Introduction and the why I started anti-candida diet

I used to be fat. I was getting for 18 stone, and size 26 UK size. That was in May 2008. I felt awful in my health, depressed, lethargic, sick all the time. I put it down to the fact I was over weight, so I joined weight watchers. For the first few weeks I felt great, as I was mostly eating salads and fruits as it was summer. I lost 3 stone. As winter approached I started eating more stodgy food such as bread and whole grains and low fat biscuits, weight watchers sweet treats. I started feeling really ill again and found it really difficult to loose weight even though I was still keeping within my points range.

By December I gave up completely on the points plan and ate nothing but junk food. I just wanted to eat sweets all the time, I'd never eaten so badly. This continues all month. I didn't know what had gone wrong, I felt worse than ever, so in January I decided to start again after I'd put back on 1 and half stone. I was determined not to get out of control again so I tried my very best. I managed to lose more weight I was doing OK until I got to 14 stone, and I could not seem to get past this weight, I tried exercise, but I was exhausted, and I would sleep for hours and not want to get up in the mornings. I was shaky, tired and dizzy all the time, and I was constantly going over my points to stop the shakes. After a month of not being able to fell better I gave up again on the weight watchers plan.

I noticed every time I eat bread, pickles, and many other foods I bloated up. Also when I ate sugar I would want to eat more and more and I would find it hard to stop. I had constant headaches and was tired all the time. I thought I might have an allergy to wheat, so I googled wheat allergies and found that it was nothing like my symptoms, so I thought maybe it was yeast allergy. The symptoms were more in line with what problems I had. Then I came across an article on candida and that seemed to be exactly my problem, as well as that I did have thrush when I was a kid when my Mum got it and it passed on through the towels. Yucky I know. So I started on the anti-candida plan. I will write more about the plan in my next blog and how it affected me.