Difficulties starting out

[Guest guest]

I'm having some trouble getting past the intro diet, as I seem to get both good

and bad days and it's hard to tie them to specific foods I'm introducing. A

couple of questions:

-Is it possible to have a problem with tolerating honey? Before I started SCD,

when I was on a no/low-carb diet (and still had a very little bit of sugar

intake from various sauces and spices and what-not), I decided to try

introducing honey, and I got a lot of gas as a result, within a few hours of

trying it, each time that I did. Honey seems kind of central to SCD (and if I

can't tolerate honey, why should I be able to tolerate, say, apples?), so I

wonder how to test whether that's causing my problems or what..

-My second question is sort of related: how, in detail, do you test out

individual foods? I'm back on intro now because I was introducing foods at a

rate of 1 new food every 2 days, and this happened:

Day Stage How I'm feeling, average for the day (1-10, 10 = good, 1=terrible)

1 Intro diet 5

2 5

3 6

4 7

5 Bananas 8

6 7

7 Apples 5

8 3

(9 Intro 6

10 5)

Now this looks like I have a problem with apples, but day 7 started out badly

before I had even had any apples, and on day 6 I had some burgers for dinner,

which I tend to tolerate fine when I'm on a low carb diet and I tend to have

problems with on a normal diet. So at this point I don't know whether it was

the apples, a delayed reaction to the bananas, some combination of bananas + red

meat, etc. Can you guys give me some advice as to how I can get through a bad

period (like day 8) and get some meaningful data out of it? (Note, these

starting 8 days are pretty useless data also because I didn't realize until day

8 that my vanilla extract had sugar in it! Man! You'd think that if you're only

eating like 4 foods, you'd be able to catch all of the SCD illegals!)

[Guest guest]

I'm having some trouble getting past the intro diet, as I seem to get both good

and bad days and it's hard to tie them to specific foods I'm introducing. A

couple of questions:

-Is it possible to have a problem with tolerating honey? Before I started SCD,

when I was on a no/low-carb diet (and still had a very little bit of sugar

intake from various sauces and spices and what-not), I decided to try

introducing honey, and I got a lot of gas as a result, within a few hours of

trying it, each time that I did. Honey seems kind of central to SCD (and if I

can't tolerate honey, why should I be able to tolerate, say, apples?), so I

wonder how to test whether that's causing my problems or what..

-My second question is sort of related: how, in detail, do you test out

individual foods? I'm back on intro now because I was introducing foods at a

rate of 1 new food every 2 days, and this happened:

Day Stage How I'm feeling, average for the day (1-10, 10 = good, 1=terrible)

1 Intro diet 5

2 5

3 6

4 7

5 Bananas 8

6 7

7 Apples 5

8 3

(9 Intro 6

10 5)

Now this looks like I have a problem with apples, but day 7 started out badly

before I had even had any apples, and on day 6 I had some burgers for dinner,

which I tend to tolerate fine when I'm on a low carb diet and I tend to have

problems with on a normal diet. So at this point I don't know whether it was

the apples, a delayed reaction to the bananas, some combination of bananas + red

meat, etc. Can you guys give me some advice as to how I can get through a bad

period (like day 8) and get some meaningful data out of it? (Note, these

starting 8 days are pretty useless data also because I didn't realize until day

8 that my vanilla extract had sugar in it! Man! You'd think that if you're only

eating like 4 foods, you'd be able to catch all of the SCD illegals!)