Doing SCD, was Another Protocol

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At 11:20 AM 3/31/2010, you wrote:

Marilyn - bless you when you

said " Let me see... 3.5 months. I hadn't even gotten

STARTED doing SCD correctly at that point! " As I only have

to feed myself SCD is not difficult at all, foods are either legal or

they're not. I read the book and it certainly didn't take me more than a

few hours to work out what to eat and what not to eat. I appreciate it

must be a lot more difficult if people have a family to feed. Are your

fur kids on SCD.

Steve,

Yep, the fur kids are on SCD. In fact, they went on it in 1998, and I

didn't discover it for myself until 2001. They were (and are) a

grain-free raw diet. I mentioned in the (now deceased) NatMed Forum on

CompuServe that it was a pity there wasn't a grain-free human diet.

Someone pointed me to BTVC, and the rest was history.

I think I made every mistake known to SCDers worldwide in my first year

on the Diet, including adding foods too fast and trying to

" wash " regular cottage cheese to make it like dry curd cottage

cheese.

I'm a cook. And a good one. The major issue for me was not " Is this

food legal? " but " Can I make a legal of version of this

once-favorite food? " I live in an area where spice mixtures are

important to the cuisine, and I had to learn how to create my own

mixtures. I was further challenged by doing salt-free cooking for my Mom,

who had congestive heart failure. My other challenge was, " Can I

make these favorite foods and not kill myself spending 24/7 in the

kitchen? " Really! I have a life outside of cooking food and washing

dishes!

My husband is remarkably adaptable -- he gave up rice and pasta except

when we went out without blinking. He does keep a loaf of whole

wheat sandwich bread for his work-lunch sandwiches, but that's the only

illegal in the house. While I struggle to lose weight, he, the despicable

creature, eats 6000 calories a day on a desk job to maintain his slender

frame. I need frequent smaller meals. His idea of breakfast is 3-4

jumbo eggs, 4-6 slices of bacon, and about 12-18 ounces of orange juice.

And he'll be hungry again in about three hours.

BTW, a friend threw a birthday party for her husband last weekend.

Neither of them are SCD -- but with the exception of the French bread (I

brought my own) and the commercial salad dressings (I brought my own),

everything was SCD-legal -- and everyone enjoyed the heck out of

themselves.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

Babette the Foundling Beagle