Re: One week into the diet....

[Guest guest]

Therese,

I'm glad you're daughter's doing well, if not having an instant cure like

we would all wish for!

One week is not much time for her to have started healing -- and she must

heal before she can begin absorbing nutrients and normalizing her

weight.

By what I understand, regrettably, for many people, the bleeding can be

the last symptom to go, although some are fortunate.

Go out to one of the diet sites like Fitday.Com and total up your

daughter's food intake and how active she is -- how many calories she's

expending per day. If you want her to gain one pound a week, she must

take in at 500 calories per day more than she is expending. As you are

able to expand her menu, add healthy fats, like avocados and so forth to

smoothies. She may need lots of butter or olive oil on her cooked

vegetables. You can also do vegetable smoothies, with tomato juice (if

tolerated) and various vegetables, plus some peeled hard boiled eggs for

extra protein, and a couple tablespoons of coconut oil for extra

calories.

—

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]

Thank you Marilyn for the encouraging words! When the bleeding stops,

I will exhale... It all gets pretty stressful! She is going back

to school tomorrow for the first time since before Thanksgiving. She

is still tired and very pale but she wants to try and go back, so I am

keeping my fingers crossed!

Oh, I noticed on your signature line that you have two longhaired

dachshunds! We have dachshunds too! Two smooth coats! I watch two

longhairs during the day though! One of my best friends is a teacher

and she drops her two longhairs off to me and they stay with my two

doxies and I during the day! Those little guys are something

else...once you have a doxie, you will always have one! Gotta love

em! )

Therese

>

>

> Therese,

>

> I'm glad you're daughter's doing well, if not

> having an instant cure like we would all wish for!

>

> One week is not much time for her to have started

> healing -- and she must heal before she can begin

> absorbing nutrients and normalizing her weight.

>

> By what I understand, regrettably, for many

> people, the bleeding can be the last symptom to

> go, although some are fortunate.

>

> Go out to one of the diet sites like Fitday.Com

> and total up your daughter's food intake and how

> active she is -- how many calories she's

> expending per day. If you want her to gain one

> pound a week, she must take in at 500 calories

> per day more than she is expending. As you are

> able to expand her menu, add healthy fats, like

> avocados and so forth to smoothies. She may need

> lots of butter or olive oil on her cooked

> vegetables. You can also do vegetable smoothies,

> with tomato juice (if tolerated) and various

> vegetables, plus some peeled hard boiled eggs for

> extra protein, and a couple tablespoons of coconut oil for extra

calories.

>

>

>

> — 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]

> She is drinking

smoothies with the yogurt, chicken soup, hamburger patties, fish,

carots, stringbeans, spinach, applesauce, bananas and the farmers

cheese. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!<

Make sure those bananas are super ripe, really

spotty and soft. String beans can be tricky sometimes.

Hamburger patties can be beef or beef/pork, some

people do better when it is just beef.

We find that weight has a lot to do with proportions.

That the meat is about the same amount on the

plate as the vegetables. Too little sugar (in the legal

form in veges and fruits) can stop you from

putting on weight (like the low-carb diets).

A great weight booster for us is honey+butter

(heat honey, let simmer then add butter to

make a sticky toffee)

Cecilia + 12 yo girl

[Guest guest]

>

> > She is drinking

> smoothies with the yogurt, chicken soup, hamburger patties, fish,

> carots, stringbeans, spinach, applesauce, bananas and the farmers

> cheese. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!<

How much yogurt? In my son even small amounts caused loose

stools/diarrhea. Have you been working your way up? If I eat too much

of the yogurt, I myself am running for the bathroom...and I don't have

UC/Crohn's. LOL.

B.

ASD son, RA self, SCD Nov. 2007

http://scdgirl.blogspot.com

[Guest guest]

Hey ,

Not that much yogurt at all....just in the smoothies pretty much and

even then I put only like 1/2 cup.

Therese

> >

> > > She is drinking

> > smoothies with the yogurt, chicken soup, hamburger patties, fish,

> > carots, stringbeans, spinach, applesauce, bananas and the farmers

> > cheese. Any help or information would be greatly appreciated!<

>

> How much yogurt? In my son even small amounts caused loose

> stools/diarrhea. Have you been working your way up? If I eat too much

> of the yogurt, I myself am running for the bathroom...and I don't have

> UC/Crohn's. LOL.

>

> B.

> ASD son, RA self, SCD Nov. 2007

> http://scdgirl.blogspot.com

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Hey ,

>

> Not that much yogurt at all....just in the smoothies pretty much and

> even then I put only like 1/2 cup.

>

> Therese

Hi Therese,

That is a lot if it's not worked up to. The yogurt is like a megadose

of probiotics. You might want to stop it for a few days to see if that

helps at all.

In my son, even a teaspoon in the beginning caused loose stools. It

really increased his behavioral issues so we haven't tried it for a while.

B.

ASD son, RA self, SCD Nov. 2007

http://scdgirl.blogspot.com