Please forgive my long-ish post. I've struggled with IBS-D for 15 years or so. I have periods of being fine, but more often it's D every morning. I was doing well while on a diuretic for my blood pressure (I think it was a side effect of the med), but now that I'm off it, I'm back to having a loose stool every morning followed by a runny one. I can't afford to lose weight as I'm thin to begin with, and don't want to become dehydrated.
I've tried the IBS diet, but wasn't getting enough fat, which was becoming unhealthy for me physically, and all the white bread/white flour products were too high glycemic for me. So I added olive oil, ground almonds, trail mix, avocados, and hummus to my diet. I use a vinagrette dressing with oil on my salad. I found a delicious sourdough bread made with wheat flour, I eat brown rice and whole wheat pasta. This is far from the IBS diet, but I was feeling great. Then something went awry, and I said okay, I need to get back to the IBS diet guidelines.
I've listed what I'm eating below for those of you who are willing to read on. I take 1 & 1/2 tsp of acacia twice a day, and a peppermint/ginger capsule twice a day. I need to watch my salt intake, and I need to get enough fat to keep my heart and nervous system healthy. How can I do that on the IBS diet? And what should I do now to turn things around? I'm so frustrated, and feeling down about this. Any help is appreciated.
Lately I've been eating for breakfast Trader O's cereal with banana and rice milk, sprinkled with almond meal. Or a soy yogurt smoothy with banana, rice milk, frozen blueberries and some ground flax seed, along with a non-fat muffin. Lunch is a sandwich of almond cheese, hummus and avocado with lettuce and mustard on a sourdough sandwich roll. Maybe some carrot sticks, or some unsalted tortilla chips (they have 5 grams of fat). I like the Lay's Baked chips, but not the sugar or salt in them. For dinner I'll have a lot of sourdough bread and a salad with pasta noodles in it, or low-salt minestrone soup and bread, or pasta with marinara sauce, bread, and cooked frozen veggies, or a veggie patty, rice and steamed squash. For snacks I have rice cakes or trail mix or soy yogurt with trail mix or an Odwalla super protein (soy) bar, or a peeled apple or pear. I was also taking Very Berry, which is a highly concentrated berry juice, mixed with water (to strengthen my capillaries, which were "leaking" due to a reaction to my blood pressure meds).
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