a difference already??!!

[Guest guest]

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was a little withdrawn, we got home and she remained CALM.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