Breakfast ideas for Constipation IBS
#211309 - 09/06/05 12:57 PM
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Augie
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Hi all. I was wondering what other C folks eat for breakfast.
Do you guys eat lots of IF with breakfast or still stick to more SF based breakfast since it is the first meal of the day?
I usually eat cream of brown rice cereal with cooked blueberies and 1 Tablespoon of flax. Or Mighty Tasty GF cereal (whole grain brown rice, corn, sorghum, buckwheat) with cooked blueberries and 1 T of flax. I've been trying to take a small dose of SFS beforehand (don't know if this is going to last as my body doesn't like them too much).
I was wondering if other C folks do more IF than I, or less and play it more conservatively by eating more SF breakfasts. I know SF before IF is always safe...but really need some good ideas on how to start my day off safely but also with a good BM inducing breakfast.
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I take psyllium when i wake up. I then cook and eat oatmeal with just oats and water. I don't think i am msg-sensitive so I also take a carbohydrate supplement and soy protein isolate.
I usually have a good bowel mowement after this breakfast, I do think it's mostly the psyllium starting it though. I actually mostly eat IF, if I eat too much white bread/rice ect. I get that feeling that everything below my chest has been pumped full of food and then stopped dead.
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...with your oatmeal? I think I may be over doing the IF maybe in the mornings. How much psyllium do you take in the morning and later?
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For breakfast I keep it simple with protein shakes w/ fruit, powder, citrucel powder, and rice milk.
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Your breakfast sounds good. I would add some dried fruit and maybe do Scottish oatmeal sometimes with flax in it. I don't think too much IF would be a worry. also add a half grapefruit or an orange. I think that would work things. Have some hot tea; hot liquids tell the gut to go!
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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No i don't. But the rest of the day I mostly eat rye bread with chicken, turkey or salmon. I do eat some white bread thats high on fiber (think both SF and IF) as well.
I take 1,5 grams of psyllium in the morning. I take the same dosage 3-4 more times through out the day.
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Can you give me some ideas on your breakfasts? I'm needing some help on ideas of what other C folks eat for breakfast and if they take any SFS beforehand.
Thanks to anyone that responds. 
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I eat Frosted Mini Wheats for breakfast on alot of mornings, with a cup of hot tea. I also snack on Triscuits in the evenings sometimes, that seems to help me the next day. Other mornings I'll have a couple slices of whole wheat toast, with either jelly or peanut butter. These are things that I know alot of people here could not handle, but I seem to need that extra fiber, the whole grains. Sometimes I'll have a banana with my breakfast, but most days I don't eat fruit until later in the day. I've never been a big breakfast person anyways. The hot tea is a must for me in the mornings though!
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would you add the dried fruit in addition to the blueberries? What are some good dried fruits to try?
I was worried the hot brown rice cereal and the other were perhaps not the safest choices for the first meal of the day...but at the same time, I need fiber!
Thanks LM...by the way, what is Scottish Oatmeal? Is it the steel cut?
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I'm sorry Beth... I thought I had already told you what I was eating. 
For breakfast before I was pregnant, I was eating oatmeal every morning with a peach or dried cranberries cooked with it. However, I was also taking Mirilax... mixed into half cranberry juice/half water and then drinking another 16oz of water before I ate (the amount of liquid is what made the Mirilax work for me). Since getting pregnant, it's varied a little. I started out eating Grape Nuts with berries, and then I switched to Cinnamon Life and a cut up peach in rice milk. Lately, I've been eating a banana first thing, and I follow it with a big bowl of Multi Grain Cheerios and a peach cut up in some rice milk. Every morning, I also try to drink 16oz of juice... usually white grape juice from Juicy Juice.
I don't use a SFS at all, so I can't help you with that. And more than likely, I will be back on the mirilax once I have the baby.
HTH!
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I begin each meal with 2 1/2 teaspoons of Acacia, a calcium/magnesium supplement and a Super Omega 3-6-9 capsule. Breakfast is either a plain bagel with deli ham and cheese and a side of cherry tomatoes and coffee (yes, I can tolerate it!) or a breakfast sandwich - wheat toast with grape jelly, ham and cheese or biscuits with honey or jam (I bake my own biscuits and have plain, cheese or a buttered crust variety) or occasionally, I eat an egg sandwich.
