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Eliminating Yeast for Weight Loss Joyce Moseley Pierce
My doctor put me on a yeast-free diet a few months ago to help with some annoying symptoms I was having. Most women are familiar with yeast infections, but I was having problems with lack of hormone production. Apparently when there is so much yeast in your body, it actually takes over and doesn’t allow your body to be as efficient as it should be.
I was faithful about sticking with this diet, and when I went back for my 6 week check up, I had lost 8 pounds. I had wanted to lose 10 pounds for a few years. I had tried some of the popular ways of losing weight, and nothing had helped. I hadn’t lost even a pound. I’m one of those people who find it easier to do without certain foods than to have an ounce of it, so this worked for me. Maybe it will for you, too. Try it for a month and see if you don’t lose weight and also feel better.
Foods to AVOID:
1. Milk and milk products. No cheese, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, or milk-based dressings. 2. Bread or baked goods. No cereal, crackers, biscuits, rolls, flour tortillas. 3. Grains. No corn, wheat, rye, millet, rice or barley. 4. Pasta. 5. Potatoes 6. Mushrooms 7. Sugar. No honey or syrup. 8. Artificial sweeteners. No NutraSweet, Sweet-n-Low, Equal. 9. Soft drinks of any kind 10. Alcohol 11. Vinegar. No pickles, green olives, salad dressings, soy sauce, mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, salsa, etc. 12. Vegetable shortening, margarine, or partially hydrogenated oils
If looking at this list makes you think you’re going to starve to death, then you probably have a yeast condition of your own!
The following list is foods that are yeast-free, so your diet for one month will come from this list.
1. Meats – chicken, beef, turkey, pork, lamb, venison, and seafood 2. Vegetables 3. Salads - but watch for dressings without milk or sweeteners. 4. Dried beans – black, red and kidney beans. 5. Eggs – boiled, poached, scrambled, or fried with olive oil 6. Oatmeal – slow cook or steel-cut brands used in recipes only 7. Lemons or limes 8. Avocados 9. Cold-Pressed Olive Oil 10. Black Olives 11. Nuts and nut butters – the ones without sugar 12. Herbal Teas – Celestial Seasonings has many choices 13. Perrier or Ozarka Flavored Waters 14. Coffee and Tea – no decaf 15. Xylitol as a sweetener
After two weeks, you may add:
1. Fruits, with the exception of fruit juice, grapes or bananas 2. Butter – use only real butter, not margarine
The first few times I went to the grocery store, I took this list and read every label. You’d be surprised how many items you use everyday contain sugar. For instance, I couldn’t find sausage of any variety without sugar. Who would think there was sugar in a meat product? If you’re going to do this right, you have to eliminate all traces of it.
After that six week checkup, I was told to start reintroducing different foods to my diet to see if they caused any symptoms such as headache. By doing this one food at a time, you can determine which foods you are allergic to, and which ones you’ll want to eliminate from your diet completely.
Six weeks later, I went back again, and had lost another 4 pounds. Although I wasn’t on the strict diet I started out with, my awareness of what I was eating had changed, and my metabolism had gotten a jump start.
I’ve now been following these guidelines for almost four months and have lost 12 pounds. The first 8 pounds came off at just under a pound a week. That’s a safe number of pounds and helps you establish a new lifestyle. If you want to lose more, just continue to eat that way and you’ll be surprised at the pounds that will disappear.
I feel great, and am more alert in the morning because I’m not eating a bagel for breakfast, and don’t have the mid-afternoon slump because I’ve loaded up on a burger, fries and shake. Instead, I’ll have an egg for breakfast, snack on raw almonds or cashews mid-morning, fix a salad for lunch, and then meat and veggies for dinner. Instead of ice cream for dessert, I have a piece of fruit. I drink a lot of water, and for a taste of something sweet, will add Xylitol and a squirt of lemon juice. You’d be surprised how sweet that tastes when you’re not drugging your taste buds with sugar and artificial sweeteners.
My next article on this topic will be “What is Yeast?” If you’re prone to yeast infections, or even have allergies, you’ll be interested in learning more about the dangers of having too much yeast in your body.
Joyce Moseley Pierce is a freelance writer and contributing author to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. To learn more about eliminating toxins, visit www.familyfirst.fourpointwellness.com To read more of Joyce’s articles, and see what else she has to offer, visit www.emersonpublications.com
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