Francine, The Candida Queen
Why I am The Candida Queen?
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Candida is a robber of nutrients; Candida is a thief of health and vitality.

Bye, Bye Candida!

Yes, I really lost 186 pounds with no Gastrointestinal Bypass, no liposuction.

 

Seriously, I was overweight and/or obese and always dieting, losing and regaining (more) with no permanent success for over 40 years before I discovered that I had a Candida Yeast infestation (infection) problem. Once I started a binary diet plan - yeast control and weight loss - I lost the weight. In fact, losing the weight was the easy part. I lost 125 pounds with no exercise (though I know better now). So now that I have retired from public school teaching and administration, I have been on a mission to learn everything I can about how Candida affects us, and how to get it under control.  I have an optimum recovery laboratory and we develop products  that work  for people like me - and maybe you. Are you tired all the time? Do you have digestive disorders, or gas, or bloating? Candida randomly generates combinations of symptoms that don't make up sets that match known diseases.... A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and your doctor (and your spouse) say you're crazy. If this sounds like you, check out my website, Beauty and the Yeast Beast. And check back here frequently, as this site is never static for long. You can e-mail me at candidaqueen@comcast.net Francine
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If nothing is wrong with you, why do you suffer:
incapacitating fatigue, fatigue, feeling in a fog ,"foggy" thinking , learning difficulties,
headaches, migraines, visual blurring, sensitivity to light, eye pain,
concentration/focus problems, memory loss, short term memory, short attention span, lightheadedness,
painful joints, muscle aches, extreme tightness in the neck and shoulders, fatigue,
acid reflux, craving sugar, bloated abdomen, abdominal pain, frequent urination, digestive disorders
sore throat, brown colored mucus in the back of the throat, white or blood blisters in the mouth/tongue/throat
unrefreshed sleep, feeling much older than you really are
depression, irritability, anxiety, panic attacks, personality changes, mood swings, irritability, suicidal depression
diarrhea, irritable bowel, constipation or painful gas and abdominal bloating,
menstrual problems , recurrent yeast infections, recurrent ear infections,
rashes, dry/flaking skin, eczema, dermatitis, acne, skin discoloration/blotchiness, dandruff,
jock and rectal itching, chronic athlete's foot, chronic toenail and fingernail fungus, ringing in the ears (tinnitus),
allergies, sensitivity to noise/sounds, foods, chemicals, odors, anemia, weight changes without changes in diet,
fainting, muscle twitching, muscle weakness, jerky-leg syndrome,
low sex drive, Sexual dysfunction.....
"If nothing is wrong with you"

	Bread & Weight Loss
	The Yeast in your body craves flour and sugar. Period. If you've ever felt like you'd just as soon sit down with a loaf of fresh bread and a tub of butter and/or jam, I can tell you two things: you probably have a yeast infestation, and you probably have an allergy to sugar and flour, brought about by over consumption called for by the Beast. If you do nothing else to lose weight, swear off bread, particularly when combined with sugar. Read about it in my book, Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale.
Why is this page the same for Bread and Weight Loss as Bread and Obesity? Read it again. This is the single-most block in your path to ridding yourself of overweight and obesity.

Call to Order by Phone or Check 561.577.7202			A Candid View of Obesity
			Stretchercise for Health and Weight Loss
			Fat Is The New Normal

Yes, I really lost 186 pounds no Gastrointestinal Bypass no Liposuction.
I've kept the weight off for over 7 years! You can, too!

Francine, The Candida Queen says, "I was a diet champion over and over for 40 years and have been on many diets, all of which let me down in the long run - as I'm sure you've felt let down by one or two of your diets. Phasing Into Beauty explains why diets fail and why many people cannot face the Beauty and the Yeast Beast diet, and provides a three phase program which will work with any diet."

The effective use of Prebiotics makes fertile ground for the probiotic to establish itself, so the effectiveness of the probiotic treatment works in a timely fashion as to deliver greater benefit to the body fighting Candida at the same time. Sugar Starch and Flour reduction effectively functions as a Preantifungal, starting the weight loss process when combined with the Candida Queen's Prebiotic/Antifungal Balancing.

Candida Obesity

Candida is a vicious, sneaky beast that hides out inside you, wrecking havoc anonymously. You gain weight, get tired, maybe a little fuzzy minded, but can never put your finger on any ailment. Get control of the beast and lose the weight for good.

