ibd – Eating Vegan with Crohn's Disease

How does one “Feel Better?”

With Crohn’s disease, when you start feeling like shit you know you are in for the long haul. Crohn’s is a Victorian wasting disease where the only remedies are hot pads, cold compresses, and moving to the mountains where the air is less tubercular. Except it’s 2025 and you can’t buy morphine or heroin overContinue reading “How does one “Feel Better?””

Pain

Two nights ago I experienced what I think may have been the worst pain of my life. Following a very high stress week, like crying at work, the students can tell something is wrong stress, like your elderly parents and disabled brother are living in filth with mouse shit all over their kitchen and onlyContinue reading “Pain”

Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie

To approximate food like Modulen or Kate Farms medical meal replacement shakes, I made this smoothie. I drink two of these a day currently, in addition to 3-4 Kate farms shakes. The Kate farms micronutrient profile hits all essential vitamins and minerals at 3-4 shakes a day. My last meal of the day is yogurtContinue reading “Reverse Engineered EEN Smoothie”

Blended breakfast

I’ve had some creeping Crohn’s symptoms so trying to stave them off with blended foods. The aim is gut rest and nutrition for healing. Blended breakfast: Blend until smooth. Basically it’s a hearty oatmeal breakfast with no chewing or gut effort. Also super yummy! This is based on an almond date lhassi I had inContinue reading “Blended breakfast”

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”

Diet for Remission Update

I have reached the 6th week of my Crohn’s disease exclusion diet. Half of my daily calories are from enteral nutrition (Kate Farms chocolate flavor nutrition shake). Half of my calories are from fruits and vegetables, mostly smoothies, soups, and the occasional salad. I actually guess I haven’t been following the diet, per se, becauseContinue reading “Diet for Remission Update”

Healing Crohn’s Disease with Diet

Riding the Flare & Dietary Interventions for Crohn’s Disease

I’m about 3 weeks into this flare. Had a great talk with my primary care doctor where we discussed my long term health goals and I shared with her my research on treating Crohn’s with diet. She is incredibly supportive and promptly ordered a bunch of tests to assess my micronutrient levels and try toContinue reading “Riding the Flare & Dietary Interventions for Crohn’s Disease”

Food Diary 7-29-20

Pain 3/10 Bloating 1/5 BM 5/7 Fatigue 2/10 Been coasting along with about the same daily symptoms, and eating the same standard foods. I added in dirty rice yesterday. It was made with white rice and was not very filling. Whole grains y’all! Still on the steroids. Side effects: insomnia, tension and feeling “up” allContinue reading “Food Diary 7-29-20”

Polenta Potatoes

Swig of olive oil 1 onion 3 Yukon gold potatoes 2 large carrots 2 celery stalks Garlic Sea salt Bay leaves, thyme, black pepper Veg stock Quick grits Chop the veggies and saute in the olive oil. Add herbs and spices. Cook a bit to mingle flavors. Add veg stock and simmer for 30 mins.Continue reading “Polenta Potatoes”