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Posted 3/20/2012 9:00 PM (GMT -5)
So, after talking with the nutritionist today, I have a very altered diet. For the next 6 weeks, she wants me to cut out the following:
  • All fruits
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • Cane sugar
  • Table sugar
  • Sweet veggies
  • Breads with HFCS or sugar


So the next 6 weeks are going to be very tough; there are 50 ways that sugar appears in an ingredients list! Im a super sweet-tooth junkie, and I love bread, but almost all of them have either HFCS or sugar *sigh* Im gonna need some serious support, here, because Im not sure how well Im going to do with this. And if after 6 weeks I am not completely better, I have to go gluten-free as well, and then go from there.

By the way, this is for my fructose malabsorption and IBS.

Thanks everyone :)
Posted 3/20/2012 9:45 PM (GMT -5)
Jaden I must admit that will be hard.. do you have to go cold turkey with the sweets or could you cut down slowly..??

we will support you...

yes it will be hard. me I have a sweet tooth as well.
Posted 3/20/2012 11:28 PM (GMT -5)
Please let us know how well you do on it. That is about the only thing I haven't change for my treatment for fibro. I take in lots of sugar. Way too much. I dont want to think how many scoops I take in daily. I am not sure If I could live without sugar. LOL
Posted 3/21/2012 6:44 AM (GMT 0)
Can you use honey? coconut sugar? stevia?

I know she said no fruit, but to get past the withdrawals of the sugar, you might want to try a few dried dates with walnuts. I eat this a lot at night to get past my caving for something sweet.


I would be like smhair for total cutting out the sugar. I eat a lot of fruit. I am trying to cut out so much dairy and it is hard when I realised just how much dairy I do eat. shocked


If you need help with GF, I can point you in the right direction and to a forum that helped me 9 yrs ago.
Posted 3/21/2012 10:36 AM (GMT -5)
Oh my, I find it very hard to cut out all sugar although I have cut back a lot over a year. I wish you all the best with this - may you have the resolve and determination that it takes to accomplish what you want to. And no withdrawal symptoms, or temptations to fall off the wagon :)

blessings and peace
Posted 3/21/2012 6:15 PM (GMT -5)
She is under the impression that it may help "cure" my fibro, but I am naturally very skeptical there. That was the only issue I had with her. I do not like honey, but she said I can use stevia or truvia, as they are both plant-based. It was extremely hard today to find a snack during work; I wound up buying a $6 bag of pistachios, as they were one of only three things I found without sugar (tortilla chips and saurkraut being the other two). I also drank only water. So tempting to just go get a candy bar!!!
Posted 3/22/2012 12:24 AM (GMT -5)
I think the worst enemy of going on any kind of special diet is not being prepared--it's so easy then to just give in and have something "forbidden" when hunger strikes.

Maybe sit down and make a list of foods you like that you can have, then make sure you always have some of it on hand.

I would be careful with the recommendation of dates--I'm diabetic, and dates are very high in sugar, and since they are a fruit, much of that sugar is fructose, which you've said gives you a problem.  At the very least, I would ask your nutritionist before you eat them.

Be sure to post if this helps your fibro--I'd be very interested to hear about that.  And best of luck--this will be a challenge, to be sure.  Come here any time you're feeling weak, and I know you'll find support!

Posted 3/22/2012 2:20 PM (GMT -5)
Hi Jaden,

If you do a google search for candida diet recipes of forums, you should find some good help there. Lots of yummy recipes that use stevia instead of sugar.

Also, going to a health food store might give you some more ideas of what you can eat.

Like one of the others posting mentioned, it is about being prepared. On a diet like that you'll want to do your grocery shopping and get your snacks and menu ideas in order ahead of time.

take care,

embers
Posted 3/22/2012 3:12 PM (GMT -5)
Thanks so much for all of the support and advice, everyone. I did break the rules today; I had a malt ball :l I had already done my grocery shopping the day before I saw the nutritionist, so I havent been 100% on the diet; I cant let the food go to waste. But I have cut everything aside from those foods. Next week (Monday) will be different; Im going to sit down tonight after homework and make up a list of ideas for food.

One thing that confuses me is the distinction between sugars. The nutritionist told me to look up other names for fructose, and avoid them, which Ive been doing. However, Dextrose (a sugar) is in stevia, which she told me I could use. It all seems so darn contradicting *pout*
Posted 3/22/2012 10:47 PM (GMT -5)
It seems like she should have given you a complete list of what to avoid...would have been less confusing for you.

Pure stevia extract has no sugar of any kind, but some brands of sweetener mix the stevia with either a sugar of some kind, or a sugar alcohol, to make it taste more like what we're used to.

I just looked on my box of Truvia, and it lists the ingredients as: "erythritol, rebiana, natural flavor".  Erythritol is a sugar alcohol, rebiana is the stevia, and God only knows what "natural flavor" might be, although I'm sure you can rule out sugar of any type.

Anyway, from what you said you could have, I think Truvia would be ok.  Good luck!

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