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I am in the same boat. I am on day69 in the hypno, but I too cannot just let go of my diet (which I don't actually hate though and once I'm cured I'll only introduce more fat/have IF without taking a SFS so I won't really start eating red meat/drink caffeine or alcohol or have loads of eggs).

Read another post somewhere by Syl, who I seem to recall said that it's recommended that hypnosis is done alongside other methods ie with dieting (I hope). Kem's daughter too did it this way and she started easing the restrictions gradually. Imo if we were to abandon diet, (cos dieting reinforces the negative thought patterns and means that we are apparently obsessing over what we eat... I am dubious about that) and then we'd be in pain and discomfort, I fail to see how I would NOT then associate hypnosis with something more negative and how I would NOT THEN feel that it's not working for me, how could I then relax and have faith in its efficacy if I don't see immediate result and felt that it required me to get rid of my diet which had worked up till then.

I am of course not sure how to do this all though or how I would know if I didn't have to follow my dietary guidelines or how hypno is meant to work this way. I mean, apparently, it comes down to the individual, I accept that. But I think the best we can do is carry on with the diet, if you've done yours long enough, as I have, it's something that's part of your life and not something you have to overly think about, at least for me, I know what I can eat and how much, I cook for myself entirely , it's all automatic. And then do the hypno till the v end and see then with easing the diet. If it didn't work, start again with hypno until it does

I have great faith in the hypno, as I do in dieting. I have often said that those who said that they don't know what foods set them off at one time and what at another were probably 1. before FODMAPs were introduced into the whole IBS malarkey and we have to accept that 2. what you eat may only cause you discomfort in two or three days time and that 3. even a normal person without IBS will have digestive woes if they are worrying/stressing about something, ie it's not unusual for a non-IBS person really nervous before a job interview to have D. Someone with IBS will have this anxiety all the time especially if they have a real job to go to/ holiday/ anywhere like that.

I imagine that Marilyn back in the day and Gerikat and many who claim that no diet ever worked for them had had this three-pronged problem which led to them believing that for them no diet could ever have worked and that there was no pattern in their symptoms. This is of course just my (to my mind plausible) suspicion.

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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)

before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010

FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml

[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]

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