Specific Carbohydrate Diet

imagardener2 said...
I had off today. Ate 6 eggs with toast, 1 hoagie , 2 donuts, 6 cookies, and some coffee. I think for dinner i am going to have Pizza. Needless to say no carb diet
I can be such a pig when i want to.

Is there any need to be rude? Don't you think I would LOVE to eat a donut? or a cookie? or pizza? I miss those foods but for my health's sake I know I can't. Do you also walk into an AA meeting with a drink in your hand and say Wow this margarita is delicious!

Your last sentence I can agree with. If you meant to be funny you failed.

Wow you def took that the wrong way. My point is just because you have UC doesn't mean you can't eat carbs. I think its more mental or a pre-existing condition (other than UC). Someone new to UC might think carbs is causing their UC flares from reading you text when it might not be the case. I wasn't trying to come off as rude.

Post Edited (Dsm4life) : 6/24/2011 3:53:04 PM (GMT-6)

Dsm4life said...
My point is just because you have UC doesn't mean you can't eat carbs.

True. it does not mean. it's everyone choice what one eats.
My experience showed me that avoiding on regular bases complex carbs my life with UC became more simpler: remission.
Not to mention keeping in control my Ankylosing Spondilitys. Strange how an inflammatory bone disease can be treated with diet no?
And i am not the only one who did it.

Dsm4life said...
Someone new to UC might think carbs is causing their UC flares from reading you text when it might not be the case.

I always say that we are different. Different gut floras, different immune systems, different lives. For some people, like me, avoiding complex carbs - who cannot be fully digested in our small intestine and tend to feed our colon flora - results in less colon inflammation, less spine inflammation, more energy and so on.
For others it might not be the case.

I will just speak to my own experience: I tried the official SCD for. few years and it did decrease my symptoms vs. the typical/standard north american diet, but then I decreased symotoms considably more by eliminating the sugary, high carb items on the SCD that are consodered "legal" such as nut-butters , fruit and honey. i happen to mostly stick to this lower carb version of the ScD- sort of a blend of atkins and SCD- today. I dont think tht the science behind the SCd is very solid, but that said, I have yet to find a better diet than the low-carb SCd that i follow in terms if my own symptoms, even with lot of trial and error. I think everyone ahould trial and error their way to an ideal diet- but it take lots of patience ti eliminate huge food grouos for weeks or months at a time to truly know what works best. i do miss carbs- good breads, fruit, nuts, and deserts a LOT, but its not worth flaring. if someone can actually do great on the full breadth of SCd offerings inclusing the fruit and nutbreads, more power to you. I especially miss the delicious homemade ScD yogurt that i used to tolerate, but nowit seems that any dairy is a n issue for me... perhaps I can tolerate it again one day If I work through some anti-allergy therapy protocol with an integrative doctor, who knows. the science of food tolerance and intolerance remains eztremely primitive.