Hi Diane, you're welcome. Well deprivation isn't really that big a deal, when you consider it's just food and how many people around the world are starving. It depends on where you put your priorities - health or food? I've been doing this for years and that's the only avenue I have for any control of symptoms. I consider it a blessing that I can gain any if I stay on the diet long enough and am strict enough.

It's annoying, but not too much of a big deal. Lots of people have to have special diets for certain conditions.

I would STEER clear of wheat/gluten Diane. Wheat is treated with mercury fungicide, plus contains gluten. One of the worst things you could possibly consume. This stuff actually poisoned me badly when I had mercury and would bring on severe mercury symptoms (crying/salivating). E ven if you don't have those, you may not recognise the long term impact of what wheat/gluten maybe doing to you. Corn may not be so great either, but at least it's not gluten. BUT, it's still a high carbohydrate food and can feed yeast.

Fruit feeds yeast. Some maybe able to handle reduced amount of fruit and non gluten grain (rice, corn, millet etc), but you may not be able to at all.

Any fruit, sugars/honey, yeast, wheat/gluten products, are usually the worst. But even all grains, high carbohydrates vegetables may also be problematic. Potatoes are bad (sweet potatoe too), they have potential to feed yeast. Depends how bad you have it. Carrots, corn, peas, beans, etc should be reduced/eliminated. Coffee should be eliminated, it is high in caffeine and apparently even cadmium (heavy metal) and seems to feed yeast also, plus strain adrenals.

The safe foods are eggs (organic/free range), chicken/meats, organ meats (e.g. liver), low carbohydrate vegetables (which is pretty much anything but the ones I mentioned) (which you can do anyway you wish, stir fried, steamed, salads etc), acidophilus sugar free yoghurt, raw almonds/brazil nuts, raw seeds (pumpkin/sunflower) (you maybe ok with roasted too).

Tea (herbal tea probably safest). Water etc, is fine. STay away from anything else like juice/fizzy drinks etc.

Cheating will ruin any progress you could potentially make. You will never know if it will truly work or not if you do not make the committment to give it a proper go, even for a couple of months. If it doesn't work? Then what have you actually lost? Apart from temporary pleasure via the taste buds, which disappears quickly and causes long term misery for many of us.

Sorry, I know part of our life is enjoyment of food, but sometimes sacrifice is necessary if a person wishes to help themselves.

My diet is restricting, but I survive and I eat simply. I just snack on the nuts and seeds when I need to. I have a hearty breakfast, which maybe onions/tomatoes and eggs mixed together and fried. I may have beef mince mixed with onions tomatoes. I may stir fry chicken and have a whole mixture of safe low carbohydrate vegetables (e.g. celery, broccoli, tomatoe, onion, silver beet, pepper etc). Whatever you like, so long as it's not high carb.

I eat the yoghurt and mix in the organic flaxseed oil when I want. I can have salads anytime I wish....

I don't see this is too big a deal if your health is bad enough to warrant making sacrifices like this, which compared to worsened suffering and quality of life, isn't a heck of a lot.