Re: Struggling to Find Ballance

[Guest guest]

Serge,

Peanuts are a legume and peanut products should not be tried until

after symptoms subside, much later.

Were your bananas ripe with brown spots? Whole nuts are highly

advanced foodPapaya is an advanced fruit:

http://www.pecanbread.com/new/scdfoods1.html

> I have been on the diet since Jan. 1 2008, and I am struggling to find

> ballance with the diet.

>

> Carol F.

Celiac, SCD 8 years,MCS, Latex Allergy

http://www.celiac.com/authors/143/Carol-Frilegh

http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcf-diet/sc-diet.htm

[Guest guest]

Tha bananas were ripe. I will remove peanut butter, nuts and papaya

from my diet but is it too early for almond flour muffins?

Serge

> Serge,

> Peanuts are a legume and peanut products should not be tried until

> after symptoms subside, much later.

> Were your bananas ripe with brown spots? Whole nuts are highly

> advanced foodPapaya is an advanced fruit:

>

> http://www.pecanbread.com/new/scdfoods1.html

>

>

>

> > I have been on the diet since Jan. 1 2008, and I am struggling to

> find

> > ballance with the diet.

> >

> > Carol F.

>

> Celiac, SCD 8 years,MCS, Latex Allergy

> http://www.celiac.com/authors/143/Carol-Frilegh

> http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcf-diet/sc-diet.htm

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

At 12:34 PM 1/22/2008, you wrote:

Yesterday I had bananas, papaya

and homemade yogurt for breakfast, leftover homemade winter squash soup

and salmon for lunch and peanut butter and pistachios as a snack and more

leftover squash soup and a couple of oranges for dinner. I spent the

night up with gas, dry mouth and mouth cankers. I think the episode was

caused by the peanut butter and maybe by the soup. I wonder if the

sweetness of the squash is problematic in my case.

Looking at what you ate yesterday, you're eating almost all fruits,

high-sugar vegetables (like the winter squash) and peanut butter or

pistachios.

Are you a vegetarian? Is this why you aren't eating any meat or eggs?

What about cooked vegetables, like zucchini, or green beans? What was in

the winter squash soup?

Peanuts are a legume, and have proved problematic for a number of people,

so you might want to consider switching to almond or pecan

butter.

Were your bananas nice and ripe, with lots of brown spots? If not, they

may have had too much starch in them.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

I don't use squash frequently and usually eat low carb. steamed

vegatables with fish and eggs every day and ocasionally a little meat.

I will try pecan butter but have had no problems with almond butter so

far.

Serge

> At 12:34 PM 1/22/2008, you wrote:

>

> Looking at what you ate yesterday, you're eating almost all fruits,

> high-sugar vegetables (like the winter squash) and peanut butter or

> pistachios.

>

> Are you a vegetarian? Is this why you aren't eating any meat or eggs?

> What about cooked vegetables, like zucchini, or green beans? What was

> in the winter squash soup?

>

> Peanuts are a legume, and have proved problematic for a number of

> people, so you might want to consider switching to almond or pecan

> butter.

>

> Were your bananas nice and ripe, with lots of brown spots? If not,

> they may have had too much starch in them.

>

>

> — Marilyn

>     New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

>     Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

>     Darn Good SCD Cook

>     No Human Children

>     Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

>

>        

>

>

[Guest guest]

Serge, If you just started Jan. 1, it may be too early for baking with nuts. . Cnsult the link I gave you and note nut flour is on Stage 3 if you choose to follow that as a guide. It is not an official part of SCD and Elaine was a little vague about specifying exactly when each food is to be started and suggested keeping a food journal, introducing one food at a time and in small amounts. It looks like you unintentionally went for broke and the jackpot hit you:-)Tha bananas were ripe. I will remove peanut butter, nuts and papaya from my diet but is it too early for almond flour muffins?SergeCarol F.Celiac, SCD 8 years,MCS, Latex Allergyhttp://www.celiac.com/authors/143/Carol-Frileghhttp://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcf-diet/sc-diet.htm

[Guest guest]

Thank you so much I will follow the link.

