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How To Improve Your Mindset So You Heal Faster
Learn why addressing our mindset is the most important tool in healing – and some ways to improve yours to heal faster starting today.
Steve’s SCD Diet Journal
Steve Wright documented his first 27-weeks following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet – follow along with his case study.
Life’s Tests Are Designed to Reveal Beliefs
Life is always testing us, but mostly it is revealing our beliefs. And right or wrong what we believe we will create.
Failed Goal = Wasted Time?
Do failed goals mean no progress? What happens when goals hinder progress and what you can do about it.
Your Unalienable Right to Good Health & Happiness
We all have the right to feel good.Regardless of our genetics, history or past choices we have the ability to create good health & build a great mindset.
The Right Tools Maximize Your Results
Nothing will multiply, amplify and maximize your time and energy like having the best tools possible. That’s why we created some new SCD resources.
Big Picture: Evaluating Your Digestive Healing Plan
As you implement your digestive healing plan, how will you know what is working and what is not? Evaluate your plan and make necessary changes.
Big Picture: Designing a Healing Plan
In this post we will deconstruct the digestive disease healing pyramid and insert your goals and Go-sion to produce a healing plan.
The Big Picture: Setting Healing Goals
Setting healing goals is one of the most important steps you can take to make sure you stay on track during flares, stress and life events.
What Are You Feeding Your Brain?
If you want to take control of your health and live a symptom-free life, start by taking control of the thoughts you feed your brain…
The Big Picture: How Having a Plan Can Transform Your Healing Path
How to develop your personal big picture, why you should keep it in front of you daily, and how the focus can revolutionize your healing journey.
SLAP – Bankart Shoulder Surgery
I went under the knife to repair a labrum tear (SLAP / Bankart lesions) in my left shoulder. Find out how it went and the supplement routine I used to heal fast!
How to Use Psychology to Beat Any SCD Setback
Today sucks. Today I don’t feel good. I have been on the SCD Diet for almost two years and I still have bad days every once in a while. I have to preface that the last few months my digestion has been flawless – nothing but better and better days. Then all of the sudden last night I started feeling bad and today I have been in and out of the bathroom at work. Today is an SCD setback for me. Tomorrow, I know I will be fine and I want to share with you why I know that and the psychology I use to beat my SCD setbacks. If you can learn what I am going to share with you and implement it on your down days, you will be able to control emotional cheating days, the voice in your head telling you it’s pointless, and the constant drive to use to Google to diagnose your latest ailment.
Steve’s SCD Healing Journal – Reaching New Health Levels
Okay so it has been some time since I last logged a Journal update. I originally stopped because I had reached the point that I didn’t feel like my journal entries were adding much value to the readers out there. Instead I wanted to spend my limited time developing other articles I felt might help…
Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 26 – Coconut Water is Mother Nature’s Gatorade!
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. Check back and follow his progress: Week 26 Summary Coconut…
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 25 – Fast and Easy SCD Legal Meals
This week I want to talk about SCD diet staples. Studies have shown that most people eat the same 10-15 foods in a given week. We all like to think that we eat an extremely diverse diet but it’s simply untrue. As humans we are actually very predictable creatures in search of easy autonomous habits. Taking this knowledge to heart can really help simplify the SCD diet. For instance, two ways in which I embrace my need for stability and habit are having the ingredients on hand to produce my two favorite go-to SCD meals. One of them takes roughly 20 minutes to make and the other about 5 minutes.
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 24 – The Kale Chip Fail!
Last week I made a heck of a run at making kale chips. I’ve never ate kale before and after seeing several bloggers making kale chips I had to give it a go. First up the good news is kale and I are friends, no digestion issues whatsoever. Now for the bad news, kale chips are apparently my cooking Achilles heal. The first go round ended up with most of the “chips” being half burnt or completely burnt. The next round I swore the chips were done, no browning and hard when they were pulled out of the oven. But, a couple hours later they were soggy leaves of salt!
