Re: Are my sugar cravings really my candida demanding attention?

[Guest guest]

>So, I have been wondering about this. I am a sugar and flour addict,

>put it together and you get junk food. When I start with these " foods "

>I can't stop. If I abstain from these items my cravings diminish and

>go into hibernation. I know the sugar is feeding the candida? Could

>the candida be " demanding " their favourite fuel? Hence the experience

>of cravings? The bugs get excited when fed and are like hungry dogs

>clamoring for more? Even if this isn't the science, the image works

>for me? With alcohol too, another refined sugar, but in liquid

>form...could addicts have run away candida that is driving their

>cravings and hence, the addiction? Is this possible? Helen in Ontario

Hi Helen,

It could also be that you are insulin resistant if you have been eating

sugary carby foods for a long time. If so, your body will secrete more and

more insulin when you eat these high starch and sugar foods, but your body

won't be able to use the sugar properly. From what I understand, this will

also cause you to crave more and more sweets once you start eating them. Bee

probably has a better explanation though. :-)

a

[Guest guest]

Yes Helen... for many years (1989 - 2001) I CRAVED beer. I drank

about 6 beers per day for many years. And I believe it was the yeast

that was " demanding " to be fed by my uncontrollable cravings. But I

did a 3-day spiritual water fast in 2001 and was delivered from them

(as well as a 18-year cigarette habit). There have been times since

then that I would drink for a few months or something, but I could

always quit if I really wanted to. Back then, I could not quit no

matter how hard I tried!

I was stronger than beer and cigarettes... and you can be stronger

than flour and sugar if you really try!

Doug

Even if this isn't the science, the image works

> for me? With alcohol too, another refined sugar, but in liquid

> form...could addicts have run away candida that is driving their

> cravings and hence, the addiction? Is this possible? Helen in

Ontario

>

[Guest guest]

Yep.... everybody goes to the well one too many times and ends up

having to change thier life eventually.

Doug

>

> So true and I think it's different for everyone how it happens. For

you it

> was a spiritual fast for me I think it was that last splurge in

December

> that has caused me to feel like crap for so long now

[Guest guest]

>

> So, I have been wondering about this. I am a sugar and flour

addict,

> put it together and you get junk food. When I start with

these " foods " I can't stop. If I abstain from these items my

cravings diminish and go into hibernation. I know the sugar is

feeding the candida? Could the candida be " demanding " their favourite

fuel?

> Hence the experience of cravings? The bugs get excited when fed

and are like hungry dogs clamoring for more? Even if this isn't the

science, the image works for me? With alcohol too, another refined

sugar, but in liquid form...could addicts have run away candida that

is driving their cravings and hence, the addiction? Is this possible?

==>Yes, candida does demand their fuel! It is one of the simpliest

tests that prove a person has candida. A person becomes addicted

just like an alcoholic does, and many alcoholics have candida which

drives them to consume alcohol. The cravings are for the very foods

or substances that feed candida. A person can even crave toxins

because candida feeds off toxins too.

==>A person will go through withdrawal symtpoms too, which is what

drug addicts and alcoholics do when they stop consuming drugs or

alcohol. That is a time when you most need nutrients.

==>Dr. Mercola believes that IF you can stop sugars and all forms of

it, along with grains, for at least 5 days you can overcome your

addictions. I think you also need help by taking vitamin C every

time you feel cravings. See the articles about cravings, withdrawal,

etc. here:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/menu_2_5_3.php

Hang in there Helen! You can do this. I suggest you start by

removing everything in your home you shouldn't eat and by buying a

big bottle of vitamin C tablets.

Luv, Bee

[Guest guest]

>

> Interesting. So, eventually, long long long time from today, when

my immunity system is restored, the candida has reversed to its

rightful place in my system, I will not have sugar cravings if I

ingest some high carbs? I have accepted the recovery model that says

I am powerless over sugar, wheat and flour, etc.and and I will always

be powerless...I know I am NOT stronger than my drugs presently...but

one day? I am in friendly dialogue with the part of me I disowned

and split off in order to cope with childhood pain and loneliness,

the part that turned to junk to make it through the day. Today, when

I have cravings, or ideas, that " this time " it will be different, I

have to quieten down and spend time with my lonely and afraid food

addict. I am grateful for the physical actions I can take too, but I

don't think I can conquer my weakness without some level of

acceptance of this lonely place in myself. Gratefully, I can work

with my limitations. Friendly co-existence, as it were. Helen.

Beautiful post, Helen. I'm fortunate that my emotional issues aren't

tied to food as they are for many, but I can relate to the necessity

of having to befriend the rejected parts of myself. Friendly co-

existence is exactly it! -- within our psyche's and within our guts --

it would harm us to get rid of (reject) all candida, we need to

restore it to a proper relationship with all the other microbes in

the gut.

[Guest guest]

>

> Interesting. So, eventually, long long long time from today, when

my immunity system is restored, the candida has reversed to its

rightful place in my system, I will not have sugar cravings if I

ingest some high carbs?

==>That is right Helen. I do not have sugar, grain, or high carb

cravings. In fact they repulse me. My cravings are for red meat,

butter, kimchi, bone broths, etc. Strange as that may seem.

I have accepted the recovery model that says I am powerless over

sugar, wheat and flour, etc.and and I will always be powerless...I

know I am NOT stronger than my drugs presently...but one day? I am

in friendly dialogue with the part of me I disowned and split off in

order to cope with childhood pain and loneliness, the part that

turned to junk to make it through the day. Today, when I have

cravings, or ideas, that " this time " it will be different, I have to

quieten down and spend time with my lonely and afraid food addict. I

am grateful for the physical actions I can take too, but I don't

think I can conquer my weakness without some level of acceptance of

this lonely place in myself. Gratefully, I can work with my

limitations. Friendly co-existence, as it were.

==>Excellent Helen. You are on your way. " Knowing " is the first

step.

Cheers, Bee