The Diet Doth Confuseth Me! (Renal Diet Thread)

[ShrekDawg]

I need to type shorter answers! By the time I get one done, I'm behind! Gimme a few and I'll get caught back up!

I have this problem too

But I like reading your posts.

You’re much more eloquent than I.

 

[Blooie]

Hey, what the heck does this mean at the bottom of my screen? <Backyard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens would like your permission to enable push notifications?>

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hey, what the heck does this mean at the bottom of my screen? <Backyard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens would like your permission to enable push notifications?>

I think it means you’ll get notifications on the phone or tablet even if you don’t have the site open. Like you know how sometimes you’ll get notifications from apps or whatever pop up on the tablet? Or you’ll see them in the lock screen? It’s like those. Probably don’t want them on. Unless you like those. I hope I am making sense.

 

[Blooie]

Nope, don't like them, that made perfect sense, I'm leaving them off, and thank you!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Nope, don't like them, that made perfect sense, I'm leaving them off, and thank you!

No problem! Glad I could help.

 

[ShrekDawg]

This thread was an excellent idea, @Blooie. I hope you get some answers and recipes so you don’t have to starve.

 

[Blooie]

Or eat blueberries for the rest of my life?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Or eat blueberries for the rest of my life?

Yes that too!! Surely there must be something besides blueberries!

 

[Conan]

Blooie! What a pickle you're in.

What does your doc think about the Mediterranean diet, as opposed to the far more restrictive renal diet? I mean, we know he's is in bed with blueberry growers lining his pockets with that sweet blueberry cash, but the mum (nurse and health nutter) mentioned that the Med diet is now often recommended instead.

I don't have firsthand experience, but I love researching, and learning. Following along.

 

[Blooie]

While not experiencing kidney issues (yet) I can certainly identify with the empty plate and hungry aspects. I have diabetes (diagnosed last spring) and struggle every day to find foods that are ok. Potatoes....oh how I miss my potatoes.
Kidney issues are a possible consequence of uncontrolled diabetes. It is not a place anyone wants to end up for any reason.

Blooie, I understand food struggles. No one can say "Hey this is the diet for diabetics". My doctors cannot, the dietician cannot, the magazines for diabetics cannot. My theory is that being individuals things hit each of us differently.

I can have eggs....but no toast. No yolk dunking here either.

I find I skip entire sections of grocery stores now.

So.... Now my questions.....
Are there certain things other than salt you are to avoid?
Are there things that are helpful to eat? (I know food burnout can happen just eating the "right" stuff)

Having cardiac AND kidney troubles has to be very limiting.
I am hopeful we (the BYC family) can brainstorm and help find tasty recipes that are ok for you and others that may be having similar restrictions in their diets.

Howdy, my friend!! Potatoes and Pepsi are the two things that might be my undoing!! I don't have diabetes, although years and years ago I was told I was pre-diabetic. But then I never had a bad glucose test or A1C after that. Still, it's in the charts so I have to say it. Stinks. My renal issues aren't caused by high blood pressure - I don't have nor have I ever had high blood pressure! Funny, considering that I have 4 stents in each leg artery and one in my heart, and that's usually the first thing the cardiologists and vascular surgeon remark on...no hypertension. So there goes the two leading causes of kidney disease, right out the window.

That individuality is exactly what's making this diet search so difficult. "They" say I can eat oatmeal..recommend it in fact. I hate oatmeal, it makes me gag. I love blueberries - I'm just sick of them. The best renal diet in the world does me no good if it consists of foods I don't like. And I'm not likely to stick to a diet if I can't have the foods I do like. So dietary generalities applying rigidly to anyone are ridiculous!

I think I hit on some of the things I can't eat in the post to the kind Chef who chimed in....limit dairy and meats, avoid oranges, grapefruit, avocadoes, tomatoes, many greens, bananas, potatoes (regular and sweet), winter squash, one site says watermelon, another says limit watermelon, egg yolks, bacon (Oh, Lord, take me now!) and other processed meats.....my fingers get tired just typing it! Grocery shopping is a joke. But I can put cauliflower, red bell peppers, cabbage and blueberries in my cart!

I don't know if I'm counting more on my friends here to kick me in the backside and get me moving or help with the diet or both. But I do know that anytime there's support, it makes the blueberries go down easier!! Thanks!

Hi, Blooie, I'm Stephanie. No kidney disease here, but my doctor tells me I'm diabetic and I've been diagnosed with gastroparesis. That means my food digests very slowly or sometimes, it seems, not at all. There's lots of food I can't eat and basically, food hurts. I'm hungry a lot but can't eat. I don't know what I can eat either. So I'll follow this thread and support you any way I can. It's no fun when our bodies don't work the way they're supposed to, is it? But you have a lot of friends here and hopefully folks will jump in with answers for you so you can reach for something besides blueberries!

Hello, Stephanie! It's great to meet you! You summed it up perfectly when you said "It's no fun when our bodies don't work the way they're supposed to!" Nope, it ain't! The parts that work hurt while they're working. If you wake up in the morning and something ain't hurting, you'd best call the doctor because whatever is is just quit!" Thanks for being here!!

Not snoopy at all!! I'm not dealing with kidney disease but have had some relatives deal with varying levels of the disease, although I was too young to really pay enough attention to the dietary restrictions...they used to use the holidays as the once or twice a year cheat!!

Just here with a friendly smile, soft shoulder, and occasional inappropriate humor

I'll take it, and so will anyone else who happens to need us and find us! Thanks!

Yes that too!! Surely there must be something besides blueberries!

Oh, there probably is, Kelsey. But see, I don't know what to buy grocery shopping yet, and I did remember seeing Blueberries on the list and my sister Linda eating them. So I bought a big carton of them. Now I have to eat them before they go bad, and I can't think of anything else that I should have bought, and it's 50 miles one way to go get anything else if I do think of it. So it's blueberries. And that, my dear, is convoluted Blooie logic!

Blooie! What a pickle you're in.

What does your doc think about the Mediterranean diet, as opposed to the far more restrictive renal diet? I mean, we know he's is in bed with blueberry growers lining his pockets with that sweet blueberry cash, but the mum (nurse and health nutter) mentioned that the Med diet is now often recommended instead.

I don't have firsthand experience, but I love researching, and learning. Following along.

Pickle? Nope, can't have them either. I think given the nature of the damage to my kidneys that's already occurred, my doctor isn't going to go with anything except the "official kidney diet",@honanbm. If there's an alternative that's acceptable to the National Kidney Foundation and to the traditional medical community, he might consider it, but without that I don't think so.

Now, remember, though, that I haven't met with the dietitian yet. I won't do that until after my nephrology appointment up in Billings on March 5th. And I imagine that the first meeting is likely to be, "What foods do you like? What foods don't you like? What do you eat regularly".... and so on, and then after that interview she'll (or he'll) put together a diet plan. That's what my understanding of the process is. But we'll see, and I'll bring it up, thank you so much!