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 23 – SCD legal Summer Cocktails
Over the last month I’ve attended several events in which I knew I would love a summer cocktail but wouldn’t be able to drink anything the host was providing. With the 4th of July holiday weekend approaching I figured I would share my current favorite SCD legal summer cocktail recipe. After trying several recipes I have to thank Carrie Floyd over at Culinate Kitchen for posting the Kimmy drink because it is by far my favorite. I put an extra spin on the original recipe and made a party sized batch so I will put those measurements in quotes. The prep time is a bit more than usual because of the mint syrup but it’s not as bad as the many summer cocktails that contain pounds of fresh fruit that need to be diced up. It has an awesome fresh taste that is somewhere between a gin and tonic and a mojito. The drink can also be made non-alcoholic by removing the gin and using extra club soda (non-flavored carbonated water).
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 22 – SCD Legal Raspberry Duck on Cauliflower
I really want to concentrate on adding foods and progressing through the remaining phases. Last week I started to make a concentrated effort to try new vegetables. As you know I’m sort of giving up on broccoli for now but I figured I would give its cousin cauliflower a shot.
Steve’s SCD Healing Journal: Week 21 – Walleye fishing in the Saginaw Bay!
Another week down and another camping trip to fill you in about. But first I should mention that I tried broccoli again and this time I’m defiantly putting broccoli in the suspect category. It wasn’t that it caused me horrible symptoms but I did notice a higher incidence of gas and my stomach made a bunch of noise after a couple meals that included it. So until further notice broccoli is on my caution list and won’t be tried purposely for awhile. Instead, I’m going to move on and start breaking into more vegetables in phase 3. I’m still keeping fruit to a minimum until I get my stool test results back (Next week!).
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 20 – Celebrating My Birthday SCD Style
Okay so my birthday wasn’t last week its actually today, but I did celebrate it with my family this past weekend. My family overall has been skeptical but supportive of my Specific Carbohydrate Diet experience. In our family, family meals are of high importance. Food is a medium through which we can gather to bond, with many meals stretching over 2 hours of table time. So in the beginning of this diet I did seem to hurt my mom’s feelings because I was excluding myself from the amount of love and time she was putting in kitchen.
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 19 – Camping on the SCD diet
In honor of the fact that I got a 3 day weekend, some friends and I went camping for the weekend. For the record none of these friends are fellow SCD’ers and several I just meet recently. In order for it to be a successful SCD weekend for me, especially on zero digestive helpers, I knew I was going to have to plan everything to a T. In fact, after it was all said and done it was relatively easy and I had no problems at all having enough food and keeping my food separate from everyone else’s (Brought my own cooler).
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 18 – Is Almond Flour Like SCD Cocaine?
Steady Eddy, that’s how my digestion was last week. My BM’s are continuing to jump around on the Bristol Stool Chart between 3’s, 4’s, and 5’s. All other digestive symptoms seem to be staying relativity stable (on a weekly time frame) for the time being. Everything is not quite where I wish it was but I’m still light years ahead of December of last year. My hypothesis is the last phases of healing and optimizing digestion will take the longest.
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 17 – What’s in Your Medicine Cabinent?
As I’m going to see the doc this week I’m guessing my supplementation is going to change based his recommendations so I figured I would give an update to everyone. If your are doing the SCD diet and are in any way restricted (have food intolerance/allergy or are in the early phases of the diet) I think it is extremely important for you to be supplementing to make sure you are getting all your needed vitamins and minerals as well as replacing your good bacteria and enzymes. This is not intended in any way to be a list for everyone, this is what I take and it is put together solely based on what I am finding that I am deficient in. Always talk things over with your doctor to make sure that they support your supplementation. If they don’t support the SCD diet… find a new doctor!
Steve’s SCD Diet Healing Journal: Week 16 – Learning New Cooking Techniques
I used a technique I learned called a dry rub. For spices I used a salt, paprika, ginger, and cayenne pepper (but you can use any combo). The main point is don’t skimp on the quantity when your dry rubbing a meat. I’m not including any specific spice amounts because I just winged it, but also because this is about learning new ways to cook not necessarily recipes. The following steps are for using a dry rub spice mixture.
