I'm new to the SCD diet, which I am not following completely strictly (i.e. haven't yet begun making my own yoghurt) but it's already made a huge improvement in my digestive system. I have tried a number of other elimination-type diets but didn't feel I could maintain any of them for an extended period, whereas I feel very positive about the SCD diet. Anyways, I'd appreciate having a group to throw questions/ideas to on occasion, since I don't know anyone else trying to maintain this diet. Thanks!
Does anyone else want to take over this community and keep it going?
I don't follow SCD anymore, the diet doesn't do anything for rheumatoid arthritis, so I am on Remicade anyway. Although I still watch what I eat, I am not as strict since a side effect of the arthritis treatment is the colitis symptoms going away.
Please respond if you are interested in maintaining this community.
I suspect I asked this once before, when I first started SCD. But I've been on it over a year (and much healthier now, yay) but still really have no greater sense of how it can be accomplished. HOW DO YOU TRAVEL?? I've travelled some, but always to a place that had a kitchen and local grocery store (someone's home, or a hotel-with-kitchen), or to a place that, at the very least, had a mini fridge in the hotel room and really accommodating restaurants (Disney).
But now my husband and I have our FIRST EVER chance to travel for a week without our children. We'd like to go somewhere truly wonderful. Europe, maybe. But I'm feeling completely trapped by this fucking diet. How in hell am I supposed to eat by staying in typical European B&Bs/inns/etc? No fridge. Regular, non-accommodating restaurants, lack of readily accessible grocery stores - and possibly not speaking the language either. I hate feeling like I have to stay home (or in local, boring places) just so I can eat. There HAS to be a way to do this, and I just don't get it. Help!
Hey I'm not quite sure what the demographic is for this board but this is mainly a question for the women. Has anyone found an scd safe pain killer? My doctor told me not to take ibuprofen and that definitely helped relieve colitis symptoms when I have to take it but unfortunately I'm still ingesting stuff that isn't fully scd compliant. Any advice?
When I started trying SCD recipes I was really excited for the ice cream recipes. After trying a couple I found that they either tasted way too much like banana, honey or they were very eggy when they started to soften. Although this recipe takes a little work (read: opening and getting the meat from young coconuts) for me it's worth it. This is from the book "Raw Food, Real world."
Ingredients: 2 cups raw cashews, soaked 4 hours 2 cups coconut meat 1 cup water 1 cup raw honey 1/4 cup coconut butter 2 tablespoons vanilla extract 1/2 vanilla bean (or 2 tsp vanilla extract) 1/2 teaspoon salt
Method Puree all ingredients in a high-speed blender or food processor until completely smooth. Chill thoroughly and then freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
I'm sure that other kinds of honey can be used but I definitely prefer the raw honey because the final product doesn't have that overwhelming honey flavour. When I'm craving ice cream this is an amazing treat to have and even non-SCDer love it.
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It seems to me there's a connection between me eating the yummy yoghurt every morning by way of fruit shakes and me being hungry all day.
When I first started the diet, the all day hunger vanished, but lately I've been wanting to snack alot.. the only change has been me perfecting making the yogurt and introducing it to the diet.
Could that signal a food intolerance or could it be the natural sugar content in the fruit increasing my appetite?
I seem to be the only one with questions here, sorry about that.
Anyway - I seem to have hit the 'relapse' point the book talks about, around the second month. (I was struggling against a threatening cold, too.) Not horrible, but a definite backsliding. So, I dutifully went back to the intro diet for a few days, and am starting to add the banana back in today.
My question is - for these sorts of setbacks, when you go back to the intro diet for a little bit - do you have to start the ENTIRE "reintroducing foods" thing over again? Or can you more quickly go back to whatever items you'd already been eating before the setback? I only started in December, and was only JUST starting to get to the point where I had some decent variety in my diet - still missing a bunch of things, but enough variety not to be bored - and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to take another two months to get back to that point, or if I can trust that I can tolerate those foods I was on before, and go back to them. How does this work?
All right, all you experienced SCDers - how do you eat if you're not at home? How do you handle being invited over to someone's house? A restaurant meal? And my big question: how do you TRAVEL? Eat on an airplane? Especially for long flights - how do you bring something that won't spoil by the time you reach your destination? And once you're there, at the mercy of hotels/restaurants, how do you eat? Has anyone tried to go to Disneyworld on SCD? Travel internationally? Although I'm committed to giving SCD a fair chance, I feel trapped, geographically - that I can only reasonably eat at home. But there's gotta be a way to go out, and to travel. So ... how do you do it?
Sorry for pestering this group with so many questions - if there's other resources or groups that have detailed information like this, let me know.
I haven't picked up a book on the Schwarzbein Principle simply because it seems to teach a lifestyle more than nutrition. What it actually sounds like to me is simply a long explaination of what the outside aspects are to SCD. A part of me thinks the description and outline on the internet site sounds much like rambling of common sense and life cycles than of healing.
I know many are supporters and combine both. Please tell me more in support or opposed or neutral about combining them. Or pleae tell me about what you think of the the Schwarzbein principle in general. Can you explain it to me in terms that aren't general if possible? I'm not asking on the Schwarzbein community because I want a view point from SCDers not Schwarzbeiners.
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