UC now slowing down, how did you gain weight again? not on prednisone at moment either

Just wondering if anyone has had a little problem of gaining weight, my UC is slowly down but still having some blood issues, not as much urgency as before.  Am introducing other foods and drinks now and they taste great!

I haven't been on prednisone yet (knock on wood). My weight is still at 118 but would like to gain at least 7 more pounds.  Are there any tricks or suggestions that you may have?  Thanks.  

I am also in this boat. I know I know.. some people just wanna crack me over the head with a big stick... I hear it all the time "Why in the world would you want to GAIN weight?!" I was a healthy 135 pounds last winter and come the Spring I had a bad flare which brought me down to 100 pounds. All I could think was how grateful I was that I had the extra weight to lose at the time otherwise I'd be in the hospital or worse.. I could've blown away!! In any case.. Right now I am only about 116 and would like like to gain back what I like to call "my sick weight" or "safe weight." That is... the weight I need incase I get sick again and lose weight!!

I am eating very balanced meals and a few of them each day rather then 3 bigger meals a day. Lots of fruit and vegs and healthy stuff. I just find that since I gave up the deep fried foods, eating out, and pop the weight has just melted off and stayed off. Some days I find myself even sneaking a deep fried chicken strip here and there hoping it will help stick the weight back to my bones!! I just find I can eat and eat and eat and nope.. no weight gain!! I am not really interested in drinking those ensure drinks or anything like that but any other suggestions would be great!!!!

Try adding nut butters, avacado and healthy oils - olive, fish, flax and Udo's - to your diet. Supplement with whey protein isolate or egg white protein shakes. Try Absorb Plus - predigested nutrition for IBDers. And weight training will add healthy muscle mass.

Thanks! I have been eating more peanut butter sandwiches but nut enough peanut butter to gain weight I suppose. Fish is one thing I promised myself I would eat more often but haven't been.. will have to jump on that boat!! As for the carbs.. been trying that... to the point my BF bought me a winnie the pooh pin that says I Luv Carbs.. lol... she laughs at me whenever we are out together cuz of the food I can eat and I gain nothing while healthy her has to watch what she eats or else she balloons out....

when my son lost 50 pounds, his doctor recommended "boosts".  they come in strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla.  it has 380 calories and is great to add to your diet.  Drink 3 a day and thats 1000 calories.  It worked for him.  there also gluten free.  good luck!

I am in the same boat...I lost 14 lbs in the last month or so and lost 4lbs in one day and I'm down to 143 which is kinda on the "punny side" lol for a male 5'9".

Boost and Ensure have high levels of corn syrup in them and a powder mentioned above has fructose in it.

I looked into these supplement drinks and checked out lots and lots of weight gain and protien powders and most either have stuff in them you don't want if you are an IBD'er or cannot tolerate artificial sweetners and or just want to cut down on sweeetners period.  I make killer smoothies using Pacific Natural Foods Almond Milk in Vanilla flavor (now with 35% less sugar and NO artifical sweetners or fructose etc) I add almond butter, strawberries and some rice based vanilla protien powder (Nutri-Biotic) that is all natural made from whole grain brown rice with natural vanilla and has only 1 gram of sugar w/ no funky sweetners, ice and a nice banana thats not too ripe and some cinnamon (which also helps with the small amount of sugar). Yummm...tastes great plus it's low in sugar, not too high in fiber so they are flare friendly : )

Add a digestive enzyme combo to every meal. Its helps those of us who are digestively challenged to absorb more of the food we eat.