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    You can only control yourself. I've found its best to stop worrying how everyone else will feel about my medical needs and invest that energy in making sure my medical needs are taken care of. Its not like this is some fad diet . . . there are real medical consequences to me getting glutened and I don't care who's feelings get hurt by me watching out for...
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    She also makes a Gluten-free Casein-free lasagna and ziti bowl that rock. . . both are vegetarian too I'm a medstudent so I totally understand the frustration of not having convienience food at my fingertips. All of my school friends live on nothing but pizza delivery in the last week before an exam and I have moments where I wish I could do that too. But...
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    Hi I just wanted to let you know that this will all seem sooo much less tragic months and years down the road. Its a huge adjustment at first and there is a steep learning curve but in the end its just food and compared to your health its really not that big a deal. I was diagnosed when I was 24 and I had been eating a diet mainly of gluten and dairy until...
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    Thanks y'all. I hadn't thought of cashews or cashew butter!! I figured out that I'm going to fill up some empty travel size shampoo bottles with water and freeze them to keep my probiotics cool in my purse (since I can't bring a real size freezer pack for fear of explosivity lol). I think I've got enough ideas for the plane. I'm still nervous about trying...
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    OK so I've traveled gluten-free before but never while on the Candida diet. I'll need to bring enough food with me onto the plane to make it thru my travel day (6am-1pm so not too bad). What can you guys think of thats portable without a cooler? Also is it possible to eat out like this and not eat at a steakhouse?? Any good ideas how to transport all my supplements...
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    We don't serve/cook anything with gluten in it here and we don't allow outside food. Once we explain to friends/family the dangers of cross contamination they have been really good about being aware. One of my husband's friends brought over coffee and muffins and he and my hubby sat out on the porch eating their muffins and washed their hands off with a hose...
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    This is my take on it too. My ND said NO FRUIT whatsoever. I've started looking up each food on Open Original Shared Link and blueberries have 2g of sugar per ounce. I've only been eating foods with 0g sugar and very low carbs per serving and have had alot of success. It might be overboard but I'd rather go to far then not kill those toxic suckers off.
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    Ohio: Open Original Shared Link Michigan: Open Original Shared Link
  9. psipsina
    Capryilic acid is the active ingredient in coconut so the OP might not want to even try that if he is having an anaphylactic reaction (hives) to coconut. This is the website I found most helpful Open Original Shared Link There is no definitive way to go about doing this diet which is why you are reading contradictory opinions. The website above is...
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    I have an intense reaction to yeast. When I had the health crisis that lead me to a naturopathic doctor to have my candida-leaky gut-intolerances diagnosed it was actually caused because I'd added a ton of yogurt to my daily diet. The naturopath explained that since I'd had a systemic candida infection for so long my immune system had learned to react to...
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    The first time I did this diet I was under the care of a Naturopathic doctor which was very helpful for me. I was able to go to him with questions and I wasn't trying to filter the many different opinions on the internet on my own. I had great success and only relapsed because of a pretty severe mold exposure. This time around I'm doing it on my own since...
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    I think its hard to see the difference between die off and an immune response sometimes. Those of us with food sensitivities are so trained to avoid anything that makes us feel bad, that upsets our stomach and yet the very things that will help us are going to make us feel this way. The first time I did coconut oil (caprylic acid) I thought I was going to...
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    This is what I'm thinking too. There's no way to guarantee no cross contamination and my gluten reaction isn't worth the risk. I guess I'll be juicing at home instead of buying all the green juice products that are on the market with this in it.
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    I feel like its even easier to stick with it now because all the crazy cravings are gone. When I'm detoxing I feel like the candida are screaming for carbs and sugars and its hard to drown out that urge but once they are under control I don't have all those cravings and instead I want all the healthy stuff. The only thing that I'm really missing right now...
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    I agree totally. When I first found out that I needed to go gluten-free my husband and I were living with his parents temporarily (we lost our home in Katrina and were getting back on our feet). It was so hard to live in a house full of gluten . . . His mom made me separate things that were gluten-free and used my caesin free butter and stuff to cook but...
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    I'm so excited! I finally had my breakthrough day about three weeks into the candida diet. I was so busy enjoying my day that it didn't even occur to me until it was over how great I felt! I had no die off symptoms and the brain fog and arthritis pain is completely gone huray! Of course I'll be sticking with the diet for quite a bit longer to make sure I...
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    I do ok with xylitol too. Its super expensive so I don't bake with it usually but I use it to sweeten cappuchino drinks when I'm not doing a candida diet and I have baked with it in moments of desperation. I wish there were more gluten-free convienience products that used these sweeteners. I did find CF soy ice cream that was fruit juice sweetened which is...
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    This is the worst part for me. I have so much anxiety going to a dentist because they all treat me like I've just been neglectful of my dental health and its very demeaning. Before I knew about everything that was really going on in my body one dentist accused me of being bulimic because of the wear on my teeth and all my cavities. I even have one tooth in...
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    Ok so I think I answered the maltitol question. I think the candida likes it so its a no go. I was eating some think thin bars for breakfast for a few days and they made my sugar cravings even worse and then my die off symptoms with my antifungal doses were worse . . . I stopped eating them and I feel much better.
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    I was at wholefoods last night and was looking at green drinks. I complained to DH audibly that they all had wheat grass in them and this lady next to me said "Well wheat grass is good for you". I explained that I was allergic to gluten and she looked at me like I was crazy and told me that wheatgrass is gluten free. It just seemed very counterintuitive to...
  21. psipsina
    Yesterday when I was at wholefoods someone told me that there wasn't any gluten in wheat grass??? Could this be true??? I'd love to be able to drink those great green drinks but I was operating under the perception that I couldn't have wheat grass. The person I spoke to thought this was ridiculous?? So confused . . . .
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    I'm originally from CT and I was living up there when I was diagnosed with gluten and other food intolerances from candida (I've never bothered to get the official celiac dx). Rainforest Cafe was the first restaurant I ate at and they were soooo amazing (I actually wrote a letter to corporate I was so impressed). In addition to gluten-free I was also caesin...
  23. psipsina
    Also, I love my Mr. Bento because it can keep things cold/cool as well. Plus, it comes with a stainless steel spork! -Meg P.S. Check out the Mr. Bento group on Flickr. There's some amazing looking food on there. ^^
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    I'm in medical school and I think that the problem is that with the massive volume of information you're learning its hard to realize that there is still more out there. You wouldn't believe the amount of stuff we're expected to learn . . . one professor told us that we will forget more in one year than most people learn in a lifetime and I think its true...
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    I agree. I have my safe places where I don't really think of it at all. I remember having a panic attack the first time I had to travel because I would have to think about it all the time for days on end. Of course I think about it when I grocery shop or when I go out to eat somewhere new but that is a tiny part of my life. I feel like having my house be...
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