Re: What Worked For Me - Part 3

I know there are good cookbooks for people with candida. These can be good for people looking for more variety in their diet. I don't expect people to be able to do the diet I am on. I am not telling anyone they have to eat the diet I am on but if you do choose to I can tell you it is safe.

For breakfast:

Scrambled eggs (using almond milk instead of milk) and sausage patties. Protein is very important and this fits that bill.

For lunch:

Steamed broccoli and cauliflower with either steamed fish (tilapia loins) or roasted chicken. Also guacamole as a side item. Drink almond milk.

For dinner:

Large bowl of Bob's Red Mill gluten free Oat Bran mixed with two tablespoons of melted butter and mixed with 1/4 cup almond milk and pure stevia to taste. Sometimes another package of guacamole.

I am now eating almond butter which has no sugar. Trader Joe's sells this at $7 for a 16 oz. jar.

Both the Oat Bran cereal and the Almond Butter are great prebiotics (feeds the good bacteria in the gut). In the beginning I thought maybe they were feeding the yeast and maybe they were but I think I have progressed enough that I don't think they are bad anymore for me. When I discuss probiotics I will give links for how oat bran and almond butter are good as prebiotics.

I am not losing weight on this diet and I don't have cravings or feel starved but a couple of years ago when I wasn't so strict on my diet I did have strong cravings for things like fruit and chocolate or a bakery product. I had some slip-ups and finally I got desperate enough to just stay the course on the strict diet. After a few months I felt really good and the cravings left. I did find that eating 3 tablespoons of coconut oil killed any hunger for 8 hours even if I ate a light lunch. I have found that the brain can get fuel from the ketones that coconut oil supplies. Try it and see.

Sticking to a strict diet is the hardest part of dealing with candida. A long time ago when I thought that maybe flour or noodles were feeding the yeast I thought "NO WAY" that's not fair, that can't be. Well I found out that was true and I slowly accepted and adjusted to reality.

Again, I don't expect anyone to adhere to a monotonous strict diet like I am eating. That's why I suggest candida cookbooks for those people. But I find that a lot of fellow candida sufferers do eat steamed vegetables (non-starchy, non-sweet) and steamed fish or roasted chicken (from the grocery store). Tweet