Run down, feeling poorly on limited foods, need advice

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We've been on SCD for 19 days, my nursing 3yo and I. He seems to be

doing fine, he hasn't lost any weight thank goodness, and his

behavior is much much better. He's doing quite well developmentally -

making faster progress in his ABA program than he ever has.

Teachers are commenting about how well he's suddenly doing. We're

also doing antifungals and antibiotics, but I'm convinced the

progress is mostly due to SCD.

However I'm becoming increasingly run down, foggy-brained and

unfocused, having difficulty getting through the day. I want to

sleep a lot. I don't have any energy.

I think a large part of the problem is our limited diet. My son has

allergies (real, positive test IgE allergies) to most foods,

including nuts and milk, and with his allergy profile the risk with

eggs is too great to try them. He eats only a few meats, a few

veggies, and 3 oils. We follow a rotation diet, and we have about 16

foods tro spread out over 5 different rotation schedules, so each

day is really just limited to one meat, one oil, and one or two

vegetables. A sample day would be: spinach, beef, safflower oil,

cucumber (cooked).

I am not really able to expand his diet at this point. I've already

added in advanced foods that I would rather have waited on - like

broccoli and celeriac, just because he needs the carbs and calories

from them. But his poops are looking undigested on those days.

A few days, I have cheated with potatos, and I feel much better

those days and it did not seem to affect my son (he has outgrown his

old potato allergy). I think I need the carbs. I am not losing

weight, probably due to eating so much meat and oil.

Can anyone help me figure out what to do? I am really at a loss. I

don't want to wean him, it would be really hard on him emotionally

and behaviorally right now. I don't want to take away this important

food source, either.

Adding other foods is pretty risky, unless we jump ahead to

rutabagas, or go to non-dissacharide illegals that he's not allergic

to, like parsnips and turnips (which he always seemed to do well

with). Am I correct in understanding that Elaine's objections to

these were due to their rough fibrous texture, rather than the type

of saccharide they are?

Any advice is welcome!

Suzanne