Newbie introduction with questions

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Hi everybody,

I am new to this list. I'm a 43 year old female. I have been GF for

about 5 years and found that I got better at first but then my

stomach began to get worse. I stumbled across SCD about 9 months ago,

have read the book and changed my diet dramatically. I began by

ordering a bunch of cookbooks, buying a yogurt maker and learning

what I COULD eat. I travel a lot and I found it difficult to go 100%

on the SCD diet. Starches would sneak in in small amounts. I can

never eat gluten because I get very sick from that. I don't

purpousfully cheat - ever but it is the sneaky stuff. For example I

use a chicken broth that is GF that I have always used and I used it

to make soup without thinking and then read the label and realized

that it had a small amount of cane sugar in it. I know that is lazy

on my part but I am having to re-learn what I can and cannot eat.

As the months went by I got better at adhearing completely to the

diet but it seems that the stricter I am the more my gut hurts.

I never started with the beginning diet but I eat foods on the legal

list.

I decided about 2 weeks ago to get really strict and began a series

of colonics and watching every microcrumb that went into my mouth but

it seems that my stomach is hurting all the time now and I am getting

gas after eating. I just had a baked apple with honey and I have gas

and my stomach is cramping.

I take a probotic and my diet consists of fruits and vegetables, nuts

and nut flours, olive oil, eggs, meat and fish. I don't seem to

tolorate dairy. I have had some clarafied butter and goats milk

doesn't seem to be a problem but I haven't had that for the last two

weeks.

Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to do the very beginning of the

diet? I remember reading somebody asking Elaine if they needed to

start at the beginning again.

I have a very healthy appetite (always hungry) and I am not

overweight.

My stools this last week are very lose piles or thin.

I think I am doing things right but with the contiued stomach

problems I begin to wonder and I dont' have anybody in the area that

I can ask. Sometimes I feel like something is wrong with me and I'm

missing something. I don't have anybody to talk that is familiar with

this diet and I get all of my information online and Elaine's book.

Any advice would be appreciated because I feel so frustrated right

now.

Has anybody else done colonics? Have they helped? Do you get worse in

the beginning? I did my second one and I have another one tomorrow. I

did them about 3 years ago and it seemed to help but I was only doing

GF at that time.

lisa