Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives NSD and diet-related; sabotage

I am attempting the diet in the strictest sense, and for the most part I think I am doing well. The reason for the stingency is that I am trying to heal my gut as quickly as possible. However, there is some fringe food that I find impossible to completely eliminate: once a week I have an iced coffee (with sugar syrup) (this week it was twice); once a week I have mint chocolate-chip ice cream; and once or twice a week I have a beer or two. They don't seem to directly affect me, but I am sure they are not helping with the healing process. I am just wondering if other people are sabotaging their diets and what food is the culprit.

You would be very unlucky if those few treats did sabotage the diet - no starch in any of them. You can be stringent without being stingy - was that a typing mistake or a Freudian slip?

Hey, Eric:

Yes, we all do this. I often drink colas but know that it would probably be better if I avoided them (waaahh! I've given up so much already). Many ice creams have guar gum and I recently started eating some BEFORE I read the label, so had to stop mid-spoon! Never liked coffee, but if I did, I'm sure I'd be drinking it with cream and sugar (BIG no-nos, according to some), and I never liked beer and almost never drink wine anymore, although wine is one of Ebringer's green lights, the alcohol can still slow the healing.

If the beer and milk-mocha products don't affect you it is CLEAR--at this time they are not doing any damage, with the caveat that your FEEDBACK system is intact (you don't take NSAIDs to dull the information your body is responding with).

In general (for most people with AS), I believe that as our tracts are healed our tolerance for things just like this increases, although Carol's experiences were opposite--then again, she is our canary!

Keep up the good work, and enjoy everything you can even more,

SKOL,
John

Not so much sabotage as sanity savers if you can tolerate them. Now, if you have a blatantly bad reaction to something and you keep on eating it anyway, hmmmm.
I seem to have this thing for, of all the things I could eat, legumes. So there are other people sneaking a beer or a slice of pizza now and then, and I am eating beans once or twice a week like it's manna from heaven. Go figure. Same thing with rice. NO wheat, however.
I continue to experiment with dairy, and continue to be more confused than ever by the results. In the beginning I just ditched the whole thing then tried gradually to reintroduce types without much lactose, with very mixed results. Eat one brand of hard cheese, no reaction. Eat it the next day, no reaction. Eat another brand and want to die. Same with certain ice creams. Wonder what they are REALLY putting in that stuff and does it match the label? If there's no starch fillers in them, and they aren't a fancy flavor, I don't seem to react. Cannot figure this out, but what the heck. I've been out of flare about 3 weeks and eating a piece of aged cheddar every day. I hope I just didn't jinx myself there saying that.

I drank some coffee the other day and asked them to leave the syrup out of it, and didn't react. I don't drink much of it anymore at all. The previous time it had that flavored syrup stuff in it and of course I ended up with a headache. This has happened enough times now that I know not to drink flavored coffees unless I want to feel lousy afterwards, it's a very consistant reaction at different locations.

I would rather eat a little something once in a while that's borderline rather than make myself feel so deprived and frustrated I couldn't stick to the entire concept at all. Overall, I still eat radically different than I did a few years ago, and I move better, and that's what counts.