BTC Diet Question-Desperate!
#298500 - 01/30/07 06:08 PM
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annaj
Reged: 01/27/07
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I have been on the BTC Diet for 3 days now and while some symptoms have started to subside, I am now just stopped up and bloated. Can anyone tell me about how many days this is supposed to take and if there is a point where I need to give up and try something else?
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This maybe a stupid question but what is the BTC Diet? shannonm
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Break the Cycle is to help get things settled down. You should only be on it for a couple days at most. You definitely need to slowly and carefully incorporate IF back in to get things moving.
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After a few days, you should be feeling much better, and your gut will have stabilized. Start carefully expanding your diet - the recipes for zucchini, banana, pumpkin breads work well here, and so does the jok rice porridge soup. Begin to incorporate insoluble fiber foods - carefully! - by blending fresh fruit with soy or rice milk into smoothies, and blending cooked veggies into soups or pasta sauces. Have the smoothie with rice cereal or oatmeal, and the soup with rice or polenta. Try a bit of grilled fish or skinless chicken breast with your pasta/rice. Safe treats are the recipes for vanilla or chocolate puddings, peppermint fudge cake, banana cream pie. Keep your fat content very low and be extra careful with insoluble fiber. As you stay stable, you can expand to all the other IBS recipes, and just follow the general guidelines (still low fat, no triggers, careful with insoluble fiber) but you'll be back to a healthy diet overall and not just plain soluble fiber. You should always continue to make soluble fiber the basis of your diet, though, and have those foods as the foundation of your meals and snacks.
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