«The
body has to learn how to metabolise fat efficiently first, which can take a
few days through to a
few weeks to come into
effect, depending
on the individual... people often have
negative experiences initially with removing carbohydrates from their diets — the first three or four days are usually very lethargic,» says Towersey.
My theory is that it just uses up a lot of nutrients in the
body to be able to digest it, almost like very burnt food and therefore depending
on if you're running low
on vitamins and minerals anyway, it can have a
negative knock
on effect on your Candida symptoms... I definitely noticed that I never experienced any set backs from eating wholegrain rice, only ever from rice cakes... so the past
few months I have been sticking to soaked and cooked whole grains, and it is making a difference.