"Breaking The Vicious Cycle"

Read the book "Breaking the Vicious Cycle"  It talks about the SCD diet and how this lady put her daughter into permenent remission from UC only by changing her diet.  The diet is very restrictive and takes a lot of dedication, but many people have had great success with it.  It seems to work best in UC people more then people with crohns, and also it seems to work best in people who are newlly diagnosed with mild to moderate disease.

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Post Edited By Moderator (CrohnieToo) : 12/4/2012 9:37:04 AM (GMT-7)

Word I've been on the SCD for 4 years and still have mini-flares almost every month. I've been 100% compliant to the max and even took out a bunch of stuff after experimenting, including yogurt, red meat, apples, dry curd cottage cheese, juices, peanut butter. I as a result have no social life whatsoever but it does allow me to carry on working but just barely. I do believe that if I was on medications I would be in worse shape.

I have been doing SCD for three years. The diet takes all processed food out including chemicals, processed sugar, GMO corn, ... It can be done with any further restriction so IMHO, there is no one, including folks with and who do not have Crohn's, that will not become healthier doing SCD. There is a version for everyone, vegetarian, high protein, low carb, ..... Everyone has to eat and eating nutritionally dense, unprocessed foods has to be better than most of the crap passed off as food on our grocery shelves.

Given the above, unfortunately even on SCD, much has to customized. I was doing great on SCD, but started to feel poorly again. I went for testing and found SIBO and some other stuff. I made some adjustments (and perhaps I will make more) but am now feeling almost 100% again. Anyone who is not getting great results on SCD I would highly recommend trying to figure out why and making adjustments.

As per SCD being tough or restrictive. IMO being sick everyday, often not being able to get out of bed was highly restrictive for me. That was really tough and honestly scary for me. Compared to not eating bread, it is not even close.

When you start SCD it seems like a huge task (it seemed monumental to me). And you will screw up. Also you will have setbacks. You will have frustrating times caused by you and others around you. Everyone who does this has experienced the same thing (it took me 8 months on the diet before I saw any results).

But after 3 years it is my normal. It no longer is a big deal. I have been in every situation and it is all second nature. So if you are giving it a go, and it feels overwhelming and super tough and you are not immediately getting the results you "deserve" given the huge effort, do not give up. Everyone on SCD has gone through this and this is not a permanent state. You will improve and it gets way way easier, and now it really is no big deal.
Dave