Is anyone here on a yeast-free, sugar-free, low carb diet? Just wondering. I have been on this diet since March of this year and I feel pretty great! I lost my weight right away and now they are introducing me to new foods every four weeks or so. Sometimes I do cheat on my diet but then my body knows it and I feel awful, so it really isn't worth it. Is there anyone else out there on this kind of a diet? I am new here, but it sure looks like a wonderful board! I will be checking out the menus and if anyone has a suggestion on some good books on Low-Carb diets let me know, okay?

Welcome to the board, Lizzie and congrats on reaching goal You must feel great. Hope to hear all about your journey and of course all of your tips and suggestions. If you're looking for some great LC reading material I would suggest Protein power by the Eades and Protein Power Lifeplan , both great reads that answer the 'how' and 'why' of LC.

Cheers,
Nat

From http://www.lef.org/protocols/prtcl-028.shtml



Not sure why I thought it was Atkins, other than I've seen people doing a modified atkins with no yeast because of chronic yeast infections.....

Nat

In New Diet Revolution (1999 edition), Atkins devotes a whole chapter to Candida Yeast overgrowth. Chapter 13, pp 154 to 162.

from page 160-161:

• There is a very pragmatic reason why a yeast problem should be identified. If you have it, there must be dietary restrictions beyond those involving carbohydrates. If you don't do that, you'll wonder why everybody else got better on the Atkins diet, and you didn't.
  
  One out of three of you will find that it's necessary to avoid "yeasty" foods, some of which you might otherwise be eating on an Atkins diet. These include cheeses, vinegar and other fermented condiments and pickles, mayonnaise made with vinegar, mushrooms, yeast-containing vitamins, wine and beer. Breads and baked-goods which may be consumed at Maintenance levels ... would be totally disallowed. In general, most people with Candida are allergic to yeasts and get symptomatic when fermented food items are consumed.

Candida Yeast problems in the gut may be a reason for some people's stalling if they are consuming offending foods on a regular basis, even though they are low-carb.

Doreen

Thanks for the responses and the warm welcome! I did have yeast testing back in March and it was after completing Dr. Crook's questionare concerning yeast. My blood tests came back with an astounding 1,420 yeast count which was way off of the charts! The normal is approximately 160! My count is now down to 400 something which is good but still not as good as it can get. I still find that I have such cravings for carbs like potato chips and I still like sweets but not as much as carbs! So I am looking for some good cookbooks for me and my family so that I can try different things (we are sick of the same old foods). We eat meats and alot of veggies for dinners. I have a good diet but I still would like to find something different because when I get bored then I eat too many wrong foods. This past weekend I ate some bread when we ate out, and then bread again the next day, and then on Sunday I ate a whole cinnamon megamuffin. Now I feel so yucky these past couple of days, and I almost immediately get a vaginal itch when I eat the wrong foods but I still do it anyway once in awhile and then I suffer. I am having food allergy testing this Friday, which isn't covered by my health insurance. It is testing to one thing at a time (like wheat, and then corn another day,etc.) and the nurse told me that it would take a good two hours to complete it. I am almost certain that I am allergic to wheat and corn and definately lactose intolerant every since I was very young but we will see what the testing shows. Does anyone else out there have any of these problems? How do you stop your cravings? Talk to you later!