Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Desperately need advice on how to SAFELY put on weight

you sound exactly like me, almost all is the same, i was ibs-a, and through diet and natural therapies progressed to mostly stable with some ibs-c. I have anxiety and ocd issues when it comes to food and germs and getting food poisoning as i have a fear of throwing up, and worse i used to get nauseous a lot with my ibs.
i have lost about 15 in the last year going from a healthy 115 lbs for 5'5" to 100 lbs and people started asking if i was anorexic even though they saw me constantly eating, but small amounts as i eat 6 times a day. I also do the very healthy careful food combining and only safe foods, and would not go out to eat for fear of eating anything different, it got so out of hand my bf and mom finally sat me down and we decided that i would go back on AD's as i used to be on them when i was younger for my ibs and anxiety , but was off of them for the last two years trying every natural approach in existance. since going back in the ad's my anxiety is better and i am slowly starting to increase the size of my portions and diversify my diet within guidelines. I have also added fish to my previous vegan diet.I do a few things different than the diet, i eat lots of seeds and beans, i chew them really well and lots of non gluten whole grains as they seem to digest best and lots of raw veggies but never lettuces, only spinach. certain veggies i can't handle like tomatoes and i can't handle spices. this is where i am at after a year pf basically only eating rice and steamed veggies. its hard to overide my mind when i go to restaurants or buy something new to try but i know to be healthy i have to make the effort. i just do it within my limits, like i know that spicy food is a killer for me, no dairy, no red meat, very little sugar or salt and veeery little not naturally occuring fats or oils (nuts ok, breaded fried fish, not)
gaining weight seems to be the hardest, especially with everyone not understanding since the rest of the world seems to be trying to lose weight. The best way i am finding is to eat more at each meal and snack, enough to slightly overfill me but not make me nauseous, and eventually my body will adapt. To add more protein at each meal, still working on that, nuts and seeds with every meal, i do fruit with almond butter or veggies with sunflower seed butter as snacks and sun, pumpkin and hemp seeds with all meals, the butters are easiest to digest as they are ground so finely. you can also try protein powders, hemp, rice or soy to add to your smoothie. Hope some of this helps, just know that you are not alone.

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