Hi Mark, your xmas binge sounds a lot like mine! But I didn't stop there, I continued doing it because I had already ruined it. Bad move. 3 weeks later with ideal diet and I'm still ill.....Sugar doesn't just feed yeast, it also lower immunity directly as well and does so much more!

I found that when I was including bits of sugar here and there and continuing to eat gluten in things, I was horribly sick, even though I was eating good food along with it. So unfortunately total exclusion is often necessary for those very ill with yeast problems along with good food. Gotta do both!

I wouldn't overdo the water, apparently it can be as bad as not having enough. A website I trust greatly advises against this. I will need to find the reasons, because I read them once and now forgot. But one thing is certain, this is something i never bought into. I think it's ok if you are doing it temporarily as a cleanse, but I would not do this all the time (just my personal opinion). Don't get me wrong, I realise fluids are necessary and I have them, but not too much of it. Just when I feel like it. I don't necessarily wait till I"m thirsty, but I don't guzzle them down daily either. I have a big glass of vitamin C with half a squeezed lemon, 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt (celtic or rock salt) and warm water (almost hot). I do that once in the morning and once in the evening and during the day I just have herbal tea, but not overboard.

How do you do on grains? I cannot eat any of them. Once I could eat them, but could only eat non gluten/wheat grains. Wheat apparently is treated with mercury fungicide too! And gluten is very bad in mercury toxic people, so that is one thing I steered clear of. If you can eat non gluten grains, you're lucky. I wish I could. I LOVE rice cakes, though some people think they taste like cardboard! I love eating them, but cannot do that anymore.

I eat eggs and meats mainly, yoghurt, nuts/seeds and vegetables. I guess I do ok on this, because anything else just feeds yeast in me. I eat a lot of good fats as well which is healing. Not the bad kind like toxic plant oils - canola etc.

The supplements sound really good. Perhaps they too can aid the process of die off and maybe cause extra symptoms too when you're healing?

Yeah, getting back on track is a bummer! I cannot believe so far it's 3 weeks and still no sign of improvement. Normally it takes about 2 weeks....so geesh, I must have really done it this time.

I think Hal Huggins nailed it in his book with his dietry recommendations of what to eat and what to avoid. He's been spot on with me!