Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: been away, now I'm back

Welcome back. Congratulations on your weight loss - that's a great accomplishment.

I don't know much about the McDougall program - just what a very quick scan told me. Specifically, swapping white rice for brown rice and white bread for whole grain bread won't make much difference in the calorie count. In fact, it looks like white rice, for example, may have a few fewer calories than brown rice. So your lunch could become one of the hummus recipes from the Recipe Board plus some plain pita.

It might be worth your while to take the McDougall guidelines and the IBS guidelines to a nutritionist and get her help melding the two. Since McDougall is vegan you should probably get some expert advice to make sure you get enough vegetable proteins in the right combinations.

HTH. Congratulations again - I'm super impressed. And good luck going forward.

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