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From:	raimonio (94.237.92.230)
Subject:	Candida, CFS and IBS + 80/10/10 problems
Date:	July 19, 2012 at 4:46 am PST

Hi everyone, I'm in a pinch with the diet, although my life depends on it. Here goes:

I started with severe psychological problems and tried to cure them by psycholocigal means ofcourse, until I realized that nothing had worked. At the time I was curious about low carb diets because I wanted to loose weight. So one day after browsing low carb forums I ran into the term "Candida". After viewing the symptoms of Candida I was soon positive that I had it. Because I was already experimenting with low carb diets I decided to try the low carb Candida diet. 2 Months and all of my symptoms were gone. Before the diet my sleep had been terrible for the past 10 years (getting only 4h sleep with sleep medication), there were horrible moodswings and anxieties, severe depression, fatique and odd pains all around my body.

I was so happy to get rid of my symptoms. Keeping up with the diet was hard for me. Every now and then I slipped and ate something I shouldnt and the symptoms would get back. This went on for a bout 9 months, until I started having severe bloating and pains in my stomach anytime I ate meat or oils. At this point I panicked, what would I eat now? I was diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Little after that Cronic Fatigue Syndrome aswell.

Did a research online and found out about 80/10/10, read the book, tried it and it worked. It's just that everytime I eat a fruit other than bananas, pineapple or grapes my insomnia comes back? This makes no sense. Insomnia has always been for me a sign of candida outbreak. How can there be an outbreak even if I stay strictly 80/10/10 and eat nothing but fruit and some legumes? For the past year I ate any fruit I wanted without the insomnia, but then I still used my sleeping medicin (Mirtatzapin. Now I quit it during the summer and since I've noticed that most of the days I've eaten something else than those fruits I can't sleep. I have come to the conclusion that the only way for me to get all the nutrients etc is to eat steamed veggies also, but I'm afraid I will never be completely cured because of that.

For the past year I slipped with 80/10/10 aswell, but now I'm confident in staying true to it. It's just that it isn't working as I planned.

I'm in deep agony, I have so many diseases and my options are so limited I feel like in a cage. I can't step any direction without ruining tha day for myself. The only thing I can eat without Insomnia or other symptoms are bananas, pineapples, grapes, raw greens and steamed ones. The space I'm allowed to move is really small. Same thing was with the low carb high fat diet, the only thing I ended up being able to eat on top of raw and steamed veggies was fish.

Any ideas? :P

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