Re: Second intro attempt

[Guest guest]

I'm in the same boat Darlene... I have sensitivities to eggs and dairy

(including the homemade yogurt- I discovered that on my first intro attempt) and

on top of that carrots and apples specifically always give me digestive troubles

(which I omitted on my first attempt at intro). I'm redoing the intro after a

couple weeks of being on SCD, because I messed up with consuming the dairy and

probably too much fat. So I restarted today and basically, I'm eating bone

broth, boiled meat/fish and some pureed boiled veggies (ones that I knew from

beforehand that I can tolerate decently like zucchini). I decided to follow the

GAPS intro guide this time since it's well planned out and does not start with

the dairy and it seems to work better for someone who also has a problem with

candida (like myself)- though I haven't decided if I'm going to add the egg yolk

in stage 2 or not, I'll see (if you have an IgG antibody reaction to eggs, I

would not attempt trying them until your gut is healed- so definitely not for

intro, unless you know that the sensitivity is to the whites or the yolks

specifically, then you could probably consume the part you aren't sensitive to).

I hear ya on how boring and yucky this bland food can get! I'd stick to it

though, at least for the first couple of days. If anything, I'd suggest

sticking to the bone broths if you can tolerate them well, they seem to have

some healing properties for the digestive tract. Good luck! (I used to be such

a foodie in the past... this is so hard for me too, but I'm finding it helps

just to distract myself with other things, just to get my mind off of the

tasteless food I'm stuck eating...).

Meli

>

> I started on intro today. I have very significant IgG antibodies in response

to casein, eggs, all dairy, plus many other items not related to intro. I had

decided to ignore my food allergy results just for these 2 days. I was even

looking forward to it because my SCD diet, combined with my food allergy

results, has made my choices almost unbearably restricted and I've found myself

not enjoying anything I eat. Sometimes I find myself actually annoyed with

hunger pangs because I'd rather not eat. (Can you hear the whine?) So I thought,

yay!! yogurt for a couple of days! cheesecake!! eggs for breakfast! Variety!!

>

> Well, it's noon and my belly is swollen and distended about as far as it can

reach and I feel yuck. I'm pretty skinny at 114 lbs and 5'1 " with this huge

bloated belly. I'm wondering if this is why I felt so wretched the first time I

did intro back in February this year. I was bedridden basically during the days

of intro and afterward for a while.

>

> How do people do intro in this situation? Just the chicken broth and

meat/fish??? Maybe some pureed vegies? I am ready to abandon intro this time

around because it seems impossible to do it correctly. I'd be eating the same

thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

>

> I know I am snivelling. I'm just getting depressed with what I can eat, fast

losing interest in what I can eat, nothing tastes very good to me anymore... and

I know there are others out there, I've read your posts. You have very limited

choices, too.

>

> Darlene

> Intestinal Dysbiosis/fatigue

> SCD 9 weeks

>

[Guest guest]

At 05:07 PM 4/27/2010, you wrote:

Thanks Marilyn. Why would

dripping the yogurt make a difference, I wonder?

Dripping the yogurt removes the galactose, which some people find

difficult to digest. Personally, I do it because it makes it thicker and

much less tart, thus it takes less fruit or honey to make it the luscious

and delectable treat most of us love.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

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