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Life Without Digestive Disorders:

I lost the Weight (186 lbs.) Without a Gastrointestinal Bypass or Liposuction

Why I believe in Candida Why I am The Candida Queen

Life Without Digestive Disorders		I had digestive disorders.  Diagnosis was made by testing my body for Candida. I Lost the Weight (186 lbs.) Without a Gastrointestinal Bypass or Liposuction

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	There always seems to be one or two pups in the litter that just can't get enough - the little piglet puppies. They want the most, and they want the best. Amongst microorganisms in the body, Candida Yeast Beast is the piggiest of the litter. Candida Yeast's only function is to grow more Candida yeast. You can do a lot when you only have one objective, and you hide well. The Candida Yeast infection makes a tremendous craving for what it needs - flour and sugar - and at the same time make you fatter, creating more territory for suburbs. The rotten little beast wants you fatter! If you are trying to lose weight and keep it off, you must get the Candida under control. Losing weight without Candida control results in weight gain following the end of your diet; it usually also prevents you from losing weight down to your goal.

The Candida controversy is vigorously debated. I have personal experience with Candida in
my life and I believe that candida can cause you harm. We do not offer medical advice nor
do we claim that the test results you receive from us warrant medical attention. We do
however offer accurate results for the optimum recovery of yeast and yeastlike organisms
from surface bodily samples, foods and environmental samples. If you want to know how
much and what type of yeast and or yeastlike organisms are living on you or around you,
our services are for you.

Unwilling, uncontrollable weight gain combined with years of yo-yo dieting is a brutality that is suffered in silence, I know what you are living with, I suffered this brutality in silence my whole life. You are no longer alone in this battle. Tell me about yourself and attach a photo if you would like. E Mail Francine

Read past Broken Silence Issues:
Binary Dieting		Weight Fitness Index
Diet Failure Syndrome		Developmental vs Age Onset Obesity
Exercise - No Exercise Weight Loss		Perception of Obesity
Candida Yeast Testing - Self Testing for Candida		Mold and Yeast in Blood
Supplements for Candida Yeast Control and/or Weight Loss

Complex Carbohydrates & Weight Loss
	A recent study says Americans are getting fatter thanks to an increase in their consumption of refined, processed carbohydrates. Whole grains and carbohydrates with a low glycemic index are far better for you than refined carbohydrates like white flour and refined white sugar. The Food Guide Pyramid puts grains, breads and other carbohydrates as the eat most category of foods. That leads most people to falsely believe that eating a dozen doughnuts is keeping them in full compliance with the food guide pyramid, since doughnuts are technically breads and grains. Good carbs provide sustained energy and can definitely be part of a healthy, balanced diet: fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, brown rice, and so on. Bad carbs include all refined carbohydrates: basically, anything that's been milled and stripped of its original, natural elements such as fiber, healthy oils, vitamins and minerals. All white flour is nutritionally deadly. Really. White flour kills you. Whole wheat grains contain important minerals like magnesium, healthy oils like vitamin E, health-enhancing insoluble fiber, and a long list of important vitamins. Virtually all of these are stripped out during processing.
Nothing will stop weight loss and keep you from ever reaching your weight loss goals more than bread and other refined flour products.

Complex Carbohrdyates & Obesity
	Research shows that people who are overweight do not appear to eat more carbohydrates overall than people who weigh less; However, they found that overweight people tend to eat more refined carbohydrates, such as white bread and pasta. Refined carbohydrates are often found in processed foods that contain a lot of sugar. This type of carbohydrate has what's called a high glycemic index, meaning it causes a rapid increase in blood sugar. The body stores that sugar in muscle, but if it is not used, it becomes fat.
Nothing will stop weight loss and keep you from ever reaching your weight loss goals more than bread and other refined flour products.

Carbohrdyates & Weight Loss
	A recent study says Americans are getting fatter thanks to an increase in their consumption of refined, processed carbohydrates. Whole grains and carbohydrates with a low glycemic index are far better for you than refined carbohydrates like white flour and refined white sugar. The Food Guide Pyramid puts grains, breads and other carbohydrates as the eat most category of foods. That leads most people to falsely believe that eating a dozen doughnuts is keeping them in full compliance with the food guide pyramid, since doughnuts are technically breads and grains. Good carbs provide sustained energy and can definitely be part of a healthy, balanced diet: fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, whole grains, brown rice, and so on. Bad carbs include all refined carbohydrates: basically, anything that's been milled and stripped of its original, natural elements such as fiber, healthy oils, vitamins and minerals. All white flour is nutritionally deadly. Really. White flour kills you. Whole wheat grains contain important minerals like magnesium, healthy oils like vitamin E, health-enhancing insoluble fiber, and a long list of important vitamins. Virtually all of these are stripped out during processing.

