Candida diet 
alaismay24
11 y
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Hello everyone! I have been on a candida diet for the past week or so, eating way more vegetables than i usually would, eating coconut oil and using it to oil pull every morning too. Basically just avoiding artificial Sugar and refined carbs. But i feel extremely disheartened because my bloating has not decreased, i think i have gained weight( which is odd considering that before i started the diet i ate lots of Sugar in the form of ice cream, cake, binging on junk. I have also been getting breathless and i feel really exhausted, so much so that i can't stand for long periods, exercise or walk to the shops. Its so annoying because my weight seemed lower and more proportinate( is that a word??) when i ate all the junk food and had enough energy to workout. Im also only a teenager, was no where near overweight when i started the diet but of course i understand that a diet which restricts all Sugar and the majority of carbs will cause weight loss to ensue- this is another problem. I had an eating disorder a year and a half ago, but my candida was caused by binging fro well over a year on so much junk. I gained 2 stone of mostly fat, but my body remains really slim with fat just sticking to my stomach thighs, lookong really odd like a skinny person with rolls of fat. Eurgh. So i want ti lose that excess fat but im concerned people will assume o have relapsed! Im stuck. And to those who bothered to read this, thank you!
- Re: Candida diet #89866
11 y
2,601
This is a reply to # 2,094,631
You still need calories for energy and most veggies do not have many calories, which might be partly why you have no energy. What eating disorder did you have? Anorexia and bulimia can wreck the body - do not do that again because you will pay for it many times over with possible permanent long term damage to your body and/or brain. The human body constantly fights to maintain homeostasis - it wants to remain constant and stable not slammed with sugars or starved / purged.
Sugar is like a drug so get used to not having the extreme sugar highs (and crashing lows). After splurging on sugars for so long your pancreas and insulin levels have likely not adjusted yet - give it time to adjust as the body switches to getting energy from non-sugar sources like fat. White rice and white bread can spike your blood sugar and cause your pancreas to dump insulin into the blood stream. Search and understand Glycemic Index and Glycemic load of different foods. Search and understand insulin and pancreas function. Insulin is estrogenic and contibutes to fat accumulation. The body protects itself from sugar loads by dumping insulin into the bloodstream and also turning the sugar into body fat.
So, you want to switch from eating sugars to eating more fats. Do not look at fat as a bad thing to eat. When trying to lose body fat yes it sounds counter-intuitive. Your body is designed to get energy from fat which is why your body stores fat instead of storing sugar. Train your body to burn fat by eating healthy fats and exercising. Eating sugar trains the body to burn sugar for energy. Eating fat trains the body to burn fat for energy.
If your body does not get enough calories it will store food as fat because it thinks it is starving. Eat calorie dense and nutrient dense foods like soft boiled eggs (eat the yolks and the whites, especially the yolks) avacados, salmon etc. Peas are rather dense for veggies and are a good source of protein. Your coconut oil is great just don't eat the cheap processed coconut oil.
Also, exercise if you aren't. And don't drink milk - it's loaded with estrogenic hormones, and you should be weaned off milk at your age anyway, and you aren't a cow.
- Re: Candida diet shotsee
11 y
2,472
MoreThis is a reply to # 2,094,631Hi Alais,
As "grist for your mill," are you aware of the almost miraculous results many tens (hundreds?) of THOUSANDS of people have experienced, dealing with MOST of the health issues known to humankind, from ingesting the powerful antioxidant, ascorbic acid?
If you are seriously interested in finding a solution to your health problem, and gaining greater health in ALL areas of your body, I STRONGLY encourage you to read this article written by Dr. Robert Cathcart, M.D. http://vitamincfoundation.org/www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm
It may just solve some or all of your problem. You have only better health and well-being to gain by applying its recommendation. What have you got to lose?
These two quotes are instructive:
"There are more than ten thousand scientific papers that make it quite clear that there is not one body process (such as what goes on inside cells or tissues) and not one disease or syndrome (from the common cold to leprosy) that is not influenced - directly or indirectly - by vitamin C." -- Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., Dr. Marshall Ringsdorf, D.M.D., and Dr. Emily Sisley, THE VITAMIN C CONNECTION.
“I have never seen a patient that Vitamin C would not benefit.” -- Dr. Frederick Klenner, M.D.
I wish you BEST success, Alais, in your search for a solution to your health issue!
Sincerely,
David
- Re: Candida diet Charlie1965
10 y
1,783
This is a reply to # 2,100,419If you eat too little, your body will quickly adjust to burning less energy. It is a natural protection of the body, if the times are bad and only little food is available, the body will teach itself to survive. If yor diet is too low on calories you will lose some weight at the beginning but then you'll stop losing. And if you stat eating again, you'll gain more than before. Be very careful with that.
- Re: Candida diet Charlie1965
10 y
1,783
- Re: Candida diet #89866
11 y
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