What's wrong with me?

#13

Coconut oil is also purported to be good at reducing candida.

#14

Nothing wrong with butter.

Keep things simple for a week, add in whole and known ingredients and stay away from the restaurants - just for a week.

If you get a rash, probably just the yeast die off.

(Tessy M.) #15

My take on your food you listed is that you may be getting more than 20 carbs during the day.
Which quest bar? How many carbs? (Dr. Fung talks about snacking between meals, it’s not terribly desirable)
That Monster has 6 carbs (4 sugars)
Nuts will have carbs
The keto roll is low carb, not no carb. How many carbs are in here?
The sauce from Chipotle that is on the veggies could contain some sugar too.
I would really encourage you to use MFP for a bit to really get a handle on the carbs your’re taking in.

(Tessy M.) #16

I’ll add, I too have had the same response from doctors. When I first switched last, my doctor commented “I was not expecting an overweight person based on your labs, they’re excellent.”

#17

My take on your food you listed is that you may be getting more than 20 carbs during the day.

Yeah, it is more than 20. But it’s also less than 50, and I am definitely in ketosis.

That Monster has 6 carbs (4 sugars)

It’s 5 carbs. You’re probably looking it up on some website (my best guess would be myfitnesspal with a user entered database). I’m looking at the label on the actual product as I’m typing this.

The keto roll is low carb, not no carb. How many carbs are in here?

1.6. But I’m not positive about that. The eggs I bought don’t have nutrition info so all I can go off of is the possibly inaccurate numbers from myfitnesspal. We all know eggs do have carbs, but not a lot, so maybe somewhere between 1.6 - 2.

The sauce from Chipotle that is on the veggies could contain some sugar too.

There isn’t a sauce on the veggies. They cook them on a flat grill in oil with salt and oregano. Whatever wetness appears to be on them is from the oil that they are cooked in and the water leeching out of them.

(Tessy M.) #18

That’s what I looked at. Each serving has 3 carbs, two of which are sugar. The can is two servings.
Also, Chipotle does spice their veggies. Do you know what they use the spice them? Could the mix contain sugar?

(Michael King) #19

Candida is tough to eradicate for many.

#20

The can has per 8oz serving info and per 15.5oz can info. The per can info says 5. This is probably due to round. The per serving is probably something close to 2.5 but they don’t use decimals so its being rounded up to 3.

They only use salt and oregano on the fajita veggies. Chipotle does not add sugar to anything.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #21

Dr. Robert Lustig, in “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” says that about 20% of obese people are metabolically healthy, so it’s not really surprising that you could have good blood work and such and still be quite obese. On the other hand, it sounds as though a well-formulated ketogenic diet can still be of use to you, so good luck, and keep ketoing on. I’d love to see your follow-up posts after following Keigan’s advice.

(Samantha ) #22

You sound a lot like me.

I am 330lbs and 5’ 5" and 30 years old. My doctor never seems to believe that I am in the 330’s and regularly rechecks my weight when I go to appointments. Her take is that I must be muscular under my fat. My blood pressure is always perfect…literally 120/80, which she checks again when she rechecks my weight. I do work a desk job and sit eight to ten hours a day but walk my dog and take yoga classes. I was eating a low fat whole grain diet and gaining more and more weight. I didn’t feel the greatest most days and have horrible times of the month. She originally thought diabetic…perfect blood work. PCOS?..perfect blood work. Gluten intolerance?..perfect blood work. She literally can not come up with answers to why I feel so crappy. I had ultrasounds, scopes and paid thousands of dollars with no answers. I get the response of stop eating fast food…which I rarely rarely did and eat more grains and less fat…which I was doing! Fast forward to switching to Keto…three weeks in and I have only dropped a few pounds but my cycle has normalized, my skin has cleared up, and I don’t wake up feeling like complete crap every morning. I have other Keto flu symptoms, but in general I feel better. What I would suggest is to stick with Keto for a full year and see if it helps. That is my plan to get this all under control.

