Re: Quitters...not until three months I hear

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> I came across a great story, i think on scdiet.org, about a minister

> who got on the diet due to severe ulcerative colitis. Anyways, her

> advice was that one month was not enough, to give the diet three

> months. That was a better litmus test of it's ability to heal you.

> I have an older printing of BTVC, so Elaine says one month in the

> book I have, but does she expand that in later editions? Just

> wondering.

>

> Having been on it three weeks, I still crave stuff, but I feel like

> there's no going back. I don't care if I see no improvement at the

> end of one month, this diet makes too much sense. It's not even a

> matter of 'will it heal my crohn's' but getting rid of all refined

> sugars and carbs and industrial foods that I want to maintain.

Sometimes a lot of incremental symptoms are the first ones to disappear,

things you weren't even sure were related, and they vanish so

completely,

sometimes you forget all about them almost immediately.

>

> Oh, and my wife and I blanched five poounds of almonds yesterday by

> hand, you know, the whole boiling water over the nuts, then squeeze

> them out of the skin. It was murder. I'm buying blanched almonds

> next time.

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flour,

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Mara

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At 11:17 AM 9/26/2009, you wrote:

I have an older printing of

BTVC, so Elaine says one month in the book I have, but does she expand

that in later editions? Just wondering.

Most people do see some results in a month. What Elaine said was that she

had to set some kind of limitation on it, and chose " one month "

as being something that most people could commit to.

Typically, people feel enough better, even if all their symptoms have no

resolved (and healing DOES take time!) that they are then willing to

commit to another month, and another month, and another month.

Kind of like the Alcoholics Anonymous motto of " one day at a

time. "

If you tell someone that they must give up all their accustomed food

forever and ever and ever, it's entirely too daunting. But if you take it

in shorter periods of time, it's dealable.

For myself, I'd say 6-9 months, because there is often a flare around 3

months when the bad bacteria fight back against the evil person starving

them out, which can cause some folks to say, " Oh, SCD doesn't work!

Look at this awful flare I'm in. "

And yes, it's a method of eating which IS healthful and sensible.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

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Having been on it three weeks, I still crave stuff, but I feel like there's no going back. I don't care if I see no improvement at the end of one month, this diet makes too much sense. It's not even a matter of 'will it heal my crohn's' but getting rid of all refined sugars and carbs and industrial foods that I want to maintain. I just need some land where I can grow my own almonds. Yay for you!! That's how I feel too. I'm at almost 4 months, and this fourth month has been pretty awful. I think it's just the longest 3-month flare ever, although I think someone on here had a 6-week three month flare. Not to discourage you or anything. But I agree that the diet needs more time to see if it's working than one month. Pour Dieu, pour terre,Alyssa 15UC April 2008, diagnosed Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)No meds except for the stupid iron pill I have to take that is SO illegal

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Having been on it three weeks, I still crave stuff, but I feel like there's no going back. I don't care if I see no improvement at the end of one month, this diet makes too much sense. It's not even a matter of 'will it heal my crohn's' but getting rid of all refined sugars and carbs and industrial foods that I want to maintain. I just need some land where I can grow my own almonds. Yay for you!! That's how I feel too. I'm at almost 4 months, and this fourth month has been pretty awful. I think it's just the longest 3-month flare ever, although I think someone on here had a 6-week three month flare. Not to discourage you or anything. But I agree that the diet needs more time to see if it's working than one month. Pour Dieu, pour terre,Alyssa 15UC April 2008, diagnosed Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)No meds except for the stupid iron pill I have to take that is SO illegal