Re: GAPS or SCD?

[Guest guest]

At 10:20 PM 4/20/2010, you wrote:

I just ordered BTVC but I wonder

how compatible this diet will be for me with fruit juice, cooked eggs,

fish/chicken as part of the introductory diet. The GAPS diet starts with

meat broth, egg yolk, well cooked vegetables.

Since I've been SCD for 9 years, naturally, I consider SCD best, although

I did buy the GAPS book and read it. I think the GAPS book is better

organized that BTVC; I think SCD is a better diet.

That said, I came to SCD following emergency gallbladder surgery.

I'd been inching into it for a couple of months. My husband, dear though

he is, is NOT a cook. (Grilled bacon, a toasted cheese sandwich are about

his limit.) I was in no condition to make soup, and in no condition

to talk him through making soup. He's a Virgo engineer. So, I ate

roasts, soft-boiled eggs with butter, peeled steamed zucchini with butter

(and later with shredded cheese). I asked Elaine about it, and she

said that the object of the intro diet is not to eat specific foods,ie,

the cheese cake, but to eat easy to digest foods so as to clear the deck

for healing to begin. (Note: not everyone can tolerate butter at the

beginning, simply because the amount of fat is a problem for some people.

In my case, the only time I've been ill with regards fat was when I was

obliged to give it up for three days before my colonoscopy. THAT made me

ill.)

As far as I can see, what you are suggesting would work fine for an

introductory diet for SCD, although you would need to dilute your fruit

juice. And I recommend finding some kind of easy-to-digest vegetable that

you can cook well to have with your protein, rather than depending on the

juice for all of your carbs.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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