The SCD™ Knowledge Base

How - Not Why

One of our list-members, Mark, sent me this letter privately and gave me
permission to put it up on the site. I'm a big fan of Mark's letters to
the list, because he always just cuts right to the chase (and because I've
yet to disagree with him.. ;-).
This is Mark's take on our policy of keeping the Long Island SCD™ listserv
about 'how', not 'why':
I guess for me just starting the SCD™, my approach is to eat the way that
Elaine has stated in the book. At this point I'm not concerning my self
with why I can or can't have a certain food. I feel right now I am a green
horn and I just need to do as book states. I'm not one to be lead blindly
just because, but I feel that after reading the number of posts stating
how the SCD™ has helped so many others, it will work and is working for me.
If someone who has been on the diet for some time tells me not to use
something or the book requires me to prep something a certain way then
that's the way I'll do it. If I was so smart as to know what I should or
should not eat, I would not have suffered so many years with CD.
So right now I don't care why I can't. I just know that I am getting
amazing results from following the diet to the last letter. I don't feel
like I am depriving myself if I can't have something, but I am depriving
myself if I think I can have an 'illegal' item once in a while and it
won't hurt me. It's not my place to debate with the long-timers on the
list. As I said, if I were that smart I wouldn't need the book or the
list. I have enough right now dealing with the healing process and cooking
totally 'legal' food. Im new to the SCD™ and if I ask if something is
allowed, all I expect to get in response is "yes" or "no" or "maybe you
should wait" (and maybe a kind word). I don't need anyone to justify why I
can't or why I should. My heath is my responsibility and it's up to me to
continue to read and be informed. Right now I don't want to know about
other diets or how to make them work with SCD™. SCD™ is working fine for me
when I follow JUST SCD™ and am not getting it mixed up with some other
diet.
Thank to everyone on the list for sharing your experience and recipes. To
those who are involved in the web sites my sincere gratitude for without
them I may have never learned about SVD. And to Elaine, thank you doesn't
begin to express my deep gratitude for giving me the tools that I need to
change my life.
Mark
CD 1984
SCD™ 7/15/ 02

Originally from the BTVC website.