Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Yet more on one of our favorite subjects...

eating very simply makes a huge difference to me. its not sociable to graze like a cow during the day and people stare at me during meals when I don't really mix lots of foods together (eg have some brown rice with cooked carrots = a meal)...
I am ibs c so I don't feel I am helped by eating soluble first ie I can have a chicken breast with vegies and not need to eat it on a base of rice. although carbs make up the vast majority of my diet.
I eat little and very often (probably eating every 90 minutes). I NEVER ever drink while I eat, for half an hour before and for an hour after (this reaaallly helped).Never eat fruit with my meal, just on their own or with a few dry crackers. I never eat more then 500g of fruit a day. I never eat different kinds of fruits together ( like a fruit salad).The sad part is also that sugar makes me bloated...so I really don't eat cookies, cakes etc with sugar. I still haven't reached the stage of stabilising where I try to eat a little sugar and see what happens but I KNOW that sugar makes me bloated.
so there you go. oh and lots of mint tea between mini meals helps too!
This seriously works for me...I go to sleep most nights with a bikini belly now and fit in my clothes. I just worked this out with trial and error.
good luck

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