Serge

> Serge, If you just started Jan. 1, it may be too early for baking with

> nuts. . Cnsult the link I gave you and note nut flour is on Stage 3 if

> you choose to follow that as a guide. It is not an official part of

> SCD and Elaine was a little vague about specifying exactly when each

> food is to be started and suggested keeping a food journal,

> introducing one food at a time and in small amounts. 

>

> It looks like you unintentionally went for broke and the jackpot hit

> you:-)

>

>

>

>> Tha bananas were ripe. I will remove peanut butter, nuts and papaya

>> from my diet but is it too early for almond flour muffins?

>>

>> Serge

>>

>> Carol F.Celiac, SCD 8 years,MCS, Latex Allergy

> http://www.celiac.com/authors/143/Carol-Frilegh

> http://www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/gfcf-diet/sc-diet.htm

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Serge,

As others have suggested, the " stages " list on Pecanbread.com is very

helpful. I started SCD last July and spent the first couple of weeks

eating a lot of food that was LEGAL (like whole nuts) but without

understanding the idea that, in starting the diet, you need to get

into a frame of mind that you are trying to give your body the most

basic, easiest to digest food possible, while also trying to give it

high levels of nutrition. (Think of how babies are introduced to solid

food - you're just like a new baby with a healing gut!) The BTVC book

is not very clear about how important it is to GRADUALLY add foods and

what types.

However, so many of the wonderful SCD old-timers (and some of us newer

fanatics) can give us a lot of guidance in terms of what foods work

best early on.

Did you follow the intro diet for the first few days? Did you find

that your symptoms got better? If so, you might want to try going back

to the intro diet (dry curd cottage cheese/DCCC, eggs, diluted apple

cider or legal grape juice, homemade gelatin, homemade chicken soup

with pureed carrots, broiled beef patty, broiled fish, cheesecake),

then just add Stage 1 foods VERY SLOWLY (like add half a banana and

wait 2-3 days to see if any of your symptoms come back). I know it's

really hard but if you can see how your body reacts, it will help you

learn how to listen to it as you expand your food choices.

I have been on the diet for more than 6 months now and still can only

eat whole nuts very occasionally. The nut butters (except peanut) are

good to start with, and recipes that use nut butters instead of nut

flour are good ones to use earlier in the diet. I also find that I

have to watch my fruit consumption. It's easy to eat lots of it but it

can be hard for our tender, healing guts to digest.

Best of luck,

Kathy

>

> I have been on the diet since Jan. 1 2008, and I am struggling to

find

> ballance with the diet.

> Serge Duguay

> Ottawa, Ontario

>

> SCD 22 days

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Serge. I’d suggest keeping a very

simple diet for awhile – in the beginning all I could handle was lots of

chicken soup, soft veggies on the beginning list and only cooked apples with no

skin. No nuts and nothing raw. Like many of us, I was so ravenous

from loosing lots of weight I overdid it on the almond flour muffins and

nuts. I was very bored with such limited food choices, but

vowed I would stick it out and see what happens.

I also had a variety of rashes on my face (I had those for

years) very bad joint pain, the blah’s and of course, carb withdrawl

which left me depressed and irritable. I was grumpy during the early

period. Lot of baths w/Epsom salts.

Give yourself sometime as it sounds like it all part of the

detox process. I’ll be on the diet for 1 year in a couple of

weeks and I can’t believe how my digestion functions so quietly and

perfectly – I guess comparing it to years of problems I am finally

balanced. I have lot of energy and feel fantastic.

As some of say – you didn’t get this way

overnight so be patient. You’ll see progress and can bump up

to more advanced foods which is very encouraging – I think you need to

get into the yogurt program ASAP even if slowly.

SO hang in there and I am sure you will feel better soon.

CD – 2 years

SCD – 1 year