| If you are experiencing sugar cravings while you | | | | etc. I recently even cut out carrot juice because |
| are on candida diet, then don't worry. I | | | | of the sugars. I thought it should be fine (the |
| experienced the same things as you when I | | | | carrot juice), so did other people, but my body |
| started my diet. So in this article, I want to share | | | | said otherwise. Now I'll listen to my body over |
| several things as my little contribution. A lot of the | | | | anyone, including my brain. |
| info I've come across said several thing: | | | | Here's what happened: I felt like total crap. I felt |
| Brown rice is OK | | | | like there was no way I could make it through |
| Alternative grains are OK | | | | my days. I'd get to a move job, a day where we |
| A little fresh fruit is OK | | | | had to haul an entire suite up about 80 steps, box |
| And other little 'permissive' in the carbohydrate | | | | after box after box, after furniture, etc. I can't |
| department. It's only through following the diet | | | | express how utterly drained I was after one hour |
| that I realized how systemic my Candidiasis really | | | | of this. It was all I could do to place one foot in |
| is. I suppose a good way to think of it is this: | | | | front of the other without carrying anything. "It's |
| My body has certain requirements to get better: | | | | my diet", I told myself, 'I need carbohydrates! |
| I have to learn what those requirements are. I | | | | This Candida diet is impossible!' So at the first |
| don't like to think in terms of values like 'right' or | | | | opportunity I got some yeast free/ gluten free |
| 'wrong', but in terms of lessons. My body is ill. I will | | | | bread from the local shop and ate it that |
| make mistakes and suffer the consequences as a | | | | afternoon. Wow! I sure felt good after that. Until |
| result, but eventually learn a lesson. Life will | | | | that evening when I felt like total utter garbage. |
| present me with these lessons over and over | | | | Talk about cravings, bloating, gas, etc. Anyway, I |
| until I learn. I think most people have an instinctive | | | | had this experience again and again until I learned |
| voice that 'knows' what to do, but with so much | | | | my lesson and totally cut out carbs- period. |
| contrary advice in modern society it gets | | | | For one week I felt the same way, like I was |
| confusing. Just like you saying you feel like just | | | | wasting away, 'humans can't live like this, there's |
| eating vegetables and spirulina for a month. Maybe | | | | no way I can go on' etc. I tried to rationalize |
| that's what you need, I can't say. I would, | | | | eating carbs to myself in so many ways. It's |
| however, put it to you that you're probably right | | | | literally like having a little devil on your shoulder, |
| about totally avoiding carbohydrates for a time. | | | | lying to you all day long. |
| I know people say we all need carbs. Maybe a | | | | Anyway, after one week my energy was way |
| personal anecdote might help before I get carried | | | | up! I could do my job much better than when I |
| away: I work for a moving company. When I first | | | | was eating carbs. When I get up in the morning I |
| went on the diet I was following the permissive | | | | don't feel like crap. I can do a day's work without |
| Candida diets that are out there; brown rice, | | | | passing out. It took me a while to realize that |
| fruits, alternative grains, milk substitutes like rice | | | | what I was going through when I first cut out |
| milk, etc. The longer I was on the diet the worse | | | | carbs was not a lack of energy from not eating |
| these things made it for me. I'd compare it to 'oh, | | | | them but withdrawal. It's funny I couldn't see it at |
| I'll just have one puff on that cigarette.., I'm fine.' I | | | | the time. The little voice that told me to eat |
| imagine alcoholism has a similar pull. | | | | some bagels or a few dates was the same voice |
| I thought, my work is so draining, there's no way | | | | I listened to for years of smoking telling me 'just |
| I can survive a day without some carbohydrates: | | | | one more pack...' I will say quitting smoking was a |
| maybe some gluten free bread, maybe some | | | | snap compared to dropping all carbs. I totally didn't |
| fresh organic fruit, or a little oat bran. All these | | | | realize how dependent the Candida had made my |
| things were disastrous. When I finally couldn't | | | | psyche on these substances. They really |
| avoid reality anymore and finally listened to what | | | | manipulate out brain chemistry in a diabolical way |
| my body was saying to me and accepted it, I | | | | to feed themselves. |
| dropped the carbs. No grains, no fruits, no sugars, | | | | |