It seems (if I'm not mistaken), that once I have been on the diet for long enough, my body begins to attempt at excreting the other toxins. I tend to notice something like this about 10 days - 2 weeks after being on the diet (or longer). I may erupt in some kind of detox reaction. Either that or there is some kind of improvement.

If I do not go on this candida diet, I find my body continues to hold the toxins in, stores more toxins along the way, keeps yeast at much higher levels than necessary and I find my legs begin to get puffy. I actually look like I'm bloated with toxins.

I cannot say it's pleasant to be on the diet due to missing out on the taboo foods (which I love), nor is it necessarily pleasant when you start as your body may go through some kind of yeast die off or temporary feelings of tiredness, loss of motivation, headachey etc. But I find unless I go through this and stay on this diet, my body simply cannot heal or work on the other problems. I stay almost in a state of constant state of retention (almost suppressed) toxicity.

I remember onetime I went on the diet and first I started to get die off symptoms. I think they began about 5 days after starting the diet. Suddenly from having no sugar, yeast etc the yeast started to die. So I can die off symptoms to contend with which made me feel quite unwell and strange for about 3 weeks. I had some dizziness from the alcohols the yeast were releasing, headaches from the toxins being released etc. After 3 weeks the improvements were marked. I did not have quite the depression or the horrible terrors in the mind and other things lessened and energy returned. Problem was, once I had improved a bit from reducing yeast and ridding other toxins from the good, I was not prepared that my body would then begin to deal with the other toxins and I copped some real detox reactions.

So it really is about peeling the layers back to better health. Once your body goes through one stage, it goes to the next. It is always "trying" to reach a higher state of health.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but this is just what I seem to observe in myself. Not sure if it's the same for others.