#23

So, I’m on day 2 of following Keigan’s advice, and that terrible pounding headache has returned. The one that, in the past, I always associated it with quitting sugar and caffeine cold turkey.

Maybe it is candida die-off, maybe it’s because I’m addicted to caffeine & sugar. I don’t know. But I definitely under-ate today because it’s hard to even eat anything with this headache. I had to leave work early and tried to sleep it off, that did nothing.

I guess I’m just going to suffer through this and hope it’s not as bad tomorrow.

(Sarah ) #24

I agree with the water and salt, but Id rather get an electrolyte supplement (sodium magnesium potassium calcium) or look for recipes for keto ade online. Also eat pickles, olives, sauerkraut, and.or kim chee, I begt youll sail through the first week (more or less).

(Jay AM) #25

Like was suggested above, get your electrolytes and don’t be afraid to take something like Advil for the headache. My first round with keto was a migraine that made me vomit. I didn’t know about electrolytes immediately so, advil helped significantly in the first couple weeks. Whether it’s bad for keto or not, I don’t really care. Advil was what made me stick with it.

(Sarah ) #26

look at sample menus online, at sites like ketodietapp.com or dietdoctor.com or ruledme.com if you need more ideas for food. personally i would not recommend trying to control your portion size/ calorie count, at all, at this point. Eat what you want/need of basic keto foods, youll find your groove soon enough. Youre easily looking at a year or more of opportunities to tweak and modify and improve your eating habits, the first few weeks dont matter all that much, they are just the jumping off point.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #27

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That’s a Chipotle bowl with only fajita veggies. Obviously, some are more generous and some are more stingy and agricultural products have variation, but

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3069
And
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3030

I think it’s highly unlikely that they add sugar to come to the final numbers.

I believe there is added sugar on the barbacoa. Chicken, steak and carnitas are clear.

#28

Hi,

If you are clearing candida, then some probiotics, live full fat yog, or kefir will help replace the candida with more helpful things.

Only I would avoid any of those pre-made probiotic drinks. They are usually sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners.

I make my own kefir with full fat goatsmilk yogurt. Takes a few days to be up and running, but then it is less than 2 minutes work a day, and my guts feel all the better for it.

#29

You are almost over the hump, stick with it.

Throughout this thread many folks have offered their experience and advice, everyone has the same message:

  • step away from the sugar and get your electrolytes

Keep going, by the end of this week you’ll feel much better.

#30

Drink coffee with heavy cream, I add butter to my coffee.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #31

Good luck! We’re rooting for you. :bacon:

#32

A Candida infestation of your gut certainly amplifies a sugar addiction (I had many years of mismanagement of the candida and could not eradicate it) the smallest amount of sugar would kick it right back into high gear. In some cases (like mine) one can develop an autoimmune reaction. The immune system can’t attack Candida inside your gut, there is no semipermeable membrane interaction capability for white blood cells or other immunity components to reach the yeast. So your immune system response threshold lowers and gets “aggressive” and wants to fight the invader it can’t touch and eventually attacks some other healthy system. Things just get worse from there. There are some great strategies for killing off Candida listed here, but if they fail, you may consider using Borax (yep, twenty mule team borax, pure with no additives) I discussed it with my Dr. (he’s excellent and pro Keto) and it’s completely safe. I simply dilute 1/8 tsp in a quart of water and drink this in the morning and repeat in the evening, for five days. My gut is clear and feels great, most importantly it works great. I’ll repeat the above in a couple of weeks if my toenails were affected and they will be clear by the next cycle. If your gut is out of balance from yeast, all diets, especially Keto will be less effective. Severe Candida can cause depression in many individuals since 97% of our serotonin is manufactured in the gut and the cerebral pathway is effectively disrupted by the inflammation caused by Candida. Depression is a will power and diet killer. If you don’t like the taste (it’s kinda fishy) I can tolerate taking the 1/8 tsp twice a day with a small glass of water. Borax useage has been around for over a century and is safe and something to consider if you just can’t shake the yeast and/or sugar cravings.