No I can’t eat what I like. In fact I'm on a gluten free diet and there are a lot of things I can’t eat but my quality of life is 100% over what I once was. Before surgery (approx 15 years) I worked with severe UC but I couldn’t eat all day until I got home at night to be near a toilet. Now I am a relative normal person. And that makes me very happy. Surgery has helped me considerably. Life is not perfect but the symptoms I once had have all but disappeared.