Savory Smoothies, repost of Re: Re: I need HELP/ Marilyn

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This is a re-post of my answer to someone who was having trouble adding

even cooked vegetables to their diet. For others' information, peeled

cooked zucchinis (courgettes) are my personal " easy to digest "

vegetable, and one I can fall back on when everything else is going

wonky, which it did after my cancer surgery and all the illegals in the

pain medicines. I've also used zucchinis a bit this last couple of months

with all the stress of my Mom's last illness and death.

At 03:32 AM 4/1/2009, you wrote:

It was mine about " meat

fish and zucks " and yes, I know it's not good and I'm feeling

helpless. I've tried green beans but sometimes they constipated me,

sometimes I had a lot of gas. I've tried spinach - same story, red

peppers, broccoli. All of this was cooked very well, pealed seeded, and

pureed. I tried egg yolk - soft boiled, hard boiled, but they make my

stools loose. I don't have success with yogurt (goat and cow's) and

probiotics too. Except zucchini I eat avocado and butternut squash and

pumpkin. Sometimes banana ( 1/4). I'm bored to death of these foods, but

that it's not the problem. I'm afraid that may be I " lost "

somehow the ability to digest other foods.

Yana,

Keep in mind that we probably have already lost the ability to digest

many of these foods -- otherwise we wouldn't be sick in the first

place.

Something I remember doing was eating small amounts of a new food, and

then going back to my zucchinis for at least a day or two. And then

another small amount, and back to the zucchinis.

I found that even when I didn't have overt symptoms (diarrhea, urgency)

within a few hours of eating a food, I might have " soft

constipation " if I ate foods I wasn't real good with. By " soft

constipation, " I mean soft stools which just won't come out, and

which stick to the rectal area, making it very difficult to get clean.

(Sorry if this is too graphic.)

I remember reading, over on Pecan Bread, I think, about children who did

not progress with adding vegetables until those vegetables were pureed.

At the time, I didn't give it much thought because I was well past that

stage.

But, thanks to all the so-called inactive ingredients in the pain meds

last year, I was having a number of issues that I hadn't had, literally

in years.

So, I started doing thick veggie soups: one or two peeled, cooked

zucchini, a few spoonfuls of cooked whatever (spinach, green beans, etc.

and maybe a pinch or two a some tolerated seasoning. Sometimes I added

tomato juice, which I tolerated. Sometimes I added bone broths. Sometimes

I added a dollop pf yogurt. Then I blended the every-loving heck out of

it, poured it into a pan, heated it up, and ate it. (If using yogurt, I

often stirred the yogurt in after everything else was in my

bowl.)

By pureeing the vegetables, I pre-digested them, making them like baby

food -- and it turned out that this was the key for re-balancing my

system. My system had to do less work to handle the veggies, so could

extract the nutrients, which improved the healing factor -- and once I

got rid of the pain medications and their so-called inactive

bacteria-food ingredients, I was able to get things back on an even

keel.

Don't know if this will work for you, but it's a possibility.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

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