What do you do after making bad decisions??
#235962 - 01/05/06 10:30 AM
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Alli
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I have recently made a few very bad decisions. I did not eat any trigger foods or anything. I just ate too much of a processed food item. Way too much. I don't think I have ever been more bloated then now. I think I was trying to move my bowels by getting D or something, but it didn't work, apparantly. I'm very uncomfortable, so what should I do?? I kept eating them for all day yesterday, and felt horrible.
-Do I go to the BTC diet?? Or start over?
-If so, would this be counted as an entirely new attempt to become stable? For instance, if I were to have a goal to stay on the diet for six months, and see if I'm stable, would I only be able to count over again now?
-Suggestions would be extremely helpful.
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Short answer: I hope for the best and stop eating triggers.
More details: I hope for the best, stick around the house if I think the repercussions will be truly awful, eat especially safe for a day or two (BTC plus other stuff that are Snorkie-safe like green beans). If I'm gassy, I drink fennel tea. If I am away from home, I will take a Levsin besides making sure I have some sort of soluble fiber available. It depends on the situation, really.
My purse is also the tummy trouble depot. I carry Fibercon, Pepto Bismal tablets, Levsin, Phayzyme, and Lactaid. The Lactaid is for the those ocassions when the call of pizza must be obeyed, but only if I'm stable.
Hope this helps some. 
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We all do it, Alli, we all give in to the temptation for that fabulous salad bar with fresh broccoli and rich Honey Dijon dressing, only to have The Bomb hit in the car on the way home! Oy.
My "medicine cabinet" in my purse is filled with the same things as Snorkie's. I stay in, take my Donnatal and Imodium and/or Gas-X, Equalactin, and heating pad on the tummy, curl up in my recliner with my knitting, and pray that I will have better sense not to do it again.
I hope one day my prayers will be answered....!
Meanwhile, I'd go easy on the IF, and maybe try a little oatmeal, mangoes, papaya, or banana, and lots of Tummy Mint tea.
As for your goal to "stay on the diet for 6 months", I think of it more as a way of eating permanently, with some variations. But I wouldn't focus on that right now; just concentrate on feeling better, and above all, not being too hard on yourself.
Bevvy
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...but I would count from today if you want to only give it 6 months.
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Yeah, we all do it sooner or later: eat something we shouldn't. When I do it, I don't go all the way back to BTC, but pretty close... go back to what's safest for you personally for a few days. I do BTC plus chicken breast, spinach, and carrots, because those are all very safe foods for me.
I would count this as a new attempt to become stable. However, I *really* think you should give the diet more than 6 months to work. First of all, as Bevrs pointed out, it's not a temporary fix - it's a permanent lifestyle change to manage your symptoms. Second, it really might take you more than 6 months to stabilize. It took me more like... um... 14 months, maybe 15.
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Oh okay. Well, it's disappointing to now know that I must start over. But I did NOT eat any trigger foods! I just ate way too much at once. I think I lost it there for a while. And it's no use telling me not to beat myself up about it, because I personally find that it is impossible.
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This is something that's popped up in some recent posts - give it 6 months, a year, 2 years. The longer time frames really surprise me because I can't imagine sticking with any eating plan for more than, say, 6 months if I wasn't seeing some benefit from it. So when you say it took you 14 or 15 months to get stable, did you feel better sooner than that? Not all the way, but just seeing some improvement? (I'm kind of assuming you must have in order to stick with it, but I wanted to be sure.)
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I'm doing it now - lots of soluble fiber with some safe protein, very little IF for several days, very low fat, lots and lots of water, herbal tea - plus Imodium and Donnatol if things are particularly bad.
I guess I never thought in terms of how long I would give myself to become stable - I thought in terms of seeing improvement, so as long as I was getting better, I was fine. I would only have given up on the diet if I hadn't seen any progress at all after some period of time.
HTH. Feel better soon.
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Hi Snorkie, She says she wasn't eating any triggers. There
are three important questions, that haven't been asked.1)
Alli, what exactly did you eat?, 2)Exactly how much did you
eat of it?, and 3) Why did you think it would make you D?
-Bob
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Hi Bob!
Okay, so I stop eating anything I *think* might be a trigger.
As it is, I think I may also have an attack brewing. BAH!
I am following my own advice.
This would be after about a month of bad decisions. Either that, or it's only the coleslaw I ate Monday night that doesn't usually bother me. At any rate, for the last 3 days, I've gotten gassier and gassier. Stinky, no pain, but also not any really good BMs since Monday or Tuesday morning. The thing is, I don't recall being this gassy for this long for a looong time. I wish my body would make up its mind and either make the gas go away or just get the attack over with. 
Meanwhile, I'll continue sipping my fennel tea and hoping for the best whilst I contemplate a Levsin before bed. 
Edited by Snorkie (01/05/06 06:50 PM)
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