Re: SCD Diet - Is it right for me?

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At 02:02 PM 12/31/2007, you wrote:

My question is - will this work

for me if I don't have a colon? Things like onions and tomatoes have

always given me trouble in the

past and these recipes are chock full of both.

Andy,

My grandmother lost her colon to diverticulitis, so you may imagine that

I'm quite grateful to have found SCD!

Not all SCD recipes are chock full of tomatoes and onions -- just ask Kim

Mumbower, who has all manner of issues. She does a very, very plain SCD

and does well on it.

First of all, you don't have to start off with any of that -- you can

even make the opening chicken soup without onions if you choose.

Then, you add foods gradually. If one gives you issues, well, just don't

eat that again for a few months. Many people find that after some months

of healing, they can tolerate foods which once would have given them

difficulties. Carrots and I never got along pre-SCD. I left carrots out

of my intro diet, didn't touch them for around 6 months. Now I eat

carrots without too many complaints. (But I have a story about carrots

and ch-c-l-t- that might make people laugh.)

I remember reading posts from folks with pouches who found that SCD was

very beneficial to pouchitis and all those other not-so-fun

occurences.

In addition, it's a very healthy diet.

I'd say... give it a go.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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