Raw Food / Diet

I don’t think that the nutritionist liked my raw food diet. Anyway I do think I am low on protein and am starting to add fish daily. Also with this diet I don’t like the fact I find it hard not to lose weight. Now my gut is almost normal I think I will start adding more products.

One thing the nutritionist said which I disagreed with, was she said dairy will not effect me it is just the disease and not what I eat. But why is it that every time I eat dairy I get mucus with in a couple of days, and when I don’t I get less. This is definite. I always get more mucus with dairy.

I completely agree with the fact that I don’t get enough calories on this diet, so I will make sure I will now increase this.

Also I think that my immunity does react with cretin foods. Especially as I tried this diet and I completely stopped sneezing. Which I done every morning and evening for most my life. They don’t feel that food has anything to do with it, but it was such a change. Even my husband noticed.I also have a colleague at work, who has food allergies, when he eats dairy he says he starts sneezing.

Any way I don’t know I hope I get on the right track and keep my flares down, I really don’t want to be sick all the time.

My diet has not been the same every day, and I have not eaten all raw foods on this diet, so if you need other days included let me know.

Ok on the 22nd of April I ate:

Breakfast only for the 22nd

9 am-Portobello mushroom and avocado
10 am-2 bananas

lunch

2.00 pm blended salad with, spinach, cucumber, olives, then trout

dinner

8.30 pm Organic salad made with organic lettuce olives and trout

1 Calcium pill, 1 cup of organic spirulina, ½ or 2 litters of water

Yesterday I did have a bit of stomach pain so this was not a day I ate as much so this is a small diet. Also I belive I forgot to write down 1 banan at 3.00 pm.

If you need day before

Breakfast
10.30 am 1 pear

2 bananas

mid morning

11.20 am had some salad organic with olives

11.40- freshly squeezed orange juice and carrot (not the concentrated stuff cant drink a lot of it)

Lunch
1.30pm Organic salad with olives cucumber and nuts]

2.00 pm 2 bananas

Dinner
6.30 pm Blended spinach salad with cucumber, celery, and a heap of mashed potatoes
freshly squeezed orange juice and carrot (not the concentrated stuff cant drink a lot of it)

8.45 pm Later 1 banana

9.30 pm Portobello mushroom with nut butter,

1 Calcium pill, 1 cup of organic spirulina, ½ or 2 litters of water

I don’t mind posting this at all, comments are welcomed even if negative, I’m not oversensitive to negativity so don’t mind your true comments, what ever helps me not to get this disease any worse

Wow, my GI doc said to eat things that are easy for your body to digest. I too have to stay away from dairy, although I love it, it doesn't love me in return. :) I'm not really sure about your raw diet, but hey, sometimes anything is worth a try if it works. Also, I know when I have a flare, it doesn't matter what I eat, everything upsets my stomach. I sadly know where every bathroom in my town is! :) Have to. Anyhow, good luck with this and please let me know how it works for you. God Bless.

Alaina

Food choices do affect us... regardless of what doctors or nutritionists might say. I didn't want to discourage you, but I've never had much luck with nutritionists. They generally give you the standard low residue recommendations. I've learned alot more from books written specifically to address diet and IBD. I can recommend some, if you're interested.

I have IBS as well as IBD and food can affect both conditions for many that have either or both IBS but not necessarily for everyone, though it is known for IBSers (and commonly for IBDers as well) to avoid deep fried foods, animal fats, caffeine, processed foods/beverages, fast foods, refined sugar/artificial sweetneres (which I do) and it certainly helps but I can tolerate eating raw foods even with having IBS (raw foods have never been specifically mentioned for IBSers to necessarily avoid) but with eveyone being different it's trial and error for us all. I also don't eat past 8pm and I go to bed at 11pm, chewing your food throroughly is also important as well as drinking plenty of water throughout the day.

Hellokitty I'm assuming you do drink water regularly even though you don't have it listed?

:)

That's not a huge deal (if you're not able to drink 6-8 glasses a day of water) so long as you are at least getting in some other liquids cuz you don't want issues with stones or risk dehydration with having an IBD.

:)

Sorry,

Yes I try to drink at least 2 liters of water per day. If not I can get consitipated. I also drink hearbal tea. I gave up coffee, no fizzy drinks, I do blend my own juice.

