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Maia:

Your diet isn't exactly correct, which is probably why you're continuing to have the spasms.

I've had IBS for 47-plus years now and I had painful attacks for most of them. Now I'm pain-free 95 per cent of the time. It's quite a miracle, as you can imagine!

There are a number of tricks to Heather's IBS diet. Once you master them, you'll be pain-free too. It just takes a while to understand what to eat, how to prepare it, how much of any given food to eat and in what food combination to eat it. The source of your food supply (organic versus conventional) can also play a role.

I'm very small myself -- just four-foot-nine. My ideal weight is about 85 pounds, but during one of my darker eras I dropped to 74 lbs. because I was so ill with IBS. That was about 17 years ago. Nowadays I am about 87 lbs and it's easy to maintain that diet without eating anything with added sugar.

I can easily gain weight if I want by eating certain things. For example, even just using Earth Balance buttery spread on your bread will help you gain a few pounds! Conversely, if I want to redistribute my weight (reshape!), I just work out on the treadmill at the gym!

Write to me at belinda958@yahoo.ca and I'll be happy to help you. From what I can see you already have a natural approach to your diet, which is very much in keeping with my philosophy about how to deal with IBS, so it should be relatively easy to get you realligned onto Heather's diet in a manner that will help you be pain-/spasm-free most of the time.

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