Living Candida-Free: 100 Recipes and a 3-Stage Program to Restore Your Health and Vitality

I love the receipes in this book, so easy to follow and taste so great, it dosn't feel like I am on a restrictive diet at all. In just 6 weeks my gut and skin has really started healing and the improvement in my quality of life is amazing. I am sticking with the Stage 1 diet for another 6 weeks and then I will move onto Stage 2 and like the writer suggest I will follow a version of this diet for the rest of my life, which I am happy to do as I love the food. I feel like I am eating, feeling and looking better than ever. Thank you so much for writing this book and sharing your experience with others.

Great book

Buying Ricki Heller's book Living Candida Free and joining her Sweet Life community was the single best thing I have ever done for my health. After cooking for 4 boys for over 20 years, I was burned out and decided I was going to go the route of very simple meals. Many of those meals were to grab a fast (organic, but still processed) veggie burger or something similar. Recently, I became very sick to the point of lying on the couch and watching a movie was a huge effort! After 5 weeks of being sick, I went to my ND and she diagnosed Candida and suggested I go on the "Anti-Candida Diet". After looking at all the things I couldn't have, I was despondent. Seriously, "This was NOT going to be fun AT ALL", I thought. I went online and looked at the different books on this diet. After reading the reviews on the books, I decided to buy Living Candida Free because many people said it was EASY to understand. (And, it *definitely* was!) At the same time, I joined Ricki's group, The Sweet Life. There, I found support not only from Ricki, but also from a group of people that were going through the same process as I was. Best of all, when you join the group you have access to TONS of extra recipes.I started making recipes from the book, followed the diet strictly, and within one week I was feeling AMAZING!!! I could not believe the difference in just one week! Three weeks after starting the diet, I jump out of bed, can't wait to start cooking and have more energy than I have had in years! The biggest thing is that I feel I am eating better than I have in my life with incredible tasting meals! I don't feel I am being deprived of anything at all. In fact, my body is responding so positively to this way of eating, I can't imagine going back to processed foods and sugary desserts. I am slowly making my way through the recipes and OMG are they DELICIOUS!!! Pizza? It's in there. "Chocolate" pudding? It's in there. "Sun dried" tomatoes? Ketchup? Cookies? It's ALL there!!! THANK YOU, Ricki Heller, for writing this book and others, and for your amazing Sweet Life group! You have changed my life for the better!!

As a holistic nutritionist I've learned a lot about Candida, but unfortunately there wasn't a lot of answers given for how to treat it. Finally there is a concise and inclusive book that not only includes information on Candida, but an easy to follow process for how to get rid of it. And as a bonus there are delicious recipes included, which will make this book an easy one to recommend to all my clients with Candida. Thanks Ricki, for providing a program that anyone can follow! I look forward to trying out your recipes.

I love this author and am currently taking her functional medicine nutrition class!