Hi Cavepeople!
Here is what I'm eating today: (all are least-reactive foods based on my MRT)
B- mixed fresh blueberries and canned pears in pear juice, rice cake spread with sunflower butter, water, coffee
L- Grilled portabello mushroom drizzled with balsamic vinegar, shrimp sauteed in olive oil with onions and fresh dill, water
Snack - olives or wlanuts
D- a little rice pasta with white clam sauce (minced clams, clam juice, onions, fresh parsley, olive oil) fresh broccoli, water infused with lemon, small glass of Merlot or Cabernet
Later - chamomile tea with lemon or fresh spearmint and a banana
Love,
Polly
P.S. I know that rice is not strictly paleo, but since I didn't react to it, I am using it for now, since the only other starch that is safe for me is sweet potato.
P.P.S. What are YOU eating?
Today's Menu
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Today's Menu
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Hmmmmm. I hesitate to post this, because I started the day with sort of a decadent breakfast. 
So, Big Disclaimer: This is not paleo! Not only that, but this is not a very healthy diet, either, but then, I'm old, take lots of vitamins, and no longer have a complete digestive system. 
B - Pancakes made from Pamela's GF Pancake Mix, (contains cultured buttermilk, but I'm not sensitive to dairy products), bacon, maple syrup
L - Jalapeño pork sausage, mashed potatoes
S - Leftover grilled jalapeño pork sausage
Later - Chocolate covered cashews, (I couldn't handle these, about a year ago, but now they don't seem to cause any problems)
Tex
So, Big Disclaimer: This is not paleo! Not only that, but this is not a very healthy diet, either, but then, I'm old, take lots of vitamins, and no longer have a complete digestive system. B - Pancakes made from Pamela's GF Pancake Mix, (contains cultured buttermilk, but I'm not sensitive to dairy products), bacon, maple syrup
L - Jalapeño pork sausage, mashed potatoes
S - Leftover grilled jalapeño pork sausage
Later - Chocolate covered cashews, (I couldn't handle these, about a year ago, but now they don't seem to cause any problems)
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hi Polly,
I am trying to decide that right now myself. Took the red eye home from CA last night and just woke up (now 6PM Indiana time).
I have been wanting to go Paleo, but giving up rice is my next hurdle. So, since I have pretty much not eaten all day, I'm thinking some sort of rice based meal. Not sure until I open the cupboards.
Glad to see your MRT results. I wonder if there is anyone in my small town that does this testing?
Rich
I am trying to decide that right now myself. Took the red eye home from CA last night and just woke up (now 6PM Indiana time).
I have been wanting to go Paleo, but giving up rice is my next hurdle. So, since I have pretty much not eaten all day, I'm thinking some sort of rice based meal. Not sure until I open the cupboards.
Glad to see your MRT results. I wonder if there is anyone in my small town that does this testing?
Rich
"It's not what I believe. It's what I can prove." - A Few Good Men
Breakfast: Applegate farms Chicken Sausage, homemade lemon muffin, grapefruit and black coffee
Lunch: Salad with frisee, apple and toasted pumpkin seeds with maple vinaigrette and cauliflower leek soup
Snack: a baked bosc pear
Dinner: Chicken Bombay (chicken and veggies in a ginger coconut sauce) with white rice
Snack: Not sure yet . . .
Mary Beth
Lunch: Salad with frisee, apple and toasted pumpkin seeds with maple vinaigrette and cauliflower leek soup
Snack: a baked bosc pear
Dinner: Chicken Bombay (chicken and veggies in a ginger coconut sauce) with white rice
Snack: Not sure yet . . .
Mary Beth
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My diet sucks. Today I ate eggs, hamburger, cheese, rice, and potato chips. The only redeeming part is that they were all organic except the cheese (and grass-fed, in the case of the hamburger). And I drank kombucha made with organic stuff.
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I am crabby and awaiting my Enterlab results. Backsliding last night after feeling pretty good for the last week has made me into a "Oh who cares?" kind of gal, so it was 3 (count'em) pieces of bread slathered with peanut butter. When I backslide after being careful, it really gets me down. I think MRT might be in my future, too.
