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I'm looking for foods or supplements that might act as binders (non starches). I moved to a Ketogenic diet which has made my life amazingly better in many areas but my j-pouch doesn't seem to handle it well. I'm basically excreting pure fluid and leaking at night. Meat liquefies in my digestive system and runs through me like a race car. I wonder if I have an overactive liver and make too much bile. Certain low-carb vegetables might work like spinach or cabbage. I haven't completely isolated foods.

I'd like to make low-carb work. I'm even considering doing one meal period per day as an option. Pig out, poop it all out and go on for the rest of the day. I've read up a ton on nutrition and intermittent fasting. It might work (the fasting) or it might not.

Any ideas?

I take Imodium and sometimes Pepto.

Frankly, I'm over 10 years in post take down and I've probably never really figured out what my pouch does and doesn't like.

Heck, I'm even wondering if a 30 day to fast might reset stuff in my gut and make me work in new ways. I went on an elimination diet years ago that cured my food allergies.

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Slouchy,

I have tried a lot of different diets for both my health, my pouch's health and for weight...

I still usually live off of a low carb, high protein diet because it is health, weight, and pouch friendly but I do not cut out all carbs...I have 'other grains' like rye, bran and other whole grains that allow my body to bulk up a bit.

I have found that persimmons thicken my output, so do most whole grains.

I did the eating one meal a day thing in the very beginning....mostly because I did not live in a world where I could use the washroom in the daytime, French washrooms being notoriously middle-ageish (no sink, light, running water or paper in the good-ol'-days).

I would eat a huge dinner and live off of fluids all day long (do a modified version of that when working...but I do eat yogurt, bananas, and occasional whole grain baby breads...

You need to keep your blood sugar level...not throw your body into hypoglycemia, dehydration or any other chemical unbalance...due to all day fasting...it is fine for a short period of time but you have to look at what the long-term effect will be on your body...

Everything in moderation, including moderation

Sharon

Thanks all,

I'll give Konsyl a shot.

Cheese doesn't seem to work for me, Jan, but heck I haven't really tried any foods in isolation for a day or days which I think would be necessary to really get to the bottom of it.

SKN, moderation is the best but isn't easy coming from a culture of non-moderation and overeating. 50% of us Americans have some form of early metabolic disorder or diabetes. I'm convinced that the extreme Ketogenic diet ameliorates numerous disease processes, especially metabolic.

It turns out there are a few drugs I haven't yet tried yet.

 

 

Just a quick update. I increased my immodium to 16mg daily and it is helping a LOT.

Years ago I had tirtrated down to 4-6mg daily thinking a higher dose didn't benefit me but I was mistaken.

My stool is still very liquid but I'm having BMs much less frequently and I'm absorbing more of the fluid and urinating significantly more at 16mg daily.

Thanks for the help all!

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