Rice

Hi everyone, I've been a bit of a lurker and am going to be traveling for the next week so I'll be away for a *****eaded to Dallas and Cabo!!) Anyway, I am curious how your body handles rice. It is on the list of 'challenging' foods my nut gave me so I've avoided it until recently. Last week I was at a business lunch and we end up at a sushi place. Yes, also being allergic to fish this was not an ideal choice for me. But I got some veggie sushi and ate it - carefully, chewed every bite thoroughly, and had no water for 2 hours thereafter. Then 2 nights later I am at a greek restaurant and dolmades are ordered - ya know, the rice stuffed grape leaves. Since sushi rice went without a problem I ate most of one dolmades. And I was drinking a bit while eating. Well......about 30 minutes later we are walking to the hotel and I am attacked with this SCREAMING abdominal pain. I had to stop walking, sat on a fire spicket, buckled over, dry heaving, completely white - and all of this is in front of a major tourist attraction in Manhattan with hundreds of people watching - Saturday night at 9pm, the streets were full of people! My (new) boss was slightly horrified and I finally just kept walking so as not to attract a crowd. About 10 minutes later all was fine....like nothing happened. I cant tie that experience to anything but rice and needless to say I am now super adverse to it. But I see it regularly in people's posts here on what they ate. Hmmmm. I am hearing that there is a difference between soft rice - like Uncle Bens - versus brown/whole grain rice which does not swell like soft rice does. (this is apparently why throwing rice is now taboo at weddings, the swelling kills the birds) What are your experiences? What type of rice do you eat? Do you ever drink anything when you've eaten rice? Have you been doubled over in pain in front of a big crowd of people? Hope everyone is doing well, know you are in my thoughts and well wishes. Hugs, ~Tiffany

I avoid rice, most people can't eat it after surgery anyway. I get full too fast on it, just one bite, so if I were to eat more, it would be very painful. I also stay away from noodles, fills me up too fast also. It is a shame that they put noodles in most chicken soup, or rice. It is a lower calorie soup than beef, but beef can be gotten with vegies, no starches. Most everyone will either have a problem with rice or pasta, or both. I think it just fills us up too fast and then that one too many bites puts us over the edge. By the way, I have always drank with my meals, so even avoiding the liquid wont make a difference. The rice is already hydrated, you can't add to it. In fact, drinking might help it not sit as hard in the stomach. Won****hru, but make if float a little, just my experience. There is always something new huh?

Poor Tiffany, how humiliating.............I am so sorry that happened to you............ I don't eat rice much as it fills me up to and fast just like Kristie said one to many bites and you have that painful feeling....If I ever eat it it is brown with lots of butter to slide on through....... HAVE A GREAT EVENING

Rice and I don't get along very well. I can do brown rice or wild rice but only a teaspoon or 2. Fried rice makes me deathly ill This and spagetti are still challenging for me. I tend to avoid it all. Lucky you getting out of Chicago. Have a warm and safe trip Sending hugs, Ronna

Tiffany, One bite of rice will be okay and the next will kill me. I have decieded to not eat it as I can't tell when it's going to turn on me! Pasta is another suprise food. I can eat shells and cheese from the box but can't eat pasta in an adult dish! Go figure. So this is another food I avoid. Potatoes, mashed good, baked okay sometimes, fried in any way, immediate and total regret with first or second swallow! Oh, the joys of pouchie! Teresa

Rice does well with me...that's part of my problem!!! I get bloated from it later, but it goes down with ease. I honestly don't think it was the rice that gave you that feeling because you only felt it for about 10 mins. Most of the time when people eat those processed, enriched, refined foods they get that belly pain and bloated look and feel for longer than 10 mins. Maybe it was something else??? I would try it one last time to see if that was actually culprit unless you don't even wanna go there and find out you actually be able to eat it! Then you'll eat it all the time (like me)! I honestly don't eat white rice that often, but at least a couple times a month. Fried rice and me get along also...bad bad. April

Tiff, I love rice and it helps me with my fiber and the constipation issue. I only cook brown rice at home so, I eat brown rice 95% of the time. I normally do not use the instant varieties, just the long cook ones and I make both short grain and long grain. I did pick up some susmi rolls from Costco for the Super Bowl. Of course, they are made with white rice. I can eat 3 of them and then feel full. I do not experience any side affects that have pain associated with them. I think I have a pouch of steel, nothing bothers me as it relates to pain. Occasionally, it seems that I will react hypoglycemically (is that a word) with white rice. Now, brown rice takes a lot more to fill me up. Usually, I can eat a cup of BR with nothing else. I usually drink after I eat. I just heard that instant white rice is almost pure starch (nothing good and grainy is left after they process it) with is fastly converted to sugar. Sorry you had such a horrible experience! Wishing you safe travels ... God Bless! Jen

Hey Tiff!!! I hope you will have an excellent travel. I so envy you!!! I know that traveling should be part of your day by day activities but I love it so much!!! Well, rice is generally in my diet... I can say that I eat rice at least twice a week. But I always eat it with a lot of caution. I have learned to "listen" to my pouch. In general the carbs are so slow to go through my pouch that I have to wait a lot more time between mouthfulls. Potatos, tortillas, rice in general are foods that I have to be cautious in the time between mouthfulls. But if you do it right you will never have problems. There are other foods like pop corn that I thought would be problematic and they are not at all... Funny stuff but it is like it is... Alejandro from Guadalajara Mexico

I love pop corn, eat it every night. It is actually a pretty good choice I think. Starches are hard. I eat whole wheat bread daily, the low calorie stuff. I did just eat a soft pretzel, took me at least an hour, didn't fini**** though. Talk to you soon.

I can do rice for a small bit... maybe three spoon fulls if I space em out throughout the meal? Sushi doesn't seem to bother me though- those little california rolls, etc. I chew those suckers super well I'm so sorry you were in such pain, Tiff