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Here is the list I've compiled of how to do Atkins diet free Induction on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet If anybody has any comments or corrections, please let me know. Warning, I'm not a doctor. :) YMMV, and your body your science experiment, and all that. Both of these diets have specific lists of allowed foods. Here is the overlap. The authority for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet is the book _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall. The book really explains it better than I can. The disallowed foods are on a list the author got from a doctor many years ago. The author claims this diet can cure intestinal diseases. It is a very thoroughly gluten free diet. On the SC Diet, no foods containing any of the disallowed foods can be eaten (IE if meat contains sugar, it is not allowed.) The SC Diet is designed to be followed for a minumum of one year after all symptoms go away. Symptoms are varied and include infertility, headaches, and digestive problems. The authority for the Atkins Diet is DANDR Between Atkins and SCD, the following is a list of disallowed foods. Again the SC diet demands total compliance. SCD is a diet that avoids grains, starches, processed sugars, and lactose, primarily. Atkins Induction counts carbs, however, during Induction, there is a strict list of foods that are allowed. When selecting foods... Make sure to stay at or below 20 g. carbohydrate per day No canned fruits, meats, or vegetables No grains including corn, wheat, wheat germ, barley, oats, rye, rice, buckwheat, and soy No seaweed and seaweed products No processed meats if they contain sugar, starch, whey, lactose, or sucrose. If you can find smoked meats that don't have any of that, they are ok in limited quantities. Also, if you can't find any smoked meats without those ingredients, a little crisply cooked bacon once a week is okay No processed meats No canned fish with sauces of any kind No starchy foods including potatoes, pasta, bread, and more No milk, cream, heavy cream, half and half, dried milk solids, buttermilk, sour cream, or commercially prepared yogurt (not even the lactose-free milk or the specially treated lactose intolerant milk, even including milk or cream taken with the lactase supplements. Just plain old NO MILK) No soy milk No ricotta, mozzarella, cottage cheese, gjetost, cream cheese, feta, processed cheeses or cheese spreads No bread, pasta, other starchy foods, canola oil, commercially prepared mayonnaise (homemade is okay), ice cream (after Induction, homemade ice cream made from homemade yogurt is ok), agar-agar, candy, cocoa, chocolate, carob, whey, whey powder (protein powder users, take note), margarine, commercially prepared ketchup (homemade is ok, there are recipes in the SCD book), baking powder, spice mixes, mixed nuts, canned roasted nuts, garlic powder, onion powder, bouillon cubes, powdered soup bases, or fructooligosaccharides, alfalfa sprouts, bean sprouts, malt, instant coffee, instant tea, grain coffee substitutes. No products containing refined sugar, maple syrup, molasses, corn syrup, fructose, or pectin. Ok, here we go, this is what we can have during Induction. 8 cups or more of water per day. Both books recommend some type of vitamin/mineral supplementation. Find vitamins and other medications without the fillers, starches, yeast, or lactose, if possible. If medications must contain a sugar, see if the druggist has something with dextrose or fructose. Obviously, however, prescribed necessary medications shouldn't be avoided if there is no sugar free alternative. The only permitted artificial sweetener is saccharin tablets. As for diet soft drinks, 3 servings containing saccharin per week are allowed. If none containing saccharin can be found, 1 serving of diet soda pop sweetened with nutrasweet is allowed per week. Eat enough to take away your hunger. Eat 3 regular sized meals or 5-6 smaller meals. All unprocessed meats, fish, seafood, and eggs. Bacon is ok once a week. No nitrates or sugar. Oils, even those which originate from grains, are okay. Cold pressed or expeller pressed oils are recommended. Butter is allowed. 3 cups of raw salad vegetables per day. When doing Atkins Induction with SCD, you probably want to avoid raw vegetables if you have diarrhea. arugula bok choy celery chicory (ground chicory is ok in coffee too) chives cucumber daikon endive escarole fennel jicama lettuce mâche mushrooms (if you don't have candida overgrowth), parsley peppers radicchio radishes romaine lettuce sorrel Or 2 cups of the above raw vegetables, and 1 cup of the following, cooked. Limit amounts of vegetables that cook down, to 1 cup measured before cooking. Again, give skip the raw vegetables while diarrhea is active. Artichoke (french not jerusalem) artichoke hearts (french not jerusalem) asparagus bamboo shoots beet greens broccoli broccoli rabe brussels sprouts cabbage cauliflower celery root chard collard greens dandelion dandelion greens eggplant hearts of palm kale kohlrabi leeks okra onion pumpkin rhubarb sauerkraut (homemade) scallions snow peas spaghetti squash spinach string or wax beans summer squash tomato turnips water chestnuts zucchini homemade mayonnaise is ok--make it with lemon juice or cider vinegar. Dill pickles are allowed, as are 10 olives, not prepared with sugar. Spearmint or peppermint tea (sweeten only with saccharin) weak decaffeinated tea, very weak decaffeinated coffee with no milk or cream. Club soda is allowed. Homemade meat or poultry or fish broth or bouillon is allowed. Both books show 1 cup of coffee or tea a day in their menus, both limit even allowable dairy considerably. 3-4 ounces of the allowable cheese a day at most. Allowed cheeses are all aged, such as aged cheddar, swiss, brick, colby, havarti, farmer. Allowed but limit amounts, asiago, blue, brie, camembert, edam, gorgonzola, gouda, limberger, jack, muenster, parmesan, port du salut, roquefort, romano, and stilton. If grated cheeses are used, make sure they have no added milk solids or whey. How to do Atkins and SCD simultaneously, to follow ..

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Well, Induction is just for two weeks. (and I am going to do Induction again, following this plan, as soon as I get back from my trip to my FIL's funeral. Just not up for the rigors of combining two diet plans at their strictest level while I'm going to be on the road so long and so tired from traveling, on the heels of my recent long road trip.) But the SCD is just for one year after all symptoms go away. So there's a light at the end of the restriction tunnel, as it were. At that time, I will remain on a gluten free diet and on low carb for the rest of my life, but I don't expect to have to remain on the SCD for life.