Need some encouragement

Maddie, Whew! Thank you girl for clarifying yourself! You had me worried! I saw an ulcer in the making!! You know..not everyone has problems with foods, protein, and/or water. You just hear about those who do, not the hundreds of people who don't. When I was a new post-op, I had very little problems with much of anything ****il my strictures & ulcers started anyway). I stuck very firmly with what was on the yellow sheet. There were times though, it allowed what-ever before my pouch did. I couldn't do ketup for ~ a year. I didn't do bread at all until I was over 2 yrs out. I still have problems with pop unless I mix half and half diet Sprite with OJ (it cuts the OJ's sugar in half and eliminates the carbonation effect for me). Count yourself as one of the fortunate ones! I know it'd make you feel better if others said 'I can do whatever is on the yellow sheet too!!' but you do generally hear only from those who can't. Thank you for taking my post as I meant it. I was just truly concerned. Spicy to me is hello chili powder! not hello garlic & onions..lol. Do keep in mind though that sometimes it takes days for a problem to become evident. Usually if it's immediate, it's because you didn't chew it up well enough or that the meat was too dry (guess why I was using ketup????). If it's too spicy though...or too acedic (like the ketup), it may take a week or so for the ulcer to get bad enough to cause you pain. As you try new foods, you may want to keep a journal...that way, if you do run into a delayed problem it'd be easier for you to figure out what it was that caused it. Congrats on doing so good!!  Sherri