SCD Lovers :)

soystud said...
"Max you're not on SCD when you eat potatoes and rice."


"I am on a "SCD guided diet". That is to say, I make my food choices based in relation to the rules of SCD but altered"

Oh ok it confused me that's for sure.

Max- How much fish do you eat? Is it mostly salmon or many types? I love fish. I feel like beef gives me issues most of the time, and at times so does chicken. It's wild though it will change my colon seems to have different moods.

Anyways. bummer I totally wrecked my diet again. I cannot seem to stick to this diet for long. I feel so limited, does anyone feel this way? I can't do eggs still, and many many veggies bother me. So I feel weak a lot. I also don't tolerate fruits really. It's a very sad diet right now lol. scd makes me depressed but maybe i have to do it? I don't know. Did anyone struggle to start it and stay on it? Anyone have to do a really restricted version at first for awhile? And is it normal to be always tired on it? I dunno if I am just not doing it right or something like that. Emotionally this diet puts me in a dark place, because I can't seem to eat 90% of the foods. isn't that weird? anyone else like this?

I go like 1-3x a day. It's pretty good. Just emotionally unhappy with it and feeling hungry. My belly gets achy when I eat eggs.

Do you eat any grains stereo?

Omg thank god you felt that way too lol it's awful

How did you do the gelatin?

Edit: Also how much did you consume? And how often?

Chrissy,
I think most of the symptoms you are experiencing are due to the fact the diet restricts carbs
I happen to really love bread potatoes and rice so it was really hard for me I came to the the line of thinking that my body was actually craving carbs (hence that hollow yucky feeling,it really made me quite iritable,and low) Personally I think the only way you can get through this if you want to stick at it is to be constantly snacking,grazing and keep you blood sugar levels up with honey I did this by baking loads of bananna bread and blue berry cup cakes,I made the four myself from ground cashew nuts and I also made stuff with ground lentils ( I'm personally not that fond of the taste of almond flour The diet recommends limiting the ammount of baked ground flour breads and such but I never had any problems with it)
I found while I was doing the diet I had to be really devoted to it.It was almost like having apart-time job,which is hard if your not feeling great.I could not stay on the intro diet for very long as I just felt too hungry and it was making me miserable.As I say I think the main thing is to eat little and often Peppermint tea with honey Avocados Bananas cooked and mushed fruit and veg peeled like baby food are easier to tolerate restrict the insoluable fibre for a while and steer clear of the brassicas cabbage and such
I had reasonable sucess with this and my ebergy levels and genneral feeling of well being did pick up after a month or so

Ok! I really feel for you so much believe me I have been where you are now hang in there and try to keep your spirits up
If you still want to continue trying with the SCD diet I would suggest you go right back to basics and start with a really good organic chicken broth boil with bones some salt.make your self some jelly with pure organic juice it can be mostly water.
If tell me what is causing you the most problems at the moment I can advise further,but it sounds like at the momment you can't tolerate much of anything.
Please don't feel if the diet dos'ent work this time you have somehow failed it could be that you need diet changes and further meds to get you through this,I also needed further medication to get me through two of my worst flares then it is difficult to work out what's making you better but in the end its all academic,its better to be feeling better and make diet changes than struggle on when your very low.

ChrissySoul said...
I go like 1-3x a day. It's pretty good. Just emotionally unhappy with it and feeling hungry. My belly gets achy when I eat eggs.

Do you eat any grains stereo?

Omg thank god you felt that way too lol it's awful

I do now, but it took me quite a while to experiment with grains. Oats, even before UC have always been wishy-washy for me. And my problem was that once I let myself have grains and sugar, I couldn't stop eating them. My doctor told me from the start to limit fibrous foods, because its like using a scrubby on your already inflamed gut. White rice instead of brown, no gassy veggies from the broccoli family, no sulfurous foods like onions/garlic for a while, and even mushroom and fruit because they feed fungi.

1-3 is a better number than what you were experiencing a few months ago right?

Chrissy,

To deny our temptations is to deny a fact that makes us human. The chocolate cake is so sad that you're not eating it. How can you forsake the foods that have been your friends for all this time?

 

I'm telling you guys, those who are on the SCD diet, Detoxinista has the easiest Peanut Butter Carob/Chocolate chip blondies recipe!

You're thinking, "Huh? peanut butter instead of flour?" But yes, and tastes so goooood!!! If only I knew about them when I was on SCD. lol

detoxinista.com/2011/12/flourless-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-blondies/

She has a cookie version too. :)

It's not on paleo ;)