Diane, I have no idea how long you have stuck to the diet with no cheats at all?. If you have stuck to the diet for many weeks, even a couple of months or so ( with NO cheats) and there is little to no improvements then yeast may not be such an issue for you and it may well be mainly mercury. Therefore, should you just indulge yourself sometimes? Depends on level of yeast and how well you handle those foods.....does it do more harm than good when you give in? Or do you really not notice much of a change?

If you have cheated intermittently, you'll be sabbotating progress. It takes sometime before the gut starts to heal and that can mean a few months, depending on how serious you have this condition. The fact you are miserable though and you notice cravings for these foods, indicates you probably do have yeast and all the more reason why you should probably stick it out and quit cheating.

The yeast beast causes you to feel miserable from excluding what it thrives on. If you keep giving up and giving in, you will never get things under control (including cravings). If you stick to it for long enough, strict enough, no cheats, eventually you do start to notice cravings lessen and can almost disappear.

It really is up to you Diane. I do know how you feel and the problem may well be mainly mercury. I've been there and had a bad candida problem with amalgams, which I battled with diet and did pretty well. Then later, amalgams came out, and my problems became mainly dealing with stored mercury. Diet didn't help as much at that stage, though I still needed it to some degree, but I cheated much more because I was so miserable with detoxing mercury and it didn't seem to make much difference how strict I was on the diet at that time....

It really does depend on what's going on with you. There are some stages when you will rely on this diet completely and without it, you can wind up being much worse of a mess. Other times where it really does not seem to make much difference ..... however, in order to know, you must be on the diet strictly for weeks/possibly a few months to be certain.