IBD Remission Diet (by Jini Patel) and Self-Healing for Chrons and Colitis (by David Klein)

I've tried it, and it worked for me. I've been trying to all raw for a little over a year now.  It truly works for me. The problem is, is that I LOVE sweet tea, and cooked food.  I was doing solid for a few months. Still had d but no bloating, pain, and the d was getting better. But then one day, I decided to have pizza. I've been struggling to get on the wagon since then. I'm hopeful though with summer approaching that it will happen for me again. It's a huge transition, but it feel wonderful. I'm determined to get there. If pizza and cheese would stop calling my name I'd be a happy girl! he he.  Do you think you will try it?

I'd highly recommend you start with Jini's book Listen to Your Gut. It's a thick, comprehensive book on all kinds of alternative healing therapies for IBD, not just a diet. Her book The IBD Remission Diet is focused more on consuming a predigested liquid diet to get the nutrition you need while allowing the gut to heal. It doesn't have near the scope of LTYG, but is certainly appropriate for those that have stubborn symptoms.

In my experience, diet plays a key role, but diet alone isn't sufficient for most people. Supplements to heal the gut, decrease inflammation and rebalance the gut ecology in combination with a modified diet is what's helped me stay mostly in remission for years.

I am very similar.  Pizza, italian food, high fat foods, make me very sick.  I started taking entocort and then digestive enzymes and seem to doing okay.  No major flare ups.  I also take fish oil, multivitamins, caltrate, vitamin d, and omperazole.

i too have been researching the vegan diet.  It really does make sense to me....the idea is that it will help to detoxify your body.  I am preparing for a fast of several days in order to detox my body, water only for at least a week then maybe juice for a week or 2 and then go to a vegan diet which is what david klein believes in.  The idea is eat foods that have not been altered by man.  I will be keeping a post to let everyone know what success I have.  I am beginning a fruit and veg diet for thed next few weeks in preparation.  I don't want to begin fast till i am off of the pred.  I am in a taper right now which did not put me in complete remissions at 40 mg of pred.  I do know a year before i was diagnosed, I had a flare that laster several months with d and blood.  I started eating all veggies and fruits and drank only water between my gp appnt. and me appt to see a gi doc, but before i saw my gi doc, i went into a complete remission.  I wonder if the change in diet caused the remission.  I canceled my gi appt because all symptoms dissapeared.  I believe God put within our bodies the mechanisms to heal itself, but we cannot continually poison ourselves with garbage and expect good results.  I think it is worth a try.  I would strongly reccommend at least a few day water fast or juice (100%) to help jump start the toxic cleanse.  That is the idea behind the vegan diet, low toxicity.  What have ya got to lose.

Thanks to all of your replies.  I have decided to try the IBD remission diet (I did a test run about a month ago and it stopped the bleeding in 3 days, but I did not stick with it because i was starving -- really needed the Aborb Plus shakes).  I ordered the shakes this time, so I hope to be more successful.  After I do this diet, I may incorporate the Klein diet for maintenance, since it seems that people seem to stay in remission for a long time on his diet. 

Welcome to HealingWell, Mauigirl. Lizard99 has Crohn's disease, not UC, and normally posts in that forum.

From my personal experience of being in flare for 5 years and trying virtually every diet out there, none of them helped me at all.