What happened to anlikerm?
#255706 - 04/01/06 08:37 AM
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Gracie
Reged: 11/25/05
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She used to post on here a lot not very long ago, but haven't seen her around for some weeks now. Anyone know how she's doing with her IBS?
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Hey Gracie! Michelle and I email each other pretty regularly. She has decided that this diet has not helped her and, in fact, was making her worse with fear of foods and obsessing over things she was eating as she found herself cutting more and more things out of her diet and trying every supplement that someone suggested would help. And some of the posts were aggravating her anorexic tendencies/thoughts.
So, she is not doing the boards anymore and never will be back. She is not doing the diet anymore either. In fact, in her last email this morning, she told me she ate a double cheeseburger at McDonalds (without the bread), yogurt, salads and cottage cheese for dinner...etc. Pretty much whatever she wants excluding bread. She is sort of doing "the Maker's diet" and feels so much better. She is like a new person! No attacks and more energy too. It's really weird. I don't think I'd have the courage to eat how she eats...but it works for her.
I miss seeing her on the boards...but our emails will have to do because she will probably never be on the boards again. She is happy and feeling physically better and eating foods you wouldn't believe! I'm so happy for her!
She just misses everyone. I'll let her know you asked about her. She mentioned that she thought nobody would even miss her! She will really be touched that you were thinking of her.
She has found her own answers, and we have to be happy for her, even though it took her away from the boards. 
This is not to encourage anyone from abandoning this diet, which has helped many people.
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Oh,
#255711 - 04/01/06 08:52 AM
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Augie
Reged: 10/27/04
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she has also stopped almost all her supplements, I think. I think she might still take the Primal Defense and some citrucel, but I'm not sure. I just asked her in my email this morning, so I'll find out later.
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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Re: Oh,
#255714 - 04/01/06 09:29 AM
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Gracie
Reged: 11/25/05
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Thanks for replying. I hope she is feeling better. Not everyone is the same so one diet that works for one may not work for others.
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I wish ...
#255715 - 04/01/06 09:39 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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that people who find another way and decide to leave would post about that. I think Heather's diet is fabulous, but if it doesn't work for someone and they find an alternative that does, I think that would be useful information for other people who share their symptoms and aren't finding success with Heather's approach.
I'm not talking about the posters who seem to visit the Boards solely for the purpose of bad-mouthing Heather and stick around continuing to do so - that's tacky and tiresome - but if someone has honestly tried Heather's approach, hasn't succeeded, and has found something else that works better, it would be interesting to hear about it.
I truly believe IBS refers to a bundle of conditions that doctors don't understand and that will someday get their own names and diagnoses. If you think of those conditions as being, say conditions A, B, C, and so on to Z, it seems logical to me that while Heather's approach would work for most people in that bundle (say conditions D through W), there would be some people diagnosed with IBS who have conditions that are very different (say A through C and X through Z). For those people, Heather's approach may not work and it would be helpful for others like them to hear what does.
I also think - and I know this is pretty unlikely - that it would be interesting to hear from people who've found another way after a few months and then after a year. That seems to me to be the true test of any approach - does it work in the long run?
Anyhow, just some wishful thinking. I always think it's interesting to get the story straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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I am stable and have been for some time now...I don't post much about it anymore because I have posted about my stability repeatedly and it's old news. 
For thos of us blessed to have found stability...I think most of us would say that thinking about having...or having had IBS is really the last thing we want to do anymore as it has been a part of our lives for a long time and we are ready to be rid of it. There is a tendency to be obsessive and that is the LAST thing our stable tummies need.
IBS is such an individual disease, what works for one may not work for another (heather's diet did not work for me) so you move on. I have taken great pains to identify my triggers one of which is stress and do my best to work around them all collectively. I hardly come in this room anymore...I don't know that my answer helps you but perhaps it will offer a different perspective.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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I think maybe a different approach is not always accepted on here. For example I've come on here before and said that I have tried the Garden of Life products and they are good, only to have a others reply and bash Joran Rubin and his products. True the FDA warned him about printing on the bottles that the products are CURES for certain diseases, and if he is claiming it's a cure then he has to submit papers for a new drug. However what many people have failed to research is that many other reputable companies - one for example is Enzymatic Therapy, have received warnings similar to this. All that is required to remedy the situation is to change the wording to say "may help with...."
I'm not saying his products work for everyone because obviously everyone is different but when people start with the bashing and negative comments, it becomes very discouraging to others who are thinking of trying it.
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The boards are, as Heather states clearly on the boards intro page, "This forum offers a happy home for people following the Eating for Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet. ... This board offers a friendly, well-informed, and supportive environment specifically focused on the IBS diet." Advice that's blatantly contrary to any of the principles of Heather's diet... well, this kinda sorta isn't the place for it.
I have to admit that I don't follow the IBS diet in a lot of ways - well, ok, most ways - and I'm stable. However, because of the above, I don't discuss the differences in my diet (which, by the way, are mostly just eating a lot of Heather's "no-no"s, and not using supplements) - I respect the purpose of this board, which is to discuss Heather's diet specifically.
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I have to admit I'm kind of shocked to hear that you don't really follow Heather's diet, AtomicRose, but it has spurred me to ask something I've been meaning to ask for a while:
Am I the only person left on the Boards who DOES follow Heather's diet?
I'm not saying I'm perfect at it - I cheat with a little wine and a little Coke (the beverage, not the street drug) from time to time and I'm not always as careful with my fat percent as I should be - but for me those are slips, not a way of life. Basically, day in and day out, I follow Heather's Eating for IBS precepts:
Avoid trigger foods and irritants
Base all meals and snacks on SF
Take an SFS
Eat IF carefully
Am I the only one around here who's actually doing that?
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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Re: I am!
#255781 - 04/02/06 09:57 AM
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K2
Reged: 01/29/06
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Loc: Canada
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I follow this diet pretty strictly and take an SFS. Obviously we're all human and have our little cheats now and then. Mine tend to be chocolate-related, but I've cut down on that cuz I feel better without it.
I had pretty quick results from this diet, and if I stray at all I tend to not feel as well. So it's easy for me to see this diet works in my case.
I think that even if people aren't following this diet exactly, I'd still like to hear what foods they try. I'm trying to expand my diet little by little so I like hearing what other people eat.
Kat
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Kat
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