Re: Food diary analysis -- how to determine my own triggers?
04/09/04 01:26 PM
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CityWoman
Reged: 03/27/04
Posts: 13
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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When I was in hospital I was able to start my diet based on the foods that they gave me, so I had a baseline of safe foods (included peanut butter, Shreddies, CoffeeRich, jam, pork, ground beef, turkey, green beans, white rice, no-name whole wheat bread...etc.). When I met with the nutritionist/dietician before I was released, she cautioned to stick with what I know and only add one new item to my diet per day so I knew how it would react.
I wrote down every new food and created a NO NO list, a WATCH list and a SAFE list. WATCH was for the foods I wasn't sure about and should try again much later (like the night I ate way too many Jube Jubes and got bloated - I can now have a few Jube Jubes).
I still keep my list and probably will continue to do so. There are foods that I have to stay away from such as anything with a seed or hull and for some weird reason decaf tea is bloating me. So, it's on the watch list.
So, along with learning to cope with UC, I am also coping with learning to eat again.
Plus, this prednisone makes me hungry all the time and I crave sweets (candy) like mad. I know, however, that as my dose of steroids go down so will my symptoms.
My specialist told me that my "new life" is one day at a time and she is so very right.
But, I'm embrassing this disease and realise that my "new life" isn't quite so bad.
If you want anything else, just let me know. I'll try to help where I can.
CityWoman 
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