journey2health - diet?

Besides regular meals, I do green smoothies, two at most three a day. I take kale or any other greens, and mix it with pear or other fruits, i grind up flax seed, chia seeds or almond butter, and put it in with water. Use a Nutribullet or Vitamix

These takes care of my fruits and vegetable servings.

Those other foods I've eliminated basically exclude processed and high fat foods and sugar from my diet. I do eat fish, poultry and a little red meat but I don't like it. I don't drink coffee or alcohol.

I'm drinking lots of water and think that's the most important thing.

Other than that, I can't think of what I'm doing else. But no more rectal pain/cramping, explosive BMs, urgency and accidents.

I still do the enemas twice a week instead of up to 7 days a week, and asacol 400 mg, 6 a day.

Total benefits of green smoothies and elimination diet besides digestive: stopped hot flashes, joint pain, exema, hair shedding, brittle nails, stuffiness, brain fog, bloating. One of the oddest (and most helpful) phenomenon is an absence of food cravings, without which I couldn't do the diet restrictions.
Have not checked my cholesterol yet.

The jury is still out on whether it effects my mood (I'm bipolar)
Also, wish I could peel away a few more pounds, but I haven't gained.

I think the amount of roughage I was eating created problems for me that I wouldn't call flares but before I got UC I didn't have this problem. I just felt it wasn't worth going up and down on enemas every time something happened and best work on diet and keep enemas at a minimum two a week and not have to deal with increase and taper schedules.