I lightened up on sweets from then on, but I loaded up on fruit for vitamin c (which also has a lot of sugar in it). I think the sugar from the sweets and fruit but me in the butt, “so to speak”, which caused additional issues for me – feminine ones. Ugh. 

I think, I mentioned my Chiropractor having told me she thinks I suffer from an overproduction of Candida, in a previous post. Well, one can only guess what feminine problem and overproduction of yeast can cause. I ordered cranberry pills, homeopathic probiotics for yeast infections, bought unsweetened crandberry juice, took multi vitamins, made bone broth, plus many more home remedies. I was using every home remedy to avoid antibiotics. 

Week 2, I decided to lay low on cheating. The only cheating I caved with during week 2 was having a little bit of honey in my ginger tea, in hopes that I’d kick the cold. This week I was more cautious about what I ate. I tried to stay away from breads, fungus, like mushrooms, sweets, fruit, etc; which can actually cause yeast to thrive.

Once week 3 came around, I was more lenient due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving with my family, isn’t too unhealthy besides the desserts. Therefore, I didn’t put too much pressure on myself to eat healthy during the holidays; with family in town it’s all worth it. I figured if I was not better at the end of the week, I’d go back on the diet. Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone and tomorrow is a start to a new week. I am still feeling symptoms of a cold and craving sweets all day. 

So, now that family has left town and the festivities are over, leftovers are dwindling, I decided tomorrow is a good time for a fresh start. I noticed my pants are fitting tighter, so I decided to take a gander at the scale and realized that I’ve gained all my weight back (plus more then what I started the Diet with). 

Dr. Kellman writes that you shouldnt gain weight after having done each phase of the diet. He says, if you gain weight, your Microbiome wasn’t healthy enough after phase 2 and you most likely runined your Microbiome during phase 3. In some cases, you may just need a reset after having cheated too much. 

Kellman suggests starting with Phase 1 all over again and I have decided to do just that. Tomorrow is supposed to be the start to my forth week of Phase 3, but instead I will start with phase 1 again. 

I hope the reset will help. I caved into taking an antibiotic and think it will be best, under the circumstances, to start fresh tomorrow. My goal is to be able to go through phase 1 and 2 with being able to chat 30% during phase 3, withough gaining weight.