Over the next few weeks I’m going to be going over Breaking the Vicious Cycle from the intro diet through maintenance, through the murky world of what to do next.
I am now entering my 17th year since starting the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. I started the diet on October 31, 2000. Why start on Halloween? The day there is candy all over the office and at home?
Because I wanted to prove to myself that I could avoid those temptations. And also because I didn’t want those things anymore. I just wanted to feel good and if not having a piece of chocolate and sugar would do that I was game.
My symptoms were mild at the time. I had had surgery the year before and my Crohn’s was in remission according to all of my doctors. Still a year later I was experiencing upset stomachs on a regular basis and I new my gut wasn’t as normal as I had hoped it would be.
I lived in fear that the Crohn’s would come raging back and I didn’t want to go through that again. I began to research IBD in those primitive days of the internet and I stumbled across the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. I ordered Breaking the Vicious Cycle and read through the whole thing.
To be completely honest I didn’t think it sounded all that fun. No bread, pasta, or potatoes? No more diet soda? No ice cream, cake, or cookies – at least as I knew them?
But my desire for freedom from my unpredictable stomach won out and I picked my start date for SCD.
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