And you know what this also points to why eating the same foods over and over again can sometimes cause an intolerance where there wasn't one before. Given that a food you eat more often as a more likely chance of being eaten along with some bacteria/pathogen or whatever.
Also, points to why gluten (a larger part of certain countries diets) is higher up on the list than say a reaction to broccoli.
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That's an interesting point Mike,
I've been narrowing my diet in attempts to figure out if I am intolerent to a specific food as I thought in the long run it would give me more info about what foods work and don't work. I wonder at this point if my inflamation is just severe and there is a certain amount of time it takes for my colon to heal. I am not sure how others MC was triggered but for me it was abdominal surgery and a small part was an appendectomy where the Doc said it wasn't in the normal spot and had to "dig" around my intestines to find it. So, I imagine that would tick off any colon. So maybe I just need more time and the diet is less an issue at this point as I thought.
Love,
Cristi
I've been narrowing my diet in attempts to figure out if I am intolerent to a specific food as I thought in the long run it would give me more info about what foods work and don't work. I wonder at this point if my inflamation is just severe and there is a certain amount of time it takes for my colon to heal. I am not sure how others MC was triggered but for me it was abdominal surgery and a small part was an appendectomy where the Doc said it wasn't in the normal spot and had to "dig" around my intestines to find it. So, I imagine that would tick off any colon. So maybe I just need more time and the diet is less an issue at this point as I thought.
Love,
Cristi
Hi Jean,
I am hoping I am like you. I feel I can give up gluten and all grains and even eventually learn to like eating meat. But I just can't wrap my head around not being able to eat most fruits and vegetables. I guess I'll have to come to terms with whatever hand I am delt. I'll cross that road when I get to it.
Love,
Cristi
I am hoping I am like you. I feel I can give up gluten and all grains and even eventually learn to like eating meat. But I just can't wrap my head around not being able to eat most fruits and vegetables. I guess I'll have to come to terms with whatever hand I am delt. I'll cross that road when I get to it.
Love,
Cristi
Hi all,
For some reason, since my gut has healed, I can eat even the most fiberous veggies without any difficulty, except my gut is often TOO FULL as I've eaten too much!
Sometimes I actually think I CRAVE veggies.
I think that back before I started the diet, the gut issues sort of were on the back burner compared to all the pain everywhere, so I probably didn't even notice any food that might've slipped through into the toilet at that time.
When I first started gf, I ate salads because, frankly, I didn't know what else to eat as I had the learning curve to deal with.
Since the inflammation left so quickly after just leaving off what I then knew of gluten to leave off, I guess the actual diarrhea itself was of minor significance at that time, even though it was so much less, with just that first allergen largely out of the way.
I can't think of any other reason why I would continue to eat salads from that far out, time wise, unless I just felt so much better at the time, that I thought I was doing everything right, so left it at that.
I really think the much less diarrheal episodes that I had at first were due to the casein, eggs, soy, and yeast, but it paled in comparison to gluten.
I like to eat dark leafy lettuces like Romaine, because they give you so many nutrients per bite.
I'm beginning to finding it difficult to advise people this far out from having symptoms myself, but I'll not restart 'em for instructional purposes, thank you! Ha!
Probably best to go with the green beans, and other well cooked veggies, and gradually work your way up as tolerated.
I'm confident that you will find your way in time.
Yours, Luce
For some reason, since my gut has healed, I can eat even the most fiberous veggies without any difficulty, except my gut is often TOO FULL as I've eaten too much!
Sometimes I actually think I CRAVE veggies.
I think that back before I started the diet, the gut issues sort of were on the back burner compared to all the pain everywhere, so I probably didn't even notice any food that might've slipped through into the toilet at that time.
When I first started gf, I ate salads because, frankly, I didn't know what else to eat as I had the learning curve to deal with.
Since the inflammation left so quickly after just leaving off what I then knew of gluten to leave off, I guess the actual diarrhea itself was of minor significance at that time, even though it was so much less, with just that first allergen largely out of the way.
I can't think of any other reason why I would continue to eat salads from that far out, time wise, unless I just felt so much better at the time, that I thought I was doing everything right, so left it at that.
I really think the much less diarrheal episodes that I had at first were due to the casein, eggs, soy, and yeast, but it paled in comparison to gluten.
I like to eat dark leafy lettuces like Romaine, because they give you so many nutrients per bite.
I'm beginning to finding it difficult to advise people this far out from having symptoms myself, but I'll not restart 'em for instructional purposes, thank you! Ha!
Probably best to go with the green beans, and other well cooked veggies, and gradually work your way up as tolerated.
I'm confident that you will find your way in time.
Yours, Luce
Reading more on PubMed, adding fiberous veggies and fruits has got to help. Specficially in feeding the good bacteria lining the GI, cleaning dead and other material out of the GI, and helping to move stuff through the GI.
Building up the amounts seems like a very good idea. Doing it all at once is going to be irritating to the colon both via the bacteria being fed and producing gas and other things as well as the fiber itself irritating things.
What's tough is due to the inflamation in the GI tract, I'm guessing that fiber is less tolerable than in a non-inflamed GI.
I wonder if using a digestive enzyme in this case would be a bad thing. Since it has the potential for breaking down the fiber before it gets to the bacteria in the colon.
Building up the amounts seems like a very good idea. Doing it all at once is going to be irritating to the colon both via the bacteria being fed and producing gas and other things as well as the fiber itself irritating things.
What's tough is due to the inflamation in the GI tract, I'm guessing that fiber is less tolerable than in a non-inflamed GI.
I wonder if using a digestive enzyme in this case would be a bad thing. Since it has the potential for breaking down the fiber before it gets to the bacteria in the colon.