Today's food

So... I will come back to adding more info about UC and why I chose the specific carbohydrate diet at a later date. I will add this to the pages at the side.

For now I will update with what I am eating and how it is going.

I have been really organised with food since I started the diet and have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen, though the last 2 or 3 days have been less labour intensive as I could live off portions saved from previous cooking.

I was all out of fruit smoothies and pancake mix this morning so I polished off the last of the banana and walnut muffins I made a couple of days ago, and then had bacon and fried egg. I will put the muffin recipe up soon... but it was a mix of almond flour, honey, banana, egg, walnuts and baking powder whizzed up and baked.

On this diet I always seem to get very hungry at about 11am. Plus my stomach is burning so much from the steroids that I need to eat just to calm it. Thinking about it, 11am isn't so strange considering that the steroids mean I wake up and bounce out of bed at 6am at the latest! Though now I am down to 15mg pred I can feel that wearing off today... my eyes feel heavy... quite a relief! Though I will miss my super human constitution...

So, at 11am I heated up some lentil soup that was in the fridge. The recipe is from one of the three recipe books I bought when starting this diet. I have only done a handful of recipes from this one so far but I have been very impressed. It is called Eat Well Feel Well and is by Kendall Conrad. The soup is the egyptian red lentil soup. There seems to be huge amounts of garlic in the recipes from this book I have done... but once cooked it doesn't seem to over power the dish. I bunged a couple of tablespoons of SCD yoghut on top which tasted great. I recently got my yoghurt maker through, and this was the remnants of my first batch of 24 hour fermented yoghurt. It's really good.

At about 4pm I started getting peckish but didn't want dinner, so I experimented by mixing almond flour, coconut, honey and some smashed walnuts together. Put it in a flan dish, firmed it down and slammed in the oven for about 15 minutes. Tastes good. Even my fiance agreed, nibbling the crumbs from the edge of the plate... frightened to eat too much and deprive me! Bearing in mind he wouldn't go near the banana muffins, that was quite a compliment! (though I think he would have been pleasantly surprised).

I ate so much of that I was stuffed, so didn't eat dinner til about 8.30pm. I cooked some chicken - cut into small pieces - and whilst that was cooking prepared a salad of lettuce, cucumber, red onion and mango. Chucked in the chicken, seasoned with salt and pepper and ate a huge bowl of it! Like a mixing bowl of it.

I am realising on this diet you have to eat a lot. I have lost half a stone in 2 weeks... very unintentionally. So I am going to make very greedy portion sizes. It is after all very similar to the Atkins diet.

Then I ate a chunk of blue cheese! Now I am full...

So, that's my day today. My gut is just beginning to gurgle... Jeff is waking up... I will explain that in a later post. But still very low symptom.

Day 13 on the specfic carbohydrate diet complete... only 717 days to being cured... ;-)

Ta ta!

Drugs: 2.4g Asacol, 15mg Prednisolone, 2g Pentasa, 1 sachet VSL#3
Food: as above