This sounds like a perfect excuse for someone who’s looking for an excuse, but I think my dinner last night was “too healthy” for my UC. My king salmon was plated with roast asparagus and zucchini, looking like a poster meal for a healthy eating article. However insoluble fiber with IBD is like having little men poke your inflammation with sticks as they walk through your digestive track.

I find myself thinking about things like little men with sticks while I’m trapped in the bathroom at work because there isn’t much else to pass the time except looking for the floor tile that resembles a piece of toast.

I think I should have added some rice to the meal. I can hear Michael, or a Michael impersonator, talking about how bad white carbs are but white rice is also the safest of the safe foods. I even keep a box of Minute Rice at work for when food is absolutely unappealing (although Minute Rice isn’t that appealing either compared to the real thing.) The soluble fiber is supposed to help balance out the pointy sticks of the insoluble.

I do know too much about fiber for my age.

So tonight I made my favorite mild curry soup which is eaten over a bowl of jasmine rice, the most glamorous of the white carbs. Just updated our shared spreadsheet with my dinner, and while I don’t know if it’s actually helping us diet, the comments are keeping it interesting. I see that Selina dropped half a Thin Mint, and Michael added “mmm… test brownies” rather than a calorie guess to my entry. Come to think of it, Thin Mints and test brownies makes it look like we’re not doing a very good job at this diet thing at all.