starting raw fruit tentatively and slowly

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have been on scd for little over 2 months and last 2 weeks were a real

improvement and feeling great overall! My food variety has increased somewhat

and still going slowly with introducing new foods. I'm still cautiously

optimisitc and nervous about a flare up or set back which I know is normal but

so disheartening!!!

My main question is...if I were to start introducing raw fruits and veggies

slowly and one at a time, what are the best ones to start with?

I would think melons since they are mostly water...what else? which veggies? (i

would assume all peeled..)

If someone could get back to me on this i'd really appreciate it.

Thanks, Becky

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> have been on scd for little over 2 months and last 2 weeks were a real

> improvement and feeling great overall! My food variety has increased

> somewhat and still going slowly with introducing new foods. I'm still

> cautiously optimisitc and nervous about a flare up or set back which I

> know is normal but so disheartening!!!

>

> My main question is...if I were to start introducing raw fruits and

> veggies slowly and one at a time, what are the best ones to start with?

> I would think melons since they are mostly water...what else? which

> veggies? (i would assume all peeled..)

> If someone could get back to me on this i'd really appreciate it.

> Thanks, Becky

>

Melons, not necessarily. When my Crohn's was really active cantelope

always made me sick, and I didn't digest watermelon well either (plus

watermelon has a very high sugar content; that could be why I couldn't

tolerate it then). Everybody's different, but bananas were the first fresh

fruit I ate on the diet; then applesauce (which isn't raw, obviously) and

after that fresh apple/banana, yogurt and an egg (and a shot of orange

juice) in a blender (with some ice cubes), which made, and still makes a

great lunch (but now I add vanilla and nutmage, and sometimes leftover

coffee from breakfast). I could also eat blueberries quite quickly, though

you may have to watch out about the seeds in berries like strawberries. It

didn't have any trouble adding either of those to my " shake " concoction,

however.

Now, among others, I eat tons of bananas, apples and

clementines/tangerines. Of the latter I eat probably three or four a day.

Re:veggies, I didn't eat any raw for months, then tried carrots. Now I can

eat carrots and celery and sweet peppers (green, red and yellow), but

there aren't any other raw veggies I've tried, or like very much. I'm not

into raw broccoli or cauliflower, though with a good yogurt-based dip and

some herbs I'd probably eat them. But that's also fairly advanced.

n

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i think that sounds crazy early - you may hit a 3 month flare and not know

what's going on - I'm almost 2 years in and am barely eating too much past stage

2-but that just sounds too early for raw in my opinion

eileen

>

> have been on scd for little over 2 months and last 2 weeks were a real

improvement and feeling great overall! My food variety has increased somewhat

and still going slowly with introducing new foods. I'm still cautiously

optimisitc and nervous about a flare up or set back which I know is normal but

so disheartening!!!

>

> My main question is...if I were to start introducing raw fruits and veggies

slowly and one at a time, what are the best ones to start with?

> I would think melons since they are mostly water...what else? which veggies?

(i would assume all peeled..)

> If someone could get back to me on this i'd really appreciate it.

> Thanks, Becky

>

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:24:06 -0500, blackguitarmaker

autumn71a@...> wrote:

Eileen wrote in response to Becky:

> i think that sounds crazy early - you may hit a 3 month flare and not

> know what's going on - I'm almost 2 years in and am barely eating too

> much past stage 2-but that just sounds too early for raw in my opinion

> eileen

Not at all. At least, not necessarily. I began eating raw stuff before

that and it worked fine. I've found that if you know your own body you'll

have something of a sense of what might work for you at a given point --

and what might not. Sometimes you're wrong, but you have to experiment, in

my view, or you won't progress much.

n

Becky wrote:

>> have been on scd for little over 2 months and last 2 weeks were a real

>> improvement and feeling great overall! My food variety has increased

>> somewhat and still going slowly with introducing new foods. I'm still

>> cautiously optimisitc and nervous about a flare up or set back which I

>> know is normal but so disheartening!!!

>>

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[Guest guest]

> i think that sounds crazy early - you may hit a 3 month flare and not

> know what's going on - I'm almost 2 years in and am barely eating too

> much past stage 2-but that just sounds too early for raw in my opinion

> eileen

I know raw for many people is a real no-no for a long time but we

aren't all that way. I'm 5.5 months in and nearly from the start was

eating raw fruits (most) and raw salad veggies (alas most other

veggies that you cook I cannot manage). This is fine. I do limit the

quantity of citrus and stone fruits. I think the reason this works

for me is that over the 27 years where I needed SCD but before I

found it, this is what I managed to find in the fruit-veggie category

that works for me. My body is used to it. If I were coming from SAD

I imagine it would be different.

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Becky-

Very glad to hear that you're doing well!

My experience: Its been 5 I started SCD. I have been eating everything

well-cooked. The only time I tried raw was last week with little bit avocado and

cilantro but I had a drop of B next day and I stopped.

Not to scare you, but we're all different. Good luck, keep us updated.

-Andy.