Candida diet - Is whole wheat bread fine?

I eat around 4 slices of whole wheat bread a day (it's not white bread, it contains flax seeds, and seems to be quite healthy if I look at the nutritional values).

Can I still eat that?

Problem is, if I don't, that's 20g less of protein and 8g of fat less per day. I can become very skinny quickly (I weighted around 125lbs for a long time, I'm 5'8", and not managed to go up at 132lbs and maintain that weight thanks to exercise and eating more).

I eat natural peanut butter with the bread so if I can't eat bread I'll eat it with a spoon:p

A complete guide to Chocobot's acne! Let's figure this one out!

I will describe my skin, and mention some problems I have that might or might not be related. I'm a 27 years old male, had acne since I was 13 or so. Was practically clear for a year around four or five years ago when I was sleeping full nights and getting tanned a minimum of 10 minutes a week, if not 20, and was on Proactiv for some time. I was not masturbating often back then since I was working from 9am to 9pm 5 days a week, was living with my dad, and was sleeping full nights from around 11pm to 7pm (and could fall asleep quickly).

Anyway, here goes:

Skin
I have oily skin. If I take a brown paper towel and put it on my nose or forehead or chin, or cheeks, it becomes all greasy like if I rubbed greasy food on it.

Nose
My nose shines like it's sweating, it is very oily, and the pores are very large (easy to see). The pores are often dark as if they were dirty (not like a black head, at least nothing "big", just the inside of the pore looks dirty). I sometimes get white heads on the nose, mainly on the nostrils, or where they connect to the cheeks, but it's not too much of a problem. I think it is due to rubbing my nose with my finger which might push the oily back inside and such. If I masturbate I definitly get white heads on my nostrils by the next day.

Chin
My chin is also very oily, but the pores look normal. I often get white heads on it, practically always. Could be due to shaving?

Upper lip
Not really oily (I'm pretty sure the area surrounding my mouth is the same actually). But I often get pimples on the side (the ends of the "mustache" area), and I believe it is due to shaving. This part is difficult to shave without irritating it.

Upper Cheeks
Cheeks are quite oily, the skin pores are very large. The size changes sometimes, there are rare occasions when they become smaller. I noticed so when I did my masturbation-abstention attempts. I rarely get pimples on the cheeks, BUT, when I remove my contact lenses I put a finger on them and I noticed that even if I wash my hands when I do so, I sometimes get a large red mark where I put my finger, which can turn into a large red bump with a white head on it. I noticed this happened if my skin had become more oily than usual and the skin pores have gotten bigger. I believe that my finger pushes the oily back inside and this causes a bad reaction. It is 100% guaranteed that if I want to I can "create" this pimple by pushing on my cheek with my finger. It will start with an itchy sensation and reddish skin, then turn into an itchier red bump and then a white head might appear on top. It can be the size of the tip of my finger that touches the skin. Otherwise I have no pimples on my cheeks.

Lower Cheeks (I think I made up this term)
This is basically the part of your cheeks that you can "suck inward" like the models do. I almost always have pimples there, at least one one side or the other if not both. Might be shaving related? The part near my sideburns are always clear on the other hand.

Forehead
My forehead is also quite oily as well, but I NEVER breakout on my forehead. The skin there looks very normal, even good, but it is oily. I don't mind tho, if the rest of my face was like this I would be happy. I never get pimples on it unless I scratch it a lot or something like that. Really, it's a "no issue" part of my face to me.

Jawline
Oily but not TOO much. But I often get white heads on it, and I believe it is due to shaving because this area is easy to irritate too when shaving.

Neck
Back of the neck is usually clear, so not really a problem. If I do get a pimple it is more likely due to touching (my skin is oily after all, so touching is always bad). But in general I never get pimples there except maybe near the hairline. Washing it good seems to keep them away. When I was younger it broke out like mad when I was drinking smoothies I would make once to twice a day (orange juice, two kiwis, two eggs, a banana = sugar overload!!!!!!!!), it was like a volcano.

Chest
Not oily, normal skin, no acne there, but if I shave my chest and don't use aftershave on it I might get one or two.

Upper Back
Oily, annoying. ALWAYS some pimples there, but it comes and goes. Like, right now, it has been clearing up a lot recently, but now I have two rather large red spots/white heads on it. Sometimes it is full of pimples. I feel like wearing a tight wife-beater makes things worst, so I wear some lose ones instead and wash them often. I think the pressure of the clothing on my oily back pushes the oil back in, causing pimples.


