I own the book "the vicious cycle", but it was too overwhelming for me. I also visited her website and saw the list of no and yes foods.
I hope it helps you. I don't think I can afford to remove anything else from my diet at this point.
Quote: 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.
Is this your friend that is saying this? I'm not sure how the special diet would support the mind theory. Is she saying you will eventually have a more normal diet after the mind catches up?
Please stay in touch, Sarah. I was so tempted to do the Specific Carbohydrate Diet....but it just seemed so expensive and so very limiting. Stressful to try and find all the special ingredients.
Quote: 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.
Is this true for IBS people too? Why no probiotics? Also, no Acacia anymore? Are you taking any type of supplement, like digestive enzymes or anything? Please, please keep us updated and I give you so much respect for being able to do this. Doesn't she have a special recipe for homemade yogurt too? Are you going to eat this too, even though it's dairy? The machine to make it seems expensive.
I must admit, I don't really understand how to do this diet! Is the friend with Crohns following this SCD?
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