Guest guest Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 It can be confusing to start the diet when you are trying to absorb all this information at once. There is a learning curve to the diet and many of us did make mistakes in the beginning, but the best way to start is just to do that: start- and then fine tune it along the way. Introducing foods is basically trial and error. The pecanbread stages are a good guide- but basically a guide. People advance on the diet at their own paces. Keep a food journal and try new foods one to two times a week and if all goes well- keep it up. Yes, you can try a little bit at first and then more. Yogurt is also individual. If the casein in cows milk is a problem you can use goat milk or take a legal probiotic to still get benefits. Some people tolerate the yogurt right away and others have to wait. It's trial and error. It takes a while to get used to this diet. Try new recipes once in a while and you will collect a group of favorites. I think the best way to start is after reading and getting your information- just start. If you are stuck on intro start adding new foods. Try nut butters- and if you tolerate them- start making baked goods with them. Add new veggies and meat recipes. PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 So let me see if I understand this a little bit better: You do the Intro. After that, You begin adding cooked fruits and vegetables to what you were already eating on the Intro, about 2 a week, depending on how you are feeling. Keep doing that, adding or removing foods depending on how you're feeling. After about 3 months you can try adding beans and/or nuts, depending on how you feel. If doing the Candida diet, wait about 1 month before eating things with honey, or lots of fruit. And if doing the ASD, wait about 1 month before doing yogurt, unless you can tolerate it sooner. If a food does not agree with you while on the SCD, remove it for about a week and then try again. Continue doing this for about 1-2 years, depending on how you feel and are handling foods. Then do it for 1 year after feeling great (symptom free). Then begin reintroducing " illegal " foods, if you want. So let me see if I have this straight: It's not so much " eating certain things at certain times " , as much as it is NOT eating the sugars and carbs (therefore killing the candida, and allowing your system to recover and heal), while monitoring the healing process and postponing aggravating foods as needed. Is that correct? Or not? Thank you PJ! Carissa > > It can be confusing to start the diet when you are trying to absorb all this information at once. There is a learning curve to the diet and many of us did make mistakes in the beginning, but the best way to start is just to do that: start- and then fine tune it along the way. > > Introducing foods is basically trial and error. The pecanbread stages are a good guide- but basically a guide. People advance on the diet at their own paces. Keep a food journal and try new foods one to two times a week and if all goes well- keep it up. Yes, you can try a little bit at first and then more. > > Yogurt is also individual. If the casein in cows milk is a problem you can use goat milk or take a legal probiotic to still get benefits. Some people tolerate the yogurt right away and others have to wait. It's trial and error. > > It takes a while to get used to this diet. Try new recipes once in a while and you will collect a group of favorites. I think the best way to start is after reading and getting your information- just start. > > If you are stuck on intro start adding new foods. Try nut butters- and if you tolerate them- start making baked goods with them. Add new veggies and meat recipes. > > PJ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 Yep, it is about not eating illegal foods that feed the bad bacteria in your gut and starving the devils out. It's also about replacing the bad guys with the good guys from the probiotics and SCD yogurt. What you can eat and tolerate is an individual thing. This is because the damaged gut may not tolerate all legal foods. This is why we start slowly and add them in as tolerated. Some people can introduce illegals after a few years, others can't. Some people will always be sensitive to them. This too is an individual thing. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Take SCD one bite, one day at a time. It gets easier. PJ > > > > It can be confusing to start the diet when you are trying to absorb all this information at once. There is a learning curve to the diet and many of us did make mistakes in the beginning, but the best way to start is just to do that: start- and then fine tune it along the way. > > > > Introducing foods is basically trial and error. The pecanbread stages are a good guide- but basically a guide. People advance on the diet at their own paces. Keep a food journal and try new foods one to two times a week and if all goes well- keep it up. Yes, you can try a little bit at first and then more. > > > > Yogurt is also individual. If the casein in cows milk is a problem you can use goat milk or take a legal probiotic to still get benefits. Some people tolerate the yogurt right away and others have to wait. It's trial and error. > > > > It takes a while to get used to this diet. Try new recipes once in a while and you will collect a group of favorites. I think the best way to start is after reading and getting your information- just start. > > > > If you are stuck on intro start adding new foods. Try nut butters- and if you tolerate them- start making baked goods with them. Add new veggies and meat recipes. > > > > PJ > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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