Low Fiber Diet

While going through radiation in this process, I was given a low fiber diet by the radiation oncology office.  At first I thought this was going to be my free pass to eating junk!  Instead it has been a whole new learning curve for me I'm afraid.  I have been on a high fiber diet from the time we started looking at my cholesterol and blood sugar issues.  So this has been quite a change!  I went from wheat bread to white bread, brown rice to white rice, whole wheat pasta to white pasta.  I was also told to avoid fresh fruits and vegetables.  Like I said - this is a learning curve:  so I decided to go to the internet (doesn't everybody do this) and see what I could find about low fiber diets.  Of course, some of the information contradicted itself, but I did find that there were some things that I could try - like cantaloupe, and watermelon.  I am eating all of my vegetables cooked nowadays - and I can have as much yogurt, milk products, jello, pudding, fruit cups, fruit cocktail and cottage cheese, eggs and tuna as I want.  And also can have as much protein as I want - except for crunchy nut butters, tough meat or meat with gristle and dried beans.  And I have found that tomatoes (in any form - including pizza sauce) are NOT a good thing.  Makes me hungry for mostaccoli just thinking about it!  The purpose of the low fiber diet is that it lessons the irritation to the GI tract and can help it heal.  I will have to stay on this diet through the initial surgery, and then probably through the reversal of the ileostomy I think.  For the time being, I just have to put a little more thought into what I eat and what I cook!