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Lessons the bank taught me about sticking to your healthy diet

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Ricki talks about how a visit to the bank can help with your healthy diet.

As I write this, much of the world is just heading into Stage 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic (if you’re reading this and don’t know what that is, lucky you! Just Google “2020: the lost year” or something like that). Where I live, just north of Toronto, Stage 3 means mandatory masks in all public […]

Tagged With: anti-candida, candida diet motivation, candida diet strategies, diet advice, diet compliance, food allergies, food sensitivities, gluten free, grain free, healthy, healthy mindset, staying on track, sticking with it, sugar free, vegan, video, wheat-free

Seven things I’ve learned about how to change for good (Part 1)

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a cloud spelling out the word "change"

Back when I struggled with candida symptoms that ravaged my skin, my sinuses and my digestive tract, I ignored it all at first. As someone who had dealt with candida before, I knew that the solution was to change my diet and lifestyle. But that didn’t matter. In fact, I began to truly change only when I […]

Tagged With: anti candida diet, anti-candida, diet compliance, diet consistency, food allergies, food sensitivities, how to change, permanent change, staying on track, sticking with it, sugar free

When a new set of eyes can help your perspective…

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Ricki talks about the value of a coach, part 1

Sometimes, a different set of eyes can make all the difference. Have you ever had this experience? Think about the last report you wrote, or even the last essay in college. You’ve checked and re-checked the text, ensuring that everything is perfect. Yet, when your colleague or friend reads over the contents, they easily point […]

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How to stick with it when you don’t feel like it

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You know it’s the best thing for you.  You know that this will make you feel better. You know that your symptoms will remain under control. . . If only you stick to eating within your dietary restrictions. And yet. . . somehow, you keep eating foods that aren’t the best for you. Why is […]

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Living with Less

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Ricki looks serious explaining how to live with less

With limited access to stores, restaurants, entertainment and basically all of the usual amenities we are used to “normal” times, it can be frustrating to feel limited in what you can do or buy, and whom you can see in your day-to-day life. I’ve heard from so many people that they are feeling stressed and […]

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Why “What Am I Doing Wrong?” Isn’t a Helpful Question (What To Think Instead)

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ricki advised not to dwell on what you are doing wrong with candida

When things don’t work out as we wish, it’s natural to ask, “what am I doing wrong?” For most of my life as a teen and through adulthood, that was the question that first occurred to me any time I didn’t see the results I was hoping for in my life.  If I wasn’t promoted […]

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When People Try to Sabotage Your Diet, Part 3: The Benefits of Saying NO

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Ricki is glad she says NO to food saboteurs on her candida dit

In this third part of this series that deals with other people who try (knowingly or not) to sabotage your candida diet, I share the reasons why it’s so important for your health and well-being to learn to truly say “no” when offered food that’s off the plan. As you saw in Part I and […]

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When People Try to Sabotage Your Candida Diet, Part 2: What You Can Do

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Ricki saying she doesn't want any of your stinkin food!

It’s no fun when you start a new dietary regimen and you feel as if the people around you don’t “get it,” or worse, they deliberately try to sabotage your eating by pushing foods you shouldn’t eat right at you. Last time, I talked about why other people might feel compelled to offer you cakes, […]

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Can You Love Food TOO Much?

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Can you love food too much?

Is it harder to stick with your restricted diet if you happen to really (really, REALLY) love food?  Being told that you have to cut out most (or all) of your favorite foods because of a health condition can be truly devastating. Besides the fact that you might not know about other foods and new, […]

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Does your restricted diet make you feel deprived?

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Does your restricted diet feel like deprivation?

I When I first started following an anti-candida diet, having so many food restrictions made me feel incredibly deprived. I mean, no more cake? No more pasta? No more ice cream? No more CHOCOLATE????

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