Re: a difference already??!!

[Guest guest]

I am excited for you. You are going to be in awe when you do this full-blown!

Jeni Lynn

a difference already??!!

I have been following the success stories (little kickers and

scooter riders, YAY!!)on this list and I am getting more impatient

to begin this diet for myself and family. Just last night I

decided to start my daughter, Maya,7, high-functioning PDD-NOS,

on a grain-free, sugar free path until I complete this semester.

She had applesauce and pineapple juice this morning; whole milk

yogurt with fruit, boiled egg, pear sauce and apple cider for lunch.

She was at a program for kids with disabilities, and I expressed my

diet requests that she eat only what she has brought along with her-

they know the SC Diet!!! When I picked her up at 3:30 today she

was a little withdrawn, we got home and she remained CALM. My

daughter functions at warp speed from dawn until dusk, every single

day (I am exhausted)NOT TODAY!!!!! from the moment we got out of

the car until bedtime, she was mellow. I didn't even have that

word in my vocabulary until today. It is the only way I can

accurately describe her behavior.A normal day would have been:

within 5-8 minutes of getting home, she would invariably attack

one of the other children at our home, and be sent to sit in her

room for a time. This would happen all afternoon. Dinner was a

nightmare with her trying to hit anyone who walked by her or

grabbing food off of others plates (no impulse control) an

unending battle to get her bathed and into bed, to stay in bed,

to sleep. May I say OH THANK YOU GOD!!! Can one day actually show

progress? Have I been poisoning my child all of her life? We have

never been much of snack-food people. Whole wheat crackers, grahams,

pretzels. But when I look at our typical day, I see cereal in the

morning or bagel, pancake, donut (occasionally), bread with lunch,

crackers with pb for snack. Pasta for dinner, almost always some kind

of noodle (Italians!!) and more bread! holeymoley!

I don't know what else to say.....I am smiling and hopeful for her

tomorrow.

Cara Mia

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

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info<http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/\

>

and

http://www.pecanbread.com<http://www.pecanbread.com/>

[Guest guest]

That is awesome...so many of us have similar stories...having a calm child

will help you finish the last lap of this nursing semester...but has anyone

warned you that many kids experience a tough die off period in the beginning

of SCD? Not all, so yours just might be fine, but if you see any weird

symptoms later on, write us and we'll help you through it! :-)

Kerri

All SCD 3months for 7 yr old constipation and rages (both are much much

better)

a difference already??!!

>I have been following the success stories (little kickers and

> scooter riders, YAY!!)on this list and I am getting more impatient

> to begin this diet for myself and family. Just last night I

> decided to start my daughter, Maya,7, high-functioning PDD-NOS,

> on a grain-free, sugar free path until I complete this semester.

> She had applesauce and pineapple juice this morning; whole milk

> yogurt with fruit, boiled egg, pear sauce and apple cider for lunch.

> She was at a program for kids with disabilities, and I expressed my

> diet requests that she eat only what she has brought along with her-

> they know the SC Diet!!! When I picked her up at 3:30 today she

> was a little withdrawn, we got home and she remained CALM. My

> daughter functions at warp speed from dawn until dusk, every single

> day (I am exhausted)NOT TODAY!!!!! from the moment we got out of

> the car until bedtime, she was mellow. I didn't even have that

> word in my vocabulary until today. It is the only way I can

> accurately describe her behavior.A normal day would have been:

> within 5-8 minutes of getting home, she would invariably attack

> one of the other children at our home, and be sent to sit in her

> room for a time. This would happen all afternoon. Dinner was a

> nightmare with her trying to hit anyone who walked by her or

> grabbing food off of others plates (no impulse control) an

> unending battle to get her bathed and into bed, to stay in bed,

> to sleep. May I say OH THANK YOU GOD!!! Can one day actually show

> progress? Have I been poisoning my child all of her life? We have

> never been much of snack-food people. Whole wheat crackers, grahams,

> pretzels. But when I look at our typical day, I see cereal in the

> morning or bagel, pancake, donut (occasionally), bread with lunch,

> crackers with pb for snack. Pasta for dinner, almost always some kind

> of noodle (Italians!!) and more bread! holeymoley!

>

> I don't know what else to say.....I am smiling and hopeful for her

> tomorrow.

>

> Cara Mia

>

>

>

>

>

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

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

Wow, you sound like you have a lot on your plate.

You may have a hard time finding a legal liquid vitamin. Have you tried

to get her to swallow pills? Once we got over that hump, what a

difference in the stress at mealtimes.

We have also switched to Kirman's supernuthera hypo allergenic capsules.

(SCD legal) These are quite small. It's high in B6 and reduced our need

for multiple single vitamins. For my youngest son, I mix the one capsule

in his morning OJ.

Becky

mom to Noah (6, HFA) and (3, NT)

Trying to add B-6 and magnesium, but need to find a

> liquid source, opening too many capsules, mixing with applesauce, she

> doesn't want it anymore. Always a new challenge...

[Guest guest]

Wow, you sound like you have a lot on your plate.

You may have a hard time finding a legal liquid vitamin. Have you tried

to get her to swallow pills? Once we got over that hump, what a

difference in the stress at mealtimes.

We have also switched to Kirman's supernuthera hypo allergenic capsules.

(SCD legal) These are quite small. It's high in B6 and reduced our need

for multiple single vitamins. For my youngest son, I mix the one capsule

in his morning OJ.

Becky

mom to Noah (6, HFA) and (3, NT)

Trying to add B-6 and magnesium, but need to find a

> liquid source, opening too many capsules, mixing with applesauce, she

> doesn't want it anymore. Always a new challenge...