What type of diet do you follow?

I get so confused on what to eat. I went on an elimination diet a few months back and I seem to have an issue with dairy. But besides that I see so many GF, yeast free, sugar free, dairy free, on and on. I don't know what is most important, some say no carb, some say only certain kinds, some say no fruit whatsoever others say just one piece a day.

What do you guys eat or what does your LLMD doctor recommend? Is it really going to make you not get well or cause candida if you have a gluten free waffle every now and then? I can handle a pretty strict diet but I'm not sure how strict I have to be. Its hard making everything from scratch when your sick, husband works/grad school, and you have 4 young children.

Also low carb diets make me not feel well....

So what do you all eat?

No my LLND didn't put me on any additional diet outside of the elimination one. I don't eat dairy, gluten, no added sugar, unhealthy oils, my only sugar comes from 1-1.5 pieces of fruit a day. I juice 5-ish pounds of veggies a day and generally eat organic and non processed and have a serving of gluten free bread daily. I was paleo for a long time and my body did not enjoy it one bit. I just keep coming up on people saying no yeast or as little carb as possible, so I was wondering if others on here followed that.

I enjoy juicing half an apple with all my veggies and after being low carb for a long time I really enjoy a piece of gf bread or waffle in the morning. But things I read make me feel like I'm just feeding the lyme.

I know what you mean about all the diet issues. My initial symptoms were mostly stomach and gut related. doctors diagnosed me with GERD and IBS, tested me for celiac's, did an endoscopy, found some gastritis and still didn't really know what was wrong with me. At the time the only thing I was eating was apples and bananas because it was all I could really tolerate. I cut out as much, really almost everything I ever ate regularly.

For me it was a lot of trial and error. I read a lot on what I should and shouldn't be eating. I was a mess because it felt like even when I was doing what I suppose to do I was still had discomfort and pain. After I was officially diagnosed with Lyme, my mother bought me a lyme cookbook called recipes for repair. It was a great starting point for learning what to eliminate and what I should try eating again. It talks about things to stop eating right away and then slowly incorporate after several weeks. www.amazon.com/Recipes-Repair-Lyme-Disease-Cookbook/dp/0983097704/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1423615767&sr=8-1 They also have their own website so you can get a idea recipesforrepair.com/

What the authors mainly push for is an anti-inflammatory diet, which even after reading the book I didn't fully comprehend. I was lucky enough to get an appointment with a nurse practitioner who helped me better understand how food can help treat some of my issues and how it can aggravate others. Unfortunately with Lyme, almost anything can aggravate it. Which is why most of us cut out things such as gluten, diary and sugar. My LLMD explained that cutting out those things makes it a little easier on our bodies to fight lyme because it isn't busy trying to process these other things.

Cheetahjade- Thanks for the book idea, I also did the anti inflammation diet but I keep calling it an elimination diet. It didn't really do anything noticeable for me, well beside finding out dairy causes mild upset stomach. Sorry for all your GI issues, I had a weird GI side effect to flagyl and I also couldn't eat anything more the apple, bananas, and coconut oil. Your so right the whole "Lyme diet" is defiantly trial and error.

rowingmom- Thanks! I was actually just looking this DR up today and reading about her MS diet.