Food Survey for my never ending food battles...

Put your hands up for the following foods that bother you.

Gluten - I know that this is widely spoken about but how many really cut it out due to bloating and pain or just because its recommended? and is it really gluten or just wheat that's the problem?

Dairy - as above - not all diets recommend you stop using it...

alcohol - I haven't herd much about this one but I cant seem to have more than 2 drinks without feeling ill and not in a drunk way.

Preservatives - any sort of condiment type food that has a long shelf life i'm pretty sure is the culprit for making me fee crap.

Fatty foods make me throw up! Does anyone else have a throw up reflex after eating straight away? sometimes its good food but sometimes by body say's NO WAY is that going any further and I throw up. I cant find the pattern with types of food that make this happen but sometimes I have days where I cant keep a decent meal down, and there is no nausea just a quick rush to the toilet and when it comes up I feel fine (just hungry)

and lastly, does anyone else have NO self control with food they know they shouldn't eat? I just cant help myself and even though I know I will instantly feel crap I still eat that bread roll with butter and Vegemite...mmmmmm I get down on myself that I cant control it sometimes and get angry. I can snap out of it and steer clear for a while but as soon as that time of the month comes or i'm feeling down like everyone i suppose I turn to bad food.

I hope there's more naughty people out there like me. x x Tina

Just with chocolate soymilk. And even then, it just causes bloating and gas. I've cut out nearly everything else. I admit though that before then I could not stop ordering chocolate caramel tiramisu from macaroni grill and papa john's breadsticks with garlic sauce even though I felt...not so good afterward...

MAG102886 said...
I pretty much eat everything I know I shouldnt. Lol.  Breads, sugars, fryed foods, dairy.  Its pretty hard to eat the "right" foods when you have crohns, for me at least.  I really have no self control when it comes to food, if I want something Im going to eat it, and I suffer later for it, in all honesty it doesnt stop me...Im really not sure why.  I feel that everyone else can eat those foods and be ok, so why the heck cant I.

This is exactly how I feel to. Down to the last tee.

sip sip "Amen to the black gold" sip sip

I watched an episode of LA INK where a guy was getting a tattoo in loving memory of cheese due to Crohn's. I would get one of a bread roll and a cup of coffee (I have cut down to one coffee these days, and maybe a red bull if im lucky...sshhhhh

I personally think sugar can cause a big problem, also Ice cream too. I cannot eat them while I'm in pain. When I'm ok Ican eat every thing almost but it must be in moderation. that works for me some times.

Milk always bad for Me

In loving memory of cheese....yeah, that would be me. But lurking behind a gravestone near by the funeral service would be darkly hooded, disguised figure...ultimately revealed to be... Cheddar !
And apart from falling off the cheese wagon as I did so severely this January ("I need fats....wanna have my fats....it's subzero darn it !") I also fall off the chocolate wagon. Two or three times a year, almost always around Christmas when my Seasonal Affective Disorders carbohydrate craving kicks in big time and I start gnawing compulsively in a search for anything sugary. Which is often set off by the bouncing blood sugar and wrecked adrenals caused by too much caffeine - more than one cup of tea a day and I'm in trouble. Caffeinated drinks and chocolate = severe drops in blood sugar and severe, instantanaeous, ungovernable need for sleep. My mum said it first, and boy was she right !
I will say this much though - most of the time I avoid sugar pretty well - I don't even have any in the house, except for unpasteurised honey, and molasses for the iron - I stay well away from Dairy products ( ahem, except for the cheese and chocolate thing ) and I never, ever want to taste anything with gluten in it ever again.
( Unless one day they are going to hang me the next morning, in which case I have a comprehensive menu planned with about twenty different options if the chef is having problems filling the order ! Hey, what the heck, it wouldn't be me doing the laundry... )
I find there are three categories of food: things I can always have, things I can never have, and things that will do me harm if I have them too much or when my gut is kicking off. I live in drooling anticipation of the day I find a fourth category of "foods that I cannot resist that are good for me" !

My weakness is honey. I've become a honey connoisseur since starting SCD, and have got several different varieties in my cupboard. I went to a farmer's market last week and bought 2 gallons of local desert blossom honey (and some orange blossom honey, and some mesquite honey ). It's a good thing I was out of money, because there was another honey vendor selling some delicious sounding varieties.

Coffee and sugar here as for the rest I do fairly good for my diet .I have given up lots of things that don't bother me now but coffee is a struggle and the sugar is a hard thing to pass by ..lol gail

that in loving memory of cheese tatoo is funny. I would have to get an ear of corn. even when I am not flaring I am scared to eat corn and I miss it so much!! I can eat cream corn but not the same. Karen

Oh, you have no idea how tempted I am to make a corny joke here ! But I might not get a sympathetic ear...

snohare, please share. Is is about how corn looks the same when it comes out as when you ate it ? lol Karen

HA HA I was just about to go write on the jello thread about that corn issue...you chew and it comes out whole ha ha ha another lady had mentioned that you chew gummy bears and they come out whole. Very very funny, and of course only a joke you guys would get....

Another question for you all is, do you find that your guts are picky when your in a flare? One week you get this almighty feeling that you need to avoid gluten and the next week you can eat gluten but MUST avoid sugar and so on...I do and it seems to work! It drives my hubby crazy because he will watch me eat something and say "you cant eat that can you?" and i say no its okay today....or am I just crazy?????