Re: New and intro - not on diet yet

January 1, 2004

...... there are LOTS of kids here who formerly had very limited

tastes..... would only eat a few starchy carby foods...... and ended up

surprising their parents by branching out and eating new foods.... losing the

cravings for the old junk.

Buy the book right away...... you'll read it in a day or two. You'll have a much

better understanding of why this diet heals the gut. You won't regret it.

Hang in there and keep reading our list.......

PS..... Your son can keep the peanut butter as long as it's the all natural

kind.

I highly recommend that you go get the peanut butter brownie recipe from

www.pecanbread.com . They are EASY and YUMMY. Watch them closely so they don't

burn around the edges....... then I defy your stubborn spouse to resist eating

them all up and asking for more! Seriously.... have HIM read some of the

success stories on www.pecanbread.com .

Patti, mom to Katera.... SCD 8 months

----- Original Message -----

<<Luke eats tortilla chips,

ketchup, canned peas and corn, french fries, peanut butter, and pepperoni.

The SCD would thankfully eliminate all the junk food.......I have not yet bought

the book

though....... Has anyone had a child with a severely limited diet pre-SCD,

turn around and eat a wider variety once you got through the intro phase?>>

January 1, 2004

Hi ,

When we started SCD with my daughter at 3yrs 5 mos, she had reduced

her foods to: fries, chips, bread and cream cheese, chocolate milk,

grape juice, bananas, apples, luncheon meat, and sometimes cheese.

Now she doesn't eat a much greater variety, but she eats: nut

muffins, any kind of plain meat, bananas, grape juice, homemade

yogurt, cheese, occasionally apple or pear sauce, and now I've been

able to work up to 4 bites of broccoli at dinner.

I am sooo much happier with what she eats now. Every bite she puts

in her mouth is healthy.

AND, her receptive and expressive vocabularies have skyrocketed. At

the time we started SCD she was just beginning to put together 2

words. Now she has many spontaneous sentences -- things

like, " okay, I'll push it, I can't reach it, let's play " fish " .

She is not caught up yet, but I am so pleased with her increase in

understanding. Even in the summer, when I said, " your sister has to

go to bed " , she'd say, " no go to bed! " because she didn't listen to

the whole thing. We don't have that problem any more.

I know it's impossible to tell if SCD is wholly responsible for the

leap in language, but I am convinced that it helped tremendously.

Best wishes, and I hope you decide to give SCD a try. It's a

wonderfully healthy way of feeding your kids.

Sue (from Pickering)

Mom to , 4, formerly? ASD, SCD 9 1/2 months

> Hi everyone!

>

> My name is and I'm married with 3 kids ages 7, 3, and 16

> months. My 3 year old son is autistic and I'm seriously

considering

> the SCD for him. He is currently GFCF. He is sort of verbal in

> that he can communicate basic needs, but he has severe expressive

> and especially receptive language delays.

>

> I have to admit I'm terrified of starting the SCD. There is never

a

> shortage of sweet treats or chips in our house and I just know

that

> my proposing to shake things up like this is going to not be met

> well by my husband. However, my son's diet has gotten so bad

lately

> that maybe he'll be willing to do it. Luke eats tortilla chips,

> ketchup, canned peas and corn, french fries, peanut butter, and

> pepperoni. The SCD would thankfully eliminate all the junk food.

>

> I've been researching the SCD bit by bit for the past couple

months

> and now am serious about trying it. I have not yet bought the

book

> though. From what I've read, it sounds like it's easier than GFCF

> and far less expensive.

>

> My biggest fear, aside from everybody in the family turning mutiny

> on me for taking away their sweets, is that Luke won't eat

> anything. Has anyone had a child with a severely limited diet pre-

> SCD, turn around and eat a wider variety once you got through the

> intro phase? Has anybody had to overcome resistance from your

> spouse to make the diet work?

>

> Thanks for any advice!

>

January 1, 2004

Hi, ,

Actually, gf/cf was easier for me, but SCD is better. It seems to me that gf/cf

has more " convenience " food available. What will be " easier " healthwise for

your son is what matters, though -- whatever heals him and makes him more

physiologically sound and functional. We started gf/cf at 4 years old and

wasted over a year on it. You can be gf/cf while doing SCD.

My husband does not do any special diet and never has done so since we had our

son. It's easier if the whole family does it, but I wouldn't let that hold you

up. Watch out for other people dribbling crumbs. We send our son to

neuro-typical pre-school with a shadow, whom we employ since the State won't

help, and she makes sure he doesn't get into his classmates' food.

We started by eliminating the white potatoes, sweet potatoes, millet, and rice

(already no wheat, barley, rye, oats, or soy). WHAT a difference. The next

thing I eliminated was anything with corn by-products. So, you could start

there and then keep going.

Things I dispaired of seeing, like formed stools and cessation of stimming, I

saw on the SCD-road.

Good wishes on helping your son,

Teri

New and intro - not on diet yet

Hi everyone!

My name is and I'm married with 3 kids ages 7, 3, and 16

months. My 3 year old son is autistic and I'm seriously considering

the SCD for him. He is currently GFCF. He is sort of verbal in

that he can communicate basic needs, but he has severe expressive

and especially receptive language delays.

I have to admit I'm terrified of starting the SCD. There is never a

shortage of sweet treats or chips in our house and I just know that

my proposing to shake things up like this is going to not be met

well by my husband. However, my son's diet has gotten so bad lately

that maybe he'll be willing to do it. Luke eats tortilla chips,

ketchup, canned peas and corn, french fries, peanut butter, and

pepperoni. The SCD would thankfully eliminate all the junk food.

I've been researching the SCD bit by bit for the past couple months

and now am serious about trying it. I have not yet bought the book

though. From what I've read, it sounds like it's easier than GFCF

and far less expensive.

My biggest fear, aside from everybody in the family turning mutiny

on me for taking away their sweets, is that Luke won't eat

anything. Has anyone had a child with a severely limited diet pre-

SCD, turn around and eat a wider variety once you got through the

intro phase? Has anybody had to overcome resistance from your

spouse to make the diet work?

Thanks for any advice!

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January 1, 2004

If you have a resistant husband, it may be easier to implement gfcf first due to

the amount of substitutes available and have him see the difference and tell him

he could be even better if we got him on the SCD diet.

That is what we had to do here. My husband was completely unsupportive of any of

the diets at first. Making jokes about it to everyone and not participating. It

was really hard.

After a few months on gfcf, he saw a huge difference.

He doesn't ever second guess me about dietary changes now.

He was open arms with SCD.

He saw the changes with my son's behavior with gfcf yet saw my son's thrush in

his mouth and I told him that SCD deals with the yeast issue. He was convinced.

I alway included him in the decision making process well in terms of talking to

myself outloud and playing dumb and scared. I would say that I was worried and

that SCD would be harder to do yet would deal with the yeast problems. Then I

would pose him the question " oh what should I do? " knowing all along what my

plans were and he said, " well honey, we managed with the gfcf diet how hard

would SCD be? Let's try it and see what happens " BINGO.

It kind of reminds me of a scene in MY Big Fat Greek Wedding when the women were

trying to " get " the dad to " agree " on letting his daughter work at the travel

agent instead of the restaurant.

Carolyn