Day One — The Elemental Diet

Susan B.
12 min readMar 2, 2020

Today is my first full day doing an Elemental Diet. And I plan on doing a daily post about my experience with it.

If you don’t know what the elemental diet is, the simple answer is that it’s a short-term, pre-digested, liquid replacement for food as a way to get nutrients into someone with a really messed up gut (e.g., SIBO, IBS, Crohn’s) and to give your digestive system a break. You can read more about the

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Susan B.

Writing about recovery from compulsive spending, eating, & being controlled by my emotions + living w/chronic illness • Food-sensitive vegan • And I make art.