Eating habits

Eating smaller meals through out the day really helped me. Also, removing sugar, all grains and dairy made a huge difference! I have had UC for 10 years now.

Hi MrsSdot
Welcome to the forum. I, too, find that I feel better when I eat small meals through the day and nothing for a few hours before bedtime.
If I'm going out for several hours of errands and shopping, I find it better to eat a substantial meal for breakfast (including protein). Stays with me longer so that I'm not tempted to grab an unhealthy sugar snack along the way.

Yogurt is good but I think taking a probiotic supplement is better.
I take Nexabiotics (21 strains) every day and Jarrow Saccharomyces Boulardii+MOS from time to time to change things up.

Flavored yogurt usually contains a lot of sugar so I've been eating plain Greek yogurt and mixing in fruits such as strawberries and kiwis. Delicious!

Hope this info is helpful.
IAS

I eat 2 main meals a day and a snack or two either in the late afternoon or mid/later evening.
Fibre caps with meals (not snacks)
Probiotics at bedtime.
Definitely water throughout the day, but not in excess.
I don't drink juice, rarely carbonated (bubbles stirred out).
Yes I have chocolate and coffee...

I don't eat yogurt...way too much gas.

q

Thanks everyone. I am really happy I found this forum. Although my husband handles my disease like a trooper; (he knows where all the washrooms are almost all across Canada & parts of the USA) one does not "get it" if you have never been down this road.

ItsAlwaysSomething; you mentioned Nexabiotics (21 strains) as a supplement. Is this something you buy over the counter like a vitamin, for instance? Or do you require a prescription? Sorry if this sound silly, but I have never heard of this.

I was the opposite. Because even taking one bite would stimulate my diseased bowels, the less often I ate the more manageable UC was for me.