Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Old Fashioned Way Is Best For IBS

Harmony:

I do not recommend these drinks for IBS people. There are too many worrisome ingredients in them from an IBS perspective. Some of these drinks contain ingredient lists that are a mile long -- 2.5 kilometres long in Canada!

With IBS, it's best to gain weight the old fashioned way -- through eating more frequent meals and through eating more starches and through eating more desserts.

I've managed to gain a few pounds, and I've done it without eating sweet stuff because I have blood sugar problems. What I do is just eat often. Today, I'm having a bagel smeared with Organic Earth Balance Buttery Spread and Heinz apple-strawberry sauce (which is like jam).

For lunch I have three huge, Fred Flintstone-sized (!) sandwiches, each made with two slices of French bread smeared with the Earth Balance spread and filled with mashed organic potatoes (a great source of soluble fibre) and slices of organic, additive-free Rowe Farm turkey (available at certain health food stores in the Greater Toronto Area). Sometimes I use mashed yams instead of mashed potatoes in my sandwiches.

I've already eaten my bagel. In two hours I will have my first sandwich, two hours after that another sandwich and two hours after that I will have my last sandwich. Later I'll have dinner and maybe another snack after that too.

Gaining/maintaining weight is a lot of work, but worth it if you can do it in a way that doesn't aggravate your IBS.

I weigh a blockbuster 85 pounds now! I'm very short (4-foot-8 1/2) so this is actually my ideal weight!

Belinda

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