Keep in mind, I'm fairly stable right now, and try to compose each meal with bread, meat and some IF. I drink sweet, decaf tea at all meals except breakfast and coffee is something I only drink with breakfast. I don't do a lot of cereal hot or cold, and I don't drink a lot a fruit juices...they just don't do me any favors tummy wise. The above mentioned...I alternate tomatoes with strawberries sometimes or an occasional piece of melon. Otherwise, I'm pretty predictable in the breakfast department because it is usually consumed as I'm driving to the office.
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Hi Beth, I eat a bowl of Irish oatmeal with a 1/4 cup of
Trader Joe's dried wid blueberries in it. I let them soak
overnight in the rice milk so they plump up, and then pop
when I nuke them and the oatmeal in the microwave. About
an hour after eating the oatmeal, I eat a one cup bowl of
Kelloggs Raisin Bran again with rice milk in it right now.
I was using soy milk. However, of course as you know, I'm
not stable  , but I'm making through my second week of
classes so far. -Bob
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Cherrios and fruit.
When it starts to get cold out, I will eat oatmeal with fruit.
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Breakfast burritos - egg beaters/fake american cheese
Toast
Peanut butter on white bread
I am not a huge breakfast eater...it makes me sick to eat early in the morning so I generally have brunch and it typically isn't breakfast food.
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would you add the dried fruit in addition to the blueberries? What are some good dried fruits to try?
Blueberries are good but if you want to bump up IF use dried fruit. There are many choices: raisins x2, craisins, cherries (pricey!), blueberries, dates, papaya. Stir into your hot cereal.
I was worried the hot brown rice cereal and the other were perhaps not the safest choices for the first meal of the day...but at the same time, I need fiber! I would go with something that contains plenty of SF and IF. That is why I recommended oatmeal. It actually has a lot of IF.
Thanks LM...by the way, what is Scottish Oatmeal? Is it the steel cut? Bob's Red Mill has Scottish oatmeal; I prefer it to steel cut.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Thanks LM
#211650 - 09/07/05 07:47 PM
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Augie
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I don't think I do very well with oatmeal  ...that's why I was trying to get additional ideas. Oatmeal would be the perfect balance of SF and IF. Maybe I'll have to give it a go again. I could have been blaming the oatmeal by mistake...as I have yet to identify one particular food as a problem.
I don't know how the SF to IF ratio goes for either of my cereals. But Oatmeal, I know is 2 and 2!
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oatmeal
#211671 - 09/08/05 04:38 AM
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Well that is too bad if you don't tolerate it. I know it makes some people tooty but not in a bad way. I was going to have oatmeal instead of my usual malt o meal when camping and assumed I would be tooting on the trails. 
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I eat oatmeal, but in the past if I eat oats for a few days in a row I get an attack. So for me it's fine to eat oatmeal or cheerios a couple days a week. For oatmeal I like to put either a serving of unsweetened applesauce w/ stevia, or a tablespoon of natural peanutbutter w/ stevia. When I have cheerios I like to cut up a banana in it.
The rest of the time I either have low fiber cereal plain or in soy milk, or a small bagel w/ cream cheese(yeah I know, dairy is bad but I'm only having a thin layer). I might have some fruit and/or egg protein powder too.
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Re: oatmeal
#211730 - 09/08/05 08:40 AM
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Hi Beth!! My tummy has been mostly stable for me despite the hormones I'm on! I do oatmeal with a bit of rice milk. I'll toss in strawberries if I have them! I've even seen some oatmeal with flax already in it but never tried it myself!
I can also do raisin bran with rice milk or frozen waffles with jam. Sometimes I'll do a bagel with jam. However, with the miralax, I typically don't get C much anymore, only occasionally. I know you are still struggling with C so I would eat as much IF as you can tolerate! Try adding a piece of fruit, like an orange with you breakfast! For some reason, oranges always make me go! Or maybe buy some frozen waffles, I've seen gluten free/dairy free ones before and top them with fruit! By a bag of mixed frozen fruit and just toss a handful into a strainer and run some warm water over it to thaw it out!!
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Re: Please, calling all stable C folks! (Bamagrl, Astrochick, Michele, Angela, Rachel,(both of you), Kimm, etc, etc..
#211795 - 09/08/05 01:00 PM
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AstroChick
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Howdy, Beth!
I eat my breakfast at work, a couple of hours after I get up and have my acacia. I alternate between soy yogurt (Silk) + 1/4 cup of blueberries + a slice or two of whole wheat bread and a PB&J sandwich on whole wheat or white plus some fruit (banana, apple, the blueberries again,...). Yes, this is raw fruit, although I tend towards the banana side of things if there's any D threatening.
