Has anyone had long term success (remission) with diet?

I ate a healthy diet before diagnosis and afterwards so I can't say it helped me with remission. I also tried a few of the fad diets that are out there, like paleo nd makers diet early on in my diagnosis. I found most of them to have rather arbitrary restrictions that are depriving the diet of a lot of good things especially since there are a lot of healthy foods that are hard to tolerate while flaring. There are certain things you should avoid like fried greasy foods and junk foods but there is very little evidence for most of the miracle diets. The SCD diet is the only one that might be worth trying but even then it doesn't work for most and can mask active disease. In general those who are helped with diet either have very mild disease to begin with or the disease is causing silent damage. Many of these videos and blogs only give you a short snap shot of someone's life. You don't know really if they took something like prednisone or another med that helped them along to remission or whether they are actually having periods of symptoms they aren't admitting to (I have seen this with some of the major diet proponents who also have social media accounts and still tout their healthy lifestyle despite posting about numerous hospitalizations). Some will also take strong medications until they are in deep remission, at the same time transition to a special diet and the quit the meds. Most of the work was done by the medication and the diet may or may not be helping them stay that way afterwards. Healthy eating is great and good for your health but taking it to the extreme may not be the best idea as the only treatment

I agree with Lab. Take most of the claims with a pinch of salt. Many people are in long-term remission without being on any special diet or, in some cases, meds. (I would not advise going out without meds though, unless you have a very mild case which is too mild for immunesuppressants or biologics). IBD has long since been recognised as a remitting-relapsing disease; that is, it has periods of flare-ups and remissions.

Also for some people with Crohn's, healthy eating is more trouble than it's worth - fibre is not kind to inflamed and scarred tissue. Eat healthy if you can manage it without pain and diarrhoea, but don't beat yourself up about it if you can't.