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It should get better on the sugar cravings once you get the yeast under control. What yeast? The yeast you probably have from Lyme treatment and a suppressed immune system.
There's not much that will fill you up.. I know that! I'm gluten intolerant also.
YOu can have most of the vegetables.. just stay away from things like corn and peas. ( any of the sugary veggies )
The cravings should get better though!!!! ARe you taking Nystatin or anything natural to kill yeast?
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Thank you Lymetoo! No, I haven't taken Nystatin or any other yeast killer that I'm aware of. I
do take my pro-biotics daily. My body is telling me to cut the sugar. I think I need to
listen. Man, I feel like I need to go to rehab! There are just too many temptations.
Oh, and yes I did read 90 min. in Heaven! What An amazing book. I think I should read it again.
Have you read "The Shack"? I hear it is amazing. I'm only reluctant because I know it
starts off very sad. Trying to stay upbeat ya know?
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I know the feeling. Here is what I eat.
Salad
Romain Lettuce Cucumber Garlic Onion Red Pepper, Black Olives Kidney Beans (or other kinds)
I make my own dressing using Olive Oil (the dark green kind), as well as Balsamic Vinegar, or Apple Cidar Vinegar, Italian spices/Basil and sometimes Red Hot Pepper ( just a touch).
Then I'll have chicken marinated in various sauces, as well as Fish, sometimes Beef occasionally. I don't kill myself to avoid some sugar in my diet, such as fruits cooked into the sauces I make for meats.
I'll make brown rice, beans, with tomatoes, hot peppers, chopped onions, chives.
Other meals include tomato dressings or diced tomates such as Bruchetta using Vegetable "chips" -- they must be made strictly from vegetables, like sweet potato, spinach, etc. They taste awesome using Humus Dip.
I drink plenty of water. I use Thyme, Oregano, Lemon when cooking a lot, and a lot of Olive Oil.
I eat Shrimp, Scallops in orange zest (skin the orange and blend the thin orange zest off) with Basil Pesto Sauce.
I also eat Spinach Pasta somtimes, when it can be found, which is really hard -- there is a lot of "fake" stuff out there. I use almonds, peanut butter in shakes that I make using Soy Milk, Optimum Whey Protein Powder, Plain Oatmeal, Fresh Fruits low in sugar, like berries, as well as Olive Oil, and some "small" amounts of Stevia.
Man, this list is long. I also juice Vegetables sometimes, but without carrot it's not too hot, which unfortunatly has a lot of sugar -- depending how much you use.
Celery with Peanut Butter tastes good.
Salmon, Sole, Pollack, Cod -- a variety of white fish or fatty fish, cooked in a terriyaki sauce, with Olive Oil, light amounts of lime or lemon. You can use a little stevia in the sauce -- just a touch, again. You can also by "Jerk" sauce, for making chicken or other fowl meats.
Mashed Sweet Potato, combined with Winter or Summer Squash. Spaghetti Squash mixed with Olivio, cooked peas or mushrooms and onions. .
Eggs with tabasco sauce, garlic sauted, with basil -- overeasy or poached with hot pepper, or curry, and thin sliced ham.
Salads can be made in a variety of ways, including sliced ham in rectangular or cubes, or grilled sliced chicken.
Turkey soups, with celery, peas, sliced carrots, brown rice. or turkey chili, with kidney beans, crushed red tomatoes, basil, garlic, onions, chili powder, red peppers and habanero peppers laid over brown rice or other gluten free grains.
Grilled vegetables, squash, brocolli, red and green peppers and Egg plant.
Shepards Pie using Sweet Potato, blended beans, black pepper, sea salt, turkey ground or hamburger ground and onions.
Lemon or Lime in a V8 with some light hot pepper.
Rice Milk and Almon Milk can be made into a cream sauce combined with a variety of herbs to top some of these meals.
Stuffed Peppers or Mushroom with Brown Rice, beans or other Gluten free Grain that might interest you, cumin, crushed tomato, chopped vegetables, meat.
Chicken, Turkey, Egg, Tuna, Seafood/Crab Meat salad with Mayo, Celery, black pepper or no pepper.
Soy Sauce over some forms of Sushi.
Sour Kraut, Lean Sausage or Kielbasa sliced over cooked cabbage with olive oil, pepper, garlic salt.
Stir Fry, Soy Sauces, Sweet and Sour sauce made with apricot, stevia or a touch of honey or black strap molasses (if you can have some sugar down the road) -- with bean sprouts, pea pods, brocolli, Carrot.
Italian meals without pasta make good meals, depending on what your stomach can handle.
Split Pea Soup, or Bean soups with black bean, brown rice or quinola, spices, vegetables, ham. Lamb Stew.
Damn, I spent a lot of time writing. This should give you an idea. You can eat well without being miserable. Some of these foods may upset your stomach, or you may have an intolerance, but since you didn't list them, I wouldn't know that, so proceed with caution.
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Thank you so much! This does give me some great ideas. The shake sounds really good, I
would have never thought of it. I wondered about stevia or splenda since it is not sugar. I
seriously need to print out this page now:)
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Will you be my personal chef - Metallic? Sounds like you are quite the healthy gourmet!
I would say yeast makes for sugar cravings, too. I would avoid any aspartame or fake sweeteners like the plague. They are neurotoxins & can cause brain damage.
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I make a shake for breakfast with almond milk, almond butter, canned organic pumpkin, 1/2 green apple, ice, hemp protein, maybe avocado. It is satisfying and holds me until lunch.
