Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Obsessing over food! HELP!

I know this isn't uncommon for folks like us, but I'm getting so wrapped up in what I can and can't eat and how my gut feels at any given moment that it is starting to feel compulsive. I'm thinking it is because the rest of my life is so out of control that I'm trying to control the one thing I should be able to control, and that is food. The problem is that nothing changes anyway. I have D no matter what I eat, or don't eat. I am lactose intolerant, so I can control the worst of my attacks and gas by avoiding dairy...but otherwise there is no difference. I think about this stuff almost non-stop. Part of me wants to just give up and just eat whatever I feel like eating. In a sense I was happier when I did. Right now, what I wouldn't give for a pizza and a hot fudge sunday and not worry about the cosequences. How do the rest of you pull yourselves out of this kind of thinking? Is it even possible? I'm just sick of thinking about the toilet!

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*Karyn* IBS D

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