What a crappy night! Missed the art show of a friend, fella had to go alone
. I guess I'm going to have to get serious re: this yeast stuff. I traced back to the unusual ingredient that made me SEVERELY ill : PNUT BUTTER - I usually eat almond butter but was out. The mr. only eats pnut butter. It really did a number on me. THen I read on Karen Tripps' site that her doc's way of testing to see if she was free of candida overgrowth, after a time of treatment, was to have her eat a spoonful of pnut butter - if she instantly got bloated, she was, obviously, NOT ready to go off the diet.
I got ALL the icky flu symptoms of this mess. Still feel very bad. Not sure what to do NOW. I mean besides eating what I'm supposed to. Is this a good time for a cleanse or should I wait till I'm feeling better? I am a glutton for punishment, so, in a way, I'm thinking, hell, I already feel bad...WHY NOT CRANK IT UP A NOTCH???
Maybe I'll take something tonight before I go to bed like Liz recommends...
Anyway, I checked out Karen's page and the diet there is not as severe.
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/4966/diet.htm I could live with this. I'm already determined to stay the heck away from the booze!!!
Her doc maintains that if the cheese or vinegar product is *well cooked* and eaten hot that it is ok. Same with bread being toasted (I already buy stuff w/out yeast).
Tanks 4 da
, Koks.
I agree w/you re: the simple diet. However, (broken record cueing up!) the prob with just meat and veggies is that I cook for both the fella and myself. He still won't each beef, very rarely pork, and CAN'T eat chicken but about 1x per week cuz he gets a rash on his face! He will eat fish - sure that will be for din din tonight but it is not cheap. Also, I have lost my touch for cooking meats 'simply' after so being a vegtarian for so long. I'll figure out something.
We've both had the bloated BIG bellies for a couple of days now - he has asked some questions about this yeast thing. No way can he go off coffee cold turkey...NOR DO I WANT HIM TO - eek! Hope a cure will work with him still doing that. But that is ultimately HIS problem.
I wish I could take a pic of my tummy - it really looks like I'm about to domino (give birth, gentle Canadian
)
JInx