Hiya all this is my first post and i will try not to make you yawn!
right, stats are 37, woman, 5'4, 182 pounds. been sick for a year now.. after a gazillion tests the doctors say i have inflammatory bowel disease and colitis, and just for fun diverticula. what i am finding is that no matter what i eat i am in pain, get very bloated and blah, blah. so i have bought a juicer thinking if i do the liquid diet my colon wil have a rest and if i cause it not to work the pain will go. this is my theroy anyway. but i have read a bit about jucing being akin to a starvation diet. can anyone clue me in. i am not looking to juice to lose the 50 lbs. i just want my life back and to not be in massive pain. i am from CT. but married to a brit and been living in uk 5 years now. to say my doctors suck is an understatement. the on ei call buzz lightyear actually told me if i were home i'd of had surgery and been better but "we don't do that over here". any thoughts would be appreciated :confused:

Best tihing for your set of problems is a high fiber diet. It's easier to achieve with 2 or 3 doses of psyllium every day.
Start on Metamucil or a store generic that gives you around 4 grams of soluble psyllium fiber per tsp. and take it religiously.
Your goal is LARGE soft stools on a regular basis...that will allow you colon to heal as best it can.

An all fruit diet and colitis are a dreadful combination; don't even consider it. It will irritate your colon even more.

Have you had colonscopy and a lower GI series to rule out the SCARIER disease?

Best tihing for your set of problems is a high fiber diet. It's easier to achieve with 2 or 3 doses of psyllium every day.
Start on Metamucil or a store generic that gives you around 4 grams of soluble psyllium fiber per tsp. and take it religiously


so juicing is not the way to go? i can't do high fiber it would kill me. i went high fiber and vegetarian and i was in the hospital for a week..

LOLOL,

You came in as I was editing, cupcake...no, don't juice! On the other hand, don't avoid fruit; some like bananas and avocados can be soothing to the GI tract.

see i don't see why juicing is bad lol. it's just like eating only not..if i make a giant salad and throw it all in the juicer isn't that the same thing.

It's a matter of quantity. A banana is one thing...the juice of 10 bananas is another. A salad with dinner is different from trying to subsist on only the juice made from salads.

An all liquid diet will not help bowel disease...but the the high psyllium supplementation WILL. Try it for a week and see the difference.
Eliminating fiber is precisely the worong way to deal with most bowel problems.

It's a matter of quantity. A banana is one thing...the juice of 10 bananas is another. A salad with dinner is different from trying to subsist on only the juice made from salads.

An all liquid diet will not help bowel disease...but the the high psyllium supplementation WILL. Try it for a week and see the difference.
Eliminating fiber is precisely the worong way to deal with most bowel problems.


okay thank you so much for helping! :)

Oh,

And ignore the word LAXATIVE on most psyllium products; it's misleading. Psyllium will help constipation but it will help with colitis and diarrhea too.
It really "regulates" the colon into normalcy and is far different from any chemical or hebal laxative.