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Posted 8/13/2008 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
I'm just curious to know how all of you know what you can and cannot eat?

I'm still in a flare at the moment but things are improving slightly every day. My main concern right now is getting the proper foods in without exacerbating my Crohn's. I am apparently 97 pounds as of two days ago and I really would like to gain weight and build strength. I just am having a difficult time determining what is safe to eat because, as I said, I am in the middle of a flare so distinguishing between the natural symptoms and a bad reaction to a particular food is hard.

Also! I want to begin trying new foods soon, but I was curious to know which ones you absolutely have to avoid. I realize that each person's diet is different, but I feel like there are certain foods most of us can similarly avoid. I wanted to try spaghetti again for example or a hamburger for the iron and protein, but I'm extremely afraid to cause more inflammation and lose the progress I've made.

Having been diagnosed only this past May I'm still new to the experience of coping and recovery so ANY advice and anecdotes would be really appreciated!! I'm over being weak and hungry!

In all honesty, I don't even know what it's like to experience remission. Can you eat whatever you like or do you have to stay perpetually on a bland diet? If you eat something that DOES make you ill does this mean your remission is gone and you have to start all over again because say, you ate pizza just one time?
Posted 8/14/2008 12:51 AM (GMT 0)
I eat and drink whatever I like. Once in a while yogurt and BBQ will make me hurl, but otherwise anything goes.
Posted 8/14/2008 1:00 AM (GMT 0)
Regardless of things like fat/sugar/dairy/etc. content? Are you in remission right now?
Posted 8/14/2008 6:12 AM (GMT 0)
Well, if you don't mind being on immune suppressing drugs for the rest of your life, you can eat anything you want - at least until the side effects take over. Otherwise, you can try logging your diet and looking for reactions (slow and hard to sort out what you're reacting to). Or you can try one of the diets that have helped others. For info on one of them, have a look at: http://www.scdiet.org/ for more. I can't believe the number of people that would rather take what are extremely risky drugs rather than alter their diet. Of course, the doctors don't even consider that option, so I guess that is largely to blame. That and the fact that no drug company makes millions on a diet.
Posted 8/14/2008 2:43 PM (GMT 0)
Well. I avoid nuts, really spicy foods, fried foods, pork, non-organic dairy products, and beer.. [occasional a martini doesnt hurt :)]
What i do when i am cramping is cut up fresh ginger into thin slices and put about 1/8 of a cup worth(soemtimes less) in the bottom of a hot tea (green tea is my favorite so far) I usually just drink that in the morning no matter what.. also eating a little cottage cheese with fruit in it(no more then a half a cup worth of each) is helpful to my bowels.. other then that im just careful.. if you want speghetti dont put a lot of tomato sauce on it.. just enough where you can get a taste.. and the burger, everone is different but if i broil mine in the oven it seems to be beter on my tummy then grilling it on the bbq...

Good luck!
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