BRAT stands for:
B- Bananas
R- Rice
A- Applesauce
T- Toast
Hence, the BRAT diet is essentially a low-residue, low-fiber diet. Basically, this means I am severely restricted in the items we might normally consider "healthy." And this is where I have gotten off-track on so many diets before- its much easier to pick up some low-fiber low-residue tortilla chips or white bread rather than a healthy snack of hummus and veggie dippers or whole wheat bread.
Here are examples of foods that are OFF LIMITS:
- Fibrous meats such as beef or tough cuts of pork
- whole grains, oats, nuts & seeds
- popcorn
- carbonated beverages or sugary drinks
- Vegetables
- Salad greens
- UNprocessed fruit
- Skins from potatoes & fruit
- More than 2 cups of dairy products
- Beans
- Fruit juices with pulp
- pepper
- hot sauce
- ETC
- Poultry and cooked fish
- Mashed or Baked potatoes
- white rice
- white pasta (limited)
- white bread
- canned fruit (except pineapple)
- applesauce
- ripe bananas
- soups
- limited canned or well cooked veggies with no seeds or pulp
- scrambled eggs
- tender, ground, well cooked meats
So, I get frustrated and upset- with the lack of choice and with the lack of what I see as healthy foods. Hopefully I can stay on track with my weight loss and also get better at the same time.
Below are some articles on the low-fiber, low-residue diet. I particularly like the first one- its a cookbook written by two UC sufferers with some low-fiber, low-residue recipes and advice. I might have to pick up a copy! http://www.colitiscookbook.com/
http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtgs02.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_residue_diet
PLUS- I've lost about 5 lbs. so far! WOOHOO! Thanks for all the encouragement and words of support!
Here's is today's BRATty menu- please help me with dinner suggestions!
Breakfast- scrambled egg white with toast (thanks BMan for cooking for me)
Lunch - Creamy Chicken Soup at Hand and ham sandwich- maybe a pudding
Dinner- Baked Potato Bar? What do you think of this idea?
I bake a couple of potatoes and I top mine with, well, just about nothing, and the BMan can top his with chili & cheese, or broccoli & cheese, or something else yummy?
Let me know!
XOXO,
M
3 comments:
Keep to the plan - why not try a nice risotto w/some shrimp or fish for dinner. Maybe add a SMALL amount of well steamed broccoli - diced and folded into the rice - it is supposed to me soft! Think about cutting out some the processed food at lunch - I know it is hard when working and balancing the diet! Take a walk this afternoon - do a lap with the dog and then further by yourself.
XOXO
B
The doctor specifically said, "NO broccoli." Sorry! But the risotto and shrimp idea is good!
If you get sick, i wouldn't worry too much about your weight loss diet.
focus on getting healthy and then resume that other diet.
remember. pursuing weightloss isn't really something you "just do for now" its something you always must maintain to some degree. the results you are looking for don't come from a week or 2 weeks of steady dieting. they come from months upon months of diet and excersize. if you get sick for a week or two here and there. over all its not a big deal. long term not short term
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