Why shouldn't you rely on Acacia as your main source of soluble fiber? It not like white flour, white rice and white potato is all that nutritious...when I went to eating all that solulble fiber I went from IBS-D to C FAST...I was taking 1 teaspoon of acacia with each meal plus a cup of white rice first before anything. Talk about major blood sugar problems...from now on I'll eat some very lean protein first...if I didn't eat salads NOW, I'd be IBS-C! Sometimes I wonder what kind of IBS am I ? I can eat lots of hard boiled eggs...not a problem...I'm not rushing to the bathroom with D (anymore) and I don't struggle with C as long as I eat MIXED meals...balanced meals...all these "rules" created so much stress about eating - I think they made my IBS worse! So now, when I'm hungry I take a tsp of acacia and eat a small mixed meal that INCLUDES soluble fiber and not more than 6 grams of fat or so...becaue I have bile salt D...mainly watching the total fat content is the important thing for me...and not the fiber part so much. I've done alot of experimenting.
I always order chicken salad when I'm out. I eat 1/2 the chicken, no dressing and I ask for a side of white rice, I've never ever been at a restaurant that couldn't give me a side order of boiled or steamed white rice or a simple baked/microwaved potato (but now on low oxalate diet must stick to rice).
Well, I have read all the books. And following the advice by the book left me bloated, gassy and constipated...I wasn't getting enough fat in my diet - my skin was horrible (now I make sure I take fish and flax oil daily)...and giving up egg yolks was a nutritional mistake I'll never make again (just gotta boil them). Like I said - I don't think I have REGULAR IBS that's in the book. My IBS started after my gallbladder removal. I'm starting to think that for folks like US - sure, get a good mix of foods, but mainly keep that total fat content to 25% of meals (not less). Fat encourages bile production and bile irritates the intesinal lining / like mine/ if you make too much / like me. I'm still figuring it out. I think for me, its alot less complicated than everyone else. EATING doesn't cause me any gastro or colonic discomfort at all. But eating too much fat or going to extremes in diet / like too low fat or even too much soluble fiber - BAD NEWS. MODERATION for me is what works. The Acacia is just a way to round out my diet...
Thanks for reading all this. No, there is no book on Bile Salt Diahrea. Maybe I'll write one. I'm on Welchol and that is a medicine that binds to bile - so I don't have the D. There's another one called Questran - but THAT IS constipating.
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Re: Acacia timing plus spacing your meals and IF
