I'll give you my two pennies, just so that you can feel even more overwhelmed.
1. I'm going to sound like a broken record here because I've said this so many times, but you might try eliminating soy from your diet. It's much harder than skipping soy sauce and tofu - soy and soybean oil is in every single processed food on the planet. When you go out to eat, you are ingesting huge amounts of cheap soybean oil. Read labels to see how soy has infiltrated all our food. If I have even a tiny bit, I'm absolutely miserable with every IBS symptom known to man and woman. D and C and bloating and gas and it lasts for several days. When I cut soy out of my diet, the majority of my symptoms went away and I lost 10 pounds, almost overnight.
2. If I could follow my own advice (which follows), I think I would kick IBS. Eat small meals. No more than a cup of food at a time. Yeah, that's not much, but when you read about the capacity of the stomach and how it functions, it makes loads of sense. If I eat only a small amount of food, I feel absolutely fine. But my love of the eating process pushes me to eat more... certainly more than I need... to the point of over-fullness. I notice that being "satisfied" isn't satisfying to me - I need to be stuffed to feel full, if that makes any sense. Today I'm going to try my darnedest to eat small portions ALL DAY and see if I'm symptomatic.
It's all a big puzzle... a cosmic joke even. I'm so glad we're all here to vent to!!!
Jennifer
-------------------- Jennifer
42 years old
Neither D nor C - just sluggish
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Re: About To Give It All Up
