How can you tell when diet helps?

You love the SCD diet????... okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.....

It's one thing to adhere to a diet, it's another thing to love it. I rarely met people that state being forced to limit themselves as something enjoyable, but ok....

SCD diet, Paleo is protocols from the past. What I mean by that, at the core they promote a healthy diet/lifestyle, however if it actually helps with U.C. that is debatable.

I am gluten free and almost dairy free (I had parts where I was dairy free also) for more than a year, yet I never noticed much of a difference if any. I know I lost weight, never really felt that well.

I also know that pre-UC, eating everything, I was healthy, in shape.

This disease is more that what you eat, it's "who knows", infection, parasite, genes mutation, etc.

I guess you should always try different stuff and stick with what seems to work. Some use nicotine patches, others stop eating gluten for three days and blood disappears, others take meds, etc.

Find your thing.

i feel you annadee--when i'm flaring it doesn't really matter what i eat--nothing, rice noodles, scrambled eggs, gf toast, or a feast full of vegetables... i'll feel horribly sick no mater what!

Yeah, I soon enough realized that eating healthy is different with UC. When I ate gluten, white bread was great on my tummy but "healthy" whole wheat breads were just bad. I noticed a clear difference there right away. Same with leafy vegetables. But the whole gluten free and dairy free, I am really not noticing a difference yet. There probably is a subtle one somewhere but I haven't noticed it.

If I'm having horrible symptoms, I eat applesauce and white toast. That's about it. It seems like it is a work in progress, finding out what I can eat and what I can't. Some things make sense to me from each diet, while other things in those diets I know will not work for me. After 2 years I am still experimenting with foods finding out what works. I aim for healthy, but a lot of healthy brings back syptoms, even exercising too excessively.

Loved one has this 4 years now got 80 percent improvement by doing this ,get rid of all wheaton gluten sugar heavy carbs acis foods dairy ..use probiotic vsl 3 go on net find foods other uc people eat until you find foods that suit you examine all tupe of food with a critical eye before you eat and if you go out be careful of where you eat..think of cleanliness and hygiene remember the gut system is in turmoil and needs patient care non stop....it is quite hard to do but loved one grudgingly followed this plan aND IT WORKED with all of this you must always get out and about and really get involved in great exercise and sport if possible we treated uc like it was a great big bug and each time we got success we felt we had the bug on the run the sun is rich in vitamin d think of everything uc likes and don't do it...do everything the bug hatesie,,well prepared good fodd vegies and fruit that suit you plenty of outdoors exercise and funeg loved one has watermelon pineapple and apple juiced no pith skin rindetc half a glass a day get book on nutrition to see what is in foods all fresh foods good...remember that each uc person is different so find what suits you on net...you must not eat acidc foods because the gut system is very very tender and mostly never give up somewhere there is a solution for you....eg was on one uc site where a young woman wrote in to say that her father smoked cigarettes for forty tears until family convinced him to give up diagnosed with uc three weeks later daughter got on heaps of uc sites and discovered that nicabates worked with smokers sometimes they put dad on theses and uc signs and symptoms gone in one month means that every uc people a bit different from each other site from England organiser considered that cyanide at base of cigarette kills bug and keeps bug in check......I think that its the food and we have reversed the process of uc or we are restoring the gut balances,