Jeanne23

craving catastrophies

Posted on 07/05/08, 02:43 pm

Cravings: anyone have good advice to help with those sugar cravings??? they're recking my diet and therefore my life!! Especially if you have low blood sugar... Anyone with snack ideas?????? PLEASE!!!!!!

• Reply #1 07/13/08  3:11pm
  
  Cliffenstein
  YES! Eat low-glycemic-index meals like vegetarian chili and bean burritos, oatmeal and apple slices with natural peanut butter. Low GI foods enter your system slowly and don't allow the blood sugar to spike and drop off sharply.
  
  Taking caprylic acid and garlic kill the yeast, which is what really craves the wretched sugar. Take garlic with every meal or caprylic acid 1x daily. And avoid using meat as anything but a condiment. Meat makes you crave sugar!!!
• Reply #2 07/13/08  6:54pm
  
  Jeanne23
  Thanks !!!! I'm definitely going to try this. But if I have to take in allot of protein to offset any further weightloss (which is already to low), how would I get it if I cut down on meat and cant have to many carbs (isn't beans etc cards???) which Candida wants?
• Reply #3 07/15/08  11:17am
  
  Cliffenstein
  Eating protein to offset weight loss? I'm not sure that would even work. Carbs are NOT the devil, and eating low-GI foods reduces their impact on your system, but if you're trying to maintain a healthy weight you might want to (gasp) raise your fat intake a little. Which lowers the GI of the foods you're eating even further. That's healthy monounsaturated fats -- olive, peanut and avocado oils, not hamburger! Oil and vinegar dressing on salads, natural peanut butter, things like that. Just make sure no more than 30% of your calories come from fat and you should be OK.
• Reply #4 07/15/08  1:20pm
  
  Jeanne23
  Great advice, thanks! Since I got sick my body fat count is at 11% which is pretty bad for a woman, so I can do with the extra fat, but as you say it's hard to keep it below 30% since with the Candida diet, what I snack on is nuts, nuts and more nuts: sunflower seeds, bags and bags of almonds. It's so hard if you cant have fruit carrots, tomatoes, corn (all great snacks, and I hate celery). Oatmeal I have 0nce every 3 days or so since carbs are a a no-no for Candida.
  
  Whats your take on high cholesterol? Just to make things even more interesting I have to deal with that and quite frankly I'm really confused: do i avoid the high protein stuff and keep my chol. figure down or do I go for the high protein and therefore keep my body from braking down my muscle tissue to get to the protein????A rock and a hard place
• Reply #5 07/20/08  11:13pm
  
  Cliffenstein
  It's starting to look as though inflammation is what causes cholesterol to rise -- candida being a major cause of that. So keep killing off the yeast and make most of your fats monounsaturates.
• Reply #6 10/23/08  2:34am
  
  Thriver
  I'm looking at the items you say are not on your Candida diet - what diet are you on? I've seen many lists but I'm using a different one than you guys. Maybe need to revise it as it doesn't seem to be working as well. Can you point me to a site?
  
• Reply #7 04/10/09  8:39am
  
  jewell2
  I find the diet confusing for me because I also suffer from MS and GERD, so I had to start a food diary.......and sort of feel things out, as to what is best for me. It's not easy trying to find that happy medium, since I have to also make diet changes with GERD........I'm working on it.
• Reply #8 04/10/09  8:43am
  
  jewell2
  Ooops..........regarding cravings, that is difficult....... but for me the pain out weighed the cravings. When I felt a craving coming on I directed my attention elsewhere such as going for a walk, sitting outdoors, or something.
  As i've started to feel better..........it makes it easier to stay away from the foods that bother me.
  Candida is relatively new for me, so am still learning about it.
• Reply #9 06/23/09  8:17pm
  
  Cliffenstein
  It's a HUGE area to research, that is for sure.
• Reply #10 09/24/09  3:50am
  
  RSHagen
  I just had a thought, years ago I did an elimination diet to help with my pain,, but I also included lots of minerals.. a good B complex.. probably a 50mg dose to start if you have lots of stress, and sufficient mineral complexCalcium" title="http://including.Calcium" target="_blank"> including.Calcium (w/ Magn.,zinc, Vit D) and chromium are an important part of your plan if you are trying to loose wait, avoid pain and stop cravings... chromium is a glucose balancer in your body... it really helped me... I am going to start taking that again since I have to get off of the sugar now.. I guess there are small things we can be thankful for...I hope this helps you....
  Also if you are having alot of pain in your body... Omega 3 (from fish and flax) is really essential... take it without omega 6 as they will counteract each other.. maybe at opposite ends of the day or get your 6's from your grains.

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