Important Question.
#229144 - 12/04/05 08:52 AM
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Alli
Reged: 04/23/05
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Alright, this is important to me, because this is a problem that gets to me EVERYTIME!!! I am very frusterated, but first, I should fill you in:
I have been on this diet now for 10 days. At around the 6th or 7th day I began to see improvement, and I even flattened out a couple of times which left me very happy. I am still attempting to stablize. However, I am always faced with the same problem.
After I eat a main meal (supper, etc) I always, always become bloated afterwards. This frusterates me very much. I follow the guidelines by eating slowly, and not drinking water while I eat. Sometimes I will blame it on eating too much, but even when I have just 2 baked potatoes I still walk away bloated. I am incorporating IF now and everything. I very much need some opinions or something.
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Hey, there!
Just a quick note.... 
If I ate 2 baked potatoes I would walk away not being able to breathe because I would be a giant blimp!!!! 
Try eating smaller more frequent meals. Just eat a half a baked potato to start with and see how you do. I eat potatoes every single day. Probably about 5 a day becuase they help my GERD. But, I cannot eat a whole potato in one sitting.  I eat them little by little throughout the day.
I can only handle one mini-bagel in one sitting at the moment. Or one bowl of cream of wheat. Or lets see I am eating 6 homemade potato wedges right now, but I must have made about 20. At first, I could only eat about 3 before I would blow up!!
Also, fennel tea helps with bloating and gas. But, if you eat too much for your system to handle in one sitting, you will walk away bloated no matter what you take or drink for it.
Good Luck and see how that goes!
Michelle 
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Portion control/downsizing really helps control gas/bloating with IBS. I personally know that I cannot stomach 2 potatoes in one feed. I might have 1 potatoe (i.e. 1/2-2/3c.) and then more potatoe, later. This makes a huge difference! You can always consume more later on.
You must elect what an appropriate serving/portion is for you.
Eating slowly really helps, too. So does using smaller plates. I think that eating small meals, many times a day helps control discomfort/attacks.
Kate, IBS-D.
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I was making this mistake over and over and constantly!! Because I would eat very small snacks throughout the day (sometimes I would allow myself to go hungry) and then I would make supper, which would include safe IF because I am farther now in the diet. Does this mean I have to start over again? Shall I continue as I was, and just decrease the amount I consume on one sitting, or should I start again?
Also, what do you all normally do for supper? I mean, do you make supper, eat half of it and then microwave it?? I don't understand how you can eat this way while still incorporating IF. There is no room for anything!!!!! I knew we had to eat small meals, but I never thought they were that small!! I am going to have to dwell on this for a while. Any more thoughts or input on this subject will be highly appreciated. THANK YOU very much for bringing this to my attention!!!! I will be checking this post often, because this has always been a problem for me.
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I might be able to do a whole baked potato -- but only if it was the main thing in my meal -- like it. lol I could never do two of them. I'd be bloated and miserable too. Portions will help.
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Yikes!
#229406 - 12/05/05 01:01 PM
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Bevvy
Reged: 11/04/03
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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TWO baked potatoes? Good grief, Girl, I can't even eat ONE! Neither can my hubby. We split one potato, add a can of Mexican-style corn, and "re-bake" it. That half potato with the corn is our entire meal, and that's dinner. A few hours later, we'll have an orange or (in hubby's case) an apple.
Breakfast for me is soy "egg" nog in my coffee (yeah, I know, it's a trigger -- but not for me anymore, so yaaay!). Then a few hours later, I'll fix my hubby's fave (waffles), and I'll have one. BTW, Rachel Ray recently made some awesome gingerbread waffles, which I'm dying to try.....
Lunch is a grilled soy cheese samich or tuna salad.
Now that's what I call a lot of food. Don't you? It certainly fills us up, but we're old folks whose metabolism has come to a screeching halt, so we eat a lot less than we used to.
Bloating, eh? Well, I do get bloated if I eat too much. In fact, eating too much is the biggest trigger for me, more than anything (except maybe dairy). If I have a plate of spaghetti, I'll ALWAYS get an attack afterwards; I just can't seem to find the right portion. Obviously my body wants a lot less food than I'm giving it.
Does any of this help?
Bev
P.S.: Good for you, drinking water while you eat. I wish I could do that. I hate the stuff.
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Yes, during the BTC diet I would normally have 2 baked potatoes and thats it. Throughout the day I would drink water, have one cup of tea, and some bread or something.
So, do you normally eat half of your supper and microwave the other half or something? Or do you somehow manage to fit your SF + IF requirements into one small portion?
I am trying very hard to figure this out because I have been doing this for such a long time!!! And wondering why my great results from the diet were only temporary. All I know now is that things are going to have to change!!
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Or does your food supply consist of only frequent snacking? I am willing to make the change. But it seems like a strange way to live because how would you even get enough of anything, including IF? If you were to bake a fruit or something, for example, would you even be able to eat it all within one sitting without becoming bloated?
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Yep!
#229453 - 12/05/05 03:07 PM
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Linz
Reged: 09/01/03
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Loc: England
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Moderation in ALL things is key.
For example, I can have a piece of fish, a small portion of potatoes and a portion of veggies just fine as long as I take it real slow. But if I tried to eat twice that many potatoes ON THEIR OWN, I'd get real full and probably bloated.
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