Day 5 - Candida Diet

Day five didn't go as planned. I ended up eating lunch at my parents house and dinner out with my family. I'm going to put the meal plan and recipes below. Then I will describe what I actually ate at the bottom of the page.

Breakfast: Detox Drink and Easy Omelet
Lunch: Green Smoothie and Fresh and Raw Pad Thai Salad
Dinner: Butternut Squash Soup

Recipes

Easy Omelet - Serves 1 to 2
3-4 eggs
1/2 cup broccoli, chopped
1/3 cup onion, diced
2 tsp coconut oil

1:Preheat 1 teaspoon of coconut oil in a non-stick skillet over medium heat
2:Sauté chopped broccoli and onions until softened, about 2 minutes and set aside
3:Add remaining 1 teaspoon of coconut oil and place the skillet back over medium heat
4:Whisk 3-4 eggs in a bowl ten pour into the hot skillet. Make sure to evenly distribute eggs
5:Pour the cooked broccoli and onions over one half of the eggs
6:Fold the other half over the vegetables and allow to cook for 1-2 minutes
7:Flip the omelet over using two spatulas, allow to cook for 3-4 minutes and then remove from heat and serve
8:OPTIONAL: top with avocado, grape tomatoes or any other vegetable of your choice

Green Smoothie - Serves 1
1 tomato
1 stalk of celery
4 large spinach leaves
1/2 cup parsley

1:Put all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until desired consistency is reached

Fresh and Raw Pad Thai Salad - Serves 2
1 large zucchini, spiralized
1 cup sliced purple cabbage
3 green onions, chopped
2 tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped
1/2 juice from lime
handful bean sprouts
1 tsp sunflower seed butter
1 tps water
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp coconut aminos
2 tbsp fresh cilantro
1/4 small jalapeno, chopped
1 small clove garlic, minced

1:Using a julienne peeler or mandolin slicer, slice zucchini and carrot into string like pieces
2:Chop red cabbage and in a large bowl combine zucchini, bean sprouts, onions, cilantro cabbage and lime juice
3:Mix sunflower butter, water, lime juice, coconut aminos, cilantro, jalapeno and garlic in a small blender or food processor and blend until smooth, about 30 seconds
4:Pour dressing over the salad and stir to distribute evenly and serve

Butternut Squash Soup - Serves 6
1 whole butternut squash, peeled and chopped
1 whole onion, chopped
1 quart chicken stock
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 tbsp coconut oil, organic

1:Sauté chopped onion in coconut oil in large pot. Add in cinnamon, nutmeg and salt
2:Add in chopped butternut squash to a pot and pour in broth, boil until the squash in the broth until tender
3:Once the squash has softened, puree soup in a food processor or high speed blender until a smooth texture is obtained
4:Serve and garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon and chopped walnuts

Reactions

Food: As I mentioned above, the only meal I ate from the meal plan on day five was breakfast. It was good. Your basic eggs with broccoli and onion. My husband had an omelet too. He liked it except that he could taste the coconut oil and he is not a fan of coconut...weirdo.

For lunch I ate at my parents house. I ended up having two hard boiled eggs, about 1.5 cups combined of steamed zucchini and summer squash and celery and bell peppers rolled up into sliced turkey. It was a great lunch.

At dinner we decided to go out as a family. We ate at a place called SomeBurros. I ordered a taco salad without the shell with shredded beef and pico de avocado on top. It was really really good but I didn't know that the taco salad would have beans and cheese in it.

Body: I did some hard labor yesterday which tired me out quickly and ended up eating lunch late. I'm finding that when I get hungry now I don't get shaky like I used to. I feel my energy levels drop. Before I would get shaky and nauseous. Now I just feel the energy leaving me. I don't know if that makes sense.  It's hard to explain. I'm an enjoying the new awareness to my body and what it needs. I did get a headache yesterday. I only got eight cups of water in so I am attributing the headache to lack of water.

I also keep forgetting to mention, I've had a small rash on the side of my middle finger on the left hand for months now. I'm keeping an eye on it while doing this diet to see if it changes at all. I've read that candida overgrowth can cause rashes. So far there isn't any change.