MICROSCOPIC COLITIS SUPPORT

Hello everybody!!! I am feeling much better. I feel better, have more energy, plus I'm happier and easier to get along with...thank goodness! Life looks promising! I owe it all to the best man in the world, Wayne Persky and Gabes. They have helped me where no one else could. I give it all to Tex and Gabes.

My problem: What do I eat for breakfast? I can't eat eggs everyday. I cut up diced ham and put it into my scrambled eggs. Delish! Now research is saying eggs cause heart attacks and other problems if you eat too many eggs weekly. Gabes informed me to eat protein for healing and I'm eating protein each meal. I think I'm starting to heal a wee bit. But what about the Egg Issue? What can I do? My last blood report showed my cholesterol was borderline and I've never had cholesterol problems in my life! Breakfast is the meal that gives me problems. What else can I consume?

I eat smoothies with over-night soaked pecans, fruit and vanilla...but protein is non-existent. Dr. Fine informed me to eat smoothies. They're good, but I need protein.

Somebody else on this forum stated breakfast is their problem mealtime. What proteins can we eat that won't cause cholestrol problems. I have to be careful because I'm diabetic which sets me up for strokes and heart attacks. I have to eat healthy.

No more Rice Chex. I had an all day love affair with the toilet. Sick all day long.

I've sent off my Enterolab sample report to Dr. Fine, so that should help.

If y'all could suggest what proteins to eat for breakfast, I'd appreciate it. It's become a dilemma.

Thanks, Dorothy

What about protein powders. Has anyone been able to use the powder? I know many contain whey. BAD BAD BAD! Dorothy

Hi Dorothy,

That's great news that you're doing better. I hope your progress continues.

Medical research conclusions for various foods change so dramatically over the decades, depending on the prevailing opinion (attitude) of the medical community, that I rarely pay any attention to them. One year a certain food group is a superfood — in a few years some group will publish a report that concludes that foods in that group cause cardiovascular disease, or sterility, or whatever. Any food that tastes good, and is good for us, won't last long when the American Heart Association gets it in it's sights. I never believe anything supported by the American Heart Association, because they're so biased that they pick and choose the research that they support, and they absolutely ignore any research that reaches a conclusion that is contrary to their position.

I eat two or three eggs every day, most days it's three. And I'm not talking about medium or large eggs — most of them are extra-large They're great sources of protein. Yesterday, I only had one egg, but I supplemented it with a pork chop left over from a previous meal. In the past, I've been known to eat catfish (fried in a safe oil, such as coconut oil), also left over from a previous meal.

If you can't eat pork or catfish, though, maybe this will bring some other safe food to mind. Leftovers work great, as long as they are promptly frozen initially, and then thawed and heated just before eating, in order to keep the histamine level down.

I've never tried a protein powder. They're so highly-processed that I'd be afraid of them during recovery, when we're still super-sensitive. They sometimes work after we're in remission, but I've always preferred to get my protean from whole food, so that I know exactly how it's processed.

But that's just my two-cents worth (and I'm biased). Maybe someone else will have some better suggestions.

Tex

Before you give up eggs read this article:

https://www.dietdoctor.com/eggs-are-bad ... what-gives

This is the conclusion reached by the author of that article:

"In the end, the JAMA study represents all that is wrong with nutritional research. Incomplete data, weak associative findings, lack of control for “healthy user bias,” confounding variables, and an over-reactive media culture that promotes such data as medically important."

Thank you friends for the positive review y'all gave concerning eggs. The study was conducted to get the results they wanted. It looks that way to me. Now I don't feel guilty about eating more than two to three per week.

Do y'all have anything else MCs can eat. I am craving oatmeal and the smell drives me wild. What I would give to be able to eat oatmeal for breakfast, but I need protein per Gabes advice. Y'all are wonderful!!!!!!! Thanks, Dorothy

eat for breakfast what you eat for other meals

I have protein and veges, either as stew, or reheating roasted veges with proteins. (meats or egss with avocado)

retrain the brain that there needs to be 'different' type foods for breakfast
only 80 years ago people ate protein and veges type thing for breakfast bacon and eggs, hash browns, left overs from dinner.

I have used a rice protein in the past, but for long term wellness and optimised healing, Animal protein is best. Havent used rice based protein for over 2 years.

Gabes, that's a good idea to eat what you stated for breakfast. It will take training the brain to eat dinner or lunch for breakfast. Hash browns sounds good for breakfast. If you say animal protein is the best, animal protein it will be. I am going to eat avocado too. I usually put that in my smoothie.

I like your history of saying only 80 years ago people ate protein and veges type things for breakfast bacon and eggs, hash browns, left over from dinner. I guess we have to get creative. Back when my Daddy was a kid, he wrote in his autobiography that our neighbors butchered their own hogs, pigs, boars, turkeys and had pressers to make sugar cane syrup from stalks of sugar cane. My Dad also said he found a logger head turtle in the river and his neighbors made logger head turtle stew. He said the logger head turtle was stinky but the logger head stew was delicious. I remember our neighbor hung up turkeys on a clothes line upside down and with big sissors...cut off their heads. I had to leave. That was rough watching. I remember seeing sugar cane trees on our property. You did what you had to do to survive. We had bootleggers down here in the southside of Savannah, and the big mobster, Al Capone and his gang came to pick up the sugar cane syrup and moonshine on Moon River and Vernon River and he took it back to New York City in the days of prohibition. I'm getting off subject, but you did what you had to do for survival.

So basically eat what we eat for lunch and dinner for breakfast. It's the same premise, we have to do whatever for survival and healing. That's the basic idea. Correct? Dorothy

Dorothy,

When I was healing, I ate chicken and rice 3 meals a day and a banana for about 3 months. That was it. Now, four years into it and lots of good healing, I can eat many other things. I eat the Jimmy Dean natural sausage: https://www.jimmydean.com/products/fres ... rk-sausage

I buy it in the 3 pound roll at Costco and slice it up and bake it. I then freeze 2 in a freezer bag and I pop those in the microwave every morning for breakfast. They also have it already sliced at Sam's (in the frozen section), but they are really thick and I prefer to cut my own.

I also have found this that I really like: https://www.costco.com/Birch-Benders-Pa ... 37944.html

It's dairy free, soy free, and really good. I made some waffles and froze them also. They have protein in them (the eggs) and they are really good. My husband ate them and couldn't tell the difference.

I have also eaten a hamburger patty, some roast beef, or whatever else I've had around for breakfast, as well. As long as I get my protein, I'm good!