Diet advice needed. I have to stay away from protein.

[BAMAVOO]

I was diagnosed with kidney disease and was told to lay off the protein. I need to lose some weight and wanted some ideas on what you guys ate, that isn't protein, but it filling.

I was asked to eat a mostly whole food diet with minimal meat products being eaten, including chicken and fish. (Limit to 2 or 3 times a week at most)

My last two meals since I was told..

Dinner
Salad with no dressing (Lettuce, spinach, cucumber, tomatoes, and red bell pepper.
Baked potato with fat fre ranch, less than a tablespoon
Half an apple.
Water

Breakfast
Peach yogurt - cup
Instant Oatmeal
Coffee - cup
Water

 

[ArchAngel777]

If you were diagnosed with kidney disease, then you came to the wrong place for your question. Your physician should answer this. No one here can, should or would give you this information because we are not qualified. If you are not healthy (which you are not, hence your kidney disease) then you need to talk to physician regarding these questions.

 

[vi edit]

What stage of disease are you?

Some helpful info...

https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/11-50-0114_docsnutrikidfail_stage1-4.pdf

I'm assuming you are working with a nephrologist and they did the diagnosis? You need to work with them and a nutritionist on just how much protein you should be getting daily. It's based upon your body build and the amount of function you still have left in your kidneys.

 

[Kaido]

I was diagnosed with kidney disease and was told to lay off the protein. I need to lose some weight and wanted some ideas on what you guys ate, that isn't protein, but it filling.

I was asked to eat a mostly whole food diet with minimal meat products being eaten, including chicken and fish. (Limit to 2 or 3 times a week at most)

My last two meals since I was told..

Dinner
Salad with no dressing (Lettuce, spinach, cucumber, tomatoes, and red bell pepper.
Baked potato with fat fre ranch, less than a tablespoon
Half an apple.
Water

Breakfast
Peach yogurt - cup
Instant Oatmeal
Coffee - cup
Water

Mine wasn't so bad they told me to lay off protein, but I'd suggest checking out both the Paleo diet & the "Whole 30" program. Your body processes real food better than processed foods. Sometimes they actually tell you to eat more sugar & fats in order to fill up. A few questions:

1. Are they having you lay off sodium, phosphorus, or potassium at all?

2. Did they give you a target amount of protein, like a certain number of grams per day or grams per pound of bodyweight?

3. Do you like to cook?

4. What's your exercise like?

There's a lot of (surprisingly) awesome vegan & vegetarian food out there too, like really really flavorful food, that isn't crazy high in protein - downside is you have to cook pretty much everything yourself. Pasta & tortillas are usually recommended (like the white flour kind, surprisingly). Also, rather than totally killing off protein & meat, it's more of a balance. So like if you make a breakfast burrito, add some eggs, but also add some stuff like cubed potatoes, cheese, bell peppers, mushrooms, etc. to help fill it up. Or if you have a burger, have a beef patty, but add onions, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. so you have a better ratio.

 

[Kaido]

If you were diagnosed with kidney disease, then you came to the wrong place for your question. Your physician should answer this. No one here can, should or would give you this information because we are not qualified. If you are not healthy (which you are not, hence your kidney disease) then you need to talk to physician regarding these questions.

Meh. Mine gave me extremely generic advice regarding food.

OP, did they say what stage you're at? It can be reversible, just like heart disease. A lot of times it's from something like high blood pressure that is causing it, which can be managed either with drugs or with a lifestyle change (i.e. eat better & exercise on a regular basis), and then lets your kidneys heal up (if the damage isn't too bad).

 

[edro]

Damn, what causes kidney disease?

 

[vi edit]

Damn, what causes kidney disease?

Diabetes and High blood pressure usually. Your kidneys are sort of the pressure regulator in your body. They are very sensitive to blood pressure changes as well as urine flow. If stuff isn't moving into and out of them quick enough it stresses the filtering tissues in them and over time will damage them. As those tissues deteriorate your bodies ability to filter the blood goes down.

High blood pressure is caused by narrowed and hardened vessels. They loose their elasticity and not as much can flow through them at a time and things start backing up.

Diabetes causes high blood sugar and that's more that needs to be filtered by the kidneys. So you are basically putting a higher amount of traffic into a checkpoint that has a lower basline ability accept that amount of traffic and things just end pushing their way through damaging your kidneys as it does.

 

[GasX]

1. Are they having you lay off sodium, phosphorus, or potassium at all?

2. Did they give you a target amount of protein, like a certain number of grams per day or grams per pound of bodyweight?

These are great questions. "Laying off the protein" is lame advice if your have mild CKD. Protein limiting is only really important in advanced disease. Phosphorus is the big evil in the early stages.

Go find a nephrologist pronto. You need to stay out ahead of this because dialysis is misery.

 

[manuel_ritz]

It's really hard to adjust on food and that's for sure. Anyway, you really have to change your diet and cut those protein in your diet if you want to be on the safe side.