Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 10 – Starting a New Beginning!

BySteven Wright

Moving to a new city and into a new apartment is always a bit of an adventure. I have moved more times than anyone I know in the last 5 years and I still have not figured out a better way of doing it other than trial and error. So my last week has mostly been crazy to say the least. I had stock piled a bunch of cooked SCD legal food just in case I happened to burn down my new kitchen (every stove is different I swear). I stuck mainly to the basics, of squash, chicken and fish all week because I wanted to help reset my system after the past couple weeks of turmoil. Many people will actually return right to the intro diet if they feel that they’ve had a major stumble but I didn’t have the means at this time.

SCD Legal Spices: Frontier Simply Organic… Spice Up Your Life!

BySteven Wright

I’m always on the look out for SCD legal products that can be easily purchased and integrated into my everyday life. Lately, I’ve been looking to spice my diet up a bit (pun intended). So I’ve been doing some research on different spices that I can find in my local grocery and health food stores. One company that I’ve come across and have bought several products from is Frontier Spices.

Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 9 – Settling Back Down!

BySteven Wright

I have finally completed my move! It’s taken a solid 3 weeks of packing, moving, job transitioning, and finally unpacking but it is done. Last week my eating was all over the place, I didn’t always have my proboitics, yogurt, betaine HCL and sometimes properly prepared SCD legal food. I was forced to basically adapt during the days of moving on the fly. This caused me to eat a whole bag of what I thought was SCD legal trail mix (although probably not) and advanced un-cooked vegetables and fruit.

Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 8 – Remembering How Far I have Come!

BySteven Wright

fter last weekend’s episode of eating illegal’s, I’d hoped that I didn’t do to much serious damage to my healing process. I’m happy to report that I think I’m going to make a full recovery (whew! I know)…in a couple weeks. The beginning of this week I experienced a couple days of higher than normal gas with BM’s that were all over the map. In the middle of the week during my haste to pack up my belongings to move this weekend, I ran out of my Betaine HCL, yogurt and my multi-vitamin for several days.

Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 6 – Getting the Ball Rolling!

BySteven Wright

This past week has been a sort of roller-coaster for me. I had such a great breakthrough last week that I was really looking forward to capitalizing on it and keeping the ball rolling this week. Looking back on the week I can see now that I’m still going in the right direction, however during the week I thought I was starting to regress. I still managed to keep regular daily bowel movements however the quality was all over the place. It’s not exactly what I was hoping for and in the moment I was getting pretty discouraged. It wasn’t until the end of the week when I looked back at the week in comparison to other weeks that I realized that it was indeed a good week. In my daily health battle I had gotten lost in the trees and forgot to view my health at the forest level.

The SCD Diet and Alcohol: Part III – The SCD Guide to Liquors

BySteven Wright

In Part II we discussed SCD legal wine which is made through the process of fermentation. In this guide will examine SCD legal liquors which are drinkable liquids containing ethanol made by distilling fruits, grains or vegetables. If you missed Part I make sure you go back and re-read it to have a better understanding of how any alcohol affects your digestive system.

Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 4 – Learning how to make goat’s milk yogurt

BySteven Wright

Week 4 Summary: This is a big week for me because I get to celebrate my 30th day on the SCD diet. I am 1/3 of the way through my 90-day commitment to this diet! I needed to return home for some family business in the middle of the week, which forced me out of my normal routine. This cut out most of my weightlifting sessions and forced me to spend a bunch of time doing extreme batch cooking early in the week in preparation.

The SCD Diet and Alcohol: Part II… SCD Legal Wine Guide

BySteven Wright

In Part I of this series we discussed alcohol’s effects on our digestive systems and I gave a listing of legal and Illegal alcohol types. Of the types of legal alcohols they can be broken down into wines and liquors. In this post we will learn all about wines and how someone on the SCD diet can identify which wines to drink to minimize damage to the digestive system.

Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 3 – Bring on the travel and fat loss!

BySteven Wright

Week 3 Summary: Following up from last week I successfully traveled home for the weekend (a 5 hour road trip). During the week I made extra large batches of meat, veggies and fruit. I put enough for four meals in some Tupper ware and packed them in a cooler using some ice packs. I was then able to eat eggs in the morning and have a standard lunch and dinner for both Saturday and Sunday.

The SCD Diet and Alcohol: A Guide to the Effects of Alcohol on the Digestive Tract

BySteven Wright

Alcohol is a very controversial subject that has plenty of scientific studies that could be used to argue both sides until your blue in the face. I’m going to try and present as much of an unbiased look into the effects of alcohol on the digestive tract as possible and how that relates to the SCD Diet.

Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 1 – The Intro Diet Conquered!

BySteven Wright

Co-Founder of SCD Lifestyle Steve Wright has finally broken down and started his path to intestinal healing. After many years of undiagnosed digestive warfare in his body, these series of weekly posts will take you through his experiences, thoughts, and struggles on the SCD diet. Today is day 6 on the SCD diet, I have successfully survived 4 days on the intro diet and I’m now transitioning into phase one of the diet. Other than making quite a mess of my kitchen everything went smoothly.

The SCD Trial Period: Making the Diet a Habit… How Long Before It’s Easy?

BySteven Wright

What kind of a trial period does it take to be able to integrate the SCD diet into my lifestyle and have it be normal? The scientific research tells us that on average its going to take about 66 days to adapt to a new habit and SCD wisdom tells us that we should expect to have a slight relapse in our health somewhere around 60-90 days, then it is clear that 30 days is not going to be enough.

The SCD Diet and Your Teeth? Yes, Let Your Dentist Know!

BySteven Wright

When I started the SCD Diet I just happened to have my regular teeth cleaning scheduled right around 2 months in. I practice relatively good oral hygiene and floss regularly, so I was shocked when my dental hygienist was interrogating me about the excessive plaque build up on my teeth. She had the impression I was barely brushing! We finally came to a realization together when she asked if I had changed my eating habits at all recently and I explained the SCD Diet to her. As it turns out, the process of chewing crunchy, hard foods actually helps to clean and remove plaque from your teeth.