regretfully I am back

It’s been a while since I’ve post. I’ve felt pretty good for the last 8 or 9 months however I’ve started to have mild symptoms this last week. I wanted to share what has kept me in remission for a while and see if anyone else has had any luck with it.

about this time last year I start to have a pretty bad flare, bad enough that the Doc had me on Prednisone for about 3 months. I had the Dr. take me off the pred because I was having some of the worst of the side effect, including the rare hallucinations. I was still having mild symptoms after the pred, and I had gained about 40 lbs. I started the Atkins diet to try and lose some of the weight. After about the first 2 weeks all of my symptoms were gone and felt like I did before I came down with this disease. There were no more planning out my driving route based on the closest bathroom. And I was able to confidently have predictable BM’s. mind you this is with no other med's. After the pred I refused to take anything for a while. to this day I am still med free

When I first started the Atkins diet I thought wow this is great all the bacon, meat, cheese, and crap i want. But soon it was apparent that I can’t live without carbs, so about a month into it I stopped the diet. However my symptom never came back until I started living on fast food and had some high stress events lately.

Just wondering if anyone else good or bad has any experience with UC and Atkins. I intend on giving it a try again this weeks. Hopefully it will help me back into remission, and it was helping me lose weight.

As I just said in the diet/weight loss thread, alot of IBDers have good luck with some type of low carb diet that eliminates or restricts grains and starches. Atkins is a little extreme for my tastes, but there are healthy ways to do something similar without going overboard on the saturated fats.