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Home made müesli I took whatever grains, seeds and nuts in my kitchen, mixed in some rolled oats, two tbs of honey and threw it in a preeheated oven at 200 degrees celcius for teen minutes. This will be amazing on some yoghurt!

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This is so helpful for people struggling with crohns! Thank you!

Sometimes I lose my appetite for days or weeks - even the foods I normally crave become as appealing as eating paper towels. It normally goes hand in hand with sensory issues with the food. These are some of the tricks I’ve learned to make sure I get enough nutrition anyway

The first and most important thing is you need to remember that eating anything is better than eating nothing. You may need to suspend your normal standards or rules - eating foods that are less “healthy” than normal, eating the same thing over and over gain, or just not enjoying your food as much.

Energy (calorie) dense foods like nuts or energy bars are really helpful, especially if the actual process of eating is unpleasant. Sometimes its really nice to be able to eat a meals worth of energy in under a minute

Chewing gum helps me get my appetite going - If I am trying to get myself hungry for a meal I will often start with gum 30-40 minutes before.

I rely a lot on eating a little of something I’m comfortable with to pique my appetite and moving to a different food group afterwards. Eating the first thing is always the hardest - I find after I start my brain realizes that food is ok and I can move onto larger portions or a different food.

When I eat something sweet I tend to crave more sugar later. So I use this to my advantage and have a small portion of something with some sugar in it and then wait to be hungry for more. Sometimes I will try to eat something a little more nutritious the second time, others I just have more of whatever was finally able to pique my interest

For the same reason consider other foods you find hard to put down. I’ve heard that things with both carbs and fat in them are the most “addictive” and I use that when I’m struggling to get enough to eat. It’s ok if this is a “junk” food - remember eating anything is better than eating nothing

Ginger tea or ginger chews make my stomach feel better

Keep track of your food. It can be really informal, like making sure you don’t skip meals, or it can be some other strategy of keeping a food journal or counting calories. You don’t need to be super precise, it just helps remind you to eat when your body isn’t sending the right signals

Look at “food porn.” Scrolling through a food blog you love on tumblr or watching a cooking show can be a good way to get your appetite going

Have a nutritional drink like an ensure can help you make sure you are getting all the nutrients you need without much thought. I find ensure is best very cold or on ice.

Look for foods or categories of foods that seem easier to tolerate than the others. This might be something you know is easy on your stomach, something of a certain texture, something hot/cold, or just a favorite food. 

If there is a food that you find less unappealing than the others, or feels “safe” to you go for it, even if you’ve eaten it many times in the last few days. I even find having eaten a food or meal in recent memory helps convince my body its not gonna be harmful

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Breakfast in bed on a friday. Skýr (an icelandic natural yoghurt full of protein) with almonds, freeze dried rasberries and honey.

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Dinner: baby spinach, cucumber, radishes, home made fish cakes and pickled red onions.

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Homemade ramson pesto - collected the ramsons in the local park, and gave them a blitz in my mini chopper with olive oil, parmesan, roasted almonds, salt and pepper.

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Snack bowl

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Black bean noodles with red onion, pack choi, lemon grass, lime juice and spicey green curry.

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Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion.

Simon Sinek (via ruedamour)

There's more to it. And it hurts like hell to realize that you can get stress from working with what you love.

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About setting goals for yourself

You know that feeling "Oh, if I'm gonna set a fixed goal, I will feel like a looser if I fail"? Let's look at that.

It's much more simple and complex at the same time. If you set yourself a goal - even if you have no idea of how to reach it, your brain will start working on it. You will consciously and unconsciously start making your decisions with your goal in mind: "Will this help me achieve my goal" Yes/No. This will make it so much easier to make up your mind.

About the feeling of failure.. I know this feeling. But even if you didn't reach your goal in time; please look at what you DID achieve. I'm sure you succeeded in other areas. Maybe you even surprised yourself in others.

If you're not your own most loyal supporter - who is?

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I had my first Remicade infusion today. I'm hoping it's the right treatment and it will help me back to my normal, healthy, active self :)

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Simple and easy: quinotto with mushrooms.

Boil quinoa, roast onion, garlic and mushrooms in oliveoil. When nice and brown, add quinoa and parmasan.

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Romanesco and leek soup in the making. Perfect way of kicking off the weekend!

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The mess after making a red cabbage salad was stunning.

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Life on the edge. Svanke, Bornholm, Denmark.

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My sister gave me a Spiralli for my birthday. So here we go: Quickly fried squash spiralli with pistachio pesto and beetroot qinoa. I had fried portobello with this.

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My Story

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when I was 15; it took them three years of horrible weight fluctuating and inflammation.  When the doctors finally got it under control, I decided to keep my weight up, because I had never felt as bad as when I was 15 kilos underweight, and loosing weight became a sign of my Crohn’s return. I moved away from my friends and family to start University and I started loosing weight. I live in the countryside and there is no pizzerias or grill bars around here. I started running and ended up running 20-25 km a week in the beautiful nature. On the edge about my weight loss I went to the hospital. My doctor made me do a food diary and he asked me how much I exercised. At that point I realized that I wasn’t ill – I was healthy.

It’s still hard to work around my sudden inability to digest some types of food – like red meat or raw carrots. For years I avoided eating with everyone else than my family, because I always felt I was in the way when they had to change the menu for me. But I’ve become a really great cook, and I enjoy cooking, so at some point I started offering to cook for people my way.

This is why I started this blog. I’m not updating it daily or even weekly. It comes and goes – but is still enjoy cooking with vegetables every day!

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Baked Ricotta with rosemary. Mix ricotta and two eggs with a handmixer for a couple of minuttes. Season with salt, freshly grinded pepper, nutmeg and rosemary (you can use fresh basil as well). Put it in a preheeted oven (200 degrees celsius) for 20 minuttes. It will rise!