Hi there, firstly I want to thank each and everyone for their great caring and educational postings. It is the first time in a year that as a parent I haven't felt so 'alone'. Next I need to ask some questions they may seem really stupid questions but please bear with me :-)
First I am just going by what is on the site, I have not been able to order the book into NZ as yet. In the IBS cheat sheet it says under soluble fiber
Make the basis of all meals and snacks. First thing to eat on an empty stomach.
Does this mean that if say Gabrielle has her breakfast bowl in front of her with g/f cereal and peaches and rice milk, that she is to eat a large portion of just the cereal before she can touch the peaches?
Also at lunch i.e baked potato stuffed with chicken bacon and mushrooms and vege Is she to eat nearly all of the baked potato and then have some vege.
Dinner, Brown rice with chicken and stirfry. Should she eat nearly all the rice and chicken before eating any vege.
You're probably wondering if I have 'normal intelligence' by asking such questions - it's just that I am desperate to help Gabrielle. She has been having her cereal and fruit but eating it together, not putting the cereal in her tummy first and then adding the insoluble fibre. Also with the baked stuffed potato, she would eat say 1/4 of it and then just eat her vege with her potato i.e. together in each bite. Likewise with the rice, chicken and vege, she would eat it all together i.e. like a fried rice (but not fried) and therefore the insoluble fibre is going in at the same time as the soluble fibre.
I am embarrassed to even post this really as I am sure it is so 'elementary' to you all, just wondered if I was missing something by not having the book yet and clicked that this maybe why she isn't getting better.
Also she is better on the days that she has had no fruits or vegetables not even the safe soluble fibre ones, but I struggle with her not having a balanced diet i.e. with red meat and dairy gone, she doesn't like the calcium fortified rice milk, so only has the bare necessity, can't have soy cheese or anything like that, and because of her weight loss, I just am really hesitant to take fruit and vege out of her diet (we have always eaten large amounts of fruits and vegetables as a family).
Anyway I hope something in here makes sense and that you don't write me off as a 'nut case' if you haven't already LOL
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