What do you all eat on a daily basis

Hey guys, I have always wondered what other chrons and colitis patients ate on a regular basis. Also wondered how everyone copes with the foods they crave most? I find that I have the worst time with gluten and trying to stay away from it is like a drug addicted staying away from drugs. I do know everyone is different in their food choices but it would be nice to hear from others what their diets are like due to their conditions. :) Hope all is well and would love all the feed back I can get. Happy holidays.

the thing i crave most would be fizzy energry drinks which are really bad for me coz they haf caffine in them etc and i always end up going nuts on them like every couple of weeks,basically my diet when im in a flare like im in atm really depends on how sick i am,usually i go for plain food any flaovour bad lol so mash taties,hot chips cooked in the oven,soup, jelly and weatmeal bread.when my tum is going good pasta etc like spag bol and meats like stir fry with safe sauces (not sweet chili) oj watered dwn usually bot 80% water 20% oj,and maybe a milk product once a week but not on a empty stomach.Anytihng im unsure of i usually have soemthing sfae before to line my tum.Pineapple is bad and i find sausages rolls from bakery's are bad for me.oh and lettuce baddddd :( also i usually go nuts on curries once every few weeks :( and aclchol aswell i try stay away frm which is dumb coz im 21 :( but oh well.

LOL i totally agree!!! my mum is trying to get me to buy other things other than food lol coz on the weekends i tend to buy the bad stuff coz i dont haf work and i dnt mind crapping constantly :s so shes like when u want to buy KFC or the bottle of energy drink buy soemthing for ur self like a necklace or wat ever,my boyfriend has a iron stomach he can eat anything and be fine its the most frustrating thing ever! As for finding out wat u can eat or not my nutritionist pointed out that if u had bad D the bacteria in ur intestines that help break dwn certain foods wont be there so u myte b only able to handle very plain stuff and like after a few gud days haf a small amount of somethingu think is bad and see hw it goes and write dwn wat u had or mke a nte to remember and if its al good sweet i usually go for 3 strikes then ur out....thou soemtimes it can onyl tke one like that darn sweet chilli sauce which is reallly yum but really bad :( annnnddd alchol....thou some things i cant live wit out....like my energy drinks.....think its one of the hardest thing for this disase esp if a food person

All of us are different in what we can eat.  I stick with a low residue diet.  I eat no red meat at all.  I eat alot of fish, turkey and chicken.  I unlike most folks can eat beans without any problems.  Thats lucky for me becuz I am married to mexican so eat alot of beans and rice.  I eat tortillas, bread no problem.  I have also learned to watch what I eat very closely and I think within time you will too.  Always getting sick by eating something I know I shouldn't got old after awhile.  I got tired of feeling like poop, that I finally gave up and started watching my diet more closely.  Some folks do the SCD or Makers Diet, but not all (including me) can handle that strict of diet.  I have modified my diet to what I can eat and stick pretty strictly to it.  Good luck!

I will use today as an example.
I had Special K with a little maple sugar and soy milk. (I am allergic to milk)
Lunch was homemade milk free rice pudding, though I usually have a sandwich or something
Snack was a couple of slices of canned peaces.
For supper I am having potatoes, mashed carrots and broiled haddock.
I eat alot of broiled chicken or roast turkey or beef and potatoes and rice.
I just started eating some cooked fruits and veggies this weekend.
I also drink a couple of ensure a day to help with lost nutrition.

SCD for one year on the 19th.

Breakfast (today): bacon and eggs! Normally: SCD yogurt with blueberries, a sliced banana, and honey.

Lunch: Typically chicken with roasted cauliflower or similar.

Dinner: Beef, chicken, fish- often with some sort of low-sugar vegetables.

Snacks: Trader Joe's nut mixes; most recently, I have developed the ability to consume as many cashews as I want. String cheese from "Fresh and Easy."

I tend to stay away from roughage. Salads do me in so I steer clear of them. I can't nuts either, but I handle peanut butter alright. Dairy products are kinda funny with me, I can have yogurt and I handle cheese alright, but you put a glass of milk in front of me and just the thought alone makes my whole body sigh. I haven't eaten real ice cream in years. It's a little crazy, all the things that are good for me hurt me and all the bad stuff usual settles well.

Thought I'd drop this in here, a food diary helps alot when figuring out what you can and can't handle! Goodluck!

Post Edited (jamief) : 12/13/2008 3:57:49 PM (GMT-7)

I seem to be addicted to bread too. I just can never seem to get enough!!
I wish I didn't get cravings. I tend to grab a cup of tea, I drink many flavors to add variety, when I can't get over my cravings. It helps most times.

Of course just getting down to 40mg of pred is not helping the appetite much either.

I'm pretty bad with food since I eat whatever I want, unless I'm sick and then its oatmeal, mac and cheese and jello for me.

The real reason I am posting is I noticed that you had a baby on March 8th ChronicallyIll and that's my birthday! It's a great day to have a birthday because it's right between Christmas and summer so it gives you something to look forward to in the first few months of the year. :)

Congrats!

Chronicallyill said...
Thanks for all your guys input. Would love to know how everyone gets by everyday when it comes to cravings and how you shut them out. I am addicted to bread, like I said and can't seem to give it up.

I just ignore my cravings, I guess. I used to be a terrible junk food junkie. But I know that stuff like sugar and gluten are bad for me. Plus the fear of obstructions and surgery motivates me to eat healthy.

You could find a substitution. If you want to remove gluten, make/buy bread and crackers made without wheat flour. If you want to avoid grains altogether, there are a lot of good nut flour breads and whatnot. The other night, I used a souffle bread for my hamburger bun, and also used it for my grilled cheese.

You can have bacon once a week, and it has to be cooked until crispy. Which disappoints me, because I like my bacon moist and meaty.

Wow becoming undone, I wouldn't be able to stomach the baby food. I feed my 9 month some right now. It smells good but tastes so blah :(. Right now I am binging on everything and anything. I figure I my as well do it now. Starting January I am going on a liquid diet for 2 months straight. Binging will make me sick and more appt to want to just drink ensure. I have to keep in contact with my dietitician for awhile. It will be so expensive and I am hoping it will work and I hope i have the strength to make healthy choices after I am done. Like no more bread or dairy forever :(

My doctor and I are planning for me to get better so I can get pregnant in June or July. My first pregnancy was really uncontrolled and dangerous, with an extreme flare and blood clots in my lungs. I also hope that doing this liquid diet will help prep my body for pregnancy. Lots of people think I am crazy putting my body through this again, but Im not worried. One more child and I am done. I would like to just get it over and done with. I really dont want my daughter to be an only child :(.

The methotrexate that I am on orally at the moment has stopped being as effective and my doctor is switching me out to metotrexate IM. Hopefully that works. Not sure what they will put me on when i get pregnant. I will probably just have to be very careful with my food choices I guess?

Anyone have any suggestion that i might have missed through the posts to suppress my cravings for bread and other bad foods?