Re: yeast and other issues

[Guest guest]

Ellen,

I cannot answer all of your questions, but as to the hunger issue, I think

it will improve. Abby has been SCD for 3 months. She is also small and has

a ravishing appetitie. In the begining she was trying to eat everything

(non food items like crayons and such). I believe this extrodinary hunger

is part of the die-off effect. After 3 months she is doing much better, not

quite as hungry (but still a good appetite) and not trying to eat non food

items. She has also gained weight! She is dairy free, egg free and cannot

have many of the nuts (no Almonds).

--

Sahr

Abby Sahr, 5 yr old, seizure disorder, SCD 3 months

[Guest guest]

Hi Ellen,

Are there any visible signs of yeast - rashes, worsening stools, coated tongue

spots on tongue, itchy bottom etc.? Anything other than being obsessed with the

bananas and muffins. If her stools are still solid than see flecks of almond

flour in the stool is okay.

Perhaps you can bake with ripe bananas to get weight instead of feeding them to

her seperately (less of a sugar rush). And banana bread instead of banana cup

cakes which would have more honey.

Sheila, SCD 2/01, UC 22yrs

mom of and

Hi, I have posted a couple of times. we are about a month SCD

adn have continually run into snags. here's the latest. I am now

convinced that my daughter and I have VEY high metabolism.. even

before this diet, we eat and eat and eat and I stay thin, and she

has difficulty gaining, weather it is that or not, we are having a

bear of a time feeling full on this diet. I finally, after her

losing more weigth than I was confortable with 5% of her body wiegth

( not to mention what my doctor would have said!)I was a a cross

roads: go back to our previous diet.. very restricted, but

including grains and potatoes, or go SCD leagal and just do the

list. So I did the legal list, jumping into muffins with almond

flour, bananas, which she can now toleerate and I tried some

cheese.. didn't work and we can't do eggs. she gained wieght.. all

is well, right? well, then she in the course of three days became

absolutely obsessed with bananas and muffins.. so much so that I

knew we were dealing with yeast.. oh and we have started the

yogurt,previous to this and she has formed stools, they just have

tons of almond on them. So I know I need to do something.. but

what? If I dorp the almonds, most of the fruit then she is left

with only meat and veges... she literally won't touch squash

anymore of zuchinni did the squash to death in the first three

weeks. So my questions are this I hear on this board that people

do this deit egg free dairy free and nut free.. but how in the (

bleep) do you get enough food to sustain yourself, and how could I

possibly get a toodelr to eat it? She is a GREAT eater, she will

try lots of things, but quite frankly I have learned to eat because

the food is there, and not always because I want to eat it.

toddlers don't work that way. She is such a sport about all of

this.. this is not a behavior thing. I have changed this kids food

and taken away her " favorites " more times thatn I ahve changed her

diapers it feels like. adn what do you think about yeast and these

muffins: I use the basic recipe in BTVC, except I use squash and

avacado adn then pear /prune sauce ( homemade) in place of honey.

would these promote yeast growth? OH, she won't touch pear sauce,

or other cooked fruits. sigh. I have tried everything. she is

only up to about 1/4 cup yogurt a day if that , more like a 1/8

cup, so doing cooked fruit with that is out. I am limiting to 1

to 2 bananas a day, and starting legal acidophilius as soon as it

arrives.meat and veges don't give a person the stuff to add wieght..

that's diet, like lose weight diet food.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

Ellen