i am not an expert on the diet but i have spent many hours reading which food are ok for candida diet & which ones are not. by the way most of them are arther different except they all say the same thing NO SUGAR. from what i can see you are haing apples that is way too much sugar, brown rice has lost fo Sugar in it & it is a no no. i know it is ridiculous but that is true. cashew is also a no no. i am also athlerte like you & i really am thinking that i wopuld go all the way to fight this thing & just get it over & do not fall into eating this or that & then this thing drags on & on & you end up having to be on this diet for years. one other thing that i also found out that you may be over candida but you still think you are fighting it & what you are still dealing with is the leaky gut syndrom & you need to take care of that too. that takes about 6 to 8 months after considering that you got rid of the yeast. my probelm is my repeat factor & that is tough. i am eating almonds because that si the only nuts that i can eat & i am scare dthta i would become allwergic to it too. i also bought a book not reagrding candida but over all eating & that book says you should even avoid nuts as much as you can becuase of the carb for fighting candida. i hat to say it chesse is also a no no. i know it is like becoming very radical but gradually i am psyching myself up to go to the extreme of this diet & make my carb to 0.

that's a tricky question

Fruit is a no no as far as I am concerned. Low in Sugar fruits still contain sugar.

cheese is also a concern as it contains lactose which is a sugar.

I know the diet is tough. I have been on a strict diet for 2 years and counting now. It is not easy although I am accustomed to it now and have made alot of progress for my effort.

But just know that the job of yeast is to break down sugar. So obviously eating Sugar causes yeast to hang around. Whether a little or alot , it is still getting fed.

The problem is that if you do not get rid of it and are slowly feeding it, you might not even know until the symptoms get slowly worse and worse. That is what happened to me. They did not start out all that bad, so I ignored it. I made a few dietary changes but not enough and while that may have slowed down it's progress, it did not really kill any of it. It took years , but one day I became very ill and it was all downhill after that.

So while it all does depend on how sick you are , if you are really serious about ridding yourself of it , you might have to get tough with it.

Maybe try just eliminating the fruit since that is way too much sugar. You should be able to get away with cheese If it is fresh and IF they do not use mold inhibitors ( neomycin etc). Cause that will do you in.

The way to go about this is to look at ingredients and the Sugar content. Try to cut sugar where you can. INcrease your fiber intake. What is very good is eating raw salads with crushed garlic. If you must eat cheese look at the sugar content, some might have less than others.

Find other things to eat. Sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds are good. I throw sunflower seeds in my salad for a crunch. Soups are good with veggies and lentils , very filling. Organic eggs you can make alot with. Make a quiche etc. I also like to make myself veggie stir fry with plenty of onions garlic and olive oil.

There are cookbooks out there to give you ideas. But if you are not making progress, and potentially getting worse you will need to look at what you are eating that is still feeding it. Otherwise being on a diet at all is a waste of time.

Fruit and cheese; even cottage cheese is out! As for rice, that's debatable; depends who you ask.

You might be eating something you're allergic to; I have a horrible feeling I'm allergic to rice now because last night I ate some and started getting palpitations.

How about just adding pumpkin and sunflower seeds to your salad Sinool? I used to blend them to a powder and add them to porridge but now think I might be allergic to sunflower seeds.