Anyone addicted to food despite the pain LOL

I love food, but there's some food that isn't too big of a deal to give up.... For instance, I've never really liked spicy food, so I didn't mind giving it up..... I've never really liked corn, so I didn't mind giving it up... The problem was giving up foods with corn meal in it... like corn bread.... I miss corn bread... :(... But man, it can do me even worse than corn does...

Now, there are some things that I really, really want to eat, but can't without the pain... Unfortunately, the pain outweighs the pleasure from eating these things (and I get a lot of pleasure from eating these things)...

Tomatoes... (If I pick all the seeds out, I can eat them, but it's so time consuming that I don't even bother)... Cheesecake.... (NOOOOOOOO!!!! MY CHEESECAKE! WHY?!) Sweet pickles... (BITE-SIZED SNACKS! WAH!)... And...

The thing that I hated giving up most of all...

CHOCOLATE!!! (No more Snickers! No more Brownies! No more fudge!! No more Hersheys! No more Coconut-filled chocolates! NO MORE GERMAN CHOCOLATE CAKE OR CHOCOLATE PIE! No more GRANDMA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP cookieS!!! The horror!! The horror!!!!) :(... I was a chocaholic.... some of these foods are sentinmental, too.... *My Grandpa got me hooked on german chocolate cake... he's gone, now... And whenever I ate German Chocolate cake, I'd always think of him... :(*

But the pain from chocolate has gotta be the worst out of any of the bad foods... :(.... Even just one chocolate chip cookie will have me curled in a ball, wanting to claw my guts out...

LOL...my coworkers believe I am always starving and its sort of true. I try and try and try to be a good woman and avoid the bad foods that could/will make me sick but how do you turn away from tacos??? I love them sort of desperately. I'm fine with Italian food (no problems there at all so far except pizza which is no loss to me). I ache for eggrolls but I haven't passed into eggroll territory. I love mexican food but I try try try to keep from eating it. I avoid sodas when I want them. Seems like no matter how well I'm doing, I eat a bad for me meal and suffer for a few days. I have tons of self control up to an extent. I HATE fast food joints. I have serious issues with lettuce. I always want it on tacos and salads and whatnot but I really can't seem to process it in my body. Oddly, I can eat something like a country fried steak and be fine. Also, my mom suggested eating a peppermint or a candy cane before I eat and it does help a LOT.

Joie, peppermint is supposed to be soothing to the gut, so I see why that would help. I'm not much of a tea drinker, but drink a cup of mint green tea every night anyway.

Good luck survivor! I hope you have success! You should consider joining a yahoo group or two devoted to SCD. The moderator's have been on the diet for years, and several of them knew Elaine Gottschall personally. Whenever someone asks a question, a response usually comes within a day at most. I belong to the following:

BTVC: the Specific Carbohydrate Diet: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/BTVC-SCD/
Pecanbread - http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/
SCD Info - http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/scdinfo/
SCD Recipe Exchange & Collection - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCDrecipes/
SCD Recipe Creators - http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/scdrecipe_creators/

I follow the stages from the pecanbread site, but not everyone does. I figured it might be most beneficial to start with the easiest digested foods. My diet is very limited right now, but should be quite varied in another couple of months. I've tried foods I've never eaten before, like cooked fresh spinach and zucchini. Yeah, I'd rather have chocolate, but I just eat it knowing that it's good for me.

Tonight I made a lemon curd, which tastes like a very rich lemon pudding. It will be even better when I can make the tart shells for it (haven't started nut flours yet). Tomorrow I'm going to make meringue cookies. Someone said that adding peppemint oil makes them taste like a candy cane!

Lol I just ate a whole jar of pickles. . . . yikes. Dont even want to know how I am going to feel like tomorrow. I think the good old immodium is going to be in effect. :)

Chronicallyill are you trying to kill yourself????? I think you really need to start watching your diet a little more. You are just going to hurt yourself if you keep eating acidic foods like pickles. The vinegar is really hard on us.

Somethinhg I didnt know until a year ago is that Prednisone and 6mp are hard core munch out drugs. Now that I look back on everything I can say that its true. All I would want to eat was bread, sugars and pickles. Things like that. The stuff that kills :(

I eat all of the time. I know I am slowly, and possibly faster than I think, killing myself with food, but I can not seem to stop. As a Crohnie, No reputable Dr. will do any sort of digestive hindering to me. I have been under a lot of stress lately. Since we moved out of a terrible neighborhood in June of 2008, we have had nothing but bad luck. Our old landlord cursed us for leaving. (We were one of a few families who paid our rent, and on time.) I told my sister, she must have been evil enough to make it work, because I usually do not take stock in that sort of superstition. It started with the people who moved us, they were 8 1/2 hours late. They did not "set" us as they were supposed to. They broke our main "grey water" pipe, when they dropped the house. Our utility room flooded when a water pipe broke, We had no heat or water for 2 weeks. one week later, my transmission died on my vehicle, it still doesn't run right. October 31, 2008, my cousin/ big brother was murdered. In the end of December, our fridge went out. I failed 2 classes in college and I almost lost my funding, because I was pulled from classes I was to start on the 5th of Jan. I am surprised I am not in the hospital with a major flare. I am thankful for it too!

I have a severe caffeine addiction.. I don't know how I can live without Diet Coke or Dunkin Donuts..especially the French Vanilla Iced Coffees during the summer.

teenatoons. That sounds like a really bad round of luck. Hope things get better. I totally understand about always eating food. I cant seem to not eat during the day either. Cravings day in and day out. :S