Tilapia and Carrots

Sunday, Feb.27

5:00-2 Cups Coffee, 2 T. Flavored Cream

10:00-1/2 Banana

2:00-Lunch-1 Cup Lettuce, 2 T. Onion finely chopped, 1/2 teas. EVOO, splash of fresh lemon juice, 1Slice Sourdough bread toasted, 1 Pat of butter, 1 hard boiled egg

6:30-Dinner-Small Bake Potato, 1 pat butter, 3oz Tilapia baked with salt and pepper, 1 cup cooked carrots.

*BM-10:00pm 40 min. session, 2 trips.  Then 4:00am, the next morning 1 trip, urgent. My bottom slightly burning

Things are still going well.  I shouldn't have went to bed before I was done going to the bathroom.  That explains the last trip in the middle of the night.

Too Many New Foods In One Day

Saturday Feb. 26

7:00-2 cups coffee, 2 T. real cream with Cinnamon flavor

8:30-Breakfast-3/4 Cup Oatmeal (NO MILK), 1 T. Real grade A Maple Syrup, 1 pat of butter

2:00-Banana

4:00-Late Lunch-2 eggs fried with Pam, 2 pats butter, 2 slices Sourdough bread toasted.

7:00-Light dinner-1 small baked potato, 1 cup lettuce, 1 1/2 T. finely diced raw onion, extra virgin olive oil a small drizzle, a splash of fresh lemon juice.

I really shouldn't have added so many new foods in one day.  I will try not to do that again.  But since it was mostly condiments in small doses, I thought rightly that I would be OK.

*BM-11:00pm-The most normal I have had in a year.  Definitely not normal for someone with a rectum, but for me, it was about the best I could hope for.  20 min. session, 3 trips, 1 urgent.

Not sure what food I will add today.  I don't want to go to the grocery store today, so I will try to find something I already have.  I think I need to add a vegetable.  But don't want to have canned, I have some asparagus in the fridge but it's getting pretty old so I will need to look at it.  From what I read on ibs diet, asparagus would be a good choice.

Yesterday, I was again diaper less and active.  I had little worry of an accident.  I am not looking forward to the time when I eat something that triggers issues, I got a feeling it will be in one of two categories, Meat and Dairy.  I really could live without chicken, pork or beef, but a life without cheese would be sad indeed.

Lettuce, potato, butter

Friday, February 25th

6:00-2 cups coffee
9:00-1 cup coffee with Flavored real cream probably tablespoon.
10:00- 1/2 banana
11:30-Lunch-Salmon(left over from last night) 4oz.  3/4 Cup rice, 1cup Lettuce
5:00-Dinner-1 egg fried with Pam, 1/2 Cup Lettuce, Medium Baked Potato, 1 Pat of real butter

*No BM

I am feeling so good.  My sores are healing, I have no pain, and hope this keeps up a while longer before I make a mistake and eat the wrong thing.  Today, I think I am going to try Oatmeal with a little maple syrup, no milk, for breakfast.  I really am not sure what my body will do but in my research, maple syrup tends to be ok in small doses, but who knows about the oatmeal.  I am really just wanting something hot and filling for breakfast.  So far, except for the creamer and flavored real cream, all else coincide with how I will be eating during March for the Real Food Challenge.

Egg, Banana, Salmon

Thursday, Feb. 24

7:00-Breakfast-2/3 Cup plain white basmati rice
10:30-Snack-3/4 Cup rice
1:00-Lunch-3/4 Cup rice and one egg, scrambled with no oil or milk.
3:00-Snack-One banana
5:30-Dinner-Salmon 4oz, 2/3 cup rice. 

Bm-7:30 pm.  Normal (for me).  1/2 hour session.  5 trips and no cramping.  Somewhat urgent.

Changing my plan a little yesterday after talking to my colon/rectal Surgeon.  Him wanting me to treat the elimination diet more like the IBS one.  So I decided to add three new foods that I was fairly certain was safe.  I made sure the egg was just an egg without oil or milk.  I have a history of low potasium so I ate a banana, and to add one more protein, I decided on Salmon which I am pretty certain I would do well with.  The thing about Salmon is that I love to creatively prepare it and then dip it into cocktail or tartar sauce.  But I ended up baking it with salt and pepper and eating it plain.  It was still delicious.

I am glad to have finally had a bm and a fairly normal one at that.  So I feel like I am at a good baseline.  I am not sure if I will add another new food today and if so, what would it be.  I am out of bananas and I need to go to the store, so it would be good for me to decide on the new food in case I don't have it. 

Egg

banana

Salmon

Doctor

Shared e-mail with my doctor today.  I am glad to say he is on board with my plan and gave input.  So I will hope to be able to eat more foods right away, and then add suspicious foods slowly.  He also stressed that I need to write down everything.  Just connecting with him and having him on-board is a relief.

His recommendation is to start with the IBS elimination diet and cut out what I already know is a problem.

So far today, I ate only rice till this afternoon and have since had an egg scrambled without milk added or oil.  And I just got done eating a banana.  I feel pretty safe eating these foods.  I am still very hungry and need to figure out what to eat for dinner that is relatively safe.  I have a IBS cookbook I hope to find something.

Jealousy

It is snowing here and LL is taking some of the day off.  So I get to watch him eat today:(  I know, jealousy is rather ugly.  Yesterday I had

2 Cups coffee
a little creamer
31/2 cups of rice

No BM yet.  I am really hoping I do not have to eat rice only again tomorrow, so I hope things start clearing out soon.

Hungry!

I eat too much.  How else can I explain why I have at 3cups rice so far and I feel like I could eat my young.  OK, maybe that is an exaggeration but it is almost 5:00 and in the last 5 hours I have ate 3 cups of rice and I want to devour anything and everything.  I guess that's why I am blogging.  Maybe voicing it will put it in perspective.  3 cups of rice is a lot.  But I know over the last few weeks, I have been eating far too much, so it would make since that my stomach wants more. 

I have written to my colon cancer surgeon to see if I could get some guidance on how to reintroduce some foods in a day or so.  So I will see if he has advice or will refer me to a dietitian.  We will see.

Still no "cleansing" yet.  Please oh please oh please, make it all come soon, hard and fast. 

So I Blew it Already

If I only had a brain............By noon I made my pot of white basmati rice to eat on in the next few days.  As I am eating my first serving, I remember that this morning during LL and my coffee time together, I already had a couple cups of coffee with creamer in it.  Now, anyone that knows me knows going with out coffee will not be pretty.  I don't want the headaches and the general yucky feeling at this time while not eating much.  But the creamer???............Come on Konnie, where's your head.  So I know what my baseline should be just eating rice and with drinking coffee the next couple days, I have problems, then I will deal with the headaches and forego the coffee, but I can definitely go with out the creamer.
                                         
So far, I have not go rid of anything from the last couple days.  Hopefully, and yes I really hoping for this, I will have a bad episode and just get rid of everything within a few hours time.  Even if I do soon, I still plan on just eating rice tomorrow just to make sure I have a good beginning to reintroduce other foods.  I am not sure what order I should reintroduce.  A tradition plan for allergies will not help but I have a couple ideas to research on-line and know protein of some sort might be a top priority.

Elimination

So here I am once again trying to figure things out.  I posted on my main blog about this but will from now on, journal about my diet here.  Link is below

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