My diet plan!

My last ramble I promise! I have been reading ALL the diets and at this point I'm so confused. I don't mind making diet changes...even extreme ones. But its so tricky when one person says SCD has kept them off meds, another says McDougall did it, RS and so forth. Docs sent me home with the low residue list. Some of these dies that help even seem contradictory! I've always been confused anyway because one study on diets contradicts another. I'm vegetarian usually and usually eat pretty healthy whole food. (Last few months have been not so healthy high in carbs due to financial issues, and I noshed on candy during Halloween due to stress...wonder if that is what set me off, but anyway) I love dairy so much but have to stay away from my faves like alfredo sauce and sour cream because they always messed me up my entire life....and I have a feeling gluten is not doing me much good...I've gone gluten free for a few weeks before, and felt so much more energetic.

So....taking from everything I read, I'm keeping it simple this week...already cut gluten like Monday, most dairy, though I had a slice of cheese yesterday. So I'm thinking this week rice, potatoes, peaches canned in juice, applesauce, cooked peeled carrots, broth, cranberry juice, maybe a tiny bit of organic turkey if I can afford it. Then slowly adding things in that are appropriate on most of the lists to see how I react?

Already missing my bread and chocolate, but whatever I have to do!

Any thoughts? Honesty welcomed but please don't be mean lol!

wifeofmars

First I think it is great that you are trying to find a healing path through food. Good for you.

"Any thoughts? Honesty welcomed but please don't be mean lol!"

Well here goes 

I am not sure how you got to your list of foods but it is very high in carbs and sugar. Very low in nutrition and very low in protein. I do not know what you mean by broth, but assuming it is a 24 hour broth, then this is the only thing I would eat. If I ate what you are planning to eat, I would be very sick and be in a full on flare.  

I 100% understand your confusion re diets. It is true that they contradict each other. The path I went was as follows. I read all the books, just like you. I then went to places like medpub and looked at the medical research. I then selected a diet and stuck with it. I stayed fanatically complaint to the diet and made tweaks to the diet to make it work for me. As this worked for me, I would suggest this to others. Pick one of the diets that "speaks" to you and really learn it and make it work for you.

OBTW - I do SCD, what some describe as the most limiting diet. I made a fabulous SCD complaint chocolate brownie for thanksgiving, that all my non SCD family thought was great. In fact the buggers ate it all, so not enough for me.....

As SCD has worked for me of course I would encourage others to give SCD a try. I know there are other successful diets but I have not done them, so I can not comment on others

Thanks. I had been thinking possible allergens plus looking at the residue diet the surgeon sent home. I've been mainly looking at SCD and McDougall. I'm not opposed to eating a bit of organic turkey if I need...unfortunately I don't get paid until Friday and with all my issues we are out of money and still dodging bills ugg. So that may have to wait.....potatoes and rice were in the house and gluten free, low allergen, and on the doctors list. Ugg part of me just doesn't want to eat but then I get nausea which I can't handle. I did eat some plain tuna last night...had a really painful episode after though...not sure if its related. Thanks for the tips...I will keep working on it!

I was doing the low residue diet and because it is full of carbs, I gained weight. Plus the Prednisone makes me incredibly hungry. I can't eat fiber, so most veges, but what I can do is juice them. I get the benefit of the food but not the fiber. I can also eat eggs, so I make an egg salad with eggs and a little FF mayo, served with crackers. Chicken breasts are a staple and white rice. Fish, as long as it's not fried. Jello is good. I'm looking into making Chia pudding, which is supposed to be really nutritious.  Prior to my diagnosis, I was eating salads mostly -- so much for that!

I have a miserable complicated case. about a year ago I went vegan. While I am not cured, if I stick to it the misery is less. I juice. Granted I did not change all this overnight. I juiced very slowly for a year, not everyday and not too much, trying to introduce this into my system. I am no dairy ever! I really like almond milk. I hope this helps. Oh and no sugar ever! It is really very easy for me and I dropped 30 pounds.

I have been without symptoms since 2007 and healed two large rectal fistulas with the scd diet. To this day I still follow the scd diet, but not so strict as before. The only med I take is pentassa.