Diet & Weight Loss

Dieting for weight loss is easy - we've all done it lots of times. Put an end to dieting for weight loss. You have to get the yeast beast under control before you can control your weight permanently. My website site will tell you more about how you can lose weight permanently Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale. Call to Order by Phone or Check 561.577.7202

	Eating to Live Weight Loss
	Are you eating to live, or living to eat??
	We are conditioned to eat three meals a day and snack in between. Even our weight loss diets prescribe three squares plus a few extra corners. I know living to eat. If you are thinking about what to make for a next meal, or what to snack on, and you're not hungry, you are living to eat. Feeling like having something to eat is not hunger; I think sometimes we believe our sensation of desire for food is hunger. I'm not advocating severe low caloric content dieting, starvation levels under 900 calories a day, or any other torture. In fact, I advocate eating all day. If you eat a handful of cereal, or a handful of blueberries or tomatoes when you're hungry - and then go do something, anything but look at an empty plate or the fridge, you will be satisfied; you can eat like that all day in a grazing fashion, never be hungry, and not overeat. The trick is to feed your body what it needs, not what your mind wants. Your body will tell you. You know when it's 103 degrees and you've been carrying boxes, your body tells you it wants water. If you learn to listen to your body, it will actually hunger for specific nutrients. I almost never eat bananas. But once in a blue moon I want one; it's my body saying pass the potassium. I didn't say this would be easy, at least not at first. Getting off the idea of three squares plus is a hurdle. But I found that once I chose to graze, I could later include a regular meal still be eating to live. I did find that Edward and I can split any meal anywhere and both still leave some over. We eat all day, but we don't eat until stuffed. The harder part of eating to live was in facing the things I didn't have to look at if I was preoccupied with hunting/gathering (at Safeway or Publix) and eating. If you're interested, I'll be happy to answer any questions. E-MAIL ME

Exercise & Obesity Exercise and obesity is a matter of black and white. I lost 150 pounds without exercise. But given all I know now, I would never go about it that way again. Read Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale and find out how you can lose weight without exercise, too. Then try to work your way from no exercise to daily exercise.

	Exercise Weightloss
	Inside every obese person is the body of a normal weight person. The skin encasing the body grows as you gain weight. When you lose the weight, you don't lose the skin. Exercise can help tone muscles and skin as you lose, making it easier when you're done to look the way you want. If you lose a massive amount of weight, the skin can't snap back, and surgery may be required.

 

Family Members Obesity The family that couch potatoes together may stay together, but they will most likely stay fat together, too. New research shows that our family and friends actually make us fat by association. Get Beauty and the Yeast Beast and get off the couch and on the way to health!

Friends & Obesity
	The latest news is that your friends can make you fat. There's nothing wrong with being fat. But if you want to lose weight, get control of the yeast. Learn how at Beauty and the Yeast Beast.

	Laughter & Obesity
	There is humor about fat, weight, obesity, weight loss, and general commentary on society's view of fat all around us.
There are several mock mag covers showing our superheros as superfat.
	While shopping for vacation clothes, my husband and I passed a display of bathing suits. It had been at least ten years and twenty pounds since I had even considered buying a bathing suit, so I sought my husband’s advice. “What do you think?” I asked. “Should I get a bikini or an all-in-one?” “Better get a bikini,” he replied. “You’d never get it all in one.”
		Like most jokes, the truth underneath the humor is, at best, only thinly veiled. A lot of fat humor is aimed at laughing at us.
Humor, whether it be about obesity or anything else, is good for weight loss. It's good for your mood, your commitment, and laughing out loud and hard is good for your muscles, too! Watch a few hours of side splitting silly comedy and call it a workout for your soul!

Mood Swings & Obesity
Mood swings are typically due to sudden changes in blood-sugar levels, affecting the transport of the neurotransmitter seratonin to the brain. One thing you can do to help yourself is to avoid sweet foods and refined white-flour products, which cause sudden rises in blood sugar. Negative thinking has a very profound detrimental effect on the body. Any type of stress can lead to exhaustion whether or not you have a strong or a weak constitution. Stress will eventually catch up to the most robust constitution.
The social stigma attached to being overweight in our society can certainly contribute to depression, but there is more to it than that. Fat tissue can act as an endocrine gland, causing significant changes to hormone and blood sugar balance, which can have a major impact on mood. Depression can change dietary intakes; carbohydrates (especially simple carbohydrates like candy and sugary snacks) help to increase brain seratonin levels, making people feel better, but at the cost of weight control and yeast control. Regular exercise can make a world of difference for the depressed. Even a single 30-minute burst of exercise has been shown to improve mood and feelings of well-being in depressed individuals. Exercise helps balance blood sugar levels and relieve stress; it may even raise our seratonin levels.
Read Beauty and the Yeast Beast and find out how to break the yeast / food cycles that make you moody.

