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Good morning, It is certainly comforting to come to this thread and find all this good information and encouraging advice. I appreciate it so much. I think I am still being too ambitious about adding foods, and am having a hard time making myself slow down. I do now have the yogurt right, and seem to be doing well with it, but I ate kidney beans yesterday...

Good morning, I need an attitude adjustment. Can anyone help me out? I was doing well yesterday, and then decided that I wanted to eat popcorn popped in coconut oil. Then I decided I'd have a Coca Cola with it. So that was my first and second mistake. On the way home from work, my face started itching. Did ok at dinner, but after H went to bed...

David, hi, It sounds like what you need is an "elimination diet." Elimination diets are used exactly for the purpose you're describing - isolating food intolerances and allergies. These diets are also called "anti-inflammatory diets" too; the two are very similar. I may have this wrong, but my understanding of the lactose/casein thing is as follows...

Greetings, I'd be very interested in participating in a weight-loss group! Should we revitalize this thread or start something new? I've lost 63 pounds over the last year, most of it by following an anti-inflammatory diet (which worked really more like an elimination diet, and is the way I discovered I am gluten and lactose intolerant). I started...

Hi, Jennifer, I quit smoking, cold-turkey, on October 8, 2007. The dreams I was having have finally stopped. But while I was having them, boy were they strange. I've heard many people talk about smoking dreams. I've even heard that people have dreams when they give up other addictive substances, too. Drugs and such. But yes, the dreams are a fairly...

Good morning, I came to this thread last night to tell you all that I had decided to go back to my regular Anti-Inflammatory diet, because I am finding it difficult to manage the SCD. I started reading some of your posts, and thought better of my decision to change back; decided to think it over a bit more before really doing anything. Meanwhile I had...

Jan, thank you for this kindness. I would like to think that one of these days I can "step more lightly." What a lovely phrase. Janie

Ali, good morning, I would surely be interested in the information you find about a liver detox. The statement that candida produces ethanol as a by-product is interesting; potentially puts a new twist on the "non alcoholic" fatty liver disease that I have. Guess they call it "non alcoholic" if the patient isn't a drinker, but if candida is present, and...

Boy, do I have experience with this, and what my personal experience tells me is that a multitude of things can set off carb cravings. Here's my list: 1. MSG 2. Low-fiber complex carbs (potatoes, white rice or rice pasta, etc.) 3. Fatigue and/or lack of restful sleep 4. Dehydration 5. Sugar You'll notice I've put sugar at the bottom of the...

Pele, thank you for mentioning this. I didn't know it. I have enzymes at home and will try them. About the candida issue: When I started the SCD, I had a huge release of fluid. It's important for me to try to understand why. Obviously something happened to cause inflammation to subside in a big way. So in thinking that through, and knowing that...

Thanks, Jan, I think your idea of limiting the number of foods is excellent. I have put together a list and will try eating just these foods for a week: Proteins: Chicken/Beef/Pork/Salmon/Eggs Dairy: SCD yogurt/Cheddar cheese (at least two servings of yogurt per day) Fruits: Tomato juice/Banana (limit to one per day of each) Vegetables: Green...

Good morning, all, I think my train of thought yesterday about adding more honey and fruit may have been off the mark. Don't know why it suddenly came to mind, but I did some reading last night about candida, and think I may need to modify the SCD a bit to also deal with candida. There's definitely something else going on, because the egg drop soup I...

Good morning, all, I think I have come face-to-face with the fatigue some of you spoke of. I am on day 9 of SCD. On April 23 my doc gave me a prescription for six days of prednisone for an eczema outbreak. Most of the time I was taking it, I felt like Wonder Woman. But I finished the meds on April 30, 4 days ago, and since that Friday, May 1, I have...

Hi, samcarter, I started an anti-inflammatory diet last September. I have been extremely overweight for quite some time, and it's been nearly impossible for me to find a food plan that allows me to lose any of it, even if I cut my calorie intake down quite low. So I thought, why not try this? The diet sorta works like an elimination diet, so I cut...