Re: She's Expanding her diet Finally

[Guest guest]

Carol,

We never truly started with the intro diet. I jumped in head first

while waiting on my book to arrive. Hannah would not eat anything

and before I truly understood the diet I made her the almond bread

(with out eggs due to IgG reading). This is all she would eat and I

was afraid to take that from her. However, we saw great results,

such as formed stools greatly improved behaviors, emerging

speech...However, then we started TTFD/glutathione/b-12 and her

stools got worse and eventually allwe had gained in speech went

away.

SO, then I started getting her to eat green beans, chicken breast and

ripe banana. We did this along with some natural

antifungal/antiyeast...and very quickly started geting firm stools.

I had moved away from almond flour and started pecan flour. We got

her down to bread(pecan flour) for just one meal a day(breakfast) and

the rest was chicken, banana, veal, green beans. Oops, she was also

getting one to twp pecan flour cookies a day as well. Anyway, since

she started eating more htings I finally got away from the nut flours

all together for a few days.

So, when I said what I said about the intro diet, I meant it's best

to try to follow it from the start instead of strating with things

you will have to take away later anyway. I see the wisdom in no nut

flours early on, etc. (Am I making any since at all?) The further

away from nut flour we got and the closer to stage one foods we got,

the better everything has been.

One of the main reasons we did not follow the intro diet was becasue

of the IgG reading on eggs, hre unwillingness to eat chicken at the

time, AND our Dr. specifically told us to stay away from ALL fruit

except pears and NO honey. S, inthe beginning I was so overwhelmed

and thought eggs would hurt her. Letr I decide to try eggs and found

that they did not hurt her (thank goodness!!), so we have slowly back

tracked trying to do the diet the right way and hold off on nut

flours until later!

One other note, we also did not want to add the yogurt due to her

great improvement when we first removed all casein from her diet.

However, I am nearing the point of wanting to give the goat yogurt a

try. I'm sure you'll see soe questions from me soon!

Hope I have answered your question.

Brandee

> Brandee, How long did you stick to the intro and what did you mean

by this?

> My understanding is that the intro is for two days .

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> > So for all of you who are struggling, I've been

> > there, but am beginning to see GREAT rewards for sticking with

it -

> > and seeing the wisdom in trying to stay as close to the intro as

you

> > can!

> >

> > Carol F.

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[Guest guest]

Yes Carol,

I did not mean to imply that, I'm not too good at typing up something

when I am excited! :-)

Basically all I was trying to get across to all those nervous parents

is to try and follow the stages of the diet and they might not have

to back track like we did..and to let them know there really can be a

light at the end of the tunnel for those picky eaters.

Hope I didn't confuse anyone!

We LOVE SCD!!!!!

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> > Carol,

> >

> > So, when I said what I said about the intro diet, I meant it's

best

> > to try to follow it from the start instead of strating with things

> > you will have to take away later anyway.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Brandee and a reminder to all that " The Stages " on Pecan Bread, the

web site, are not mandatory and never appeared in BTVC or on Elaine's site

so one is not required to follow them. They were created by one of our moms

as a guide for those who need a little prompting as they proceed to add foods.

I believe them to be very helpful, useful and well organized and so have

many parents as long as it's understood that they are not mandatory. Once

the intro diet is over one can proceed carefully and gradually introducing

new foods and preparing them according to instructions.

Carol F.

On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 05:31 PM, brandeesimmang wrote:

> Yes Carol,

>

> Basically all I was trying to get across to all those nervous parents

> is to try and follow the stages of the diet and they might not have

> to back track like we did.

[Guest guest]

Boy! You keep getting me at every turn! ;-) Hahahaha! But, you do

it in such a nice way!! Hehehe!I am so glad that there are people

like you to make sure that people like me don't get everyone all

mixed up! :-0 There is no point in me continuing down the path

of " what I mean is...... " Sorry to take up message space with this,

just wanted to sincerely express my appreciation for you and this

list! And to say how lucky I feel to have found this diet for

Hannah!

Brandee

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> > Yes Carol,

> >

> > Basically all I was trying to get across to all those nervous

parents

> > is to try and follow the stages of the diet and they might not

have

> > to back track like we did.

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