No Exercise Weight Loss You can lose weight without exercise. Put on a pair of ankle weights and just move your feet up and down or back and forth as you watch TV. Leave the weights (ankle and wrist!) on while you clean house. Achieving weight loss goals or maintaining weight without exercise is much harder than achieving weight loss goals or maintaining weight with exercise. I've done two years of weight loss and antibiotics yo-yo due to redundant skin reduction surgeries. I have to go through long periods of time with no exercise and lots of antibiotics. Whenever you lose weight without exercise, there is muscle loss. The heart is a muscle - and it experiences muscle mass loss when you diet wihtout exercise, too. For this reason alone I suggest you exercise; even moderate exercise - walking, stretchercise - will protect your heart and help keep your muscles from losing mass. Walking also strengthens bones, fighting osteoporososis.

I am not a physician; this program worked for me.

This photo of me was taken in July 2007. I am 56 years old. I want to tell you a good reason to get control of the yeast beast as soon as possible. Growing old is something that you do not want to face in a state of obesity. Growing old in obesity is a miserable existence in waiting rooms and outpaitent clinics.
Lose 125 pounds without exercise; I did. Obesity is more than a weight problem; there are many aspects to the condition of obesity. I know, because I was obese all my adult life, until 2001, when I got control of the Yeast Beast and lost the weight. I may not be a doctor, but I am a real life success story in the battle for obesity.  From Fat to Fairy Tale

	Self Denial & Obesity
Self denial is normally seen as not having something you want: denying yourself. To some extent most diets rely on a certain amount of this. But for the obese, the self denial is really self deception; we deny our self to ourselves. We don't acknowledge our level of fatness. A recent study found that 9 out of 10 people think that most other Americans are fat, but only 4 out of every 10 think they themselves are overweight. We don't tell ourselves the truth about how much and how often we eat. We may have developed coping strategies to maintain this deception which create problems at work or home. We deny these, too. The biggest self denial, self deception is that we can't lose weight. I tried for 40 years - oh, I lost a lot of weight a lot of times. But I was convinced I could never get it off and keep it off. Over 9 years ago I lost 186 pounds and I have kept it off. Quit deceiving yourself, quit denying yourself. Get Beauty and the Yeast Beast today.

Self Image and Obesity

It's hard to feel good about yourself even when you're a size 4 if you have rolls of redundant (excess) skin that can fit in the clothes but creates bulges in the tummy and rear and legs and arms..... You can read more about this in my book, Beauty and the Yeast Beast.

	Sugar & Obesity
	The average American consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar each week, which is not surprising considering that highly refined sugars in the forms of sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup are being processed into so many foods such as bread, breakfast cereal, mayonnaise, peanut butter, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, and prepackages meals and snacks. The glycemic index is a measure of how a given food affects blood-glucose levels, with each food being assigned a numbered rating. The lower the rating, the slower the absorption and digestion process, which provides a more gradual, healthier infusion of sugars into the bloodstream. A high rating means that blood-glucose levels are increased quickly, which stimulates the pancreas to secrete insulin to drop blood-sugar levels. These rapid fluctuations of blood-sugar levels are not healthy because of the stress they place on the body. There are 4 classes of simple sugars which are regarded by most nutritionists as harmful to optimal health when prolonged consumption in amounts above 15% of the carbohydrate calories are ingested: Sucrose, fructose, honey, and malts. Although honey is a natural sweetener, it is considered a refined sugar because 96% of dry matter are simple sugars: fructose, glucose and sucrose. If you have any problem with your weight or yeast infestation, you should avoid sugar in all forms. The sugar-flour connection is strong. Read how to battle the yeast beast by starving it of flour and sugar for a few weeks in my book, Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale and take control.
There are 4 classes of simple sugars which are regarded by most nutritionists as harmful to optimal health when prolonged consumption in amounts above 15% of the carbohydrate calories are ingested: Sucrose, fructose, honey, and malts. Although honey is a natural sweetener, it is considered a refined sugar because 96% of dry matter are simple sugars: fructose, glucose and sucrose. If you have any problem with your weight or yeast infestation, you should avoid sugar in all forms. The sugar-flour connection is strong. Read how to battle the yeast beast by starving it of flour and sugar for a few weeks in my book, Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale and take control. Weight loss can be easy. Weight loss can be permanent.

