RE: Re: update on first three days

[Guest guest]

Michele,

Thanks for your comments.

>A good start to the first three days. however, Rice is not legal. In

>fact Elaine's daughter Judy tried to add this food back first and

>after I think thirteen years on SCD she got bleeding from it right

>away. Even if it is not a grain (which it is..) it is a

>starch.....not allowed on SCD. This is the first advice I would

>recommend.......drop the rice.

Thanks. I haven't had any rice or rice products since I started on

the diet.

>Here are a few hints I had to learn about MCS and SCD. I need to

>rotate because often the foods I am replacing illegals with are worse

>for me than the illegals themselves as far as sensitivity alone. Some

>I can tell......many I was masked to in different ways.

Yes, that's the same for me. Do you have lots of foods to rotate?

>I do have serum and access to food testing...........black pepper was

>surprisingly bad for me. So look at the oils and little things that

>you may be taking in so small amounts that you can not detect the

>food reaction. Honestly I am just not using these anymore. I bake my

>meat plain in water in a glass pan.

I think that I may not be tolerating olive oil right now.

But I did really well with avocado yesterday and it made me

feel better. I need a certain amount of good fat in order to

feel good.

>SCD does not have to be this plain and boring......but for me it has

>to for now because I am sensitive to all the spices and many of the

>oils.

Yeah, I agree that SCD does not need to be plain and boring. I'm

sorry that you rae not tolerating spices and many of the oils. I don't

know yet about spices for me.

>Also, I had to change to cast iron pans. I was so sensitive to

>stainless steel that it was getting into my food from my cookware and

>contaminating even legal food that I did not react to.

That's interesting. I find glass and stainless steel good for me.

I don't have cast iron any more.

>I just recently lost eggs (through food testing) and tried to eat it

>yesterday and had a return of " d " . So if you suspect a food you can

>remove for four days and then readd to sometimes see more syptoms

>from it.

Sorry to hear about the D. Yes, eggs are iffy; however, I'm tolerating

them a lot better than I used to.

thanks,

Louise

scd--Feb. 25/08

food sensitivities and candida

ME/CFS, MCS, FM--severely ill since 1973

Vancouver Island

[Guest guest]

,

>I forgot to mention that some common recommendations for detox

>symtpoms are epsom salt baths and activated charcoal. I do not know

>if you tolerate these but this is often recommended to those going

>through the initial detox and the every three month flares that most

>experience.........

I sometimes use activated charcoal for D, but I rarely have to.

So far, I'm okay this week on the diet.

I used to use epsom salt baths a lot, but I don't have a bathtub

right now. Sometimes I will give myself a foot bath. I also have

infrared lights that I use in the evening to relax me.

It's been interesting to hear of the every three month flares. Of

course, I wonder what I'll go through. :-)

>I also wanted to mention that for whatever reason I never did well

>with the beginning diet of chicken soup.........I started with a stir

>fry of veggies and beef in olive oil in my first week of the diet and

>did marvelously well with this probably because I am mostly

>nonreactive to these things.

Good idea to start with things you knew were okay for you.

>This is horrible advice......but I try to eat things that I am NOT

>drawn to. If I love it I am usually sensitive to it. It is ironic and

>not helpful, I know. But when I eat something that is plain and

>boring to me I am usually ok with it and do not react. It contrasts

>with the psychology of trying to to SCD.......and it may not be good

>advice for the first few days.

Smiling. I think I understand what you mean regarding being

attracted to certain foods. It's like an addiction. I'm not sure

what you mean about how this contrasts with the psychology

of trying to do SCD.

Louise

scd--Feb. 25/08

food sensitivities and candida

ME/CFS, MCS, FM--severely ill since 1973

Vancouver Island