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Sorry if I confused you, I think it's because my posts have not been regular lately so one week I would declare to stay away from wheat and then not post a week later when I tried to add wheat back in.

So, I really have no idea what got me to this stage, I wish I could be more specific. But I'm also sure that things might be completely different in two weeks. I've gone through this before, feeling better, even almost feeling great, just to get worse again, out of the blue.

In the post that you bumped for me I wrote about how I just got sick of all the supplements so I won't repeat myself here. The only thing I take is Citrucel.
I do eat wheat and gluten, I finally figured that gluten was never my problem. Plus, as I said before, my C seems to get better when I eat wheat and glutenous foods.

Here's my sample diet, I'm not saying that this is the perfect IBS-C diet, it's more like a diet that didn't make me feel worse.

breakfast - corn flakes with oat bran and flaxseed, rice milk, or rye bread with either vegetable "butter" and chicken "ham" or veg. butter and jelly
lunch - white wheat tortilla with refried beans, cooked chicken, and cooked veggies, or today I made a stir-fry - chicken, carrots, zucchini, cooked potatoes, spices (pepper, oregano, salt, parsley)
dinner - either something like lunch, or rye bread and corn wafers (they look like wasa but made out of corn) with "butter" and ham - I try not to eat just bread so I substitute the corn wafers, or the other day I roasted chicken with some potatoes. Lately I've been liking red peppers (I can tolerate those raw with other food)
snack - fruit (mostly bananas, apples, lately I've had a few peaches and fresh plums), vanilla wafers, low-fat crackers (I look for those that are naturally low in fat and don't have a lot of additives). Yesterday I had some hard candies (pretty much sugar based).

Lately I've been trying to think how I used to eat when I was pre-teenage, before I had problems (I was always a C but back then I didn't have IBS). I remember mostly eating regular food, homemade, not junk food, not gluten free food. I wonder if I brought IBS upon myself because around 15 I started buying my own junk food sometimes (before I ate pretty much whatever my parents bought) - chips, cookies, etc. My problems started about 3 years later. So while since then I had periods of being a complete health nut (whole wheat, raw veggies, yogurt, etc.) perhaps that was just the other extreme and my gut couldn't take it anymore. Maybe if I just eat "normal" (and somewhat still within EFI guidelines), no junk food and unnatural additives but also not being a health nut by today's standards, my gut would calm down and go to the same stage as during my childhood/early teens?

I don't know, it's just that lately I've been tired of "diets" such as wheat free, gluten free, omit this, eat that... I just want to eat "normal" (within reason, I wouldn't eat stuff that's too fatty, fried, etc.), just the way it used to be. Hope to get there one day

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IBS-C, bloating, cramps
pregnant

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