- Bland foods (banana, rice, applesauce, toast)
- Eating lots of cheez-its (logic: those usually make me constipated!)
- Lemon lime Gatorade
- Tests of my blood, urine, and poo
- Colonoscopy
- Urgent care
- My PCP
- A gastroenterologist
- Steroids for months
- Remicade
- Speaking with a registered dietitian
- Specific carbohydrate diet
- Homemade applesauce, chicken soup and smoked salmon (when I completely lost my appetite and nothing sounded good)
- Throwing away my rice cooker (regrets) to avoid certain carbs
- Giving away lots of pantry items to avoid certain carbs
- Weed
- Smoking weed
- Eating weed
- Tramadol
- Tramadol and weed
- Heating pads
- Yoga
- Stretching
- Pressure points
- Yin yoga (aka laying on pillows)
- Wearing only leggings
- Wearing no pants
- Meditation
- Sleeping forever
- Quitting my job
- Feline therapy (thanks, Tom Cat)
- Working less, ie: multiple online gigs simultaneously
- Projectile vomiting
- Asking my parents for money
- Credit card debt
- Taking out a loan
- Exercise (gym membership once I got an ounce of energy, walking, swimming, weight lifting)
- Netflix
- Veganism
- Getting a water filter
- Not using plastic with my foods (nearly impossible and I gave up really fast)
- Self-Healing Colitis and Crohn’s protocol
- Microbiome Diet
- Watching Anthony Bourdain eat delicious foods of the world while wishing I could one day have flavor
- Not eating processed foods
- Throwing out everything in my house with emulsifiers
- Only using household and personal cleaning products without “toxins”
- Whole foods in a blender
- PEN (partial enteral nutrition)
- Medical meal replacement shakes
- Crohn’s disease exclusion diet
Published by Rebecca Riley
Artist, educator, activist, musician. Find me teaching Modern World History and Community Leadership. Columbus, Ohio.
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