Today marks five months on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet.
I haven’t written much lately because there hasn’t been much of interest happening with my gut lately. I’m still on a roller coaster, but it’s a very gentle roller coaster these days. A few weeks ago things were less than ideal, but for the past week or so my gut has been functioning more or less normally. I keep waiting for a shoe to drop! I’m sure that I’ll have another setback at some point, but as long as I keep moving two steps forward and one step back — instead of one step forward and two steps back — I’ll be happy.
I’ve added in a few foods recently. Foods that I added previously and wasn’t sure whether I was reacting to badly or not: oranges and pecans. This time, I’m adding them in a bit more slowly: for example, instead of snacking on a random amount of pecans every night, I’m eating 1/4 cup every other day. If I don’t seem to be having any problems after a week, I’ll try almonds, and maybe bake something with almond flour again.
I also bought a jar of Bubbie’s pickles. I love pickles, and Bubbie’s have no sugar added and have probiotics in the brine. As an added plus, they’re delicious!
I’ve had a few cravings lately. We stopped in at Safeway to get some Halloween candy, and I really wanted some M&Ms. But I could tell it was almost entirely a psychological reaction: I wasn’t really thinking about the taste, it was all about the ability to buy the bag and the act of eating them. Fortunately, the cravings that I’ve had have been very easy to ignore. As far as I know, I’ve been strictly SCD-legal for several months — and the only times I may have eaten something that’s not legal in the first couple of months were accidental.
I grill-roasted a turkey breast last week, and it came out well. With that under my belt, and several SCD-legal recipes for cranberry sauce and mashed butternut squash and a few other traditional-esque Thanksgiving recipes, I think I’ll survive the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. I fully expect to be giving thanks that my gut is on the mend!
how did you find the scdlifestyle. starter ebook Useful? Or did it have nothing Newtown.? Peter
ReplyDeleteI read your earlier post and isn't it frustrating to be borderline. I had an endoscopy and it finally dx'd my SIBO. Of course it took 30 years to get that diagnosis. I took the antibiotics and it didn't help for long and really it didn't help my stomach as much as just an overall feeling of energy, but supposedly because I have no appendix it returned.
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't posted anything or replied lately. I'm planning on posting on my upcoming one year anniversary. Peter, I found the SCDLifestyle starter ebook quite useful. Since I started on the diet, I have found the BTVC-SCD Yahoo! group (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BTVC-SCD/info) much more helpful, with dozens of very knowledgable people willing to answer questions right away, but the SCDLifestyle book and meal plans really helped as I was getting started. And Anonymous, YES, it's frustrating as hell to get a "maybe" diagnosis!! I've heard that SIBO is very difficult to eradicate via antibiotics (I assume you took Rifaximin), as they never seem to kill off the problem entirely, and once the bacteria multiply again the symptoms return. I'd highly recommend you give the Specific Carbohydrate Diet a try.
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