I've been away in Tasmania bushwalking for 3 weeks (you've all been busy, its taken me days to catch up with your posts!!) but I now need some advice.
The first night of my bushwalking trip (5 days out)I discovered that my little camp stove was not working...it was very disappointing but not a total disaster. My friend and I cut our walk from 7 to 5 days and rationed our food. So for the 5 days I was eating a cup of cold oatmeal for breakfast, museli bars and dried banana and mango for moring and afternoon tea and corn thins with salmon and hummos or peanut butter and jam for lunch and dinner. I was also taking a multivitamin and magnesium tablets (muscle ease). At the most I ate 4 corn thins in 1 sitting. So basically it was very little food. We were also walking with full packs -all that rice we couldn't eat - for 15 to 20 km a day.
At the end of the walk I felt absolutely amazing. Stomach was completely bloat free, I had more energy and was alot happier (also being off work for a while makes me feel good and generally less stressed).
But since then things have gone back down hill. I know the diet I ate is not possible to maintain...for one thing when we got back to a town and some food we found ourselves starving and needed to eat every hour...so I'm back to eating large meals which I think is one of my biggest IBS triggers. Also trying to find IBS safe and wheat free food while traveling proved impossible, so I broke out in that way too.
Can anyone offer any advice to help me....it's good that I now know what to do to feel good, but it just feels too impossible to do at home (familiar environment and old habits)...also I don't have the time to walk 15km a day!!
Thanks for getting through all this....I'm just feeling really frustrated because I had a glimpse of "life before IBS" and I lost it, which makes me depressed which makes me eat (and round and round it goes).
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Felt amazing for a week!! Where did it go??
- for 15 to 20 km a day.
