Re: Difficulties starting out

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At 03:50 AM 2/21/2010, you wrote:

-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..

It's possible to have issues with both honey and fruit in any kind of

quantity.

What I'm seeing is that you've introduced three items (honey, banana, and

apple), all of which are quite high carb, and have not introduced any

cooked, peeled vegetables.

I remember when I first started SCD, fruit and yogurt smoothies were the

" in " thing on the list. Some of the recipes had a couple cups

of fruit and a full cup of dripped yogurt, plus honey. I tried one of

them and spent the the day parked on the necessary.

For me, personally, I could use a couple teaspoons of honey and some

vanilla in my yogurt OR I could have half a ripe banana OR I could have

half and peeled, cored apple OR I could have a half cup of Tropicana

orange juice. I did much better on quantities of medium to low-carb

cooked, peeled vegetables --in fact, cooled, peeled zucchini was about

the only vegetable I tolerated for several months. But the plus side of

this was that once I recovered from my first SCD Christmas where I

created lots of very advanced dishes, I was able to start adding food

relatively quickly.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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