Candida Overgrowth (Dysbiosis) Related Diseases and Conditions

Do you feel sick all over?  Do you have a hard time describing your symptoms to doctors but know that something just isn’t right?  Are you tired of feeling like and being treated like a hypochondriac.  Do you have the sneaking suspicion that you could live a happier and more fulfilling life if only these chronic and [...]

Easy Chicken Noodle Soup – Candida Diet Recipe

It is really cold here in New Jersey and we are expecting our first big snow storm of the season.   I am actually looking forward to it.  I promised my seven year old daughter that we would go sledding and attempt to make a snowman.  We always get too cold to finish the snowman.  Hopefully [...]

Day 1 Back on the Candida Diet – Dinner

Yesterday ended pretty much uneventful.  Their were no internal battles to stay away from prohibited foods.  In addition to not cheating at all on the Candida Diet I managed to keep my carbohydrate count pretty low which is usually the biggest struggle for me.  Dinner last night was as follows:

1 bowl homemade chicken noodle [...]

Day 1 Back on the Candida Diet – Lunch

It is now 2:00PM and I am still fighting the good fight.  Now temptation yet but it is only day one.  The first week actually is usually pretty easy for me.  It is week 3 that usually makes or breaks me.  By then my enthusiasm is waning and the die off reaction feels as if it is [...]

Day 1 Back on the Candida Diet – Breakfast

So so far so good but it is only 8:33AM.  I have decided to colon cleanse at the same time as restarting the candida diet in order to get rid of toxins and such.  I am hoping this will also help fight the candida as there lots of herbs in the supplements that have antifungal properties.  Additionally there are [...]

Here I go Again on the Candida Diet!

So after almost 3 1/2 weeks of blatantly cheating and consequently feeling like absolute crap I am really ready to get going again on a strict candida diet.  I am currently feeling depressed, bloated, gassy, unfocused, achy and extremely fatigued.  I got off track a few weeks back when I failed to make a plan for how [...]

I am a Candida Diet Cheater (A Big One)

It all started on Thanksgiving.  At first I started out optimistically that I could make it through Thanksgiving dinner with my family and fully adhere to the candida diet.  I had almost 3 whole weeks of strict Candida Diet adherence prior to Thanksgiving and I was determined not to fall off the wagon.  I was experiencing [...]

Label Reading Blunder – Candida Diet Tip

I was delighted to see  that on my last visit to Trader Joe’s that they made a version of Stevia, a 100% all natural sweetener that is permitted on the Candida Diet.  I was very happy as is was of course cheaper in Trader Joe’s than it had been at Whole Foods or my local [...]