Im in such a mood right now as Ive ate potatoes for the last 4 days... Grrrrrrrr

I will just eat salad with either tuna, turkey or wild salmon and beetroot as the bulking agents, every day for the next year.... You see I have to avoid broccoli, sprouts, turnip and cabbage etc because of being hypothyroid which means avoiding goitrogens...

Im going to have some cottage cheese too as Ive read this is supposed to be ok. Ive ate cottage cheese without any major problems for a while.

So the only things to be concerned about now are mercury levels in the fish and mucous off the cottage cheese.

Roll on the 25 inch pizza with 5 extra toppings of mature cheese !

I eat sweet potatoes and yams w/ no problems. Also, legumes are good and filling as well. I like black, kidney, and garbanzos the best. I do eat white potato now, but there was a long time (2 years) that I could not. So, depending on how ill you are, you should be able to re-incorporate them later to some degree.

Some veggies are also very good at being extra filling. Brussel sprouts, for example, fill me up totally, as does eggplant. I think the parsnips you mention are fine. Beets are great for the liver, which you need in good working order to recover from this, but there is a lot of Sugar in them so that is a judgement call. Essentially, general concensus is to start off drastic, and gradually add in these starchier things after you have been on the diet for a few months. I was SEVERELY sick, so it took a few years for me, not months. Also, make sure you are getting enough good olive oil an domega 3 fats, as that will go a long way to making you feel satiated.

You are asking very good questions. Try doing a web search on "glycemic index" and "glycemic load". Unfortunately, candida can live on almost any dead organic material, including animal protein. However, candida will reproduce geometrically (double every twenty minutes) when feed its' preferred diet of glucose or other simple carbohydrates. You will never bring candida under control if you give it food that allows it to reproduce so explosively. This why even one serious "cheat" on your candida diet can set you back weeks and weeks. The only thing that keeps the candida population in check is the much larger population of lactobacteria. A person with candidasis does not have that much larger population of lactobacteria. So, even one hot fudge sundae allows the candida population in the intestines to explode, the total amount of Sugar in the sundae being the only limit.

It is not about more or less Sugar in a complex or simple carb. The issue here is how quickly the body breaks it down along with the type and amount of sugar. Hopefully I am making sense here.

Simple Sugar is immediate Sugar to the body. It cause the blood glucose to skyrocket immediately and causes the pancreas to release excessive insulin which cause a strain on the pancreas over time. As far as candida is concerned candida eats it like it is thanksgiving when this happens.

Complex carbs ( even though they have sugar content) break down much more slowly and steadily giving the body a slow and steady stream of glucose that the body can burn up as energy thus this keep the blood glucose from going nuts. This means that there is only a small rise in glucose in the blood and this does not help out candida.

Unfortunately ,as I said ealier, there is NO way to avoid sugar. Even broccoli has a sugar content. The idea here is to eat the lower sugar content foods. So in other words a tomato has more sugars ( even though they are natural and complex) there is still more of it. So depending on your candida severity , you might want to avoid. Carrots are another higher sugar veggie. I once drank carrot juice and it really did a number on me.

Think of it this way, the body can only use so much sugar at a time. If you take too much at one time the unused portion will be left floating around in your blood. Whether it is simple or complex does not matter.

As far as candida, simple sugars not only cause a blood sugar spike, but they also directly feed the candida as soon as they hit your stomach. Complex do NOT, they need to be broken down first by the body, which happens too slowly for candida to really benefit from.


Carbs also turn into glucose eventually. But the right carbs do so very slowly. Broccoli is a carb. It has a carb value. All foods have a carb value and all foods will eventually be broken down into sugar. Some more than others.

White potatoes are a carb, but due to their fact that are very high in carbs and we eat them cooked which cooks away most of structure, they break down very quickly. So quickly in fact that pretty much equate to eating sugar. SO in this case the cooking down of the potato creates an all starch food. Possibly eating a raw potato would be different, much different. But I am not sure you would want to do that. Carrots, same thing, cooked they become starchy and they are already sweet to begin with. A cooked carrot will quickly become sugar in the body.

A carb that has a high carb value and a low sugar content indicates it breaks down very slowly.

Take the grain buckwheat for instance. It has a carb value of 20 g per serving , but less that 1 g of sugar. I eat buckwheat everyday with no trouble whatsoever. It has a high carb value but it takes so long to break down that the body can use up the sugar as it is broken down.

I was concerned intitially about buckwheat and the carb value. After purchasing a blood glucose meter I found that my blood sugar only rose 10 points higher than it did eating no buckwheat. My blood sugar never gets above 130 , which is low for after eating a meal. So since I have no symptoms from eating it and I confirmed no blood sugar spike by testing my glucose, it is safe.

As a matter of fact, many on the candida diet have issues with hypoglycemia ( low blood sugar) for numerous reasons. First, the diet is so low in carbs and sugars and second the candida steals sugars that the body needs for fuel.

By eating foods that break down slowly you feed yourself and make it hard for candida to eat.

To sum it all up, basically you want to read about blood glusoce foods, diabetic diets etc. It is basically a strict diabetic diet that we are all following in an effort to feed our body but not feed the candida.

If you look up the diet exchange info for diabetics , that will help you.

Also look up candida diet, but watch out for those who say you can eat fruit. Fruit is a no no. It contains sugar and it feeds candida. Watch out for "unsweetened yogurt". Yogurt is made from milk that contains an enormous amount of sugar. Worse yet many cannot break down the sugar to digest it, so it goes 100% to the candida. Those of us that suffer from candida make our own yogurt. We do this so that we can ferment it longer. The longer it is fermented the less sugar remains. The bacteria eats all the sugar and multiplies. And it is the bacteria we want NOT the sugar. Store bought yogurt is bad. Lacks in bacteria quality and loaded with sugar. What you can do is get Stoneyfield Organic plain yogurt, bring it home and ferment it for another 24 hours after adding some yogurt culture. This does make the yogurt very tart. Tart=more bacteria.

Michelle