You probably don't have OCD, but sometimes it seems like it! A member of my family has a form of OCD, and it's WAY more complex than the "routines" I have to pay attention to. Not explainable by logic--very different.
That said, I know what you mean. At what point is the attention to eating and the routine just habitual? What portions of it can be eliminated--truly---and when, without becoming unstable?
I was recently out of state, and my daughter came to pick me up to take me home---and for a little vacation. She's REALLY into hiking, and so, for a couple of days, I had to do HER routine, which meant taking a chance on not doing mine (or not so thoroughly). It meant staying at a motel, getting up early, and leaving for a ride or a hike before I had my morning BM. I tried to relax about that, but it had me worried.
I ended up carrying toilet paper, and "going" behind some trees, with mucho mosquitos. But it was good to get away from my set "rules" of eating and eliminating; I learned that I don't need to be quite so rigid about it all.
Once armed with IBS knowledge, and diet tools, things don't just turn to disaster when the routine changes (like they used to do whenever I would travel).
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