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Posted 7/25/2012 7:21 AM (GMT -6)
Haha no worries Soystud: no fasting for me at the moment as im underweight thanks to this flare - i cannot afford to not eat. However all i eat is pretty much rice and bland chicken soup with only turmeric added to it.
Im craving food especially red meat to the point of dreaming about it! I think my body really needs iron and protein. Im taking mercola whey protein shakes and Spatone liquid iron.
When this flare is over im gonna literally attack food.
Posted 7/25/2012 11:02 AM (GMT -6)
I just got a juicer and started juicing once a day in the morning. I had a juicer over 8 years ago and I am impressed at how far they have come along. They are still a pain in the butt to clean but the quality of the juice is smooth and almost creamy even if you are just using vegetables. The only rule of thumb I have read so far is not to combine fruits and vegetables together in one juice except for apples. Apples can be used to sweeten veggies juices to make them more palatable. Not sure why fruits and veggies should not be combined???
Posted 7/25/2012 6:11 PM (GMT -6)

Marsky said...
fruitgirl - yeah me too! But my daughter has a normal colon, the lucky girl. Lucky in GI woes, unlucky in acne though. Inherited from her dad, my husband. Feel so bad for her at times. She's 25 now!


Totally OT but has your daughter ever looked into a rBGH allergy? My co-worker suffered from terrible acne until he switched to all organic dairy.
Posted 7/31/2012 2:41 AM (GMT -6)
The very first symptom of a flare for me is aversion against food so severe that I cannot eat anything, with diarrhea following a few hours later. I do not know if that is the reason but in the past I always got out of a flare without any medication (had no doctor because of difficulties to find one). I only had 2 longer flares that lasted a few months and ofc that was brutal with not being able to eat (and I wouldn't recommend that to anybody if you have a choice) but thinking about it there might be a correlation between me not eating and going into remission. Although my colitis is quite mild so I am not saying that everybody should try that. Reading these forums I realize that colitis is completely different for everybody but not eating seems to work for me.
Posted 7/31/2012 5:33 AM (GMT -6)
kloe0038 - I will mention that allergy to my daughter. Up until now we think she just inherited her severe acne, her dad had it, along with various aunts and now cousins, on her dad's side of the family. She's being currently treated by a dermatologist as well. But it's worth a mention.

Regarding - juicing. I wish I had a completely clear calendar to try this, but even having one juice in the morning before work is extremely risky for my very touchy GI tract. I report back to work in 3 weeks (cashier at an elementary school's kitchen). I simply cannot risk running to the bathroom repeatedly before work, on work day I get up at 6 am, finish a very light breakfast by 6:30 and by 9 or so I am done using a bathroom. Perfect schedule for an approx. 4 hour work shift.

However my family needs me to double or triple my paycheck and I am searching for a full time job now (started the search June 1st, but I'm 57 and it's quite difficult to get anyone past my age).

Heavens only knows what will happen if I find a full time job - I will have to eat 1.5 meals per day. OMG......

Post Edited (Marsky) : 7/31/2012 5:37:17 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/1/2012 4:57 AM (GMT -6)
Goldstein, Jack. Triumph Over Disease by Fasting and Natural Diet. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1977.
A personal testamonial in the vein of a true-confession story, only this story is not of love and betrayal, but of a young man who, through receiving much conventional medical treatment for ulcerative colitis, had been so damaged by the medicos that he approached death. In the nick of time he discovered natural hygiene, fasted for over 40 days and began to recover health and enjoyment of life. Gruesome in its detailed description of the disease and shocking in its recounting of the brutal and constitution-destroying treatments he received, interesting in the detailed inner-experience of a long-time water faster. Downloads as a PDF of 633 kb. OUT OF PRINT.

 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/0201hyglibcat.html

 

Posted 8/1/2012 5:39 AM (GMT -6)
Sounds fascinating, more power to people who opt for another route to take, one thing I keep stressing to people I've talked with - the juice fast idea - the whole reboot your life movement - is the fact that you are eating a wide assortment of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, etc. All made into a juice.

The trouble is this approach gets mixed up with other crazy and extremely risky fasting approaches - as I posted somewhere in a recent reply, my brother and his wife went on a water/cayenne pepper fast - for TEN days. I never wanted explicit details but I fully expected to hear they ended up in the ER from that experience. My guess is they couldn't continue it and went back on solids.

Bleda - thanks for that link, I may read it sometime soon. Although I am not suffering from UC.
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