Ive ordered BVC book, question about diet

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I just placed my order for Breaking the Vicious Cycle and while I wait

for it to arrive I have a question - do most parents just give the SCD

diet to their child or is it a whole family diet?

Thanks,

Bobbie

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bmorin2017 wrote:

>I just placed my order for Breaking the Vicious Cycle and while I wait

>for it to arrive I have a question - do most parents just give the SCD

>diet to their child or is it a whole family diet?

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>Thanks,

>Bobbie

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We're doing it as a family because it's so much easier that way (at

least to me). I can barely handle one meal, let alone trying to fix

several different things. LOL. I know some people do it just for

their kids, though. It's really a good and healthy diet, though and I

think it's easier on the kids if we're all eating the same things. :-)

Steph Aspie

DS7 Celiac, Aspie

DS3 Celiac

all SCD 5 weeks (started over)

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Bobbie,

For family meals, I cook one SCD meal.

My husband eats non-SCD food for breakfast (before the boys get up)

and lunch (while he is at work).

Early on in the diet, I was certain not to eat any GFCF foods that my

boys had previously loved (Potato chips, french fries, rice, pasta,

etc) in front of them.

Now, occasionally I will have those things, but only when we go out to

eat, which isn't very often. And I still don't order fries because it

makes them really sad because of all the things they miss the most I

think it's french fries.

So, for meals at home, there is one SCD meal served.

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

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Hi Bobbie,

I our case I know we wouldn't have been successful with SCD if the

" household " was not SCD. With going gluten-free and eating to avoid his 25 IgG

allergies pre-SCD it was evident that I could not feed my daughter one thing and

him another without problems and I couldn't be a " basement eater " any longer.

After dinner I'd let him watch a video while the rest of us ate things he

couldn't in the kitchen. Inevitably the word rice (a +3 for him) or whatever

would be said too loudly and Elijah would come running demanding rice too. It

is very hard to deny a child food that is a good 5 lbs. underweight and height

is 2 inches below 5%. And his cravings are intense. Emotionally I don't think

I could handle his intense cravings if I was sneaking food or even if rice,

pasta, cereal etc was in the house. I am fully on the diet so I have gone

through cravings with him during die-off and I have been fully content with my

SCD meals too. I know that I also wouldn't put much effort into

good meals for him if my attention was divided and I wasn't eating them daily

too.

Plus we are all healthier and have benefited in so many ways too. The

decision to do SCD as a household (I say it that way meaning outside of the

house my husband eats whatever and I could too but I haven't yet) really hinged

on my 22 month old daughter. I didn't want to limit her if I didn't need to.

But then a realized that the diarrhea that she had been having off and on and

undigested food for 8 months might not be from teething. 14 teeth came in in 8

months so it could have been, but SCD stopped it. She quickly became less

clingy and all around more easy going even through 3 more teeth coming in. As

an infant she was 45% but during the same time period went down to 5% and barely

hung there. Now she is gaining and at 10%. I have had a lot of changes too

mostly my energy level and my acne. The biggest benefit is that it has allowed

me to relax with his symptoms during die-off. While he was gassy so was I.

While his appetite went down so did mine. When he had

cravings so did I. And I know first hand that being on SCD is not a sad way to

eat.

If your child wouldn't be bothered by family eating pasta, rice, etc

around him/her and eating/ weight-gain isn't an issue then maybe the family

doesn't need to go SCD to be successful. I believe some feel that in order to

do all the research and new cooking involved they need to be at " full strength "

and not going through cravings and die-off. And in each family the needs are

different. But I believe there are a lot of benefits to SCD for people with

apparently normal functioning guts too. And I do believe that setting things up

for success and 100% SCD with no slips off a siblings plate or sneaking into

cabinet is of the utmost importance.

Take care,

Elijah, 3, leaky-gut, ASD

a 22 months

SCD 11.5 weeks

bmorin2017 bmorin2017@...> wrote:

I just placed my order for Breaking the Vicious Cycle and while I wait

for it to arrive I have a question - do most parents just give the SCD

diet to their child or is it a whole family diet?

Thanks,

Bobbie

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

and

http://www.pecanbread.com