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Hi,
I'm going to do my best to participate on this board more often. Seems like every time I start to do so I have another bad period of lots of bloating, pain and severe constipation. Then I feel so awful and get so bummed out that I have no enthusiasm for cooking or baking, both of which I like to do. So, I'm hoping that getting more involved here will help me during my "down" episodes.

Also, I'm getting so tired of eating the same foods day after day, I've lost 12 Ibs since last July and I was already thin [5'9 and 122]. All my friends are concerned but they say that they just can't deal with preparing food per this diet when I visit; they all say it's much too complicated. Even worse, if we go out a number of them have said that they think I've become neurotic about how I eat. Of course, these reactions are adding to my feeling very discouraged and it's not helping my social life at all. I basically don't do anything unless I can bring my own food! Is this how others' friends react???

Did anyone ever make these lemon squares? I used to love them but haven't dared bake my old recipe since learning about H's way of eating.

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Many years of C-IBS and pain too for past 2 years-

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