AGood morning gorgeous!
I am so bad! I came on here a few days ago and read your huge post about the naturopath and was thinking about it for days... but I never actually WROTE anything to you about it! GAH! Have you ever been so see a naturopath before? I always love the first consult, where they want to find out all the nitty gritty aspects of your life. I always liked when they did things like didn't ask me questions, but looked at my iris and my tongue and my fingernails, and then were able to tell me so much stuff about me and my life just from that. And it wasn't all fortune-teller abstract things that can be applied to anyone - they were things like "When you were a teenager you had glandular fever for a long time, and that turned into chronic fatigue syndrome, and you still struggle with it." and " It looks like you often suffer from X (eg. UTIs)" and "You get bad eczema" and "around ten years ago you had a terrible infection in your gut that has since caused XYZ" - and all of these things I can absolutely pinpoint. For dunc, they could see that he had gall-stones, that he has bad asthma, etc. I love that! It really does give me a lot of faith. And I've never had anyone diagnose something like that that wasn't true... like a heart or lung issue when I have no problems with that. I've never had kinesiology used on me (if that's what you say!) before, but I'd be interested! One thing I really like about living here in Switzerland is that they are so much more open to alternative therapies. Like, in the public hospitals here, their first methods of pain management during birth is accupuncture, aromatherapy and homeopathy, unless you specifically say you don't want it. They really don't push 'drugs' on you and wait for YOU to ask for them. I think that is fantastic, particularly for public hospitals.
I think you've definitely gone about things the right way, in deciding just a few things to change at a time. I'm a bit wary when you said that you would cut out all cheese completely, when you said you've been having it pretty much every day for forever... is that going to be hard for you? And then are you going to go on a cheese binge? That's wht I'd do
Maybe it would be interesting to do a test, like cut it out for two weeks, for example, and then have it one day and pay close attention to how your body reacts. Maybe if you just have it once a week, or on special occasions, it won't do too much damage... But I don't want to be a bad influence! If you think you can do it and you won't be depriving yourself too much, go for it! It would have been SOOOO HARD at that party! It sounds like me at the moment, when I go somewhere and they have sushi and blue cheese and smoked salmon and salami and oodles of gorgeous whiskey and wine... but mine's only temporary!
Those sillysallycites sound complicated and difficult! Bugger about that... And they are in wine!!! NOOO!!!! Disaaaaster! haha. Have you talked to the naturopath about the best way to go about taking steps to reduce things / get better? It sounds like a great idea about the dried fruit. That's something that you can probably find a reasonable substitute for (unlike cheese! But I'm a cheese monster....). GREAT to hear that your cough is clearing up already!
About the hitch-hiker - it is so lovely that you felt as if you allowed her to leave Tassie with a good feeling in her heart. That's so lovely. I remember when Dunc and I did our first big cycling trip along the great ocean road, and the last day was awful - it was all inland, along the major highway, in the pouring rain, in to Melbourne for 100km. We got about 15km in, then stopped to sort out something with the mud guard, and a woman with a big white van (scary! haha but this one had loads of pictures of fruit on the side
) pulled over. She said that she and her husband are cycle tourists, and that she can see this isn't going to be a great day for us. She had just dropped off her organic veggies in Torquay (I think?) and was heading back to melbourne. Her van was empty, and she'd be happy to give us a lift with our bikes however far we'd like to go. HALLELUJAH! She was so interesting and just so lovely to talk to - the adventures she and her husband had been on largely influenced the fact that we then went on to come to Europe and are now living this life. Amazing how little moments like this can have such a profound effect on you. SO GOOD ON YOU!!!!!!
I can do it!
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on Jess's diary lol Love it 
I had to go to the shop this morning, which is about a 5 min walk but i was so shocked at how worn out i was when i got back, i even felt a bit sick 
xo Cate