Conclusion
That is all. The rest of my body is acne-free. So as we can see, it seems that:

1- Touching oily parts of my skin, especially those with large open pores, causes a reaction that leads to formation of pimples.

2- Parts of my face that are really constantly breaking out, other than my upper back, are parts that come in contact with my razor blade. Sideburns-area are perfectly fine tho, even if I shave them.

3- Masturbating increases skin pore size, oil production, and makes me breakout bad.

Stomach problems - Masturbation-related?

If I masturbate for a short time I will usually get a breakout in the following days. But if I masturbate for like two hours, I can end up with cramps in the lower parts of my abdomen (a bit to the left and right, below my navel, like where you put your hands if you hold your belly). I might also end up with cramps in my testicles. That is usually a guaranteed breakout within 24 hours, and on a shorter term my skin feels like crap like it is becoming tighter and oilier, with white heads starting to emerge on my nose, upper lip, chin, etc.

I also noticed that, might not be related, but I often have loose stool.

Sleep
I don't sleep enough. I'll work on that. I get around 6 hours of sleep a night, except on the weekend. I got to bed at around 1am and wake up at 8:30. It takes me around an hour to fall asleep.


That's all I can think of for now.

I refuse!

Everyone I've seen around me in the past few years that had acne managed to cure it. I'm the one still stuck with. I'm never making any progress. Things have been the same for so many years. Everything I try leads to nothing. This feels like a bad joke, we're going to be in 2010 in two months and yet my acne problem has followed me for over 15 years. Just recently I was at a party and I thought my acne was not as bad as usual, I was pretty happy to finally not have pimples all over my face for a party, but no, I was wrong, it was still bad. It's crazy how quickly girls would look away, trying to avoid eye contact, yet if it wasn't for this I would be really fine. And now my face is a mess again, so I won't be going to the two parties I'm supposed to go to this week. I'm just sick of it.

I don't want to sound pessimistic, but some roads in life are one-way only. It just feels so unfair, to have your life stolen away from you. Acne is so stupid, it's so random, yet it has been like chains to me. I can't accept that a life could be ruined for something so ridiculous. I want to put time on pause and come back when my acne is gone, but time keeps on passing. I have no interest in playing this game if it's to sit on the bench.

Acne on one side of the face

Once again I'm stuck with acne on one side of my face while the other is completely clear. Sometimes it's the left side that breakouts, sometimes the right one, sometimes a bit of both. But I find it strange how often I end up with a breakout on one side only.

Right now it's all on the right side of my face, while the left side is completely clear. It's like night and day. What gives?

I have had much less sleep for the past week before of renovations close to my house, and I've been feeling sick to the stomach since Sunday and it's like I have diarrhea (not really, but sort of, it just doesn't feel right). I noticed this actually happens to me often, I don't know why.

Not sure if it's related to my breakout on one side of my face or what, but there has to be a reason.

And it can't be my pillow case, I never really sleep on the same side constantly, and I change it often. Also I don't use a phone daily so that's not it.

The only thing I did differently was eat some salmon on Sunday, and again yesterday. But it's not like this is the cause of my usual breakouts, although it could have something to do with the stomach ache, I'm not sure.

Any ideas?

Testosterone levels spike 7 days after abstaining from masturbation

http://themodernsavage.com/2009/02/04/effe...tracting-women/



This makes perfect sense to me!

It explains why, when I would decide to stop masturbating for some time to see the impact on my acne, I would usually still break out within a week, usually 7 days later, but then my skin would clear up dramatically over the following week. I got the confirmation last week. For two weeks, I had stopped masturbating (where again I had a breakout a week after stopping, a Saturday evening). I was (and still am) on a gluten-free diet at the same time, so it was difficult for me to figure which of the two was or wasn't related.

Anyway, two weeks ago, on Wednesday June 24th I did masturbate after having stopped for over two weeks. I also masturbated the following Monday. My face continued to clear as it had dramatically done so over the previous week (either due to two weeks off masturbation, or because of no gluten, or both). Well exactly 7 days later, I got a huge breakout again, which really peaked Wednesday evening. It has kept up until tonight.

I haven't masturbated in a week now, this week, if this is true, my face will start clearing up again, as it has often done before when I stopped masturbating for two weeks. This is week two.

If I clear up, my next test will be to start consuming gluten again to see if it has an impact.