Re: Messed up! Ate breaded chicken

[Guest guest]

Marilyn,

It sounds like SCD has played in role in helping you find your voice. Is that

true? :-)

I can totally relate to just giving in to the pressure from family or friends. I

haven't done that as far as diet is concerned, but there's a point where I get

so tired, I lose my ability to think clearly, and I just want everybody to leave

me alone. It's great that you have such a supportive husband!

Thanks for your comments. You're right - beating myself up won't do a darn bit

of good.

Thanks,

Gwen

SCD since 4/21/10

> >Anyway, I'm on intro foods. Any advice about how

> >long you think this might last is appreciated. I

> >know none of this is scientific, meaning we all

> >react differently to things. I was surprised at

> >how quickly my D stopped when I started SCD. I'm

> >hoping for more of the same. I'm kicking myself

> >for the screw-up, but I can pretty much guarantee it won't happen again.

>

> Gwen,

>

> Well, first of all, don't kick yourself because

> you made a mistake. I got trapped into a

> situation like that Christmas Eve of my first year.

>

> We went to one of my parents' favorite

> restaurants. I ordered pan-fried veal, and TOLD them what I could not have.

>

> Well, they brought out my meal, and they'd coated

> it in FLOUR. I wanted to send it back. My parents

> told me to stop making a scene and to just eat my

> food! And, un-brave person that I was then, I did.

>

> Almost didn't make it home (about a half hour

> from the restaurant) before the diarrhea started.

> And I also almost missed the candlelight

> Christmas Eve service which is one of my favorite

> times of the year, all because of that darn flour.

>

> After that, I knew SCD was my path, and I became

> very pro-active on it. Of course, it helped that

> I had a husband to back me up. <g> His favorite

> line became " What part of 'Marilyn can't eat that' don't you understand? "

>

> Are you currently taking a probiotic? I've found

> that a bit of extra acidolphilus and some s.

> boulardii can help when I get a bit of a rumble.

>

>

> — 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

>

[Guest guest]

At 08:45 PM 5/24/2010, you wrote:

It sounds like SCD has played in

role in helping you find your voice. Is that true? :-)

I can totally relate to just giving in to the pressure from family or

friends. I haven't done that as far as diet is concerned, but there's a

point where I get so tired, I lose my ability to think clearly, and I

just want everybody to leave me alone. It's great that you have such a

supportive husband!

Thanks for your comments. You're right - beating myself up won't do a

darn bit of good.

Sorry for the delay in answering this -- it ended up (ghu alone knows

why) in my spam box, along with a couple of others.

In one sense, SCD helped me find my voice... what it actually did was

allow me to realize that I was no longer trapped by my gut issues, but

that I did, in fact, have the ability to take control of my health

instead of riding along in a body that did all sorts of horrible and

painful things for no reason I could discern.

With SCD, I now knew the WHY of the gut issues.

I also came to understand that NO food, however delicious, was worth the

gut cramps and violent squirts and the humiliation of an

" accident " in a public place.

I came to understand that the doctors who told me " Just take a

little lomotil if it bothers you, " weren't really being cruel. It

was that they had forgotten, or never been taught, the science of the

Haas diet, aka SCD. I'm eternally grateful for the on-line world where I

learned of SCD, and learned how to implement it in my daily life, not to

mention making many good friends as I did so. I just wish that

Elaine had been able to publicize SCD so that I might have found it in

1987 when Food and the Gut Reaction (the first edition of BTVC)

was published.

And yes, I understand completely being so tired you just want to be left

alone. Been there, and done that!

—

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