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Oh my, 3 pieces of bread? No wonder your crabby, but probably just anxious about your lab results. I play around with diet but eat paleo for the most part and will never, ever drowned my sorrows with gluten. You will find a safe food choice eventually.Foxnhound8 wrote:I am crabby and awaiting my Enterlab results. Backsliding last night after feeling pretty good for the last week has made me into a "Oh who cares?" kind of gal, so it was 3 (count'em) pieces of bread slathered with peanut butter. When I backslide after being careful, it really gets me down. I think MRT might be in my future, too.
foxnhound
Sorry your down. MRT testing looks promising and fortunate it's being discussed here.
Take care. Love from Fergus.
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Discovering this thread made me very happy - missed it yesterday, so I'm late to the party, but here is what I ate yesterday:
B - cream of buckwheat w/fresh blueberries and some coconut milk
S - cup of ginger tea
L - fried tilapia w/boiled white potatoes and boiled cauliflower drizzled w/olive oil, celtic salt and cayenne pepper
S - glass of watered down grapefruit juice
S - handful cashews
S - can of coconut juice
D - half an avocado and shredded red cabbage w/applecider vinegar and a few brown rice snaps (crackers)
S - rice cake w/peanut butter and jam
As you can see, I'm a grazer and eat dinner at lunch time. I have found that this works for me, as eating a big meal at night disturbs my sleep, especially if it's meat.
It's so interesting to learn what others are eating, and can certainly supply ideas.
Love,
Kari
B - cream of buckwheat w/fresh blueberries and some coconut milk
S - cup of ginger tea
L - fried tilapia w/boiled white potatoes and boiled cauliflower drizzled w/olive oil, celtic salt and cayenne pepper
S - glass of watered down grapefruit juice
S - handful cashews
S - can of coconut juice
D - half an avocado and shredded red cabbage w/applecider vinegar and a few brown rice snaps (crackers)
S - rice cake w/peanut butter and jam
As you can see, I'm a grazer and eat dinner at lunch time. I have found that this works for me, as eating a big meal at night disturbs my sleep, especially if it's meat.
It's so interesting to learn what others are eating, and can certainly supply ideas.
Love,
Kari
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
Good luck with your Enterolab results Foxnhound - don't beat up on yourself for backsliding - last I checked, none of us humans were perfect .......
Love,
Kari
Love,
Kari
"My mouth waters whenever I pass a bakery shop and sniff the aroma of fresh bread, but I am also grateful simply to be alive and sniffing." Dr. Bernstein
I'm the same way, (try to avoid big meals at night), but believe it or not, I try to eat only meat at night. It doesn't seem to disturb my sleep as much as eating carbs, and since I have an ileostomy, eating only meat late in the day, minimizes the risk of having to get up early, (or during the night), to change a pouch, or burp it, because of the gas that carbs seem to generate.Kari wrote:As you can see, I'm a grazer and eat dinner at lunch time. I have found that this works for me, as eating a big meal at night disturbs my sleep, especially if it's meat.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
My daily routine:
breakfast: rice with a banana (sometimes apple), 2 tablespoons flaxseed oil and grape juice or red berry juice.
lunch and dinner: vegetables (red beets, broccoli, carrots or spinach), meet or fish (beef, chicken, turkey, salmon, with fish, mackerel) backed in (a lot of) olive oil, always with apple sauce (the great appetizer)
And also during the day: banana's, apple, rice cakes and occasionally chocolate and gluten, soy and dairy free candy.
drinking: tea, clear juices (apple, grape), rice milk, cappuccino made with rice milk.
It is extremely simple, but it is still my diet on the way achieving remission. Till now anytime I have tried to experiment with this diet, add things to it, things got worse. Since feeling well is more important to me than eating a lot of different things, I stick to my simple diet.
breakfast: rice with a banana (sometimes apple), 2 tablespoons flaxseed oil and grape juice or red berry juice.
lunch and dinner: vegetables (red beets, broccoli, carrots or spinach), meet or fish (beef, chicken, turkey, salmon, with fish, mackerel) backed in (a lot of) olive oil, always with apple sauce (the great appetizer)
And also during the day: banana's, apple, rice cakes and occasionally chocolate and gluten, soy and dairy free candy.
drinking: tea, clear juices (apple, grape), rice milk, cappuccino made with rice milk.
It is extremely simple, but it is still my diet on the way achieving remission. Till now anytime I have tried to experiment with this diet, add things to it, things got worse. Since feeling well is more important to me than eating a lot of different things, I stick to my simple diet.
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Harma,
I agree with you. I mostly eat the same foods everyday, also. IMO, food sensitivities are not caused by eating food - they are caused by genetics, and epigenetics. Sure, if we have a food sensitivity, then eating that food more frequently, will almost surely make us more sensitive to it, but the sensitivity had to be there to begin with, or eating it would not have made a difference.
