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Posted 1/30/2011 5:36 AM (GMT 0)
I have UC and really never besides maybe a granola bar in the morning have eaten breakfast. Unfortunatly now with my prednisone and lialda i have to eat when I take the pills. I have been eating a bowl of frosted flakes and taking my pills but it seems like there can be more. Im not a breakfast person at all, i dont do the whole eggs or oatmeal thing and yogurt is just not for me unless its the tasty trix one which to me seems like its more or less not as good for you. I was thinking waffels with syrup too because i do enjoy that but maybe people have some ideas.

My GI said my With the UC there are no diet restrictions but I will assume some make it worse and flare. I dont know have much expieriance with the disease and to be honest I have had a terrible diet before i was diagnosed. I want to make changes not just for breakfast but maybe for other meals and snacks etc. Just curious I guess and i think it will be a good thing to change my diet anyway.

Also just a linfering question... I am told fried foods are bad for UC. Is this a sure state thing or if I eat fried foods once and a while I will be ok. I love my fried chicken and I do enjoy the indulgance of fastfood maybe once or twice a month or so. I know thats bad but I am 19 and diet is quite hard for me when I am always hungry but still trying to get my UC in check. Any input is great. Thanks!!!
Posted 1/30/2011 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
Well since I was just diagnosed and these are really the first pills I have been on besides the FLAGYL I have not had since last week. But I guess I would say I am on my way. With the prednosone and my lialda I am suposed to take with food and I guess I am worried that just eating a bowl of cereal and some juice at breakfast isn't an adiquite amoumt of food to take both or technically 3 pills. (1 pred. and 2 lialda).
Posted 1/30/2011 1:51 PM (GMT 0)
A bowl of cereal is adequate. Just as long as you have a little of something in your stomach is fine. I was not a breakfast person either. I always feel slightly nauseous in the morning so usually I eat peanut butter toast.

Food is so individualist in regards as to what agrees with us. It's about trial and error. I have IBS in addition to Uc so if I am in remission but certain foods bother me, I chalk it up to IBS. Greasy foods is one of them. They give me increased mucous and D. I find that when I am flaring, I tend to avoid raw fruits and vegetables, spicy foods, dairy, seeds/nuts and fast food. But in remission, these things don't bother me as long as I eat them in moderation.
Posted 1/30/2011 1:59 PM (GMT 0)
Fast food once or twice a month will not harm you :-) otherwise the streets would be littered with bodies lol. Most of them are still walking around.

You don't need to eat a big breakfast. That granola bar or low sugar cereal sound fine but when you decide to look into ingredients in your food you might want to switch to a preservative-free and high fructose-free type of breakfast bar. Luna Bar comes to mind but there are others with healthy ingredients too.

If you keep track of how your symptoms are after you eat fried foods you'll have your answer on that. It probably won't be immediately, more likely the next day.
Posted 1/30/2011 4:54 PM (GMT 0)
I eat the same way I ate before getting diagnosed with UC. I still eat fried foods and candy. I go through a lot of phases where I try to cut out different ingredients and honestly, for me, it hasn't made a difference. I think it is important that each person does their own experimentation with diet. You could find that avoiding certain foods really helps you.

I don't really like breakfast either - I usually have granola and yogurt.
Posted 1/30/2011 5:26 PM (GMT 0)
See I could stick with the whole cereal or waffle and juice in the morning but i have always read that granola because of the nuts I think I am not quite sure was not good. The only reason I am being so careful is because I am on my way to remission and my flare ups day to day are still bad. I was always told in the hospital can't have this or that but people who have what I do are saying try it and same with my GI. Thats why I like getting other opinios like on this site.
Posted 1/30/2011 6:08 PM (GMT 0)
Food with UC is a highly individual thing. If you can tolerate it, go ahead and eat it!

That being said when I am flaring my usual breakfasts would be a smoothie, yogurt, or oatmeal (or egg and toast when I want to put forth the effort). I have to eat with my Imuran, as well, or I become nauseus and I've found that generally as long as I have SOMETHING I am fine.
Posted 1/30/2011 6:18 PM (GMT 0)
Oh, when I was flaring, I was very careful about what I ate because of the repercussions. The more I ate, the more I was on the can! I would not eat all morning and I would eat something light in the afternoon/evening. I found that that was the only way I could survive and make it to work on a daily basis. If I ate normal meals while flared up, I would have been on the toilet all day, probably would have been fired for being MIA.
Posted 1/31/2011 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
Granola-type things bother me when I'm flaring,... sometimes I'll eat them anyway and just try to make sure to chew the heck out of them. But generally I leave the crunchy/nutty things for when I'm feeling better.

As everyone else said, we are so individual as far as what affects us diet-wise. A food diary, so you can know, when you have a "bad gut day" what you ate the day before.... that helps us figure it out.
Posted 2/4/2011 1:22 PM (GMT 0)
When eating so much throughout the day how do you tell what exactly in your diet is causing the flare up? Is there anyway to tell? Or do you just have to start taking out a food you ate the day before and seeing if it gets better?
Posted 2/4/2011 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
It is almost impossible to determine what particular food is causing problems when in a flare unless you do an elimination diet and then slowly add foods/drinks in one-at-a-time. I've done it and it's not easy.

Because we all eat so many different things all day long you might think you know what causes symptoms but some foods are good one day and bad the next. Its easy when you get symptoms right away or within a couple hours.
I was wrong about bread being OK with my gut for years because it didn't cause recognizable symptoms like urgency or D. But when I removed it from my diet the bleeding stopped.

Sometimes it's 24 hours before my gut reacts but most foods/drinks react in 12 hours or under for me.
You'll have to be your own detective. Good luck with your investigations :-)
Posted 2/4/2011 10:01 PM (GMT 0)

imagardener2 said...
But when I removed it from my diet the bleeding stopped.

Sometimes it's 24 hours before my gut reacts but most foods/drinks react in 12 hours or under for me.
You'll have to be your own detective. Good luck with your investigations :-)

I support this. Three weeks with bread bring bleeding to my rectum. Quitting bread stopped bleeding in 2 days. I was fooled by the fact that D stopped with bread, only to get into another mess.

It took me 1 year to eliminate some offensive foods (most fruits, bread - i cheat with it from time to time, yoghurt, all nuts except almonds, white wine, pork and so on).
It's a hard job because it takes days - weeks - to recover from a flare and during that time even if you eat the right diet you still have symptoms. Or it takes days/weeks of eating an offensive food that could put you in a flare (for example apples for me).

I keep a dayly journal in wich i write all that i eat, my gut reactions, my joints reactions, my state of mind, my energy levels, my skin issues...
I also try to eat for 1-2 weeks the same meals and change the diet only one food max two per week in order to see if there are offensive or not.

We all react differently to same foods unfortunately and what works for some of us does not work for the others and viceversa.
Posted 2/4/2011 10:04 PM (GMT 0)
Grains, sugar, potatoes are a killer for me, too - read an article on pubmed that celiac disease and UC might be related.
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