Lunch is a vegies, egg scramble with salsa.
I'm new to this, so I'm not varying much yet.
I do allow myself a small piece of dark chocolate after dinner. It it only 2.5 grams of sugar and it helps me not to cheat.
Mary's Gone Crackers are good snacks. I have also having Virgil's Diet Root Beer soda, which is sweetened only with stevia. If there is any reason not to drink this I would appreciate knowing.
This diet is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I think it is very important to also rotate anti-fungals like Oil of oregano, Olive leaf extract, Pharmax Colon Guard & dried garlic to keep the yeast at bay.
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Salasa, that's another that I like adding to my salad sometimes. I add that, olive oil, and grilled chicken breast basted in a light honey sauce.
Avacado dips for vegetables, like Brocolli, Celergy taste great.
You can also make "Kibobs" using grilled vegetables, marinated beef, chicken, Shrimp.
You can take green apples cut them into strips like you were making French Fries, and sprinkle a touch of stevia mixed with Cinnomon over the top.
Sweet Potato and Yams can be made into French Fries by cooking them in olive oil and frying them and then putting them in the oven. You can add salt to taste and they require no dipping sauce since they're so good.
Those who can tolerate Yogurt can use it to make cream sauces as well, and can put it into shakes with berries, blend it, and use it as a dipping sauce when slicing up hard pears, green apples, Strawberries.
If you have a juicer, I used to make Lemon, Lime and Grapefruit Juice (make sure your meds don't interact). I would do a detox drink every few days. It tastes good if 1/4 cup Orange Juice is added or a little stevia.
Meatballs cooked in a marinara sauce with spinach mixed in, slightly sweetened with stevia, and stuff the meatballs with vegetables: onions, tomato, garlic, basil, etc. You can also use the meatballs by slicing them thin and adding them to the Egg Plant Parm mentioned earlier.
Sometimes I'll make a rice salad, using sliced tomato, over green romaine lettuce along the bottom, with black olives. I'll then mix brown rice that has been "fried" with some egg, peppers, endives, peas, shrimp or pork, and then I'll top it with the Gucamole Garlic Sauce or a blended bean sauce (like refried beans made from scratch -- easy to do. Blend Kidney beans in food processor, toss in a frying pan with Olive Oil. Add herbs for taste, then place it on top of the rice and salad. Finish topping it with Parsley.
That's like a mexican salad.
You can cook ham in chopped or crushed pineapple, peach or nectarine, and coat it with a light mustard, with a side dish of baked Yam coated with Olivio Butter and more Cinnamon.
You can also make a sweet and sour pork fried rice using those same "sauces" -- pineapple, peach, or nectarine. That often goes nicely as a side dish with the Ham an Yam/Cinnamon
Remember, the base is some unsweetened fruit juice, but then a tiny bit of Stevia is given to spread that flavor our.
Use cooking.com -- you'll find tons of recipes there. The key to good cooking is knowing your "tools" -- and you'll find the vegetables/herbs and fruits/sauces provide the "flavoring" -- while the meats provide a base, with the olive oil providing the fatty content that you don't have with lean meats. Fat = good, but use good oils. Olive just happens to be my favorite, but you can also use.
Try not to cook oils that you pour over meals for flavor, such as Olive Oil, Avacado Oil,
For cooking good cuisine us Coconut Oil, Seasame Oil, all of these are extremely healthy for you when used in moderation. Olive Oil and Avacado can be used in excess in a diet low in carbohydrates or moderate in carbohydrates.
I find using Heart Healthy Diets is best. I just pick from the lists of recipes that I can have and remove items from those I can't -- and take the ideas
Curried Pork Tenderloin in apple cidar, curry powder, 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, yellow onions, chopped (about 2 cups), 2 cups apple cider, 1 tart apple, peeled, seeded and chopped into chunks,
I could go on. Lot's of ideas.
Visit various sites for heart health. This one had some interesting things.
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Metallic, would you consider moving to Texas and being my best friend?
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quote: Oh man, Metallic Blue, I'm coming right over to your house for dinner!
But I thought vinegar was to be avoided?
It depends on the patient I would think. Severe cases of disease might make it intolerable like some other foods possibly. I think most would say it's not a problem, in-fact most "holistic" practitioners say it's healthy to use some kinds because of it's "antimicrobial" effects -- but I don't know that. It was previously thought apparently, that it would "feed" candida infections. Some may still hold that belief.
The issue may be related to the acidic PH, but that's about it from my understanding.
I am not a diet or nutrition guru, so each person should do their own research.
Additional notes: I eat dairy still, except milk. Like a lot of people I do have allergies to some foods, including gluten products and sometimes certain meats (Ground hamburger can be an issue for me sometimes, and other times it's not).
Even to this day I'm constantly altering my diet because my allergies (intolerance?) change. It's frustrating.
-------------------- I am not a physician, so do your own research to confirm any ideas given and then speak with a health care provider you trust.
everyone else: lots of diet ideas in there= I got a lot of recipes from wholeapproachforums.com.
there are a lot of sources for where to order things listed in that lymefriends group in case you can't drive or are too fatigued to go searching for odd ingredients, and also several threads that explain alternative sweeteners and things like that.
Much of it is gluten-free though not entirely.
Lastly, there's a 'recipe' for non-dairy, no-sugar, no-chemical-sweetener ice cream in there, how can you resist?
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