If I go out on weekends, I get Eggbeaters & toast & fruit & tea. Maybe an Eggbeater omelet if any of the ones without cheese appeal.
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Michele
#211832 - 09/08/05 02:36 PM
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Augie
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Are you suggesting to add the orange or more fruit in addition to the berries I already eat?
When you eat Raisin Bran, do you eat some SF with it beforehand? Is your bagel whole wheat or white?
I was was concerned my breakfast might be a little too high in IF already. It's hard to find a balance between enough SF to not cause spasms and enough IF to be able to "go".
I'm glad your tummy is behaving for you! You don't need to be dealing with that right now.
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And is there a good way to toot? What does toot mean anyhow? Farting?  Or should I say, expelling gas!
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I usually eat 1/2 cup (uncooked) oat bran made with lite/fat free soymilk and add either unsweetened applesauce or blueberry puree after it's done cooking.
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AC...
#211836 - 09/08/05 02:45 PM
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Augie
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you can do berries and whole wheat bread without an SF, like white bread beforehand?
Do you make your PBJ out of 1/2 white, 1/2 wheat...or just eat whatever kind your in the mood for? Along with your raw fruits. If I remember correctly, you can eat unpeeled apples right? So you can have 2 pieces of whole wheat bread and an unpeeled apple at the same time first thing in the morning?
I know all of our tolerances are different...but it's nice to see how far some stable C people can push the IF!
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Hi! I usually have cheerios with soy milk, maybe some fruit or a piece of toast if I'm still hungry a little later. I instantly get bloated at breakfast but it goes away quickly. I think it helps if I don't eat right when I first get up.
I've been trying to get more IF into my diet at lunch and supper, and it's made a huge difference. I quit zelnorm without reducing the dose, didn't notice any difference, and got really lazy this week and quit taking my acacia. But I've still had a great tummy week! Next to no problems at all. It's such a nice feeling. It probably won't last for long though, I have to go out of town this weekend. When I get back I'll keep eating my veggies and beans, hopefully I can stabilize quickly and keep losing weight!
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Re: AC...
#211975 - 09/09/05 08:28 AM
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you can do berries and whole wheat bread without an SF, like white bread beforehand?
Well, I do have acacia (a heaping tablespoon) first thing in the morning, so I do have some soluble fiber in my system. My whole wheat bread is not a grainy one - finely milled whole grains just aren't a trigger for me, I guess. Plus I find that the soy yogurt is very safe and soothing for me, as is the peppermint tea I drink along with my breakfasts.
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Do you make your PBJ out of 1/2 white, 1/2 wheat...or just eat whatever kind your in the mood for?
Pretty much whatever I am in the mood for. I won't have whole wheat at two meals in a row, though - if I have ww for breakfast, any bread at lunch will be rye or sourdough.
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Along with your raw fruits. If I remember correctly, you can eat unpeeled apples right? So you can have 2 pieces of whole wheat bread and an unpeeled apple at the same time first thing in the morning?
Yep, but that's when I'm not even close to D and might need an extra kick of IF for my C. More often, I'll keep the apple for lunch and have something softer with breakfast. But if I feel stopped up and I have some good fresh apples around, I eat raw unpeeled ones a lot!
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..is that the natural ovens whole grain bread?
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Re: Michele
#211992 - 09/09/05 09:43 AM
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If you are still C, than yes, I would add an orange or more fruit in addition to the berries you are already eating. If things are moving through ok, then your probably fine where you are!!
Typically if I eat cereal for breakfast, like raisin bran, I won't eat anything else with it. I'll have it with vanilla ricedeam "milk." I do take my miralax and my acacia before I eat so not sure if you'd consider the acacia a SF base or not but it seems to work good for me!
I eat ALL kinda of bagels!! Usually everything bagels or pumpernickle, sometimes plain sometimes wheat, just depends on what I've got a hankering for!!
It is tough to find the balance. Stick with it, you'll find something that works for you!! Hugs!
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Re: AC...
#212000 - 09/09/05 09:50 AM
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Do you make your PBJ out of 1/2 white, 1/2 wheat...
I can eat PBJ on all white bread, but most of the time I toast it.
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Re: AC...
#212002 - 09/09/05 09:53 AM
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I wish I could have fruit and whole wheat breat. I can have rasin, unpeeled apples, grapes, but that is about it. All the others I have maybe one bit of that is it, or I have bad d.
