How to Lose Weight on a Yeast Free Diet

Yeast-free diets, also known as candida-free diets, often are recommended for the treatment of conditions such as yeast infections and some other related problems including ringworm and skin rashes. Removing the yeast in your diet simply means removing most grains and starches. This makes the hardest part of this dietary approach more mental than anything else, since most people rely on these types of carbohydrates for the bulk of their meals. However, once you effectuate their removal, you will find that weight loss is easier than ever.

Instructions

Yeast Free Weight Loss

• 1

  Remove all foods containing yeast from your diet. According to information from the dieting website Everydiet.org, these foods include cheeses, chocolate, fermented foods, mushrooms, grains, foods containing added sugars or made from sugar (such as honey or syrup), and all flour products such as muffins, fruits (as they contain sugar, which can effectuate the spread of yeast), breads, cake and other baked goods. Note that this is not a restrictive yeast diet--these foods must be completely eliminated from consumption in order to effectuate results.

• 2

  Focus your diet around the yeast-free items not previously excluded. This included vegetables of all kinds, lean sources of protein such as beef, chicken, seafood, eggs and turkey, all types of nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, etc), seeds, oils (olive, sunflower, peanut, sesame, fish and flax) and grains that do not contain the protein gluten (including rice, oat bran and millet).

• 3

  Maintain a journal listing the total number of calories you consume per day. Attempt to eat the same number of calories per day (2,000 is a good number with which to begin your diet) and gauge your progress at the end of every week by weighing yourself on a digital scale. To provide consistency, always weigh yourself in the morning before you have had anything to eat or drink. Aim for weight loss of roughly one to two pounds per week. If you have met your goal, keep your daily caloric total the same for the next week. If you have lost more or less weight than expected, either increase or decrease your daily calories by 300 and reassess again at the end of the following week.