Re: Transition from Intro to next step???

[Guest guest]

Great question. Hopefully Marilyn will chime in

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> I'm at bit confused on the transition outlined in book of going from the Intro

diet into the next step? It seems clear that the max time on intro is 5 days.

The next step she says is...

>

> " ONCE CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA SUBSIDE, cooked fruit, banana, and cooked

vegetables may be tried. If they seem to cause additional gas or diarrhea when

they are added to the diet, delay their use until later. "

>

> So what if you finish day 5 of the intro diet and your CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA

have NOT subsided?? Your not supposed to do intro any longer but you don't meet

the criteria to advance either? And if you went ahead and tried to advance how

would you know if you are reacting to what you are trying because you hadn't had

relief from cramping or diarrhea yet anyhow?

>

> What am I missing here?

>

[Guest guest]

My cramping and D took a long time to subside. Over a year. I should re-read the

book, but I think that the idea is that you should keep peeling, de-seeding and

cooking your fruit and veggies until D disappears.

Cheers

>

> I'm at bit confused on the transition outlined in book of going from the Intro

diet into the next step? It seems clear that the max time on intro is 5 days.

The next step she says is...

>

> " ONCE CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA SUBSIDE, cooked fruit, banana, and cooked

vegetables may be tried. If they seem to cause additional gas or diarrhea when

they are added to the diet, delay their use until later. "

>

> So what if you finish day 5 of the intro diet and your CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA

have NOT subsided?? Your not supposed to do intro any longer but you don't meet

the criteria to advance either? And if you went ahead and tried to advance how

would you know if you are reacting to what you are trying because you hadn't had

relief from cramping or diarrhea yet anyhow?

>

> What am I missing here?

>

[Guest guest]

You

do want to start adding in foods after a maximum of 5 days on the intro. diet,

although some folks choose to wait a bit longer before beginning to add foods

very slowly.

There

is a difference between a symptom subsiding and a symptom disappearing.

Diarrhea will take longer than 5 days to disappear, that is for sure. The

purpose of the intro. diet is to start calming down the symptoms, letting your

digestion relax a bit. It doesn’t usually clear up symptoms

immediately.

The

only rule to follow when you start adding more foods is to go very slowly, and

stick to easy-to-digest and soft foods until you start feeling a major

improvement in symptoms. Everyone is different, so what works for one

will not work for another. The general rule for soft, easy-to-digest

foods is remove skins, deseed if necessary, and cook well. The other rule

to follow is to add just one food at a time, and give your digestion 3 to 4

days before adding another, depending on your body’s reaction.

Obviously if your digestion reacts badly to one food immediately, then you’ll

know to stop trying it and select another.

Keeping

a food and supplement log helps. After a few months you will have figured

out your core group of foods, and the supplements your body will tolerate for

now, so you don’t have to maintain the log as faithfully.

The

tricky part is that in the beginning stages your body is going to react to

everything, or so it seems. As you progress on your healing journey you

will be able to catch the more subtle signals that indicate a definite food

reaction. In the beginning you just have to stick to the basic foods,

well-cooked. There is a helpful list of food stages on pecanbread.com that

can help you identify stage 1 foods, although you certainly don’t have to

follow the suggestions exactly (I didn’t use the stages). http://pecanbread.com/p/how/stages.html

You

can expect a lot of ups and downs during the first year on SCD. Healing

isn’t linear, there is improvement, then regression, then greater

improvement. The good thing is that as time goes by each stage becomes

shorter, less severe, occurs less frequently.

I

am quite sure you will have lots of questions as you progress. Keep

asking! I am not going into too much detail in this reply because too

much information can be overwhelming, and we are all so individual that you

might not experience something that occurs to someone else. So best for

you to ask as you go along.

Kim M.

SCD 6+ years

Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 7 years

neurological & spinal deterioration 4 years

currently dealing with skin issues on hands and arms

(carcinomas)

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I'm

at bit confused on the transition outlined in book of going from the Intro diet

into the next step? It seems clear that the max time on intro is 5 days. The

next step she says is...

" ONCE CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA SUBSIDE, cooked fruit, banana, and cooked

vegetables may be tried. If they seem to cause additional gas or diarrhea when

they are added to the diet, delay their use until later. "

So what if you finish day 5 of the intro diet and your CRAMPING AND DIARRHEA

have NOT subsided?? Your not supposed to do intro any longer but you don't meet

the criteria to advance either? And if you went ahead and tried to advance how

would you know if you are reacting to what you are trying because you hadn't

had relief from cramping or diarrhea yet anyhow?

What am I missing here?