Re: How do you know when you cannot tolerate a certain food?

[Guest guest]

> People will often say that they can't tolerate a certain food. Sometimes they

will have to wait until further into SCD before they can tolerate certain foods.

> Bearing in mind that an intolerance can often not show itself until a few days

after consumption I am wondering how you know whicj food is the culprit and what

symptoms you get so you know that it is a reaction to food as opposed to

symptoms from your ongoing condition?

This is much easier to determine once healing has proceeded and also

when, through the course of the diet, you have become more minutely

tuned into your tendencies to react.

At the beginning of the diet, when people are often the most sick and

generally reactive, unless the reaction is immediate, it can be very

hard to figure it out. This is why, when you are reacting hard to something

it is recommended to go back to the beginners diet and eat your easiest

foods for several days. Because your system will be more cleaned out

when you add things back in again and you will have more of a blank

slate to work out what to eat then if you kept on going at that point.

One way to determine if you are reacting to something

more positively is to have the food you are suspicious

of twice or three times to see if you react again. Then you can be sure that

is the food that you are not tolerating at that point. OTOH, the method is a

little self defeating, because you are increasing your symptoms with every

trial. But a lot of times we are loathe to give up a new food or a food we

have tolerated for a while without actual proof, so we put ourselves through

that kind of thing, from suspicion to doubt to proof.

So, it's essentially trial and error and getting to know and understand your

body's

signals better and better.

Mara

[Guest guest]

I know because I would only eat one new food a week. It was terribly slow, but I

messed up too many times eating too many new foods at once. To know what foods

you have allergies to, you'd have to actually go get tested. And, there's always

a chance that you might eat something and feel like you are reacting to it (your

symptoms get worse) but it could just be your symptoms are getting worse and has

nothing to do with the food. The only way you can test that would be to wait a

few weeks and introduce it again. Broccoli was my one of my fave veggies pre-SCD

and I tried introducing it early on in the diet, but each time I did I would get

gas, bloating and the little tightening around my navel that indicated my

symptoms were coming back. Every few months, I would try eating it again and I

would still have the symptoms. This year, broccoli and I have been getting along

much nicer as long as I eat it well cooked and in small doses.

Nut butters, nut flours and beans (esp. kidney) are bad for me too but I can

have them in small amounts at this time.

The taking it slow approach was really hard for me at first. I'm one of those

people that usually jump right into something, but that didn't work for me and

my body.

Misty Kimble

CD - no meds

SCD - Jan 2008

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> People will often say that they can't tolerate a certain food. Sometimes they

will have to wait until further into SCD before they can tolerate certain foods.

> Bearing in mind that an intolerance can often not show itself until a few days

after consumption I am wondering how you know whicj food is the culprit and what

symptoms you get so you know that it is a reaction to food as opposed to

symptoms from your ongoing condition?

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