Pre-IBS I used to only eat wholewheat bread carb-wise and plenty of IS vegetables and chicken. (By and large) So this meant that I avoided carbs and I was always slim and when I first read about this diet my heart kind of sank, as it recommends all these carbs, like potatoes and rice and white bread. But I don't really have a choice, I guess a bowl of cauliflower with chicken breast is not going to do me any favours now.
What I've tried doing to keep slim is eat small amounts. Regardless of diet if you binge-eat you will put on weight as your famished body hangs onto and puts the excess 'energy' aside for a rainy day. You can't lose weight if you binge eat. Losing weight only happens if you never let yourself go hungry, eat very frequently (to get your metabolism going) and you eat the right food. If you have constipation as I do, then IBS itself prevents you from successful weight loss so that's why the right food can't be the normal 'fruits/ IF veggies and lean meat' that normal people may go for when they want to lose weight.
Oh, hope that some of this made sense. Never ever pig out, eat just enough of food that does not make you constipated and exercise when you want to lose weight.
(PS I always imagined that people with IBS-D at least don't have the problem of gaining weight because of IBS. I know that my IBS-C certainly has made me gain weight.)
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Susie, born in 1985,
(pseudo-)D and bloating April 2007-December 2010, now stable
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