Lyme diet: What do you guys eat and what have you cut out?

Curious what most of you eat while you are healing and what you have given up. I eat very healthy for the most part but know I need to do a little more cleaning up. I also don't know how to get through the school year without a cup of tea to help those early morning wake ups. My diet is: smoothie with Mediclear/spirulina Manna, 1/2 frozen banana (know I shouldn't have fruit), ice. Two hours later organic yeast free toast with almond butter and cinnamon (I know I shouldn't have any gluten), a few hours later green vegetables and lean protein like chicken, same for dinner. Snacks: green juice. A few cups of Yogi detox tea throughout day. Supplements mostly in the am/pm.

Pre-lyme I would eat regular pasta. Now I only eat quinoa pasta and have gotten very used to it. I also found that ribbons of zucchini, patty pan squash, butternut squash or sweet potato are great pasta replacements for lasagna, spaghetti dishes and casseroles.

With lyme I ate a lot more garlic. I mean a lot more. It is very beneficial for healing my gut and keeping things moving along.

Also with lyme instead of doing an occasional kombucha I drank one daily.

I found I was craving protein so I did more protein. Most of the time just a whole avocado with crushed garlic.

Avocado consumption went up in our home about 3 fold!!

We eat super healthy here, having seafood about 4 times a week at least. We are huge vegetable eaters, especially me! Hubby loves more protein than me because he is into weight lifting.

All labels are read and we are mostly organic. No package foods, NEVER fast food and very picky about restaurants, which usually means we don't eat out often at all. We both love my cooking the best.

I am eating entirely paleo, gluten and caffeine free and I will almost certainly keep this diet indefinitely, even after Lyme.

Well not entirely...I still use small amounts of ketchup, bbq etc...

I just LIKE the way I feel and how my body is using food. It's amazing how quickly you lose an appetite for refined junk. Couple months ago I was an ice cream and sweets hog. The thought of munching on Pringles right now almost makes me sick. I'm actually pumped for some homemade kale or sweet potato chips!

Think I need to reevaluate my eating habits. I cut out alcohol cold turkey after being diagnosed. Booze was my poison and I do miss it but I miss my health more than anything.

Juicing is my new addiciton.

The idea of paleo cupcakes or pasta is simply to compromise with modern social reality. We all like a treat and miss old foods we gave up. I don't think we need to take the word paleo too literal. If anything paleo is just a great reconnection to self. A step away from the insanity of "this many carbs and that many fats says sir PhD in biochemistry" and a trust in the natural process. The ability to say "my body isn't stupid. it knows how to process nutrients. lets look for the real problem. our disconnect to our past and to our earth". How adapted we are to grains and whatnot, who knows. I don't think we need to be dogmatic about that, but paleo got my head straight about how to think about food. I don't have to sit down with NCBI and analyze every ingredient for toxicity data. I can take about two seconds and get a feel for whether a product is genuine food or bs. It's just a very clean and simple diet

Glad to hear our diets are all similar. I was wondering if I was being too strict. I was very healthy pre-lyme and did a complete candida cleanse two years ago (that was a challenge!). Now I do have a 1/2 banana in my smoothie - and I also have lots of coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, komboucha and kefer (thanks Trav!)

I'm the same as all of you, but started eating well since before I was sick... ultimately, I think this has all helped me stay capable of daily life. The only adjustment I made besides what all of you have said regarding organic, plant focused, non-processed foods is that I do fermented foods daily. Sipping vinegar (ACV infused with herbs for 6 weeks) or fire cider (spicy fermented ACV), saurkraut... like that. Kombucha is a similar but it wasn't as useful for me unfortunately. The ACV single handedly has made my digestive process A+++ - I also don't do any sugar, dairy, very little gluten (except when we were in Italy...) and no amylose now that I am on Cholestyramine. We focus our meals around veggies, especially bitter greens. I feel great as far as food goes. Wish I could get my MSH out of the tank to lose some weight... that kills me.

I cut out gluten/amylose and gained 8 pounds... smh

I have noticed that I feel better when I drink more smoothies and stick to a vegetarian regiment with some wild fish thrown in. Not a fan of chicken, but recently been eating it on the suggestion of my aunt who has had lyme for 20 + years. I truly want to try a regiment that consists of as much raw fruits and veggies but then I get scared about the whole issue with Candida and eating fruits. Its so complicated. Dont know what to do.

thanks blueberrymuffin, I will try that out. I am trying to also eat less grains than before as I feel like I have developed candida. So mostly I will concentrate on those types of fruits you mentioned, plethora of veggies and maybe some wild fish here and there.