I was just wondering what most people do in the following two situations:
1. If your mornings are difficult (as mine are with d) and you eat mainly SF with breakfast, how long after would you say it is still safe to add IF and consider it an add on and not eating by itself? For example, if I need to go out, I would prefer to eat just SF (oatmeal, soyfee, acacia) for breakfast, feeling more confident that I won't have an attack. Then maybe an hour or two later, once my stomach has settled and I'm feeling stable for that moment, I sometimes want to have IF (ie., a piece of fruit)but then I wonder if too much time has elapsed and I need to eat another SF with it. I'm often not that hungry to be eating all that much, but if I haven't had a bm yet, I want to eat the IF to have one before let's say, going out again for the afternoon. Do you think it's generally safe to eat the IF alone at that time (or would you also consider if you have had a bm already?...sometimes after I have one, I'm nervous to eat IF b/c I feel like the IF did it's job for the day!!)
2. Similar question with Acacia and eating. I am taking three teaspoons of acacia per day, each with my meals (breakfast usually 8:30-9:30AM, lunch usually 1-2PM, dinner unsually 6-7PM). Here's a scenario I'm curious about: this morning I had oatmeal, soyfee/acacia for breakfast at 8:30ish, as I had to go out and wanted to play it safe. (By the way, had normal BM while out...yay  ) Then I came home around 11:15 and wanted to eat/drink again. I guess I was hungry, although my usual lunch wouldn't normally be until 1 or 2 o'clock. So I made a berry/banana smoothie and had a plain bagel with it but I was stumped on whether I should add the acacia or wait to eat it with a snack around 1 or 2 o'clock as usual. Because it had IF (the berrries), I added the acacia just in case and now I will probably just have a safe snack this afternoon without the acacia. Problem is...I'll probably skip the IF with the snack b/c I'll be worried about having no acacia with it, yet I know I can use food as the SF to pair it up with too.
I hope I'm making sense. I KNOW THESE ARE VERY INDIVIDUALIZED QUESTIONS, but I was just curious what you all do. Maybe I should divide my Acacia dosage into 4 on days like this? Does it matter if one day you have 3 doses and another day you have 4 doses as long as it adds up to the same amount? It makes sense b/c I know the goal is to keep the sf in your system at all times. I guess I'm just not sure I trust the SF foods as reassurance as much as I trust the acacia with them. For example, I have never had a smoothie without acacia but maybe the bagel would have sufficed to balance my gut out. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Acacia timing plus spacing your meals and IF
