Re: Rotation of foods

[Guest guest]

Aiazeen,

 

I'm only a few months ahead of you (18 months on the diet) and I've just recently begun to feel like I might actually be having days with no symptoms of my UC at all.  I haven't studied this at all, but my experience has actually been lately, that sticking to a same (rather than rotated) diet is helping me.  I've been eating banana pancakes for breakfast, two toasted muffins with cheese for lunch, and apple or two for a snack (peeled), and spinach with spaghetti sauce and cheddar cheese for dinner.  As long as I stick with this diet, I have no bleeding, and have a nicely formed bowel movement every day.  When I stray from my routine, I'm luckily almost never having bleeding, but I may go a few days without a bowel movement.  (constipation has always been my main problem, so it continues to haunt me -- but a mere shadow of its past severity).  Through my whole first year of the diet I stuck with a pretty routine diet as well, but I realized that I had a few hidden illegals in it that probably delayed healing.  In my case, I'm pretty sure it was the cinnamon I was using (who knew default cinnamon in the U.S. was actually cassia? -- actually someone from this list knew).  I think my beloved Welch's grape juice was also a problem for me.  I now drink Knudsen's Just Black Currant (I love raspberries, and this is close).  I usually mix it with a little honey and water it way down with sparkling water to get a very soda-like drink that I love.  So anyway, this is just my experience so far.

 

Ann

SCD since 03/2008

 

 

2. Rotation of foods   Posted by: " A " aiazeen@... aiazeen   Date: Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:03 pm ((PDT))

So here it has been one year and two months on SCD.  I only eat about 30 ingredients.  My symptoms never completely go away it seems.  I think I can say with authority that it take 2 sometimes up to three days for things to process through my gut, so sometimes I have these delayed reactions to things.  Most recently someone posted what they are eating and how they are rotating foods every several days or so - they don't eat the same thing for more than two days.  It got me thinking that maybe I have been so obsessed with getting the symptoms completely gone before moving on to another foods, that I have overlooked the fact that my gut will also react in some ways if I eat too much of same of the " safe " foods over and over and over and over again.  If anyone can chime in on their process with symptoms and bringing in new foods and in particular success on the rotation diet, that sure would help me - I figured I might start to try more of a rotational diet.  Thanks in advance for your input

aiazeen1 yr 2 mo SCDUC 6 yearsAsacol 800 mg 3x/dayImipramine 30 mg per nt

[Guest guest]

Ann,

You aren't the only one. I think the idea of rotating foods seems

good but it sure doesn't work for me. I haven't had enough foods to

do this for decades. Maybe later, I would look forward to more

foods, but for me, I just have to eat the things that work for me.

Some things rotate in and out of the diet list that works, but that's

another matter.

but my experience has

actually been lately, that sticking to a same (rather than rotated) diet is

helping me

Ann

[Guest guest]

Ann,

You aren't the only one. I think the idea of rotating foods seems

good but it sure doesn't work for me. I haven't had enough foods to

do this for decades. Maybe later, I would look forward to more

foods, but for me, I just have to eat the things that work for me.

Some things rotate in and out of the diet list that works, but that's

another matter.

but my experience has

actually been lately, that sticking to a same (rather than rotated) diet is

helping me

Ann