I have a bit of a list of foods to eat or not to eat but doesn't include enough to keep me fed very well. I've lost 6 lbs in the last couple of weeks but would'nt want to lose over maybe 10 more, but at this rate, I may end up skin and bones.

I've been nearly too weak for the last 2 or 3 weeks to even bother with trying to eat. A friend has been coming in, cooking and cleaning some for me. I've been trying to be more careful about what I eat and...

last night I ate all wrong. I had about 4 oz's of steak with lots of chemicals pored on and several french fries, then a very small piece of strawberry cake with frosting. I knew better, but temptation got the best of me.

I suffered all night and all this morning as a result of this. I'm trying so hard but just so use to eating all this junk.

If anyone would like to start a list of good foods to eat with Lyme and Foods which are bad for Lyme, please feel free. It may be best to even start a new post with a subject line like "good Foods for Lyme""bad Foods for Lyme". Just an idea.

I'm sure many of us could benifit from this and would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for any help.

God Bless Us All,

I also avoid carrots, peas, etc. Anything with high sugar content.

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Basically, no sugar! I try to follow the glycemic index of foods. Anyting high on the list is out. Like potatoes, bread, starches.

I also avoid carrots, peas, etc. Anything with high sugar content.

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I feel that a big mistake that people make when they are cutting out carbs, is that they cut out very important fruits and vegetables. The number one fruit is the banana. No other fruit contains as many necessary vitamins. The number one vegetable is the carrot. It contains the most vitamins of all of the vegetables.

In the book it explains how these vegetables/fruits do not affect Candida. Instead, this diet will starve Candida at it's food source. All the while, you are still eating healthy foods.

The diet excludes sugars (sugar, molasses, artificial sweeteners, etc.) honey is allowed, fluid milk, (milk, sour cream, etc.) most cheeses are OK though. Also, all grains/starches are eliminated (rice, potato, corn, bran, oat, etc.) We use almond flour for our baked goods. The cookies and breads are just delicious.

The diet will heal your digestive tract and restore the proper balance.

We also take probiotics while on the diet to help in the process of regaining proper balance.

It is a wonderful and delicious way to eat. There are more choices to eat than to avoid which really helps us to stay on the diet.

frenchbraid

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For me it's tomatos. There a nightshade plant and send me over the edge and creates a lot of pain. The other night I ate a piece of pizza and was in significant pain for 2 days.

Basically what every says is true. Stick to vegtables, fruits, nuts, and meats...they call this the caveman diet. When I follow that diet I have a lot less pain.

Dave S and Frenchbraid are right on.

Frenchbraid I'll have to get that book.

Frenchbraid....how can you eat honey and bananas, etc and not have candida??? I know you're off abx now and that would make it alot easier to get away with it. BUT, you ate like this while on abx, didn't you?

I don't think I could get away with it.

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how can you eat honey and bananas, etc and not have candida???

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Everybody is a little different. I don't have trouble with candida, but I do have blood sugar problems. So for me, I can't eat bananas or honey because of how it affects my blood sugar.

High insulin levels, which are necessary to handle spikes in blood sugar, will encourage inflammation.

This puts things like carrots and beets in the same problematic category for me. They cause an insulin spike, and then I get hypoglycemic.

I don't think there is only one diet, or one list of good and bad foods. You start with something basic, like a diet that encourages natural, unadulterated foods, and then you experiment to find out what works for you.

We didn't discover this diet until 4 months ago. According to the book, it explains the moleculer structure of the different "sugars" and how the body processes them. Also, which foods are not digested properly and are "left behind" to feed the Candida.

Going back over a year or so, I was constantly preaching to everyone that I had no Candida problems whatsoever. But, little did I know. Even when I started suspecting it, I was just cutting out all carbs. It wasn't until 4 months ago that I knew for sure.

Infact my entire family is loaded with it. We had been following a pretty strict "low carb" diet prior to finding out that we had out of control Candida. However, after switching to this diet, so many things have changed.

Number one for me was the immediate loss of 30 pounds. I had not been able to shake those last pounds from my first pregnancy. My natural doctor had predicted that this would happen to me. The diet "resets" your digestion. All of the weight that I lost was just basically stored toxins. Just incredible.

The diet is not meant to lose weight. It's just what happened to me. My girls stayed exactly the same and my husband has gained about 3 pounds.

I know first hand that honey is digested very differently. It is the only sweetener that I use now and recently I had dinner at the inlaws. They ran over everything that was in the dinner and everything was OK on my diet. What they didn't tell me though, was when they said "diced tomatoes", they meant "canned". Loaded with sugar.

Needless to say, I ended up with such severe and incredible abdominal pain that I thought I was having an apendicitis attack. The pain literally lasted 5 days.

So, we continue our battle with the Candida beast. It's not an easy or quick job unfortunately.

frenchbraid