I'm not at all sure that the 3-day rotation that is touted as a way to "tolerate" foods to which someone is "slightly" sensitive, is valid, either. That approach probably works for foods that are irritations only, (such as fiber, sugars, etc.), but I don't believe that it will work for foods which cause what is referred to as an "autoimmune" reaction.
Case in point: Remember when I did the oat challenge, a few ago? I had not eaten any oats at all, for a number of years, so any residual antibodies that I might have once had, were surely long gone. I ate pure, certified oats, on a 3-day and 4-day rotation, (IOW, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays). It went pretty well, for about 6 weeks, and then the D started, and it became sort of persistent. It took at least another 6 weeks, to get completely over it. After that, anytime that I ate any oats, within a few hours, they would "clean me out", pronto. That's why I maintain that if one has a true food sensitivity, rotating it within the diet, is not going to resolve the problem. As Dr. Fine would say - Either we're sensitive to a food, or we are not. Saying that we are a "little bit" sensitive, is like pretending that it is possible to be a "little bit" pregnant.
Here's my original report on that oat challenge, (written almost 4 years ago), for anyone interested:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6013
Tex
I agree with you. I mostly eat the same foods everyday, also. IMO, food sensitivities are not caused by eating food - they are caused by genetics, and epigenetics. Sure, if we have a food sensitivity, then eating that food more frequently, will almost surely make us more sensitive to it, but the sensitivity had to be there to begin with, or eating it would not have made a difference.
I'm not at all sure that the 3-day rotation that is touted as a way to "tolerate" foods to which someone is "slightly" sensitive, is valid, either. That approach probably works for foods that are irritations only, (such as fiber, sugars, etc.), but I don't believe that it will work for foods which cause what is referred to as an "autoimmune" reaction.
Case in point: Remember when I did the oat challenge, a few ago? I had not eaten any oats at all, for a number of years, so any residual antibodies that I might have once had, were surely long gone. I ate pure, certified oats, on a 3-day and 4-day rotation, (IOW, twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays). It went pretty well, for about 6 weeks, and then the D started, and it became sort of persistent. It took at least another 6 weeks, to get completely over it. After that, anytime that I ate any oats, within a few hours, they would "clean me out", pronto. That's why I maintain that if one has a true food sensitivity, rotating it within the diet, is not going to resolve the problem. As Dr. Fine would say - Either we're sensitive to a food, or we are not. Saying that we are a "little bit" sensitive, is like pretending that it is possible to be a "little bit" pregnant.
Here's my original report on that oat challenge, (written almost 4 years ago), for anyone interested:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6013
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Hi Tex,
I think the real purpose of the rotation diet is to reduce the chance of developing sensitivities to those foods that we tolerate well. We are not supposed to be eating any foods at all that give us difficulty, let alone try to rotate them. Mary Beth can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the theory is that sensitivities are most likely to develop to foods that we eat frequently (I think it's called oral tolerance???). This may explain why MCers often discover new sensitivities over time. I know it happened to me. When I think about it, my major sensitivities are to the foods that I ate the most of over my lifetime - gluten, dairy, yeast, soy, corn, chocolate, and then tomatoes, white potatoes, carrots, etc. I ate these foods daily for most of my life - it is impossible to eat processed foods and NOT eat wheat, soy, corn, etc. daily.
Love,
Polly
P.S. Harma, isn't it interesting that humans eat so many different foods? Most other animals have a very limited diet, some with only one or two foods.
I think the real purpose of the rotation diet is to reduce the chance of developing sensitivities to those foods that we tolerate well. We are not supposed to be eating any foods at all that give us difficulty, let alone try to rotate them. Mary Beth can correct me if I am wrong, but I think the theory is that sensitivities are most likely to develop to foods that we eat frequently (I think it's called oral tolerance???). This may explain why MCers often discover new sensitivities over time. I know it happened to me. When I think about it, my major sensitivities are to the foods that I ate the most of over my lifetime - gluten, dairy, yeast, soy, corn, chocolate, and then tomatoes, white potatoes, carrots, etc. I ate these foods daily for most of my life - it is impossible to eat processed foods and NOT eat wheat, soy, corn, etc. daily.
Love,
Polly
P.S. Harma, isn't it interesting that humans eat so many different foods? Most other animals have a very limited diet, some with only one or two foods.
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