In the past several weeks, I was great with my anti-candida diet. I stuck to it, and I was finding lots of new things to eat to keep things interesting. We went to Montreal during the final week, and I kept the diet up until Friday night, which was my intention all along. Then, after eating an anti-candida dinner, I had a TINY slice of caramel coffee cake and a small glass of ice wine. I broke out over night. To be fair though, we had been in the biodome earlier that day, and I think I had already started to break out a little while we were in the tropical room. Anyway, I decided that I was going to have to keep this diet up a little longer. (Although the next day I did have half of a bagel... I couldn't resist... we were in Montreal, I had to have a Montreal bagel.)
The next week started (which at this point was last week) and I was ready to keep up on my path. Then Tuesday night I wound up in the hospital in the worst pain of my life. Let me tell you, there is nothing that will get you off of an anti-candida diet faster than kidney stones. Worst. Pain. Ever. Now, while I was in the hospital, I was still thinking I was going to continue on my diet for a while. I was hoping the breakfast they brought me would be something with eggs so that I could just eat the eggs and still be following the diet. But then they told me I couldn't have breakfast because they might have to operate. Ok fine. That would make it easier for me to stick to my diet...
When I got home at first I didn't have a stomach for much of anything. I ate blueberries and pears, which are ok on the diet, and pretty much nothing else. I'm not sure if I was still nauseous from the pain, or from the medication the doctor put me on. I do know that the thought of eating most of the things I'd been surviving on for the past two months made me want to hurl. At the advice of one of the nurses, I also decided to look up what causes kidney stones. Turns out foods like nuts and spinach (which I had been eating a lot of) can be causes of kidney stones. And now I don't know if that knowledge is contributing to me relating nausea to those foods or not. But I do know that 3 days after my release from the hospital my cravings got out of control. I had frozen yogurt in a waffle cone for breakfast, then came home and had a bagel with butter. Then for dinner I ate an entire (small) pizza - with no cheese, but still. Those are all things I have not had for 2 months. Then, the next morning, I started out with blueberries again, but then I had a couple bowls of (somewhat sugary) cereal, followed by grilled cheese for lunch. I haven't had a grilled cheese sandwich in years. I had cravings for all of those things, and I already knew I wanted chili and fries for dinner. I also got Bill to pick up some Hermit cookies from the grocery store, because of course I was craving those as well. I did not feel well enough to go to the grocery store myself, and Bill was great about helping me. When he got home I immediately ate 2 hermit cookies, and spent the rest of the evening regretting it. I no longer wanted to eat anything. So Bill made the fries and chili, and put the leftovers in the fridge. At about 10:30, when Bill was heading to bed, I suddenly felt better and was craving french fries again. So I ate all that were left (and there were quite a few). And after I did I felt even better. That was last night, and now, I've started this morning off with more frozen yogurt. So sucks to the candida diet (for now). I may try to eat more anti-candida foods once my stomach is settled again, but for the time being, I seem to be on the anti-anti-candida diet. And I kind of love it.
Oh yeah, and so far, I've only gotten a couple little bits of acne. *fingers crossed this doesn't get worse*
