gut rest fasting

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.

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25 yo female Nutritionist
UC pancolitis dx April 2011 ~1 month after birth of my first child. Went into remission after a course of prednisone (hated the s/e esp psychological ones!) .
Coming out of a proctitis flare that started Jan '12: Colazal x6/d. Enemas/supps daily. Homemade kefir daily. No iron Mv. Low Fodmaps, Glutenfree, ?tuna, no salmon-allergic, eggs max 6/week.
Back on Turmeric.

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.

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)

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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- Rectal CA 4/29/99, Stage I, 90% sigmoid/15" of colon/GB removed, temporary colostomy, reversed 6-26-99
- Chronic IBS/D symptoms, multiple bm's, on low residue diet
- Colace 50 mg, twice daily + Probiotic: Renew Life/Ultimate Flora/50 Billion count, twice daily