To try SCD or not to try??? Help!!!

I feel really good with paleo + regular potatoes. But I like to cheat sometimes too haha

never underestimate the power of ribs - or ovens for that matter -

Props to you for starting!!! I am so happy for you, you will feel relief in like 4 days I promise.

For scrambled eggs, use virgin coconut oil to fry in. But for the beginning I would use organic free range eggs and HARD BOIL or POACH them. Hard boiled is easier to eat and you will get much more omega3's from a hard/poached egg rather than scrambled.

You have been sick for so long joanna you deserve to feel well. Good luck.

Vomiting? Is this normal? And is the zofran to help with UC nausea?

Yes lol egg BMs are horrible, you are quite sick. When they stop stinking this is a sign your intestines are healing. No worries you will be better.

You are so lucky your mother is shopping for you. An ORGANIC shopping to whole foods??!? That is what I am asking for this christmas lol! There is nothing worse than going shopping when you are sick your mother is quite the woman.. And she's picking up the bill? Excellent.

Doing SCD will turn you into a foodie. When it starts to work you will get more into it... looking for recipes, looking at ingredients and such. On page 1 of this thread I recommended you make the brasco broth. Please google brasco broth and print out the ingredients list and have your mother grab every ingredient except the chicken feet. Also buy one of the approved yogurt starters from breakingtheviciouscycle.info ... Have her buy all of the items for the intro diet as listed in BTVC.

Since you vommited today I would leave out the coconut oil from the broth recipe. When the soup is ready (takes about 12 hours for it to be done) just drink the broth for 2 days. Take work off, buy a fan if your house is hot, get netflix, order comedy DVDs, and relax. Do the broth for breakfast lunch dinner 48 hours and then on the 3rd day add the chicken. On the 4th day try the eggs in the morning.

You'll have to order a yogurt maker from amazon. If you do ok with cow milk Half and Half make great yogurt.

Reread BTVC. Then reread it again. Then get better will you please? :)

mindoverbutter, i was actually going to stay without dairy just because it's given me problems since i was a baby. always makes me sneeze a lot and get hives, but i do notice it constipates me quite a bit. we've actually made the broth before (last year a few times) and i remember liking it. i'll have to ask my mom for it again since she loves making soup. she's so excited to be able to make foods for the family now that i am eating meat again. but yeah, she is my biggest help and support! she will make anything for me or drive me to any town for a doctor's appointment. i don't know how i'd be alive without her.

i have been vomitting ever since i had my colonoscopy on august 1. it made my colon cramps really bad and when i can't deal with the pain, i just throw up. i can't help it- it's either that or just faint on the toilet. so i don't have nausea per say, but i figure the zofran might calm something down. who knows.

imagardener, yeah, if i can add dairy back in, i'll stick to the list in BTVC of the low lactose/no lactose things. right now, i figure just meats, eggs, and some veggies can get me by until i can broaden my diet. at least it's keeping me really full. i'm usually STARVING all the time when eating a high carb diet.

personally, and I'm not the only one -I think the SCD diet is a total waste of time and a fraud.
Ask around, many many people think so.

chrissy, the main oils i've been using for cooking are extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil spray. i used coconut oil once before and it gave my food a popcorn taste. i'm willing to try it again though. but i agree that scd is way too hard so that's why i'm doing paleo instead. i have way more options on it.

SCD is practically scientifically proven to help symptoms of IBD. The biggest drawback is that the diet isn't one size doesn't fit all. For instance bananagirl KNOWS she does not do well with dairy. Therefore she will not be rushing in to use butter, cheeses or trying the yogurt. A lot of people think that anything on the SCD diet is good to go when you begin, and chances are, you are very sick when you are beginning.

A lot of people will start eating raw fruit and nuts and that will destroy an inflammed colon. For the first few months you need to rest that colon and THEN start supplying in beneficial bacteria through probiotic pills, fermented foods like yogurt and saurkraut. Thats when the magic starts to happen :)

Wow that is intense! I can't tell if Lialda does anything for me or not. I'm still on Pred too though so that might affect it.

I eat chicken, turkey (not as much I am sick of it lol), beef sometimes, pork, fish is my favorite I try to eat it every other day. I still struggle with a lot of hunger how I'm eating truthfully tho. I feel like I'm always hungry it is really irritating! haha I hate it. But my metabolism is super fast I can't keep up with it.

My family eats pretty healthy but they love dairy lol. I can't have that either. Lots of yogurt and ice cream and things in the house. My boyfriend loves the subway pizza thing though.

paleo update!! just wanted to tell you all how it's going. i've been having a BM 4-5 times the past few days and upping my calories to include a full size lunch as well as well as a snack after dinner. i've been exercising for maybe 6 days now-all beginner modifications for everything- and have more energy.

i went to the store with my mom tonight and did NOT wear a Depends. i was feeling cocky. well, when we were over looking at the organic beef (my store sucks- the selection is so small so i had to get ALL NATURAL- ewww), i had an urge to go to the bathroom. the bathroom is at the front of the store and i was like "great, i didn't wear my stupid diaper because i wanted to prove i didn't need one." well, i was actually able to hold it for a few minutes until i got to the front of the store and believe me, i was yelling at my colon in my head saying "hold it!!! you better not go!!." before paleo, if i gotta go, i gotta go NOW- like within 10 seconds. i was so proud of myself that i didn't crap myself- i was wearing a floral skirt- because that would've gotten all over my clothes and the floor.

and finally, the fun part!! i ate my trout with the head on!! i was so excited for this. i ended up taking apart the head to examine it and there's really not much to it. it's mostly bones. i ate the cheeks but i rolled the eyes between my fingers. i was smushing them around and uhhh i just couldn't do it. i'm such a wuss, i know.

Woah - I'm impressed you ate anything attached to the head!

Bananagirl you are a rockstar!!!

stereo, i always feel like i can "hear" people talking as they write their posts, too. everyone always tells me i talk like minnie mouse because my voice is so high. it's kind of ridiculous and i assumed as i got older, my voice would get lower, but i'm not a guy so i guess it didn't work out that way.

active, i felt very primal haha my mom was totally grossed out so i made sure to dangle the head and bones in her face... just kidding.

andrina and chrissy, thanks girls!! i wish we could get together for a paleo party!!

babe, you are so kind. i've come to realize that i could either be a really sick vegan living on my couch or i could be a healthier meat eater who contributes to the world. i'm gonna keep improving though- i have faith.