Paleo causing D???

Hi all,

Starting Paleo this week. I'm on Day 4. I definitely had too much fruit yesterday (something I would usually avoid, other than bananas). I also had two Nak'd bars a day (only ingredients are dates, raisins, cashews). The last two days, my stools have gone to complete bitty mush, they weren't great before, but had some formation! I'm not sure if it's the change in diet with the sudden increase of fats and lack of carbs or if it's the fruit and nuts or if I'm just following my usual downhill pattern once I come off steroids. I hate all the guesswork! I had my 5th Remicade infusion last Thursday so this shouldn't be happening. Now I'm wondering do I continue the diet without the fruit and nuts or do I just go back to my usual diet or do I switch to SCD.. It's so hard to know! I'm also taking L-Glutamine as of today.

Thanks banana girl! Do you stick to resistant starches? (I don't even know what they are!) I had sweet potato fries with my steak this evening! I'm definitely gonna scale it right back to no fruit or nuts now! Just basic SCD style intro diet for next few days ! So upsetting and disheartening - the constant diets, the constant medication and no results! :-(

minners, i know it's tough figuring out what works since a lot of the paleo diet is filled with fruits/veggies. the fiber definitely isn't helpful for us so that's why i stick to soluble fiber. i peel everything and cook the veggies to death when i eat them haha i don't always eat resistant starches. i made a week's worth of mashed potatoes last week and there was no way i was eating cold mashed potatoes! i drenched them in salt and butter and it was heavenly. sweet potatoes are awesome, too! not sure if you eat eggs, but i make a delicious sweet potato custard. it's great for breakfasts, snacks, or dessert and you literally just blend everything in the bender and pour in a pie pan then bake it. it's super easy and really delicious. makes my poop orange!

http://www.thesweetplantain.com/sweet-potato-breakfast-custard/

listen to the bgirl -

I struggled on paleo. There were so many paleo things I had to omit since I already knew I couldn't tolerate. I added back in potatoes and rice and that helped a little with the loose stools...I ended up abandoning paleo completely because I just couldn't eat enough of the food without crapping my brains out. I also was loosing too much weight. I've found good success with adding in soluable fibres. I've kept the paleo thinking as far as grass fed meats and only real, whole foods, but I couldn't go fully grain free. My body just couldn't absorb the fats by itself.

I know what you mean Gary, I wanted to try Paleo after researching as there aren't actually many differences between the two diets - mainly Paleo omits all dairy. But I think I need the healing intro stages and phases that the SCD instructs you to do. So, when I was on SCD, I didn't introduce any of the fruits, nuts for a few weeks!

Thanks soy stud! I agree! Meat, bone broth and booked carrots for the next two days! Lucky me ha!

I was thinking that too InSoFla. So hard to know!

I just bought L-glutamine powder today! Starting on 5g daily!