Hey there! Looks like I have a twin. I'm in the same boat as you -- hoping for answers.

I'm about 3 weeks in Vegan, but no grains/beans. I just tried adding sprouted grains in this weekend and BOMBED, cravings hit me in the face, complete with needing fat so bad I almost chugged olive oil straight out of the bottle. I obviously can't handle grains/fats yet.

Hope you get a lot of replies...

You both need to get yourself some kombucha from wholefoods. I drink it whenever i get cravings.

Thanks for posting this. We are all dealing with this as we figured out living off leafy green-rexia cures us...until we need real food.

Living off greens is very calorically restricted and is a good short term cleanse. With my addbacks, I pay super close attention to the acid alkaline chart. Almonds have plenty of calories. My fat elimination recommendation is erroneous. I can have almonds without rashes coming back and I did a 1 cup of olive oil for a liver cleanse. So maybe cooking some kale or greens in olive oil will get more calories to you and freshwater fish are the lowest acid producers. I like cauliflower and had lentils and hommus with no nasty gassy symptoms. So my advice is to try adding back the least acidic proteins and the least sugary starches. I had grapefruits just fine for a couple weeks, but I got a Sugar high and anxiety from beet juice(liver cleanse). I won't do that one again. I noticed on day 1 of vegan my bananas came through completely undigested, and now this problem is nearly gone. My first animal product addback would be salmon, and I would compensate with a disgusting amount of greens.

Fat elimination was a great idea to scratch out all of the rich meats that are recommended on the candida diet. I got amazing relief. Cashews made me very ill as well as the mixed nuts. The worst thing for my candida was salami. I will have to say now that it is the acid/alkaline chart. I followed the morritz olive oil liver cleanse and it looks like olive oil would help digestion by promoting gastric juices. I regret saying it was the fat in the meat that caused candida. It is the acid-forming nature because, alkaline fats people seem to do fine with and my experiments say the same thing. It just so happened that the nasty fatty foods were the worst acidifiers.

I am more afraid of acidosis than Sugar with my addbacks. On a high protein diet, all starches and beans went rancid, it was hell. I would be careful with fruits as they don't do much for bodybuilding and bananas seem to be the worst one to have. I wouldn't recommend a crazy amount of fats in almonds or olive oil, but they can bring your caloric total higher. This turns into sort of a colitis type diet as I ask things like, how many almonds should I have for easy digestion, and what time of day should I eat which food to make sure I have proper breakdown...

OP, try sprouted beans and potatoes for carbohydrate, along with what Anthony said about the fats. Some people can tolerate sprouted grains (amaranth/rye/buckwheat/millet) of the nonglutinous kinds..

If you're concerned with weight, what I've been focusing on most is retaining any lean mass you have with weight bearing exercises (body weight if you don't have access to free weights), rather than loads of cardio. Think weighted squats, lunges, pushups, deads, rows. That will help your body not cannibalize your muscle tissue because you're still using it. In theory anyway. I'm too stinking tired to think about working out, but I imagine if I lost too much weight it would concern me too.

The situation you initially describe sounds very similar to my own before. After feeling sick for a long time, one of my doctors told me that I probably have Lupus. I had a borderline ANA count, whatever that actually means. That was an extremely unpleasant thought.

After doing some research, I began doing an anti-yeast diet and felt better. I replaced my silver fillings and began chelating mercury out of my body and I felt much, much better still. I'm not finished with chelating yet, but there's no doubting my improvement.

Now, I wonder if lupus is just some bodies' immune systems' overreaction to the presence of heavy metals. I would suggest you find out more about this and see if it makes sense in your case.

Keep in mind that metals come from a variety of sources, including a lot of unknown and surprising ones. A lot of people could be exposed without realizing it. Accumulated metals would eventually make a person sick.

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