	Sugar & Weight Loss
	Researchers have long known that eating refined sugar can provoke short-lived spikes in the body's insulin levels. But in the past two decades, they have learned that certain complex carbohydrates--starchy roots like potatoes and carrots and highly refined foods like white bread, white rice and white pasta--are broken down into simple sugars so rapidly by the body that they can trigger a strong insulin response; these foods have a high glycemic index. Generally speaking, high levels of insulin inhibit the breakdown of fatty deposits in the body. So, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest that eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the battle of the bulge. In addition, the sugar feeds the over population of yeast inhabiting the overweight and obese, creating additional cravings for sugar; it's a vicious, downward spiral. Read Beauty and the Yeast Beast and find out how to break the cycle and start losing weight - you can lose weight permanently.

 

 

	Uncontrolled Obesity
	We originally gained weight as a result of getting older, burning less calories, becoming sedentary, and the wrong food intake. After being overweight for some time the body starts to develop insulin resistance. As a result our cells are underfed; we feel hungry so we eat more. The Body produces more (higher) blood sugar for hours; the body will try to compensate by making more insulin and, secondarily, by making us thirsty to help we drink fluids to release the extra sugar. The additional sugar left over gets turned into fat by the now much higher than normal insulin.
The more fat we put on, the higher our insulin resistance becomes. The higher the insulin resistance, the more our cells are starving, and the hungrier we are, and the more we eat, you producing higher blood sugar levels, resulting in quadrupling the insulin produced. The resulting extremely high insulin then turns an even higher percentage of our excess blood sugar into fat. This is a downward spiral. Break the spiral and sart losing weight today. Get Beauty and the Yeast Beast: from Fat to Fairy Tale and end the spiral. Lose the weight you want to lose; lose the weight permanently.

This is the Petri dish the yeast grew in.	These are photos of yeast, grown from samples taken from my body. Photos courtesy of Florida Institute of Mold and Florida Institute of Yeast	This is that yeast, magnified under the microscope.

Click to read the Article	Woman's World Asks: "Is Yeast Making You Fat?"
	YES! Yeast is making you fat!
	YES! Yeast is keeping you fat!

Living to 100 click here

	I lost the Weight Without a Gastrointestinal Bypass or Liposuction
	A Candida treatment program for weight loss is controversial and many doctors dismiss Candida completely. If you are overweight and obese and you think the Candida issue is fiction, no problem: just start a vigorous exercise program and remember energy in/energy out. Just eat less and move more.... Lose Weight
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	Relieve digestive disorders!
Constipation: if you have slow and irregular bowel movements, you are growing yeast in your intestines. The longer your meal sits inside you, the more yeast you grow. The yeast Candida normally resides in the lining of your intestines along with other microbiology, mainly bacteria. When your food sits in your intestines, microbiology invades the mass of undigested food and goes to work. When there is excessive yeast in the intestines, there is more yeast to steal the nutrition from your food.
Sugar & Weight Loss Researchers have long known that eating refined sugar can provoke short-lived spikes in the body's insulin levels. But in the past two decades, they have learned that certain complex carbohydrates--starchy roots like potatoes and carrots and highly refined foods like white bread, white rice and white pasta--are broken down into simple sugars so rapidly by the body that they can trigger a strong insulin response; these foods have a high glycemic index. Generally speaking, high levels of insulin inhibit the breakdown of fatty deposits in the body. So, it doesn't take much of a leap to suggest that eating too many of the wrong kinds of carbohydrates leads to too much insulin, which in turn promotes the accumulation of fat, thereby setting up the body for continuous defeat in the battle of the bulge. In addition, the sugar feeds the over population of yeast inhabiting the overweight and obese, creating additional cravings for sugar; it's a vicious, downward spiral.

The Curse of the Beast Obesity Rehabilitation is not easy, but you can achieve Obesity Rehabilitation without life threatening Bariatric surgeries as I did. No Sugar, No Starch, and No Flour, an antifungal and a probiotic: you are on your way to weight loss. Now add exercise, and you will shed pounds in a healthy way that will help you mediate the need for, or get you ready for ,the skin surgeries you may require to remove redundant (excess) hanging skin. Fat To Fairy Tale Weight Loss without life threatening surgeries: I did it in a 14 month period and you can, too. Six years ago, after forty years of battling obesity, I went from a size 26 to a size 4. Weight Loss Obesity Rehabilitation must address the issues of skin. When you gain excessive weight, your skin grows extra skin to contain the fat being added to your frame. If you lose 100 pounds, or more, or even less, your skin does not have the ability to shrink back to the size required for the normal weight. This excess skin (redundant skin needs) to be removed surgically. In the sequel to Beauty and The Yeast Beast I will go into detail on this issue.For more information, go to Redundant Skin Reduction. Click Here.