In a message dated Tue, 21 May 2002  5:41:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Jana Eagle <[log in to unmask]> writes:

I have had nothing
>except meat and vegetables for three days now, and I have to admit I
>felt so awful!  Is it yeast die off like I have heard?<<

could be.  take abdomen (across the belly button) measurements regularly.  If you are effectively killing off the candida it should be going down.  You may also need an anti-candida supplement once your diet is pure anti-yeast.

make sure your new diet has plenty of variety.  sometimes people eliminate one food or food group and add another in its place and the substitute food is problematic.

I assume that your diet is 100% paleo?

>the books I have read about Candida
>are the Body Ecology Diet and the Yeast Connection and both recommend
>eating some grains (not gluten ones). <<

they are not looking at this from a weight loss point of view.  There are foods which do not fuel candida which are still not conducive to weight loss, for example glycerine.


 <If I am not eating carbs
>in grains OR fruit, is it possible to eat enough vegetables to keep me
>out of ketosis?<<

yes, but there is no need to.

<<  Or is being ketogenic what I want?  <<

unless you are pregnant or otherwise medically advised not to be, I don't know why it would be a problem and it would certainly help with your sweet tooth.

<<And how long should
>I forego the fruit, is there a sign when I will know it has been long
>enough?  (looking forward to berry season here)  Are we talking weeks, months or years?  (The B.E.D. hinted that it might be a year without fruit to restore "body ecology")<<


the supplements can accelerate that.  When you no longer have any candida symptoms you can go back on a low carb version of paleo, which would include limited fruit.  A high carb (unlimited fruit) version of paleo would reactivate candida if you went on it too soon.

Most people I know of find that 3 months is about average for anticandida.  If you are seeing real progress in one month I don't see how one servings of low carb fruit like berries a day could hurt (unless it starts you on a binge).

Kathleen
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