Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Acacia timing plus spacing your meals and IF

I tend to think about Acacia and SF foods in exactly the opposite way. I take the Acacia to make sure I have enough gel in my gut but never rely on it to cushion IF foods. Kind of funny, really.

Anyhow. I don't eat IF without SF until after lunch and don't really like to do it even then. SF is supposed to cushion the IF, make the gel, *and* get my digestion going smoothly and I just never feel like my digestion is up and running full bore until after lunch. If you want to have fruit for your morning snack, you could try half an SF fruit (half a banana, say) and half an IF fruit (half an apple for example). You don't overeat, but you still get some SF cushion with your IF. (I tend to have something like Pumpkin Apple Spice bread but then I love sweet stuff.)

I think a bagel is plenty of SF to cushion a smoothie especially since the smoothie also had banana in it which is itself SF.

To me the simplest way to think about all this is:
Consume Acacia throughout the day for its gelness.
Eat SF with every meal and snack to cushion the IF.
Eat just SF early in the day to make sure digestion gets up and running smoothly.

BTW, oatmeal is actually half SF and half IF. The IF is one that a lot of IBSers can tolerate without trouble (although I can't early in the day), but you are getting some IF from that.

HTH.

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