What does everyone eat for breakfast? What do you eat pd4. Ive been eating gluten free stuff sometimes. I’ve been eating gluten free bread and gluten free porridge with bee pollen, but this is refined food. Which is suppose to be bad. Any other healthy ideas that does maintain weight.

hi

im wondering what kind of success you are having with a raw food diet. my son has UC and the meds are pretty awful. i'd be interested in hearing about any insight you might have into this. thanks

What is your reason for not eating breakfast?  You know it is the most important meal of the day.  I understand some can't eat right away.  Even without prednisone I am soooo hungry when I get up!  Just wondering!

ElaineNY

kops2da said...


What is your reason for not eating breakfast? You know it is the most important meal of the day. I understand some can't eat right away. Even without prednisone I am soooo hungry when I get up! Just wondering!

ElaineNY

I have a few reasons, 1) during the week I get up to make my son breakfast ready then drive him to school (unless the weather is good, then he walks) then after I get him breakfast/drive him to school, I come home and go back to sleep for a few hours so I don't get up until around 11am which brings me to 2) when I get up is when my gut becomes most active so I have no desire to eat then 3) I exercise early in the afternoon once my gut has settled and I don't like working out with anything in my gut especially because of the cardio and ab work I do...so it's after my workout that I have my yogurt smoothy then a few hours later we have supper then I'll snck a little here and ther in the eve until 8pm. And this works best for me.

I never really have been a breakfast eater ever since jr high school so I just got used to it but I consider my yogurt smoothy to be my brunch.

Hi mamaluke,
I really don’t know if I have yet had successes with the raw foods. I went to get a blood test and wont know till the bloods come out. I’ve noticed a personal change in me. I sneeze less, even though it is spring time and should be raging with allergies, I also don’t feel as tired as I was, and when I come home from work I use to always lay on the couch and go to sleep. My husband always cooked dinner and I didn’t want to take any part, I just wanted to sleep. At the present Im cooking the dinner when I get home. Also by combination eating I really found my stomach to be less bloated, especially after meal times. Note I have only been doing this for 4 weeks now.

There was a down side as well, I feel my weight is not stable and find it hard to keep my 105lb which is not good. I also found that this last week I’ve been a bit constipated. My husband who also tried this diet for a week but didn’t want to continue because it made him constipated as well, he has a healthy bowl. Humm?

The Author of the Book is Named Paul Nison- He claims he cured himself of IBD. You can watch him on You tube.

The one problem with his book is that he does not give any guidelines about how to eat this diet. For example how to balance you Alkaline levels with your Acid levels. He also says your weight will balance but does not give any guide lines to when or how much you need to eat. The other thing is if you were to give a child this diet I would be really careful. My nutritionist quite rightly pointed out that you build your calcium as a child. When you grow up you have that calcium in your body for the rest of your life. If you don’t build your calcium when you are young you will be deficient and will encounter things like osteoporosis.

I do suggest looking him up, it is interesting, I would just like to know more about him and what his daily breakfast lunch and dinner really is.

There is another book I am trying out as well especially as I am introducing new foods back into my diet. Its called great taste no pain. Its about combination eating. Written by Sherry Brescia. She does speak about acid and alkaline levels. I find that when I do mix foods incorrectly I get pain and feel I need to use the loo all the time. This book is helping me combine foods correctly. Example was yesterday. Since I wanted to put on at least 3-5lb I ate firstly 3 slices of gluten free bread and a bowl of gluten free porridge. Then an hour later a handful of dried apricots. Really bad combination. I felt I would have to be near a loo, Since I was training in another store and not my own I was a bit worried I would be using their about 3 or 4 times. Any way I had the right combination for lunch a bowl of spinach salad and some salmon. By the time I was at our Regent St store I was fine and fine for the rest of the day. No pain no diarrhoea. It worked can’t explain it.

Thanks Dr A. I will look at this book. I have looked at low carb diets before but most recommended cheese, and meat, which I know I cant have. How ever I will defiantly look at your book because I heard that carbs cause UC and CD. True or not I don’t know, the only way is to try and see what works. If it doesn’t well you haven’t lost anything. I will look at Amazon to find this.