I found Heather's book about a year ago and started changing my diet. I had been fairly successful, cutting my IBS-D symptoms down by probably around 70%, but during a bad stress/personal patch recently, I strayed from the diet. I now want to get back to being healthy and stick to the diet even better to try to reduce my symptoms even more. So, I need some help from all of you who's stories I have been reading about and been so impressed by...
First, how do you stick to eating small meals and how often/how much do you snack on daily? I am having a hard time with this- I don't gorge, but I do like to eat a full meal (darn that our society' eating habits are structured this way), but then it usually leaves me in pain (well, every meal leaves me in at least a little in pain).
Second, I am confused, and have been for a year now about how to handle the soluble fiber to insoluble ratio? I make every meal with a soluble fiber base (usually pasta, white rice, or rice noodles) then add some veggies (mostly peeled and cooked (favs = tomatoes, zucchini, squash, onion). I did this last night for instance and it left me pretty campy for the night and all of today. What am I missing?
Third, how little is a "little oil"? I read to keep fat below 25% of your total calories, but when I read posts I see folks referring to minuscule amounts of oil in their cooking. It seems to me that if the food has extremely low fat (like chicken breast and veggies) that a little oil would not push the total past 25%. I imagine I am wrong... Does anyone have a good/better way to think about this issue?
Just to note, I take Heather's fiber and fibercon daily.
Thanks in advance, I am really hoping to figure this out a little bit more!
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IBS-D with stress related bouts of C, 10+? years.
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