Foods post j-pouch surgery

I wish the search engine was a little more robust as I'd try to find this before posting. I'm sure i may be repeating posts asked before but hopefully, not.

I love food. I love bad food. Burgers, pizzas, pastas, sandwiches with meats and veggies. I know, it's bad and I go from periods of healthy to bad.

How much is it still a reality to enjoy these bad foods after having a j-pouch? I've heard people say you introduce foods over time and see how your body reacts. Do you introduce a component/ingredient of a food? (i.e. pasta sauce versus pizza)? What do you look for in terms of your body adjusting? (frequency? pain of some sort? Obstruction?).

It's such an individual thing it's impossible to say... One thing I know is that the concept of "healthy" and "good for you" gets flipped on its head when you have a j-pouch. A lot of the foods that usually make pouches happiest (less frequency, less butt burn, etc) are foods we tend to think of as unhealthy like pasta, white bread, and potatoes.

The surgeon told my husband to just eat what he felt like eating cause his system needed to get used to being "normal" again... the only thing they said to stay away from for about a month or so was raw veggies.

He eats everything... pizza, burgers, steak, pasta... the only problem he has is tomato sauce seems to give him butt burn... but a little calmoseptine ointment fixes that right up! :)