To all my friends on this site: I promised to share with you what I'm up to. So here goes. Briefly, so that you know why I'm on a new quest, I started Heather's diet a few months ago and started seeing improvement right away. Diarhea improved, but urgency and constant going was still an issue. As the urgency was diminishing, I developed a new syndrome-GAS. To the point that I couldn't go anywhere. I started speaking to you guys, and gleaned from some of you that the culprit might be the Acacia powder. I decided I'd stop slowly, but after my first morning of no Acacia and the day went by with barely any gas I decided to quit cold turkey. I've had hardly any gas since. But I wasn't satisfied with this yet, because I'm still going too often and still feel little urgency during the day. At this point I decided that I need a coach to help me figure out my specific diet. My friend recommended I speak to her friend who has crohn's disease and has it under control with diet. I had a lengthy conversation with her and she started me on a diet based on the book "Breaking the vicious cycle". Basically I'm eating only very safe foods for 2 weeks and then we will start introducing new foods one at a time & she claims my body will talk to me after this 2 weeks of eliminating all possible triggers from my body. I urge all of you to check out the following sites: www.breakingtheviciouscycle.com & go to support group links www.scdrecipe.com www.scdiet.org www.nomorecrohns.com www.digestivewellness.com My personal 2 week diet regimen is as follows. This is specifically for me, but I'm listing my rules for all of you so that you get an idea of what I'm trying to do. Absolutely no starches no wheat no sugar no oats no spelt no quinoa, no buckwheat no soy Cakes & cookies and crackers made of Almond flour (recipes found in recipe book sold @ www.digestivewllness.com. or baked goods can be purchased too - very expensive though)all ingredients for these cakes, crackers and cookies can be bought at this site too. I haven't gone through the entire recipe book so I don't know if the crackers are there but I'm pretty sure the cookies are. Almond butter (w/ no additives) Mint tea, Chamomile tea all squashes (cooked only) Carrots (cooked only) onion (cooked only) garlic (cooked only) honey almond milk (homemade only-machine can be purchased at www.digestivewellness.com) I bought the machine but haven't tried it yet, but plan to immediately. avacado banana poland spring distilled water only (haven't found it yet-but only checked out pathmark) any oil in baking only coconut oil for sauteing cooked or baked apples-unsweetened (natural) applesauce OK too. eggs-only in chicken soup. Boil soup @ high heat and throw in beat whole egg until cooks into fluffy egg. No spices only salt chicken (white and dark) turkey (white and dark) Any fish (only fresh, no canned fish) mayonaise (only home made-or purchased @ www.digestivewellness.com) haven't made it yet but plan to soon. Basically, I've been depleting my body of oils/fats, which was obvious to me as I thinned out immediately after a week or 2 on Heather's diet. And I was left with bad Gas. She believes that most of our problem is in our mind, meaning that when we have a lot of stressful things going on, too much for our minds to handle, our body sort of takes away oxygen from parts of our body to enable the mind to deal with it better, causing the areas with the depleted oxygen to start hurting or not working properly. If we can teach our minds that we are ok and don't need the body's help-thank you very much-we will allow our bodies to be freed up of all pain and discomfort and dysfunction. She therefor strongly suggested that I purchase the book "Mind Body Prescription" by Dr. Sarno. I plan to buy the book, get famiiliar with the concepts he believes in and then maybe indulge in taking his course given in New York City(very expensive). She suggested that I don't take any probiotics for now, since I I'm IBS and not IBD. She also told me that people with IBD must be on a very restrictive diet for at least a year before they could start introducing new foods. I think this is a good synopsis of what I'm eating for the next 2 weeks. I wish you all loads of luck and feel good days and weeks and months and years to come. Hugs, SarahT
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