Struggling with SCD

I definitely have tried strict diets and personally I find that following anything that eliminates or restricts packaged food and encourages more meal prep from single ingredient foods is helpful for me. I even had more than three months without gut symptoms on IBD AID and I love the SCD almond flour sandwich bread (which are higher in calories when I make them than regular bread), but I am convinced that medical treatment and medicine are essential when this is the only way to heal the inflammation. For me inflammation reduction is my number one priority and I’m not convinced I achieved this even when I had less diarrhea because I was still exhausted every day in that time.

I'm pro medicine whenever it helps someone, even if they choose not to follow a particular diet.

I was following IBD AID with about 80% adherence. I still keep this diet in mind. I stopped being so compliant because, even though my gut symptoms improved , my fatigue didn’t. And preparing food every day when I’m this tired is tough. So my “cheating” is rice cakes, sometimes wheat, potatoes, chocolate, but I still have steel cut oats with cooked fruit and honey, and other foods with fibre, sweet potatoes and cassava with roasted potatoes, squash soup, aged cheeses, yogurt etc. I guess we all know that our symptoms change and what we can tolerate changes. Sometimes I follow the Pamela popper Phase one list (like I needed to do a few weeks ago while on antibiotics) . I’m sure that sometimes I follow plans that I’ve read about on the Internet just so I don’t have to think! I don’t have the answers but I do believe If we take a moment before we eat to ask her cat if it’s OK it will answer us. Usually I get in trouble and I ignore my instincts.