Breakfast and energy!

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Hi! My name's and this is my first post though I've

been 'monitoring' for some time.

Briefly, I have suffered with gut dysbiosis/candida for about 15

years, I'm now 30. Despite following strict anti-candida diets and

herbal supplement programmes for years and years, I just got sicker

and sicker. Eventually I was diagnosed with a mega-colon (I had about

twice the length of colon as an average person all squished into a

very small abdominal area!! and thus not working at all well, and

home to a lot of nasty bugs) and my colon was almost entirely removed

18 months ago.

Some of the issues (such as acute constipation necessitating constant

enemas and laxatives) have eased, but I am still left with

debilitating symptoms relating to dysbiosis - brain fog, irregular

bowels, painful bloating and utter exhaustion and depression on some

occasions. I control this with herbs but I never seem to get on top

of things.

I went on the SCDiet last summer and it seems to help and hinder me

at the same time. I am a yoga teacher and exercise daily, and while

the diet seems to settle my gut in many ways, I find it very hard to

stay strong and fit on it. I lose weight, become weak and then often

relapse due to low immune response. So it feels like a catch-22!

My biggest problem is BREAKFAST! As i teach yoga from 7-9am and then

do my own practice from 9.30am-11.30am I rarely get the chance to eat

before midday and this pattern leaves me exhausted with messed up

adrenals and difficult gut issues.

My questions are these:

- i don't seem able to tolerate fruits at all, even bananas, is this

common? Also, the yogurt (which I have prepared several times exactly

as per instructions) gives me terrible brain fog.

- nuts give me a great deal of problems as well in terms of wind,

bloating and keeping me awake with the pain at night which rules out

the delicious nut-flour based recipes. Is this common? And nut butter

gives me awful brain fog.

- I have recently started to eat minimal grains again - only oats and

a little rye. They seem to really make me feel well - giving me

energy and balancing my sugar levels and adrenal issues, but I fear

my gut will start to suffer as a result. Does it sound as if I may be

better off eating these grains ie. do my symptoms sound like the

usual symptoms improved by the SCDiet or am I barking up the wrong

tree so to speak?

- any ideas for breakfast that would be a simple, easily digested

snacks, as I can't practice yoga after too much food?!

Thank you for any help. I'm feeling a bit desperate and so sick and

tired of feeling sick and tired!