SCD Diet - How to get started ?

21 Years old male , suffering from UC since i was 11 , almost 10 years now .
been thinking for myself for quite some time if I should give the SCD Diet a shot since im in long flare up which really stopping me from living life .

So I say to myself it If it helps to so many people which are in my situation why not giving it a shot , I have basically nothing to lose .

anyway , Where do I start it from ?
Like buy books who has all the info there or what ?
can someone guide me here please .

I bought the book, found it confusing but kept to the diet for 6 months with little positive benefit so quit. Several years later decided to try again, had to buy the book again haha, again kept to the guidelines for many months and little improvement.

For some people it works just not for me. Too many "legal" foods on SCD were greatly disliked by my gut. I even made SCD yogurt, loved it but gut absolutely hated it.

Diet modification got me to remission but not SCD. think you should give SCD a 3 month shot. If you don't see improvement then start keeping a food journal and see what foods bother you, and eliminate them. This will take a long time but in my case it was my best shot so I did it.

Good luck. Some of us don't respond to Rx meds (guessing that's you too) and have to find our own solutions.

I did the intro diet and pretty much phase 1 stuff, twice this summer. I ended up losing too much weight, something I could ill afford to do. I have since been pretty much SCD, with lapses here and there. It definitely works for some people, and although I cannot declare remission, I am doing pretty well on just Asacol.

I bought the ebook package from the guys at scdlifestyle.com. It walks you through the intro diet and phases in careful, step by step detail. If you also want to read all the science behind the diet (which is what attracted me to it--it makes sense to me), buy the "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" book. If you just want to get started on the diet and have it all laid out for you, even tutorials on how to cook basic stuff for best results, get the ebooks from scdlifestyle.com. I don't get any kickback or anything for mentioning them. One downside is that you will get a lot of emails from them....some commercial-ish, some motivational, etc.

I was already eating 90% paleo, so the change was not that big for me. If you eat pretty much the SAD right now, the change will be greater, and it will probably be easier to see if it's something that will work for you. One tip: I wouldn't mess with the yogurt making right off the bat. I know the book recommends it, but when you are already dealing with cooking all the food for the intro diet, etc., it might be too much. Plus, it's like super duper yogurt, and you may not do well with it right away.

Another site I like is ihaveuc.com. He is a "younger" guy, with a great sense of humor about the disease, and he tells it like it is. Check out his videos on his site, or on youtube, to get an idea. That's a good community, too.

You don't HAVE to buy any books to start the SCD, of course. Good luck.

Post Edited (k-del) : 8/16/2014 10:56:48 PM (GMT-6)