Sustantial healing (was: Re: Re: Stomach Gurgle)

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>> thanx for response...how long on diet did it take you for you to start > feeling substantially healed? I think I'm beginning to see more > improvements but cautiously optimisitc...The answer to your question depends a lot on the individual and differs from person to person. And maybe it depends also on what one's definition of "subtantially healed" is.Not everybody takes many weeks or even months to start feeling healing. I certainly didn't. After not unexpected adjustments of my body to new foods and lack of old ones I felt a great deal better, and that didn't take long for me; less than a month (with a not-too serious flare a few months in). Pretty quickly I could eat raw fruit ands vegetables, and I have been snacking on Larabars for a long time already. I've also been eating normal bacon for months without any problem. I began doing that when it was clear I needed more protien -- some kind of meat -- at breakfast with my eggs. (I'm not saying that others should do that; I'm saying I did it and it works for me; Elaine suggested eating regular bacon not more than once a week when one was at the stage to be able to do that; I eat it more often without negative impact, but that may not hold true for many other people.) Interestingly, I did try salt-cured bacon and had bad response to it so went back to regular bacon! (Not only that, to my mind the salt-cured stuff tasted awful, so I was happy the rest of my body concurred with my taste buds!)I started the diet at the beginning of the year so have been on it almost a year. But I also started LDN a few weeks after that, and I attribute the speed of my healing to the combination of the two -- and very definitely the LDN caused the disappearance of my constant fatigue and the improvement of my asthma and allergies.I've never gone off the the diet in that time. However, yesterday, at a reception, as a deliberate experiment I ate two "normal" wheat-based Christmas cookies (one small sugar cookie, one with pecans and a jam center) and a miniature eclair (with the chocolate frosting scraped off) to see how I would react. I didn't feel anything negative for some hours, except I felt shaky from the sugar in the cookies (they weren't all that sweet by "normal" people's standards). I found it intersting that they tasted terribly sweet to me, and obviously my body didn't like whatever sugar was in them. Later that evening I had diarrhea which I don't have often at all anymore -- that was my negative reaction. That told me what I wanted to know: that I can't eat "normal" Christmas cookies and so shouldn't hanker for them! The most intersting thing is that they didn't even taste that good to me. So I certainly won't try such stuff again any time soon.I'm not recommending that others try this. I'm at an advanced stage in the diet and, knowing my own body, felt certain I could do that without going into a major flare. It was probably more a psychological test for me than a physical one. I felt I needed to try it so that I wouldn't be longing to eat that kind of stuff throughout this whole season. I used to be a real Christmas cookie/pastry/bread freak, though I've never had a sweet tooth, per se. And now I won't be longing for that stuff. What surprised me was how little appeal those cookies (and even the eclair) had for me when I was actually eating them. I suspected I might react somewhat, and I did, but mildly and without lasting effects. I confirmed for myself, however, even more than before, what good the diet has done me and is doing me. I rarely have gut pain or gas anymore, and it used to be near constant.If you stick to the diet and gradually add legal things that you like and believe will work for you -- and experiment until you hit on things that truly do work for you and give you the nutrition that you need -- you have every reason to be "cautiously optimistic." Or even out-and-out wildly optimistic. :-)   (But I'll say it for the umpteenth time: I'd suggest also looking into taking LDN with the diet.)I wish you well.n-- Now available. A fine Christmas gift for cat lovers:Confessions of a Cataholic: My Life With the 10 Cats Who Caused My Addictionby n Van Tilwww.wordpowerpublishing.com ; signed copies; free shipping in U.S., reduced shipping elsewhere; free gift wrapping