Specific Carbohydrate Diet

Thank God for the Specific Carb Diet. This diet is one that truly helps people with digestive disorders. The gut is allowed to heal and your body totally switches to enjoy REAL food. What is the specific carb diet? This diet seems strict at first, outlawing processed sugars, all wheat, barley, rye, rice, certain legumes, ect. I highly recommend the book called Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gottschall. This book breaks it down and tells you all rules. It seems overwhelming in the beginning, I personally got angry at the fact that so many foods (mainly crappy, mineral and vitamin deficient foods) seemed to get cut out of my diet and I resented it the first, but stuck to it because it SLOWLY was starting to help.

After about 4 months I started to see big changes. I was having more energy. My symptoms began to get better and I was having more normal bathroom visits. Also, my hair also started growing! My hair had literally been the same length for about 3 years. Yeah...3 years! I was trying with all my might to grow it out and it just would not grow. After starting this diet though, my hair was growing like crazy.

I will not sugar coat my experience for the first 3 months. I was moody and tired. I seemed winded and my symptoms actually got worse. I was always hungry and I was craving sugary snacks like a mofo! It was not fun. But I knew I needed to do something drastic if I wanted to stay off the cancer causing medicine the medical community was so apt to inject me with. So I stuck it out and finally when I felt like I was going to give up and throw in the towel, I got better. I didn't have cravings. I wasn't moody. The routine of fixing food didn't seem so daunting and frustrating. I liked eating healthy and my body seemed to not reject the diet any more!

Then about 8 months into the diet I slipped one day and went out to eat. Interestingly enough, I didn't have any symptoms. I wish I would have though because eating out that one day put me back into crappy eating mode. Not all at once, but slowly I started to eat little naughty snacks here and there. Eating out more and more and BOOM! It struck. All the symptoms returned and I was back at square one. I had to restart all over again, and granted it didn't take me 4 months to get better, I did have all the cravings again like the first time.

So the moral of my story is if you are having digestive issues try the specific carb diet! More importantly, stick to it and don't go astray because you will regret having to start all over again.

The human body doesn't need all the crap we put into it! We need pure fresh veggies from the soil, healthy grass fed animals and wild free fish for our bodies! Nothing more. Anything else will just slowly kill you.