Re: Re: DS Not eating, worries and concerns

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Thank you Brent!

This is very specific and helpful. I have been thinking about starting over

again for some time, and it seems like this might be the best thing to do.

Ughh!

I am encouraged to know more details of what stage you are at in spite of the

length of time on the diet. I think that is what makes me anxious. Everyone

posts about making cookies and cakes, and we are still cooking, deseeding, and

pureeing after 4 months. I was beginning to feel like something was wrong since

our progress seemed so slow in comparison with others. And then, with the

constant back and forth of constipation and diarrhea, I have just been confused

and frustrated recently.

Thanks for your input. It is appreciated.

Jeni Lynn

Re: DS Not eating, worries and concerns

For us it has been going very very slowly and watching intensely the

changes that occur.

We're still on the first groupings of foods for tolerance at 5

months. Its very basic still pureed green beans, squash, pearsauce,

bananas. We've been giving soup with bone broth, meats and eggs, the

same grape juice mixture as well and then the SCD Multi Vitamin.

Instead of going down the list quickly we've been upping the quantity

of these as well as the goat yogurt since its so beneficial one step

at a time. Mostly its just the pearsauce, bananas that I keep in

check and move up and down in quantity until her stools form. ALL

else stays the same. She gets little green beans and little squash.

Measuring out in tablespoons of the pearsauce helps. Finding out

that Ella is much more senstive to sugar late in the day helped. Even

a warm bath would cause her bowels to move about 20-30 mintues later

before she was ready to have a fully formed stool sometimes. It took

me three months to figure this out.

Ultimately we might sacrifice moveing faster but we're developing

knowledge base there since we try to keep it very simple and basic

and move one slow step at a time to see how a change effects her.

Its taken a whole month for instance to move from 1/8th tsp up to

several tablespoons now of yogurt. It took us probably three months

to get all the illegals out. I have almond flour in the freezer but

didn't want to confuse the issue in how she would be handling the

increased yogurt. Nor did I add any other foods during this time

save for a small amount of purreed carots.

It is a puzzle as Summer as commented about. Time sure helps. By

watching closely you begin to pick up the nuances. Feeding foods

together for a mixture...instead of all meat then sauces later may

help you? Perhaps you already do this? It took us a lot of time to

find this point that gives the trophies. We learned that she was

sensitive still to dairy early on and once we eliminated that her

stools formed up again. ALL the while though we would have

regressions we'd learn something from them and correct it. Ella

still was healing during this process and has she grows more tolerant

now there is more leeway in her diet. She doesn't react as violently

anymore thats for sure. She snaps back quicker after our babysitter

gave her two ripe bananas late in the evening when instructred not

too Aargh! With the two soft stools that followed I leaned much

heavier on the meats/eggs/soup...scaled back on her glucose/fructose

and the third stool was a trophy again.

Charting what happens after each food change helps immensely. For us

it was realizing Ella had a problem with even simple sugars in

quanitity. Thus finding that right quantity of grape juice/water

bananas and pearsauce really helped. This is her manipulation point

at this time now along with the yogurt.

Ellas problem was always diarrhea and never constipation. Perhaps

its been a bit less complex because of that.

WIshing you much healing and continued discovery,

Brent

> > Hi,

> >

> > I have only a few minutes to write but wanted to respond

to

> this...

> >

> > > According to standards that Jody posted a couple weeks ago.

We

> are

> > supposed to have 50 - 55%

> > > carb intake, 30% fat, and 15 - 20% protein.

> >

> > I don't know where the standards Jody posted came from,

or

> whether they are

> > supposed to be for adults, children, or both -- but I can tell

you

> that many

> > medical researchers and doctors would disagree with these

> standards, at

> > least for adults...particularly the researchers/doctors who are

> > *successfully* treating (without the usual dead-end allopathic

> drugs)

> > obesity, Type II diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease,

and

> related

> > health problems. These folks would say lower (or much, much

lower)

> carb

> > intake (especially insulin-stimulating carbs), higher protein,

fat

> about the

> > same or somewhat higher (depending on calorie needs).

> >

> > I'm hesitant to write more because we're not supposed to

> recommend/discuss

> > other diets on this list, and most of the readily available

> information in

> > this area is in the form of books/articles/websites etc. on

> > diet...obviously.

> >

> > Maybe I can just point out that in the traditional diets

of

> the Arctic

> > peoples, about 70% of calories came from animal fats (blubber!)

and

> about

> > 30% of calories came from animal protein. Extremely little

> carbohydrate was

> > eaten. The Arctic natives were legendary for their strength

and

> endurance.

> > European explorers who adopted the native diet while exploring

in

> the Arctic

> > thrived on it.

> >

> > Kayla

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read

the

> book _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read

the

> following websites:

> >

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w.breakingtheviciouscycle.info<http://www.breakingtheviciousc>

ycle.info/>

> > and

> >

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ttp://www.pecanbread.com/>>

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >