Introducing Foods & Gaining Weight, was: posting here too

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At 02:20 PM 2/4/2008, you wrote:

hi all I posted at the regular

site but noone is there???

Eileen,

Welcome to this list. It's possible, since it was a weekend, that people

are off having fun. <g> SCD is like that. You get better, and you

don't spend all your time glued to your computer trying to figure out how

to get well. <grin> Except for some of us nut-brained old-timers

who stick around to help!

>> i'm 4 weeks scd - symptoms going but not gaining weight- so I

added a little cheddar cheese last night and this morning and a bit of

olive oil/honey to everything all day <<

Well, there's one of your first mistakes. You added two items at the same

time. One thing I've noticed is that while some oil is good for adding

calories, going overboard on it can be a mistake. Kim, for instance,

doesn't tolerate a lot of fat. I do tolerate a fair amount of butter and

oil, but if I drizzled olive oil on everything all day, it would pretty

well lubricate everything and, er, send it sliding right on out!

>> all i can have now is chicken steak carrots apple/pear sauce

eggs honey diluted white grape juice (tried almond butter and green beans

- no good) i eat every 2 hours - lots of food <<

Just to make sure I understand what you're eating, it's

chicken and steak (like beef steak?)

not chicken steak, ie, steaks made out of chicken, say, by pounding them,

correct?

apple or pear sauce -- this is home made, correct?

honey

diluted white grape juice (what level of dilution? How many parts juice

to how many parts water?)

How well cooked were the green beans? Did you try cooking them extra, and

then pureeing them to the consistency of baby food?

>> i eat every 2 hours - lots of food i'm down to 86 lbs 5'4 and

need to gain - i've been told avocado so got one today how do I prepare

it - don't think i'll like it but wil eat it :-)i'll do anything feeling

better but very nervous about the weight and doc etc saying

not to do scd if i'm not gaining <<

I fully understand eating every two hours! That's what I did for the

first two months I was on SCD. I rotated, one food at a time. Eggs and

butter for breakfast. Two hours later, 2-4 ounces of roasted meat. Two

hours later, well-steamed, peeled zucchini with a bit of butter and salt.

Two hours later, 2-4 ounces of the other roasted meat. Two hours later,

either zucchini or eggs again. And repeat. I did add a small amount of

grated cheddar to the zucchini somewhere around the end of week one or

two, but you'll notice that I wasn't eating cheese each time I ate

something.

The legal electrolyte drink hadn't been invented yet, by I sort-of made

my own with the juice and assorted minerals. (Wish I'd known about the

concentrate Kim found.)

>> PS the cheddar made first bm less formed and i got a bit crampy

- gone now and had formed bm since - do I keep it in??? and i'm a bit

uncomfy " full feeling " from everything else - need to add stuff

but want to feel good too help please <<

Are you sure it was the cheddar, since you added a lot of oil at the same

time? How much cheddar were you actually eating?

You don't want to overtax your system because that's a sure ticket to not

healing. But notice that I wasn't eating much at any given time, yet over

the course of 24 hours, I was consuming 6 (Jumbo) eggs, somewhere between

12 and 24 ounces of meat, and at least three cups of zucchini. This adds

up to between 1885 and 2550 calories, depending on how much meat I was

eating.

If you go back and check one of my posts from yesterday, you'll find that

a woman needs a minimum of 11 calories per pound to function. A quick

check indicates that your weight should probably be between 116 and 130.

That means you need between 1276 and 1430 calories at your proper weight

just to keep even with what you need to expend to live. If you are at all

active, you need more than that. In order to gain weight, you have to

have your basic energy levels, plus your activity levels, plus enough

calories to start adding weight -- and to add one pound a week, you must

eat at least 500 calories a day over your maintenance + activity

level.

Avocados are a wonderful food, with lots of good fats in them and

vitamins and so forth. Like bananas, however, they need to be ripe.

Here's a link which has all you need to know about selecting, ripening,

and preparing avocados.

Guacamole is a great way, but not just yet, I think, since you're eating

so few foods. I like avocado just ripe, sprinkled with a little salt. I

have also made " Martian Pudding " out of it, with avocado, lemon

juice (to keep it from turning brown), some honey or saccharin, and some

vanilla extract.

Are you keeping a food log about what you are eating, when you are eating

it, and how much you are eating? Also the results -- time and how you

felt?

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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