Eating right for Lyme

I am new to this, and have been doing a lot of research. I have starting juicing once a day, detoxing, and have stuck to gutton free food for the last two weeks, I only eat chicken, turkey and fresh veggies and fruits. I gave up my beloved coke a cola, and am drinking lemon water.

Here's the thing I am country girl at heart, I love my meat and potatoes, If I made a pot roast or something like that once a week would it hurt me? I don't want to cause more harm to my body, but this girl is craving some red meat.

Please let me know.

Thank you.

Justme,
Now you have spoken directly to me!! LOL!! I too was a big meat and potatoes gal!!So was hubby, until I changed my cooking habits! I still occasionally cook up a nice roast (pork this time) and potatoes and baby carrots - YUM!! I limit myself on how many potatoes I have because I react to them and I don't like it! LOL! I limit how much I eat potatoes - often fixing myself another vegi instead of eating the potatoes with hubby.

I don't avoid all gluten myself, but I do limit it greatly.

I agree with WWJD - eat as healthy as you can for as long as you can, but completely depriving yourself of what is still considered healthy in the normal world doesn't always work out so good. As with any diet, if you find it too hard to stick to, you will 'cheat' more often. Besides, if deprivation worked we'd all be skinny!! LOL!

Maybe look into fixing that beef roast only once every month or two weeks would help you feel like you aren't giving up everything?? Then watch yourself for any reactions that you may have. If they are too much, that tells you that your body just can't handle processing it for now.

Supposedly, red meat makes your body acidic, when your goal is alkaline. Also, it takes more energy to digest meat than vegetables and that energy could be used for healing.

I'm not sure I'm entirely on board with that, but that is the theory.

My LLMD wants me on a Vegan diet as much as possible, plus 2 QUARTS (that's a lot) of vegetable juice a day.

Hi Justme,

I am really not convinced that all the strict diet advice is sensible. I can see the point of keeping sugar levels low if you have candida, but other than that I don't see why you can't eat whatever makes you feel good. The body needs a range of foods to be healthy, and completely cutting out certain food groups seems unwise unless there is a specific personal medical requirement.

I ate an entirely normal diet during my treatment, and only kept sugar low when one of my antibiotics caused candida problems. I ate gluten, dairy, tea and coffee, cola (sugar free), meat, fish and everything else I needed. I ate healthily to keep vitamin levels up, but with lots of treats to keep me going too. If you cut out too many food groups you are likely to lose weight and not have enough protein and carbs to keep your energy up. That would make you more ill rather than less ill! I would say add in new foods rather than take out foods - extra veg is great, but don't take out everything else. Anyway, many types of veg take way more energy to digest than meat does - celery, for example, is a calorie negative food. You actually want foods that take a while to digest, as this gives more long-term energy e.g. brown rice rather than white rice.

Perhaps ask to see a dietician? If you take that much veg juice it could surely cause damage???

Good luck!

i'm in the camp that says that, unless you have problems with it, a little red meat once in a while isn't going to hurt you. So, chow down on the roast if you want to! I'd be more worried about the potatoes personally. But if you're just eating them once a week, then why not?

My uber-healthy old boss' family lived on a farm and ate all home-grown, unprocessed everything with no sugar, soda or white flour 6 days a week. On the 7th day, though, look out! They went to church, and then went out to eat - desserts everywhere!

They were all tall and skinny and had hobbies like hiking and biking. They had plenty of vitality, never got sick, and none of them seemed the worse for their weekly indulgence.

Personally, I have troubles with most foods so I can't eat many things. But, unless you have an allergy, or a food is contributing to your health problems, eat any unprocessed foods you want, in my opinion.

Just try to remember to keep a healthy balance and eat in moderation... At least that's how I try to feed my family - with varying degrees of success :)