Hi Katie. I started a month before and was able to eat alot of it with only a few exceptions but I had also been grainfree for a month before that. If there are other foods on the other lists you can tolerate With exception to fruits, dairy or sweets I would say go ahead with them. When you meet with Boaz he will work with you on that along with the herbs. Most importantly I would stay with only the fats and seasonings in list one. No coconut oil, soy, etc. also if you take supplements he will more than likely remove all those. I wish you well!!! Boaz is a wonderfuldoctor.

How do you know what foods affect you?  I always have urgency - since November, and my frequency depends on how much I drink.  Sometimes my frequency/urgency is worse at times, but I've never been able to correlate it to food.  I've started list 1 also, but I have no idea if anything on it is affecting me.  Did you keep a food diary?  Before November, I just had frequency for 9 years...but nothing too terrible.  I could eat/drink whatever I wanted with no affect, exception of caffeine and alcohol..but that makes everyone have more frequency.  I've been on the IC diet and candida diet since January.  I recently got tested for yeast though, and tested negative.  So confused.  I just don't want to keep eating things if they're making it worse, but I'm not even sure if food affects me. 

Hi Katie,

I also have a very sensitive stomach and intolerant to most foods not just on list 1, but all of them. When I started treatment I had also modified my own diet a month before my first appointment. When I discussed my food with Dr. M she didn't make me try to stick to the few foods I could tolerate. That is what is nice about this protocol, that it is so individualized. Make sure to discus this particular aspect with Dr. B to make adjustments as needed. Food is such a tricky thing and agree you can't survive just on 3 things from list 1. That would be impossible.

and for Brittney, after eliminating foods and trying to add things back in you may start to notice things that bother you. I didn't realize what was bothering me until doing the eliminations and starting the herbs. Some people don't ever really notice a huge difference with different foods, but many do. You usually know it is from food or different products when a flare begins sometimes within 30 min of eating something that didn't agree with you. You may want to start a food journal of you haven't already and keep track of your symptoms associated with different foods to see if you can recognize any pattern.