Ideas for Birthday celebration with Lyme

justascarf! my birthday is next week as well and i know exactly what you mean! i havent changed my diet dramatically until recently when i got a yeast problem, and im more than ever craving a delicious dessert. im turning 22 and wish i could go out with friends to celebrate with a few drinks but know that is out of the question so i am really hoping to at least have a tasty meal :)

You guys have to treat yourself to something good!!!!

This is only one day we are talking about so do something nice for yourself!!

Go to Olive Garden or a restaurant that has gluten free pasta, have a ginger ale or sparkling cider, fruit with frozen yogurt, or make yourself a gluten-free carrot cake made with agave nectar and pineapple juice as the sweeteners. YUMMY!! you can find recipes on-line.

Take Betaine before and after you eat.

You have to be on a strict diet all year round for possibly many many years. One day is not going to kill you and you need to celebrate that fact that you are still here on this earth. Celebrate when ever you have the chance! We need the encouragement however and whenever we can get it. It doesn't have to be with food. Find another way if needed. Just enjoy yourselves!!! It's O.K.

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL YOU FEBRUARY PEOPLE !!

Do something to celebrate your life. You are worth it!!
Hugs to all, Lisa

I have to admit usually when it comes to sweets I end up cheating like crazy, so I haven't tried too many recipes, but here are two low-carb recipes that I've had a lot of success with - the pie might be too much with the flour and brown sugar (but it's still much better than a big old slab of cake!) but the cookies are pretty safe, I think. And by the way, happy birthday in advance :)

APPLE BERRY CRUMB PIE

1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
10 tablespoons buter, melted
1 can (21 ounces) apple pie filling
3/4 cup dried cranberries
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon grounded cinnamon

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, combine the oats, flour, brown sugar and butter; set aside ¾ cup for topping. Press remaining mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of a greased 9-in. pie plate. Bake at 375 for 13-17 minutes or until lightly browned. 2. In another bowl, combine the pie filling, cranberries, lemon juice and cinnamon. Spoon into crust. Sprinkle with reserved oat mixture. 3. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until topping is lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.

AGAVE HONEY OATMEAL cookieS

• 2 tablespoons lightly beaten egg (approx)
• 3 tablespoons agave nectar
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour (2 oz)
• 1 tablespoon toasted wheat germ
• 1/8 teaspoon EACH baking soda & baking powder
• 1/4 scant teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3/4 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/3 cup raisins

1. Preheat the oven to 375. Mix egg, agave, honey, oil and vanilla together in a bowl. Stir very well.
2. Combine flour, wheat germ, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl. Stir very well, then add to agave mixture and stir until blended. Stir in the oats and raisins. Let batter sit for about 5 minutes.
3. Using a tablespoon measure, scoop up dough and arrange on parchment lined cookie sheets spacing 2 inches apart. Bake one sheet at a time for about 10-11 minutes. Let cool completely.

I had never heard of Froyo until now - so I looked it up. It says that the frozen yogurt that is served there has live active cultures in it - that's a bonus! If you are careful about what toppings you use, I would say that a small cheat every once in a while on very special occasions would be acceptable!

Like Lupner said - these changes are a life long thing to help keep the Lyme bacteria and other things at bay. With that being said we do have to be reasonable, to fudge a little on our diets once in a while is much better than sticking to it for a long time only to resent it and eventually decide it's not worth it!

It's your birthday! Go out and have a nice dinner, and stop and get another serving of probiotics in your Frogo!!!

Happy, happy birthday to all!!!!

You could play pin the tail on the tick! J/k

OK, if bananas are a no no, you can use stevia and coconut milk to make a frozen smoothie, maybe add some almond butter.

You're not a PITA, just more challenging.

You can buy just the herb and then make tea from it. I've used the liquid since the mid '90s. I always buy the liquid, not the powders which seem more treated.

These are great ideas. TCBY has froyo that is no sugar added. I know that it's over 1/3 less sugar then the regular stuff and packed with extra probees (as my 3 year old says), but not sure what they use if they don't use sugar. I know it doesn't taste very sweet. I am so wanting some of that! I bought a Yonanans machine today so maybe that will be my sweet treat. Bananas aren't out for me, just not one of the first 10 fruits I should reach for. So I thought that the Yonanas machine would allow my sweet treat but it will be all fruit and no sugars. Anyone tried the yonanas machine?

My nutritionist allows me all fruits, however there are rules.
They have to be raw (frozen is OK because that's still technically raw)
They have to be eaten with no other kind of food.
eaten 2- 3 hours after the last meal and 20 minutes before another meal.

Fruits digest quickly, if eaten on an empty stomach they won't sit in your stomach. The way she explained it to me is that when you eat cooked fruit it goes acid, which is harder to digest. When you eat it after a meal, it sits there with the other food and ferments. When you eat it alone and raw, it is quickly digested and not a problem.

She has me doing food combining for all of my digestion. For example I also never mix a starchy carb with a protein. Right now the only carbs I have are squash and sweet potatoes, but that will loosen up at some point.

I hope this helps some. It's helped me a lot.

Ali

I think your diet depends on your doc and where you are in the diet and detox process as well as if you're doing an anti-candida diet or an anti-inflammatory diet. I have been on an anti-candida or modified anti-candida diet for a few years now so there are some things I can now eat that I couldn't before. I still don't touch sugars, maple syrup, corn syrup, agave, brown rice syrup, caffeine, and most dairy. I am allowed to eat bananas but they shouldn't be eaten often. I've already done the strict detox so this is where my docs have me for maintenance. I do pretty much make everything from scratch and I have a 3 year old who has life threatening allergies to egg and sesame and who just outgrew her dairy allergy a few weeks ago (she would have anaphalactic reactions to these foods), so we do everything from scratch, we can't really buy any pre-made stuff. I'd say, follow what your doctors say. They know best. And yes, this is a life change, not a diet.

I could be wrong summer3 but I think they are sweetened with agave. My little one ate them when she couldn't do dairy. She loved all of their stuff. But I do think the 1 gram of sugar ones had agave.

I am going through my mid day anxiety attack right now :( just feeling like only a week in this "lifestyle"'change and I don't know how to do this forever. I mean, no sugar forever? All these valentine ads are killing me!! And I work with children who eat bread, pasta, sugar and junk food all day long. I'm so hungry and sick and tired and my job has really been stressing me out.

Sorry, this is a bad moment. Its like everything is $*** in my life. No good food, no feeling well, no hope, no starting a family, no stress free days, crappy job, crappy life.