Hi Marsha,
In High School and college I never ate breakfast. Started eating regularly when I became pregnant at 25. I was brought up on a horrible diet ...packaged foods and rarely canned fruits and veggies. Never drank or smoked. Started cleaning up my act in early twenties as my stomach frequently hurt. Last twenty years I've only drank water,cut out dairy,and ate little meat and whole grains. Every night I did have dessert..usually soy ice cream and a cookie. Still always had problems with digestion.Now I'm learning how to be a major carnivore...slowly getting used to it. I had a stool test last month and it shows I have bacterial over growth.
Thanks Marsha.
Love,
Cristi
question about pre-MC eating habits
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Hi Cristi,
So who are you seeing, and what did they recommend doing about it? Aren't there a lot of us who even before being sick, were irregular eaters?
Love, Marsha
So who are you seeing, and what did they recommend doing about it? Aren't there a lot of us who even before being sick, were irregular eaters?
Love, Marsha
As a child, I was forced to eat three meals a day. Ours was a big meat and potato family with very few sweets and no soda.
I started skipping breakfast in highschool and have never eaten it since. I'm usually not hungry until lunch.
Ate OK while I was single, though I did eat alot of frozen dinners. I probably drank too much.
As soon as I got pregnant and had kids, I cooked healthy meals. My kids almost never drank soda or had candy until they were 10-12. I continued to make healthy meals, but we did go out to eat alot and had frozen meals when I was busy. I've never been a fan of fast food. There has always been a fruit bowl on my kitchen counter and the kids were allowed to eat it when ever they wanted.
Love Jean
A few years before I was diagnosed, I gained 40 lb. in 3 months. I think I was always hungry then. My doc said it was menopause, but I knew it was something else.
When MC hit, I started skipping breakfast and lunch so that I could get through a day of work. I'd come home, eat dinner, and then poop all night.
I started skipping breakfast in highschool and have never eaten it since. I'm usually not hungry until lunch.
Ate OK while I was single, though I did eat alot of frozen dinners. I probably drank too much.
As soon as I got pregnant and had kids, I cooked healthy meals. My kids almost never drank soda or had candy until they were 10-12. I continued to make healthy meals, but we did go out to eat alot and had frozen meals when I was busy. I've never been a fan of fast food. There has always been a fruit bowl on my kitchen counter and the kids were allowed to eat it when ever they wanted.
Love Jean
A few years before I was diagnosed, I gained 40 lb. in 3 months. I think I was always hungry then. My doc said it was menopause, but I knew it was something else.
When MC hit, I started skipping breakfast and lunch so that I could get through a day of work. I'd come home, eat dinner, and then poop all night.
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Ugh. My diet has always been irratic. When I was 17, I went from a stringent 5 egg and huge workout type diet to anorexia for awhile. That got me sick with Mono. After that my parents had to force me to eat.
From then on, if I didn't eat every 3 hours or so, I'd get really dizzy, nauseated, weak, general low blood sugar feeling. Sometimes it was so bad I'd have to just suck on an orange until I felt well enough to walk. Then I could probably stomach some food. I had this tested for blood sugar issues several times but nothing was abnormal, they said.
After having kids, I would feed them healthy food but then snack myself. I wasn't really interested in having a well rounded diet. I turned more into a binge eater and would survive on cereal, which I would take to work in baggies, dry, and chocolate, which I would get at the medical offices I worked at. Other than dry cereal and chocolate I probably didn't have a full meal until dinner every day.
In 2004, I quit smoking and ate at White Castle and my life hasn't been the same since. I think I got E-Coli from White Castle and they didn't really "discover" it for several months, and when they finally did it was by mistake (they had me do a urine test when I went in for a URI, thinking I'd said UTI!), so they finally gave me antibiotics probably 2 full months after I had full blown E-Coli infection.
It wasn't long after that that I went to the gastro and they diagnosed me with MC. And here I am... completely GF and Egg Free, and eating a bit of soy and dairy here and there (at this point I'm pushing 1 dairy item a day but will have to cut down as I have a serious bout of D right now :()
Christine
From then on, if I didn't eat every 3 hours or so, I'd get really dizzy, nauseated, weak, general low blood sugar feeling. Sometimes it was so bad I'd have to just suck on an orange until I felt well enough to walk. Then I could probably stomach some food. I had this tested for blood sugar issues several times but nothing was abnormal, they said.
After having kids, I would feed them healthy food but then snack myself. I wasn't really interested in having a well rounded diet. I turned more into a binge eater and would survive on cereal, which I would take to work in baggies, dry, and chocolate, which I would get at the medical offices I worked at. Other than dry cereal and chocolate I probably didn't have a full meal until dinner every day.
In 2004, I quit smoking and ate at White Castle and my life hasn't been the same since. I think I got E-Coli from White Castle and they didn't really "discover" it for several months, and when they finally did it was by mistake (they had me do a urine test when I went in for a URI, thinking I'd said UTI!), so they finally gave me antibiotics probably 2 full months after I had full blown E-Coli infection.
It wasn't long after that that I went to the gastro and they diagnosed me with MC. And here I am... completely GF and Egg Free, and eating a bit of soy and dairy here and there (at this point I'm pushing 1 dairy item a day but will have to cut down as I have a serious bout of D right now :()
Christine
