So What Do You Eat?

[dolphin__girl]

Working from home today thanks to the underwhelming (but still class-cancelling) Snowmageddon in Toronto, and taking a break for lunch. I've been discussing the SCD with a few co-workers, especially in light of our staff outing to Winterlicious next week (Cafe California is awesome and has promised they can work around my restrictions), and the

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[mrissa]

I haven't had the kind of digestive issues that would lead to trying an elimination diet to straighten them out. But I have gotten more and more interested in food that is made of itself and not of other, peripheral things. And that's a lot of what's going on with prepared food: much of it is made of filler this and substitute that and only a little bit of what it actually is. I read an article last week about all sorts of "blueberry pieces" in commercial food that are not actually dried blueberries but rather agglomerations of starch and sugar and food coloring and artificial flavors. This horrified me so much that I wanted to go hug my bag of actual dried blueberries.

[rhienelleth]

Very interesting!

I did an Elimination Diet once, but it also didn't allow for eggs, milk products, and a bunch of other stuff. Turned out I wasn't actually sensitive to any foods in particular, but it was an experience in changing my diet for three months.

Now, I am on something of a natural kick. I make my own bread, order milk from a local dairy, can my own fruits, jams, etc, and try to avoid foods I haven't made myself. I eat vegetables, fruit, applesauce, or yogurt for snacks, make a lot of stir fry with quinoa for dinners, and try to stick with eggs or granola for breakfast. Lunch is often leftovers, or an assortment of veggies and cheese. So far, I haven't lost a lot of weight yet, but I feel a lot better, so that's something.

[dolphin__girl]

It's not really an elimination diet, so much as a "here's the science that says people with digestive disorders like X, Y, and Z don't absorb disaccharides or polysaccharides well, thereby causing harmful bacteria that do eat them to overpopulate the gut and cause more damage, so don't eat any" diet.

I learned about it from Karina, who had previously been on an elimination diet that failed miserably because the staple that you add foods to slowly was brown rice, which is a grain, and thus not digestible to a damaged intestinal tract. Get the grains out, and things got better for her. So I tried it. And it worked for me, too. So much for the cause of IBS being my weight. Stupid doctors. :P