diet culture – Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease

Amazing detox cleanse!

Just kidding, this is the bowel prep from my latest colonoscopy! Tricked you! If you came here for some diet culture bull, I suggest you try to reframe your thinking around food, shift your relationship with food and your body from one of guilt and shame to one of pleasure and enjoyment, and learn aContinue reading “Amazing detox cleanse!”

To be fit in my 40s

I am trying some things this winter to beat the sunless, warmthless doldrums. I read a memoir by a woman who healed from chronic fatigue syndrome. Parts of it seemed like sound advice. Parts of it seemed like real wellness influencer film flam (like starting and ending the book with Rachel Hollis quotes). I won’tContinue reading “To be fit in my 40s”

IBD and Disordered Eating

https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(21)00864-8/fulltext Yelencich et al. (2022) Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Prevalent Among Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease TL,DR; people with active Crohn’s and UC should be screened for ARFID, a type of disordered eating that has to do with restricting certain foods or food groups. My take: the experience of IBD and the lack ofContinue reading “IBD and Disordered Eating”

One year, 9 month update

I am now able to eat a wide variety of foods, and am not limited to a vegan diet. My diet now is a semi-vegetarian diet, with cheese and egg, and occasional meat. I started eating chicken since I can’t tolerate tofu, and found that it provided satiety and energy my body appreciated. I addedContinue reading “One year, 9 month update”