Fried cheese sticks

Mistake. Yesterday I had them for the first time in two years since having UC. I can eat pretty much whatever I want (including most dairy) and it doesn't effect me much (or effects me very little), except for a small handful of things I really need to avoid. My handful just got one bigger. I had a really bad evening yesterday but doing much better today. Never doing that again!

Yeah, some foods/ excessive of some foods can have us feeling not so good. Too much of something. I suspect it was fat for you.

What else did you eat with them? and what exactly were the symptoms you had?

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xeek, I often make thin-sliced chicken breasts that I bread with panko bread crumbs (dip in flour, then in egg, then in panko). I fry them at high heat for just 4-5 minutes total in a little bit of extra *light* olive oil (extra virgin has too low of a smoke point for this).

I bet doing something similar with mozzarella sticks would work.

Quincy: I had only pizza with them. I've never had any problems with pizza. Maybe it was cheese overload when I added the 4 cheese sticks, deep fried nonetheless. Fried foods usually don't bother me. I actually had a pretty good day yesterday and for about 4 hours after eating the cheese sticks. Then I had another 4 hours of pure hell, for me anyway. Massive gas and must have been running to the bathroom 4-5 times per hour for those next 4 hours before it finally calmed down. This included a lot of burning diarrhea. I think the stuff coming out of me was pure acid.

Michelejc - can I have your GI? Cause mine says I can eat whatever I want.....and my nutritionist says thats a bad thing.
Why don't Dr.'s care what we eat? It's the most important thing we do for ourselves and yet they just say, "Eh...it doesn't really matter what you eat. It's not going to help or hurt you."
However, I've been eating NO gluten, and NO sugar for the past week and I am down to 1 BM a day. Hardly any gastric discomfort. And just feeling lighter (have lost a couple of pounds). I have more energy and don't need a nap in the middle of the day....
So what's that to say about what we eat? I know that some people don't respond to diet but I also believe it's where our minds are and what we are thinking.
This may sound silly but multiple times a day I have been rubbing my lower belly and saying to myself "I'm healing." and I try to smile every time I say it. I know I will never be cured, but I truly believe we can HEAL.

I think I am lucky, if I'm not in a flare-up I can eat pretty much whatever I want with exception of certain foods I've learned over the years just don't play well with my digestive tract.  In fact, alot of the foods I can't eat seem to be the main staples of alot of diets I see on here (wheat, whole grain, most raw veggies), many types of fruit like apples).  Just definitely goes to show that everybody's UC is different for sure. 

On a strange side note, I went to our state fair last month and pretty much had an evening full of fried foods (and I'm trying to get over a flare right now).  Strangely, that night I had the first formed BM I had had in a week or two at the time.  Go figure!  Sometimes I can not tell what reaction my body will have to certain foods, it never seems to be the same.

I've never had them, nor ever interested to try them, let alone make them.
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jse: I do believe that what you eat can trigger a flare or aggrevate an existing flare. I don't believe that food causes the disease.