What is your diet to control MC?

thedell19 · Post by **thedell19** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:31 pm

What diet do you use to control your symptoms?

mle_ii · Post by **mle_ii** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:37 pm

I stop eating. The no food diet seems to work the best for me. ;)

For the most part if I avoid gluten, soy, dairy, sugar I'm good. I can eat pretty much every thing else without problem.

Though again, my symptoms don't seem to be near as bad as most folks here so it might not take as much for me to be ok as it does others.

Mike

thedell19 · Post by **thedell19** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:15 pm

Mike-

Did you take the Enterolab tests? I thought you did and found you were only intollerant of gluten??? I thought I read that somewhere. It could very well be that you are intollerant to gluten and only gluten but it took you a while to be able to eat the soy and dairy???

The tests found that I was intollerant to Gluten and Casein, and everything else was within normal ranges.

mle_ii · Post by **mle_ii** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:34 pm

Yes, entorlab said no gluten. Another test said no whey. Soy is one that I'm thinking I may be reacting to recently since my diet is a lot more clean of problem foods than it used to be. Fructose malabsorption was found through lab work, and I'm still not sure about eggs.

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:25 am

To control my symptoms I use the Gluten-Free diet, am now trying to do Paleo (modified), and have eliminated soy, nightshade items, most citrus products, mostly dairy free being vegan, and eggs for the most part. Still have very rough mornings but the rest of the day prior to bed is "acceptable."

Love, Maggie

m · Post by m » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:16 am

I avoid gluten, corn, dairy ALWAYS. I try to limit yeast, eggs and soy. I'm not really sure about citrus but I don't really like it anyway so it's not a problem leaving it out of my diet. I eat rice (in all kinds of forms), meat, potatoes, tomatoes, and other veggies. Unfortunately, I have a sweet tooth.
m

artteacher · Post by **artteacher** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:51 pm

Hi good question . . .

I like the "no food" diet solution best also, actually. That's when I feel best.

Other than that, eliminating dairy helps about 40%

Eating Caltrate Plus tabs before meals helps another 20%

Eliminating rice, beer, wine, legumes, breads, soy, helps another 10%

Eliminating all gluten and sulfites, another 10%

Eliminating all grains, another 10%

Eliminating all pop and Equal, and ALL gluten and corn derivitives (which should have been done actually, in a 100% strict gluten and corn-free diet) helps another 5%

And what remains is the "5% short of pre-MC" status that I think I have now.

I hope this helps
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Things that can add 5% or so to my feeling of normalcy are:

eating a tomato, cabbage, celery, chicken broth based soup for 3-4 meals in a row

eating no-low carb, low fiber foods

eating grapefruit

brewer's yeast

Love, Marsha

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:00 am

I must be lucky, controling CC symptoms with diet is working for me.

I have not had Dr. Fines tests done but it's been almost 3 years since my DX and was able to figure my intolerences out with the support here and trial and error. It's a process for sure....keep that in mind.

The way of eating that I have migrated towards is eating whole fresh foods- meats, vegies (no night shades or legumes because of the lectins) and fruit. I avoid all grains, dairy, sugar and processed foods.

I'm living symptom free and feeling good, great actually. My diet is very close to a paleo way of eating..

Love,
Joanna