Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: How does this happen??

Okay, you're not eating often enough. Since you're starving, it sounds like you're also not eating enough.

Think of your digestive system like a cranky engine. In the morning, it's shut down, cold. You have to coax it into getting up and running so you need to feed it a little bit and that little bit should be mostly SF to start with. Once it's up and running you need to keep it running smoothly throughout the day. Spacing your food too far apart is going to let your digestive engine shut down again. That means when you start it up by throwing food in there, it will run rough.

Oatmeal is actually kind of strange. It's listed as an SF food and most IBSers do fine with it. But it's half SF and half IF (albeit of a very well tolerated type) and some IBSers have real problems with it. I'm one of them. So my advice would be to try something else for breakfast.

Here's an old post I did about how I ate when I was first starting out: web page. Maybe something in there will help.

I also suggest you use the Search button (between "Message Boards" and "My Home"). Do a Search on the IBS Fitness and Lifestyle Board with no time limit ("All Posts") looking for:

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You'll see a page of my posts from late 2006. In there, I report everything I ate during the day. This might give you some ideas for other foods so you're not starving. Some of the foods I list are Advanced Eating For IBS and I almost always note that by saying that they may not be safe for everyone. In addition, sometimes other people were reporting what they ate in the same thread so you can check them out, too.

I hope this helps.

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