Weight problem

Rick,

SCD/GAPS does lots of fats/oils and meats which are dense. Add coconut oil to your veggies for example. Eat a chicken breast. Eat more SCD yogurt if you can tolerate it.

Sean

Rick can you eat nuts/nutbutter? I used to bake with nut flower/butter and I loved it.

Is SCD helping you?

If the apple juice isn't legal, then add a few more pieces of fruit in lieu of the juice. I don't know if drinking milk is ok on SCD, but that's a good source of calories, protein and calcium. If not regular milk, then almond milk, or coconut milk? Lemonade sweetened with agave syrup?

@ kazbern Thank you for suggesting coconut milk. It never crossed my mind. Apparently 1cup contains 550 calories which is hard to believe. I've never really tried it. I just hope I can find straight coconut milk.

Hey Rick,

Here are some high calorie shakes. The first two are SCD compliant. I drink the second shake listed for breakfast every morning. http://scdlifestyle.com/2013/04/5-real-food-weight-gain-shakes-paleo-scd/

One problem is I live in New Zealand so can't get those brands here. I'll look in supermarket though. After looking at manufactures site they all seem to contain guam gum.

Make coconut milk ice cream. It's not quite like ice cream, but it's rather tasty. Coconut milk is rather caloric too (the canned stuff, not the coconut "milk" replacement).

http://www.ihaveuc.com/non-dairy-ice-cream-and-it-tastes-really-good/

I've wondered about this - how the heck do people get enough calories on this diet? One reason I've never gone on the SCD is because I suspect I would end up half-starving to death. (Mind, at the moment I could do with losing a bit of weight. Thanks Pred. <3 you too.)

Edit: @Rick - actually looking at your food, it doesn't seem like an awful lot. What about having 3 eggs instead of 2, 100g of cashews instead of 50g, etc?

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 6/16/2013 8:13:16 AM (GMT-6)

Hi Rick,

I'm in NZ too. Also on GAPS/Paleo. Where are you? I'm in Auckland.

The first time I did GAPS I lost weight too. I'm on a modified Paleo /GAPS now and doing fine maintaining my weight at 75kg.

You're right to be concerned about losing weight - it's not good. So definitely keep monitoring that.

You can add way more into your diet.

Easily up your nut butter. tablespoons not teaspoons!
Add 1 more egg per day

I have coconut milk form can - just make sure it doesn't have too many preservatives. I just get that Ceres organic one or there's an organic fair trade one also I sometimes get.

If you're eating fruit then i don't see any problem adding in something like whole hulled Millet- I have this as a porridge in the morning. My Naturopath maintains that pseudo grains are fine for the long term on the diet. So go for Quinoa, Millet and you can have that for breakfast as a porridge. I have it with frozen blueberries and coconut oil.

Also I have lots and lots of pumpkin and carrots caluiflower steamed and slow cooked. You can def up your pumpkin intake. I often make a soup with Pumpkin, carrot, coconut milk, ginger, coriander.

I also do lots of slow cooked meats - don't worry about it being lean meat. I eat a lot of lambshanks slow cooked like crockpot/stew style.

I sometimes take a thermos to work and have pumpkin soup/ meat broths through the day.

I've been doing pretty well the last 10 weeks on just this sort of regime and I've probably added 1 kg. and i'm (touch wood) med free and symptom free at the moment.

Actually the Ceres organic Coconut Milk has Guar Gum in it also. Not sure if there are any issues with Guar gum. anyone know - I had a quick look and it actually says it is often used as a natural remedy to treat IBS/UC

I see that Millet is according to the SCD site 'illegal' but from my quick search it seems that they're amongst the next best non-SCD GAPS type of grains to add back in if you can tolerate them.

I do pretty much make all my own meals now which can take some time so i usually do huge batches and then whack them in the fridge or freezer.

Easiest stew I do is lamb shanks in a big cast iron pot with a lid. I put in all the veg i can find, carrots, pumpkin, frozen peas, celery, heaps of turmeric and heaps of grated ginger top it up with some water then after it's cooked (2-3 hours) first on eth stove to get the liquid boiling then whack it the oven for a few hours on about 140 Celsius. At the end I just take out the lamb bones the practically falls meat off, mix in a can of coconut cream and then put loads of green spinach or kale on top. Put the lid back on to steam the greens for 15 minutes - the heat of the stew will do it you don't need to put it back in the oven. Then let it cool and make up portions to put in fridge/freezer (or have some hot of course).

It's kind of a coconut curry flavour. If you want to add more calories I will hard boil some eggs and quarter them into it at the end. I usually get 4 meals out of two decent sized shanks. I get a few portions of lamb broth-soup as a bi product. Yummo and calorie dense - good for the winter. You can do it with any meat on the bone really tho. I've also done it with dice lamb/beef.