Stage 5 of 9
Stable treatment
Once symptoms settle, there is room to widen the diet again — carefully, one thing at a time, keeping what earned its place.
Tools for this stage
Tool
Meal Builder
Put together a meal from what you can tolerate today — portion size, texture, preparation time, and the protein you are trying to reach.
In development · not yet reviewed
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Questions worth asking your clinician
Take these with you. Appointments are short, and the things that matter most are easy to forget once you are in the room.
- Are we tracking anything in my bloods that I should know about?
- Is my protein intake where you would want it?
- Is now a reasonable time to add resistance training, and how should I start?
What this draws on
These are the reference works this page is being written against. Specific citations are added, line by line, before it leaves draft.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americanswww.dietaryguidelines.gov
Wherever you are in this, there is a version of eating well that fits.
Pick the stage you are actually in, not the one you think you should be past.