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Okay, so the renal diet is part of a living for chronic kidney disease people, with different things to eat and drink from those not having a chronic illness or condition. As a stage 3 person with GFR currently of 43, I've given up a list of foods and drinks, was first difficult in the first few days after I was informed of me on stage 3 CKD on April 18. I'm learning that the dietary good and bad is different for all CKD people, depending on the stage of the CKD the person has and their necessity to maintain themselves healthy. However, there also seem to be foods/drinks that are good for all CKD people, and others that are bad for all CKD people. Before I knew I had CKD I ate and drank a variety of stuff, a little bit of everything. Okay, so I love the menus of kidney-friendly recipes. Personally I've never been a fan of energy drinks like Red Bull or Monster, which are especially bad if one has CKD. I now snack mainly fruits and vegetables and for meat I mostly have chicken and fish. I have a lot of bread for breakfast, sometimes cereal, waffles, or pancakes. I have white bread now, which in me is better than wheat. I don't have stuff like dressing, ketchup, mustard, or ranch in my food for lunch or dinner - I rarely had them before this April too. It's was especially tough for me to accept this new diet in the first few days after me knowing I have chronic kidney disease, now it is a struggle if: at parties, having lots of food and finding out there's lots there that is bad for me, going to an outside food event with possible less options for me, and seeing what to have me prepared for my breakfast/lunch/dinner if I've had that same food for the last few days with other food options not suitable for me. Other than that I generally have been enjoying the foods and drinks of the renal diet, whether new to me or I also had them before April 18. Doctors have told me that it's okay for me to skip the diet once in a while. Well, some foods I do occasionally have out of the renal diet in regular amounts as for a dish of the main meals of the day, others I have only a little bit occasionally to try them, and others I absolutely don't have anymore or even less reasonably have them than before due to them being bad for me. So, I am curious about something: does the renal diet change with the change in kidney function? in the stage of CKD you're in, do you have different foods and drinks told whether on stage 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, and unique for each stage (meaning diet only for stage 1, diet only for stage 2, diet only for stage 3, diet only for stage 4, diet only for stage 5)? Is it also different for dialysis and transplant people, and for transplant people, shortly after the transplant and long after the transplant? I'm on stage 3 not on dialysis, not on a transplant list. Staying on one stage not changing, regardless of GFR changes, can have the person on CKD alter their diet, or does it work differently for different people? And once a person has been told the diet, he or she can more reasonably get foods from the kidney-friendly recipes. Do different people on CKD also eat and drink different stuff, and at the stages of 4 and 5, or maybe only 5, have it more restricted than at the stages of 1 to 3 or 1 to 4? I do my best to not be unhealthy on my diet to not become overweight (I've lost weight a lot alone in the last three months from this kidney diet) - was overweight April 18 now healthy weight. I eat well and this is a confirmation by analyses on the labs on clinics in my area that I don't have anemia. Also I don't have diabetes so I don't have to struggle more with both a diabetic and renal diet. I really want to know if change in diet occurs too with a change of kidney function, going down or up as time goes by. I posted some questions, more than one definitely but I just hope to get at least as many as I can. Thanks! 
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