diet suggestions

what do you normally eat in a day?

What meds are you on?

What's the extent of your UC...limited or throughout?

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Have you tried a basic anti-inflammatory diet?

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02012/anti-inflammatory-diet

It's a very easy diet to adjust to- you can still eat the "bad" foods that you love but in very limited quantities. You probably won't get dramatic effects like you might with a SCD or paleo diet but it is an excellent start. It may even make it easier to transition into a stricter diet later on.

Thanks kloe0038 I'll give it a try and Lodi I find it too hard to implement..and at times I didn't feel any change as well...but mostly I just didn't like the taste of it, I can tolerate yogurt and cookies and some of the cereals but the rest was just to yucky for me

I don't like the "gluten-free" substitutes so I just don't eat gluten which means no bread, no pasta, etc. Removing gluten from our diets has helped a lot of people but you will have to be the one to decide whether it is too difficult for you (I guess you already have).

I eat a Paleo-style diet of meat/fish and veggies with some dairy now (removed it in the beginning because it upset my colon).
If meds worked for me I would not have needed to change my diet but nothing else worked, simple as that. And I didn't want to take stronger biologic meds or have surgery to remove my colon.

Oh no! Of course if you go to the health store and replace your full gluten diet and replace it with gluten free product it's going to disheart you!

Most gluten free products are tasteless, their texture is questionnable. Instead of having for example 100% durum wheat past you are gong to end up with a list of products thats trying to imitate that.

It's a bit like butter: No one ever really invented a butter that is like butter but without all the fat and calorie and same taste. So for me I buy butter but have less.

I considered being gluten free but someone told me about just wheat free. It can be a god start as wheat is an irritant and is there in almost everymeal. It's not that wheat itself is bad but it's just the quantity of wheat we have in western culture is ridiculous.

If you cut wheat you avoid pizzas, burgers, breads, any deep fried stuff, cakes, cookies, etc...
But Im doing my own wheat free bread not with replacing ingredients to imitate wheat but im orking with mainly 2 flours that got forgotten with time: Kamut and Spelt. And once you do your own bread you never go back.

You can also limit the amoun of dairies and it's very gassy for most. Instead of having the cheap cheese on your pizza why not an aged parmesan? I put lactofree milk in my coffee and dont eat yogourts or dont drink milk or eat ice cream.

There is lots of options diet wise for you but before you need to identifie the food thriggers for you. But it still has to be pleasurable and those gluten free products wouldnt even been served in a hard core prison!

I hear you on that one, the overwhelming part, that is. I thought I would die giving up pasta, it's a food I was addicted to. I did give it up long before I developed UC because of me being too heavy. I substituted green beans to put my pasta sauce on, or spaghetti squash. After awhile, I didn't really even think about pasta anymore, and once I realized how much better I felt without it, I didn't want it anymore.

I'm trying to drink less coffee, so I can get to a point where I can eliminate it, just to see if that's one of my problem foods, but it's so darned hard! I LOVE LOVE LOVE coffee!

I'm trying to get to a point where my attitude will stop focusing on feeling deprived for giving up these things that are causing me grief.

Maybe it helps to know you're not the only one?