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Hi Augie,
I am boring, I have oatmeal everyday during the week. On the weekends, I have a bagel w/ butter (I am able to eat only butter w/out a problem). Sometimes, if I am really hungry, which I am usually not in the morning, I will have two egg whites with grilled Oven Gold Turkey (the only turkey on earth that I can handel) on a bagel.
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Edited by Sweetd (09/09/05 10:02 AM)
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one more question...If I ate an orange or a grapefruit, should I cut it open and only eat the inside (peel off the rind)? Or do you eat it in sections with the white rind still on it?
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Should these be cut open and only eat the inside pulp...or can I peel off the rind, split into pieces, and eat the white covering that holds it in the individual sections?
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Beth, With respect to grapefruits, they would be a real pain
to peel. I just cut them into a half dozen slices and just
eat the pulp. -Bob
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All I do is peel and eat the orange, in sections. I don't like grapefruit so don't eat them at all!!
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..is that the natural ovens whole grain bread?
Yep, their 100% Whole Grain Bread. I don't find it that much more challenging than the Roman Meal bread that I grew up eating. And it makes really yummy toast!
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Hi Beth!
Here are some ideas that work for me in the morning-
I can tolerate oatmeal- I use old fashioned kind, add 1Tbs. ground flaxseed, cinnamon, vanilla and a bit of stevia. cook and add a sliced banana or blueberries. sometimes I'll add a chopped peeled apple to the oatmeal before I cook it as well.
try oatbran instead of oatmeal too.
try a good fresh(from a bakery- not store) sourdough bread, toasted with jam or applesauce on it. or make an egg sandwhich with cooked egg whites/spices.
I also really like Natures Path 'Millet Rice Oatbran flakes' (its wheat free), and I easily tolerate that. I throw in a Tbs. ground flax seed, sliced banana or blueberries and pour over soymilk.
try making a smoothie- soymilk(or ricemilk, whichever you tolerate), ground flaxseed, canned pumpkin, cinnamon, vanilla, ice cubes and stevia(i use that as a sweetner).
a flour tortilla w. scrambled egg whites and veges(that you can tolerate) and spices.
hope you find something
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You can peel and eat oranges and cut grapefruits or buy mandarin orange cans. If you eat it with breakfast you will be fine.
On my trip in April one B&B gave me a half grapefruit each morning before breakfast and I ate it and then had toast and I was fine. Boy did she make lousy egg whites there!!!
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I used to eat oatmeal in the mornings from time to time, but lately it's been bothering me more. I think part of it is the time I have to get up for work... everything is harder for me to tolerate early in the morning and late at night.
Now I usually eat either toast, a bagel, or a homemade muffin or piece of quick bread. I do try to work insolubles into my muffins and breads as much as possible. I often bake them with half white and half whole wheat flour. The white gives it enough SF that it never seems to bother me. I also love Shanna's banana bread, which gives me some oats!
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I used to eat oatmeal in the mornings from time to time, but lately it's been bothering me more. I think part of it is the time I have to get up for work... everything is harder for me to tolerate early in the morning and late at night.
Now I usually eat either toast, a bagel, or a homemade muffin or piece of quick bread. I do try to work insolubles into my muffins and breads as much as possible. I often bake them with half white and half whole wheat flour. The white gives it enough SF that it never seems to bother me. I also love Shanna's banana bread, which gives me some oats!
Would you mind posting or posting the link to Shanna's banana bread recipe? sounds yummy!  thanks
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Sure! You can find it here!
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...section it and eat it with the white skin still holding the fuicy inside pulp in tact? It sounds like you just ate the insides of the grapefruit...But that would be hard to eat that way at work.
Sorry about your egg whites..but I've seen your meals on the fitness board as well as your recipes and you, my dear, are a champion cook! You set the standards high! I always think you eat the best meals! Which you were my chef!
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little minnie---
you dont have a problem with the citris fruit?? i used to eat grapefruits with breakfast and while i never noticed a problem, i cut them out and have been too afraid to try them again but i would like to add them again since i saw some nice organic ones at whole foods!
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#212342 - 09/11/05 08:19 AM
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I asked hub what breakfast most makes him poop, since he is always so in tune with his body and knows what leads to everything that happens to him! It is so annoying. Anyway he says honey nut cheerios makes him go and I asked what he meant and he said it makes -well just what you want. I just thought I would mention it. I think DH is a little weird about food and its effects on his body but maybe he is on to something! 
