To consider breaking my diet and having sugar on my birthday?

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I have been on the anti candida diet, and therefore off sugar, since the end of june this year. I have basically had no added sugar and only half a small dessert in that time, and have limited my intake of sweet things basically to berries and green apples. Yesterday I treated myself to a tiny bit of banana spread on toast with almond butter.

Am considering allowing myself a pudding when my DH takes me out for lunch this weekend. We will be going somewhere pretty smart and I would love a treat, but not sure if pudding will give me a tummy ache etc.

An alternative would be for me to make my own cake with a small amount of sugar and then I would at least be a bit more in control of how much
sugar goes into whatever I have... I am a very experienced baker (HA!, in otherwards, a former cake addict ) so no hardship in making it myself.

WWYD?

I'd eat the cake.

Who wants to get to their deathbed remembering their 38th birthday as the year with no cake

I did an anti-candida diet for ages too. 'twas a nightmare!

Well done.
You might find that you find a pudding too sweet for your tastes now! Honestly! Also, there could easily be 30 odd grams of sugar in it.
Would one or two really nice chocolates have the required effect?
Happy Birthday :)

Yes indeed Laurie!
What if you get hit by a bus tomorrow, you will be laying there and your last thought wont be you're family it will be of that cake

You might get hit by that bus pure mentioned because you were too busy thinking of That Cake.

Its a life or death situation here.

You have to eat the cake. Think of the children, for the love of cheeses!

choco, yes, yr right.

I have been trying to think of a suitable cake that is lower in sugar than average and have decided it would either be chocolate banana bread with say a small amount of brown sugar in it, or Hugh FW's chestnut chocolate cake which would contain around 15g sugar per slice....

Could also just choose something and share with DH and he can finish it if I find it too sweet. I had a grape without thinking the other day and thought it tasted pretty grosss....

If you're going to do it, do it right.

I suggest a profiterole gateaux.

Or cheese cake.

Or Tesco Finest Carrot cake.

loving all the cake/bus/life/death drama

am really not that fussed about cake. I really miss toast with jam. and hot chocolate.

I'm off to google restaurants with Extraordinarily Good Desserts.

Just be careful, OP. Wouldn't want to rain on your birthday parade but depends on how bad your reaction to sugar might be. An acquaintance of mine had some while on a strict candida diet and had to be hospitalized.

Could you make your own with some sort of sugar substitute?

a nice banana loaf would hit the spot and be less sugary than chocolate or desert at a restaurant.
Normally I would say just eat the fecking cake, however you have done so well and sometimes that one slip up is a very slippery slope

My default mode is cake.
Have a piece! Happy birthday

Why does one go on a candida diet? And why were they hospitalized?

I'm following the GI diet which also limits sugar, in the past six weeks have had two occasions where I've eaten it. I had a pannacotta which was lovely at the time but did give me tummy ache and reminded me why I'm avoiding sugar.

Why were they hospitalized? Bad reaction to the sugar resulting in dangerously high heart activity if I remember rightly. Not a doctor, I'm afraid.

I missed cakes (the texture) for years....
Did you know that you can use xylitol or stevia?
I don't think you'd need to use any added sugar to a banana cake now that your taste has changed.
I make banana bread/scone/cake-type thing for my family if we have black bananas needing using up and they love it. I don't bother with a recipe! I mix up 2 eggs, 3 or 4 bananas, SR flour and see how gooey it looks. If the mixture's too stiff I add some sunflower oil. Bake at 180C in a 7inch tin. I wouldn't offer it round in polite company IYKWIM, but the family all love it (teenagers- not littlies).
You might be better posting this in 'Health' , 'Diet', or another forum by the way!

Aah, I've just read that you're not too fussed about cake anyway!
Does ice-cream have hundreds of sugar? (Some obviously - but high fat content so maybe not as sweet as alternative puds).

You could have hot chocolate. Make it with cocoa - not drinking chocolate and sweeten with xylitol.

tks choco

I am not really up for substitutes, i'd rather just go without or have a small amount of sugar. I am a very keen home cook and I know I would be disappointed if I could taste the difference between normal sugar and the sub.

Am doing the diet to get rid of thrush, athlete's foot, skin infections and to improve digestion. Have lost 6.5 kg since june (almost a stone). Also I could not shift my baby belly and after 9 months I decided I needed to do something drastic before someone asked me when the next one was due...

Really has been worth it as my tummy is much flatter now and I dont' get so much gas/bloating.

I have only used stevia about 3 times on my porridge.

Am not on a very strict version of the diet atm, am taking chinese herbs and am eating bread and some white rice, and I still eat berries, the odd peach and green apples. So I doubt i will have to be rushed to hosp after a bite of pud!

Will see how i feel this week I guess.

Re herbs : hotopito+aniseed is a good one.
Also caprylic acid capsules and grapefruit seed extract (strong though if you're stomach is sensitive - I couldn't manage it).
Sounds like you're doing really well :)

Are you allowed to drink beer or wine? Eat pasta or bread?

Chebus! Ive just looked at 'foods to avoid' to list and its HUGE!

All corns, pasta, bread, meats, fish, soya, dairy.

What do you eat?

Duck, the main thing to avoid is refined sugar.
Avoiding other fairly highly refined carbs and/or carbs which release their sugars ie are metabolised quickly is really useful, but people find their own level of doing this diet.
I don't know where you're finding the suggestion to avoid meat, fish and soya though? I suppose they have an acidifying effect but that will be countered by eating lots of alkalising foods ie veg and leaves.
It's do-able, but not easy!

I was v strict for the for first 6 or 7 wks, but am now eating a bit of wholewheat bread, and I have the odd bit of white rice and white pasta. But mostly aiming to eat more porridge with rice milk, eat more brown rice, eat several portions of veg a day - so I add veg to everything - and try to avoid eating too much potato. I seem to have managed to put myself chips/fried potato, they seem to taste a bit gross to me at the mo. I am very strict about added sugar and sweet things and have been from the very beginning and I think that is the most important change I have made. No cream/sour cream/milk. No tea. Quinoa and brown rice have been a saviour to me, and also being willing to eat a LOT of eggs.

I haven't drunk since june either, bar a few sips which gave me a headache one evening.

No it is not easy at all, I was previously known as the best cake baker amongst my friends!