What are your experiences with SCD?

Hey, everyone! I FINALLY read "Breaking the Vicious Cycle" and am ready to try a slightly modified version of SCD (adding organic tofu and Desi chickpeas).

Can anyone here share their experiences with SCD as a complementary (or even primary) therapy for their UC?

I always think of SCD fondly even though it didn’t do anything to help my flare or inflammation. It gave me hope in a time when I didn’t have any. The food was healthy and nutritious but it is very time consuming and laborious to do when you are sick. I cant count how many batches of yogurt I made! I still have the yogurt maker but haven’t used it in years. I even bought this meal plan online called SCD lifestyle and followed it exactly but still ended up hospitalized. I think it would only help if your disease is really responsive to diet change and mine has never been. I can eat nothing for weeks and still poop at least 30 times a day. The recipes are delicious though. I have been making the meatloaf for at least ten years! So yeah. Good diet in general for healthy eating purposes but not for healing my inflamed gut.

I am like you conquerUC, I tried the SCD and it was like a starvation diet, especially as I am intolerant to dairy (including yoghurt) and I hate fish. Also some of the illegal foods, like sweet potatoes and chickpeas, do not make a lot of sense to me as they are highly nutritious and anti inflammatory. The main advantage of trying the diet is it did get me to switch to gluten free alternatives rather than having a diet dominated by wheat-based bread/pasta/cereals (I am still 95% gluten free ) so I feel my diet is overall more nutritionally diverse and has more anti inflammatory components. I remember also it made socialising a massive headache, as it's hard for others to accommodate you when you have a list of 20,000 foods that you can't eat.