Candida Diet Day 10

Day 10 of my candida and detox diet already. Have to say, the first 5 days have been the hardest, now I finally know what I can eat easily and know definetly the no-nos. Our friends actually take pretty care, went to Dinners twice and both times I got a diet-conform meal. Of course a bit of teasing and joking, but that’s fine.

The most important thing right now is realizing how much cool stuff there is to eat. Just nothing artificial, no frozen foods, pizzas or prepared meals. Rather a lot of cooking. So today I made ‘Chili con carne’, enough for the next day, the next will be Pumpkin soup. There are so many cool recipes, it’s not hard to find something nice. And I finally learn preparing proper meals from fresh ingredients. Once you start looking at the list of ingredients in the foods in your super market, you actually be surprised how much artificial stuff ends up in your body.

The headaches from the first days are gone. Though I realized, I have been a bit moody these days. I guess there are enough reasons for that with constant headaches and the all over adjustments to better nutrition. It’s getting better.

Candida and detox diet – Day 5

Honestly, it could be worse. But it could also be much better, as all of that stuff that I loved to eat, especially some nice treatments in between, is not allowed anymore. But I keep telling myself it will be worth it. At least the weight is going down already. Anyway, the detox with the herbal medicine Costat is now on full strength. I have a little but constant headache and feel pretty exhausted, but that might be due to the changed nutrition as well.

My practitioner answered me an email and cut down on some last resorts for nice stuff:

Yes sour cream is dairy so NO you cannot have it! Wedges are fine if you bake them and dont use any oil. Not sure what you will dip them in? your nuts should be raw, not roasted or salted…as for the pizza just make sure theres no cheese…Im not sure if you misunderstood me but the anti-candida diet is minimum 4 weeks!

sorry the gods leave the building during anti-candida diets

Oh no! I was in the god section to my nutrition god for some mercy. But no, nothing on the spiritual front. Now i know I will have to stick the Corn chips, which are not exactly good, but I got allowance from Winona to cheat a tiny little bit. I believe it will now become better anyway, as the first five days is the time to adjust to changes and see all the no-nos everywhere. Now I actually only look for the good stuff and still manage to get something nice to eat during the day. Yesterday was a good example:

Breakfast: Omelette of two eggs, with fresh tomato slices
Lunch: Did not really exist as I was in the town. But not really hungry
Dinner: Plenty here though. Oven baked chicken breast (just some pepper, salt and garlic on top), oven baked potato wedges (no oil, no salt) along with some pumpkin and Peppers. Pretty nice, leftovers will be my lunch today.

Luckily I finished adding about 7000 foods to my personal nutrition tool web site. I also started tagging the foods I can have during my candida diet, so it will be easier to find good combinations and keep track and plan. I guess I will be able to upload it to www.ntandme.com in the next week for alpha testing.

The current stats:
weight: 83.8 (down 700g in 5 days)

Candida Diet Reloaded

I just re-posted my first experience with a Candida Diet two month ago. It wasn’t a full success, mainly due to missing supervision by a doctor, but at least proofed for me it was a candida infection, that I could reduce due to little medication and change in nutrition.

But now I finally decided to do it properly and went to see a docter, to get proper medication and fight this till the end. I went to a Naturopath in Sydney, it is a clinic of combined eastern and western medicine. I found them via google search and especially liked they have a price list online. So went there on Wednesday for a Candida test late afternoon.

The first candida diet is over – Resume

Originally posted on March 3rd

What I tried so far did not work out. It’s a couple of weeks ago that I switched back to normal nutrition and since than the Candida returned. Again, I still don’t feel bad, but it simply annoys me that I know it does not need to be that way.

Three month ago, the change in nutrition

Originally posted on Feb 11th

So far so good, I realized I have Candida infection in my mouth and wanted to do something about it. This apparently goes along with a change of Nutrition, clearly no sugar – Saccharose, which is the sugar as we know as well as Fructose (fruit sugar) and Lactose (milk sugar) – and simple carbs as in white bread, pasta and even in cooked rice. There should be no potato as well, but it is said that in some sources, that you can eat them as they are scraping the yeast out of your guts. And my main concern is the yeast infection in the mouth, so the most important is “no sugar”. Of course I did it wrong and thought, yeah, Milk is alright, these can’t be used from the candida, but I don’t know why but Milk is not ok, but so are natural Joghurts and yeast-free cheeses. There is a nice list of do and do not foods. So, after four days I will know get rid of Milk from my Nutrition plan as well. Besides that, I am doing perfectly fine, we have a bakery that does that really black bread which I can eat with Avocado-Cream and many other sorts of spread. Over the weekend we had potato wedges with Chicken drum sticks and a vegetable casserole. I am quite happy as I don’t have to miss out complex carbs. And the infection is visibly less, guess another four to five days without milk will give it the rest.

Three month ago: realize there is Candida

Originally posted on Feb 7th

To solve a problem, you first have to know there is one. And sometimes this hides quite well, especially for health problems. Feeling well, one would never think there is a yeast infection in your body that affects you. Well, I don’t know how it is to be without it, not yet. But this will change soon. Today I started taking some pills called “Acidophilus Bifidus”, that contain Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium animalis. These are to reactivate a healthy gut flora (along with Zinc). This will take six to twelve month. And for one to two weeks I will take “Fungilin” four times a day. These contain Amphotericin B and that kills the yeast. The pills are not swallowed but sucked. That is because I found the yeast on my tongue, as a film of whitish-yellow colour. How did I found out I have this yeast infection? Well, I had a cold and during that I saw my tongue having this film. So I started looking up the Internet and found a lot of information about tongue diagnostic, some of these really interesting and scary. Apparently there is a kind of diagnostic based on the film on a tongue. But nothing really fitted the “look and feel” of what I had, so I went further and found some hints of Candida infections. Candida is a yeast everyone has in its body, but normally this is held under control by a healthy immun system. Well, in my case that has been weakened in teenager age due to antibiotics and my love to sweets. I remember this has been tried to be cured once, but not in a really good attempt. So I probably live with that for about ten years.

I was quite sure it is a yeast infection when I started to not have carbohydrates for about a week, which I’ve started two weeks ago. And the results have been there very fast and obvious – no film on the tongue. So today I went to a pharmacy in Sydney and had a very knowledgeable pharmacist, explaining a lot of the basics, what diet and how to address the infection. He also stated I would feel way better in about two to three weeks. We’ll see, don’t feel bad at all right now. I will keep on blogging about it, as I believe this is a very common problem, but not many talk about it. Last week I had a very open chat with a manager of mine. And let me tell you, it can hit you way harder. So, no sugar and simple carbs for me. That’s hard, but luckily sea food over here is awesome. Could be worse. And it hopefully will have a enduring effect on my nutrition. It already changed to the better the last two weeks, when I realized how many sugar there is in my food. Hang on for more.