Yeast eliminated!

[Guest guest]

I wanted to be very cautious in telling all of you about my cure, so I've

waited over a week to be sure it's true. I can hardly believe it.

I had the flu last week, and it was pretty horrible. Last Saturday was the

worst day, when I had the most amazingly painful sinuses. I wondered then if

I was having a massive yeast die-off, and in retrospect, I think I was. For

two days, I ate nothing. I had no appetite, and I figured that I would at

least kill off some yeast while I was suffering from the flu.

After the two horrible days of flu, I started to be hungry again. Knowing

that have traditionally had a long recovery time for my gut after any

illness, I decided to take it slow with eating. Instead of starting solid

food right away, I ate the Beiler soup, or a version of it anyway, in order

to ease back onto food and also to delay the onset of my sinus problems to

give myself a chance to recover from the flu first.

I didn't have all the ingredients for Beiler soup, so I used what I had. I

happened to have fresh green beans and celery, but no zucchini., I don't use

garlic powder(what self-respecting cook does?) so I used whole garlic cloves

instead. No cayenne pepper, so I used black pepper. Steamed everything just

enough to soften it a little, and put it in the blender. Instead of steaming

with water, I used chicken broth. This was a little nod to the SCD, and I

figured if it's SCD legal, it won't make the yeast grow anyway. It was

delicious, which was a surprise. I ate only that for a day, then went to

steamed veggies the next day, and just gradually started eating again. I

tolerate eggs very well, so I made several omelets with veggies for my first

solid meals. I kept grains out completely for awhile. If you compare what I

did to Dr. McCandless' yeast-elimination diet, it was very much the same,

but abbreviated. I think the fever probably helped.

I am now eating what I was before the illness, and the yeast seems truly

gone! I sleep soundly all night with no mouth breathing for the first time

in well over a year. Things that would trigger a flare-up, like French fries

or anything with even a tiny bit of sugar, have not caused a problem. I even

ate a couple of bites of non-gfcf cake yesterday. No gut pain at all,

either. Previously, any wheat product would cause cramping.

I know, I'm living dangerously. But I promise, I'm not back on the road to

yeast-ville, just exercising a couple of pent-up desires. I am not going to

start eating sugar again. Best of all, I know that if the yeast does flare

up, I have a way to kill it, really and truly. Honestly, I was putting off

doing the diet because it was my last hope, and if it hadn't worked, I think

I would have sank into a deep depression. I couldn't face it.

One more thought: I very much believe that my subconscious is in charge of

whether or not I get any particular virus. I don't even get sick unless

there is a reason, and I do mean " reason " , not just being tired or stressed.

I only ever get sick if I have time to do so, and during busy times, I never

get sick, even if I'm in the middle of my entire family coughing up their

lungs.

This time, I got sick because I wasn't going to be able to do the

yeast-elimination diet any other way. I had promised myself I'd do it after

Thanksgiving, and I had reneged on that promise. So I got sick instead. I

can't impress upon you enough how exceedingly rare it is for me to get sick

during the school semester, when I work.

I did lose several pounds with the flu, and I have now lost a total of 70

pounds since beginning the gfcf diet two years ago. One thing that was

striking is that my stomach is now completely flat. No matter how much

weight I lost, I still had the post-baby pooch. I think it was from yeast in

my gut, or that my gut was somehow still inflamed. It is now flat. I don't

need to tell you how happy I am to be rid of it, and I feel 20 years

younger. I actually feel better than I did 20 years ago.

WAHOO!!

Liz

[Guest guest]

> I wanted to be very cautious in telling all of you about my cure,

so I've

> waited over a week to be sure it's true. I can hardly believe it.

LOL..you are not crazy ....

One of the very first things a G.I.drs tells you to do with an

intestional flare up, is " rest the gut " , go liquid .

Being a Crohn's patient over 40 years, I long ago figured out that

this part of their thinking is ..right on. (I always chose to sip

chicken broth) Slowly easing back into food, beginning with a , soft

diet will do wonders.