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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#212343 - 09/11/05 08:20 AM
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I am fine with it. I don't have trouble with acid or spice or things like that and I think citrus is a good IF.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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It's so funny that you can talk to him about Bowel Movements!
I would never have thought of HNC since it only contains 2 grams fiber...but hey, maybe he is on to something.
Does he have IBS or a problem with Constipation, LM? I guess everyone gets it now and again.
thanks for passing along this info!
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Can anyone answer the question to the above post? I'd be most gracious!
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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I asked hub what breakfast most makes him poop, since he is always so in tune with his body and knows what leads to everything that happens to him! It is so annoying. Anyway he says honey nut cheerios makes him go and I asked what he meant and he said it makes -well just what you want. I just thought I would mention it. I think DH is a little weird about food and its effects on his body but maybe he is on to something!
This is so strange that you should mention that, and that your husband feels the honey nut cheerios makes him go as well- my fiance has the same problem. he doesnt have IBS or suffer from constipation but he will not eat HNC since they make him "go" shortly after.... strange...
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Re: Beth
#212364 - 09/11/05 09:49 AM
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RachelT
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My husband won't eat any of the Cheerios cereals for this reason... and nope... no IBS for him either.
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If life hands you lemons, make lemonade!!
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It is weird I know. I was asking him what he thinks would make a severe C person go. He always has these opinions on everything he eats- I am envious. For instance, he knows wraps (like turkey and veggies in tortilla) give him big poop, apple and pears make him gassy and burpy and cherries make him C. He also says fajitas make him very full. He has all sorts of verdicts like this and I wish I knew everything that affected me like that! He doesn't get D or urgency from HNC, just has an urge to go more so than normal the next day or later on. Maybe he should be an IBS expert! 
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Thanks! I wish.
I think I answered this above. Cut grapefruits in half and eat each section. Oranges can be cut in half and smashed into your mouth or peeled and eaten in sections. You can also eat canned mandarin oranges.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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as honey can be a laxative? How much of the stuff does he eat...could also make a diff! I find as women we can eat less (comfortably!) in a sitting. So he is likely getting more honey AND fiber and everything when he eats this...making him GO
Just a thought!
When I was on the IBS diet (hoping to go back...will be in the Fitness Room after I post this!) I ate oatmeal for bf that already had apple chunks in it (Quaker apple and cinammon). I was adding gobs of brown sugar to it.
I might give oatmeal a shot again and add honey since it is a laxative! Just a bit. I will have to buy it plain. Add a bit of honey and maybe some unsweetened applesauce with a bit of cinammon and maybe some more fruit...pureed (can't remember who said they use pureed fruit?) fruit as well. It sounds nutritious! If you can't do oatmeal Beth, maybe adding a bit of dried fruit to whatever cereal you eat for a week and honey another week and see which one feels best on your gut?
I advocate raw honey as it has prebiotiv properties, a laxative effect...so it is actually nutritious AND good for the gut...and I like the taste :-) Also, adding like a tsp. to tea might help move you along too.
What a wonderful post, I learned so much THANKS Beth and everyone *hugs*
Ruch
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If so, what made you decide to add it back? I thought you felt better without gluten?
I'm currently trying a diet including some eats and spelt and a little wheat. 
Honey is total Fructose. So, wouldn't this be very difficult for us to digest? I know fructose intolerance is very common amongst IBS population and even in people who don't have IBS. It causes bloat and gas, doesn't it? I've been too afraid to add honey to anything because of this.
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I sometimes put a drop in my tea or on a sandwich and it seems to be ok.
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You eat beans???? What kind of beans??? How do you cook them??? I am 54 Native American woman with IBS-C & sometimes D. In my culture my ancestors ate very little flour and I have been told that we are missing a specific gene that can cause us problems.
I have been trying to find out most importantly about diet, but am also trying to find out about what specific gene that people of Native American descent are missing and to see if that may be why many Native Americans seem to have problems with food in AnyCity, USA.
Also, many Native American cultures and other indigenous people the diet that were consumed by the people of hundreds of years ago were not the same as is available today. Many of the digestive teas that I use contain the ingredients that are recommended by Heather, but for me they are easier to find and purchase. But they are made by Traditional Medicinals, which are Native peoples making the teas according to their ancient traditions.
Maybe I was born too late and should have been here 200 years ago, I am learning as I think we all are, even those who are stablilized and doing ok. I just wish that I knew more about the genetics issue for IBS.
Peace and sunshine,
Lummibeader
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Lummibeader
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