Can you help identify the culprit in list of suspect foods?

I'm slowly recovering from a very bad pan-colitis flare, and since it was my first I'm still discovering which foods cause me problems. Things had been going pretty well, my wife is a talented cook and has been able to keep me well fed despite the goal of zero fiber and dairy. However, yesterday I think I ate something out of bounds, and was punished all night with gas and D; I slept terribly. Here's what I ate yesterday:

8am: Bacon and scrambled eggs, seasoned with salt
12pm: Flank steak, mash potatoes (no butter), well cooked carrots (I also had this for dinner the night before)
2pm: Oily fish from a can (also had this the day before)
5pm: Oriental flavor Ramen, including seasoning (I took a Lactaid because I saw that it had lactose)
6pm: Tilapia (white fish) with white rice

Around 7pm I started getting very bad gas, then D, and downhill from there.

In my mind the Ramen is the most likely, but it seemed like such a harmless little packet, albeit with a lot of different processed ingredients.

I know everyone is a little different, but hopefully the community can help me short cut some of the "trial and error" mistakes that I might easily avoid in my diet.

Thanks,

Keith

well i know what i think but im no expert. the thing is im experimenting and it may go wrong on me according to scd diet book though it would be these items potatoes rice ramen see what happens if you avoid these just for a week, but i dont want to make too much of a fuss just because im not perfect and i am on a raw diet. well too be honest im constipated for no reason. darn it is partially that we got given crappy colons as well

My guess is the Ramen, because it has MSG. If your wife has been cooking from scratch, I doubt you've had much, if any, MSG lately. I absolutely can't tolerate any MSG.

I wouldn't eat that spice packet that comes with a Ramen, who knows what is in that thing...

I have to say, when I was flaring badly, no adjustment to my diet would improve my condition. The tonly thing that helped was medication.

I hope you have some luck.

Austin 7537 said...

8am: Bacon and scrambled eggs, seasoned with salt
12pm: Flank steak, mash potatoes (no butter), well cooked carrots (I also had this for dinner the night before)
2pm: Oily fish from a can (also had this the day before)
5pm: Oriental flavor Ramen, including seasoning (I took a Lactaid because I saw that it had lactose)
6pm: Tilapia (white fish) with white rice

Wow! This diet would put me in a flare for many reasons:

Bacon - pro-inflammatory. hard to digest. It's high in saturated fat. Was it organic? If not, it probably contains antibiotics.
Eggs - pro-inflammatory.
Steak - pro-inflammatory. Was it organic? If not, it probably contains antibiotics.
White potatoes - pro-inflammatory.
Carrots - OK
Oily fish from a can - OK, except for the sodium. Should limit canned fish to one per week.
Oriental flavor Ramen - processed foods are pro-inflammatory. Did the sauce contain MSG? If so, that can really put some people into a flare.
Tilapia -probably contains antibiotics.
White rice - OK

I know it costs more to buy wild fish and organic meats, but if you buy cheaper cuts (chicken instead of steak and bacon ), mix your fish with other things (make salmon burgers, salmon rice), eat at home, and avoid processed foods, then you should see your food bill go down and your health improve. There are also ways you can still eat healthy even when there is no time to cook. For example, have a banana with sunflower butter instead of Ramen noodles. It should end up being cheaper too.

Animal fats (bacon, fat on edges of steaks, gravy) can exacerbate symptoms, along with processed foods, caffeine, refined sugars and artificial sweetners....also take into consideration what your portion size is as well...beef is one of the hardest meats to digest too so although it's full of iron (and other healthy minerals/vitamins) consider using a digestive enzyme after eating each meal to help break your food down (less work on the colon).

You can buy supplement form or if you can tolerate eating naturals ones like kiwi, pineapple, mangos, papaya. Even just 1/2 cup of ajy of those fruits directly after your meals is enough to help break your food down.


:)

The only things there that would have bothered me in a flare would have been the bacon and the ramen. Fat and extreme amounts of sodium - both things that made me miserable while flaring. You might try turkey bacon to see if that helps.

I'm going to contrast everyone else and say it was the high sat fat content in your diet that is bothering you.

The bacon and ramen would get my colon going, even when I am not flaring.