The Gastroparesis Therapeutic Eating regimen: A Guided Program for Selling Gastric Aid, Lowering Signs and Feeling Nice

I recommend this for anyone with GP, whether first diagnosed or 9 years in like myself!
The Gastroparesis Healing Diet did a great job not only discussing gastroparesis but also how the digestive tract functions as well. I really enjoyed the approach the author takes with using whole, nutrient-dense foods and looking at ways to decrease some of the stress loads we carry. The recipes are simple but sound delicious and look forward to trying some of them soon! She shares some that have been helpful for me over the years like miso soup, congee, homemade broth, winter squash and also has a good variety of choices for smoothies, soups, small bites, fish, meat, eggs and a few sweet treats. There are tips for getting back to the basics and a plan to begin introducing foods from there which I think a lot of people can benefit from. Personal experiences are shared from others who have gastroparesis and provide both insight and inspiration. I’m in the process of publishing a book with similar concepts and even uses the word healing in the title so it’s so good to see another resource available! I recommend this for anyone with GP, whether first diagnosed or 9 years in like myself.

VERY helpful!
This is a good resource book to be taken in bits as you see fit- it is chock full of details! There is a part where it is suggested that if you’re overwhelmed to skip some of the chapters until you’re better able to absorb it all, which is kind of funny if you think about it in relation to GP. Anyway, the author and the personal anecdotes included stress that each person suffering from GP is affected differently and what one person can eat is not necessarily what another person can eat without pain and I appreciated the honesty that nothing is one size fits all. It seems the diet of the book is primarily the “diet” of your lifestyle. Holistic health for healing is presented as the best remedy, which ranges from basic fitness advice (keep moving, even if it’s gently stretching), to removing your plastic food storage containers, store bought cleaners, and chemical-heavy face creams to avoid toxins being absorbed into your body. I actually subscribe to a lot of these beliefs anyway, so it wasn’t hard for me to agree. If you have any questions on the biology of your body and how nutrition will help or hinder (if you lack it), you’ll have the info neatly stored in with some recipes and lists of all natural ways to get more nutrients if you can’t eat much. All that said, I was excited to make some of these recipes, they’re very simple, not too many ingredients or crazy methods to making it. Delicious!

Tasty Recipes
Ordered for a friend.

Complicated recipes
I was looking for some easy recipe that were good for you and easy to prepare. Unfortunately, the recipes are for someone that has the energy to prepare the foods.

Having suffered this disorder for 7 or 8 years not knowing what it was, at last I unexpectedly got a diagnosis from a well informed restaurant waiter who recognised why I could not finish even a starter course without feelng stuffed as it was impossible for me to process any more food. This well informed waiter told me I was suffering from Gastroparesis and that I should have it investigated. Doctors do not readily recognise this disease so one has to be self advocating. A hospital scan fortunately showed all of my innards in good health, but I still wanted to find out precisely why my stomach was not processing food as quickly and normally as it should. Firstly I bought a book by a doctor of pharmacy, Chelsey M. McIntyre, GASTROPARESIS A ROADMAP FOR YOUR JOURNEY. I do need a bit of the science and she provided every detail of her own journey over the years with various doctors, drugs, and implant problems. This was a highly satisfying read and I’ve re-read it several times, but it is without recipes.I searched high and low for a suitable recipe book, refused two, and finally settled for TAMMY CHANG whose book is written with great insight, and compassion. She is a practising nutritionist, has interviewed many GPers and gives us all of their various experiences with this incurable disorder which are very informative as well as comforting. Tammy goes into general life enhancing procedures we can adopt too and does provide some recipes with an interesting twist though not many for veggies like myself, but I am creative and can adapt. I highly recommend Tammy Chang’s healing diet. Reading this book leaves me with a warm feeling and inspires me to experiment with new foods that encourage me to eat at all! With this disease one often feels like not wanting to bother eating, and this leads to malnutrition, anaemia, as well as energy levels on the floor..

Some good recipes ,but not all ingredients are available in the UK