Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: My Personal Weight Muscle Gain

Thanks retro for your help, I really appreciate it.
I understand the premise of my question deals with weight training, but Irritable Bowel Syndrome complicates this.

I know from what I have read that with a basic diet to gain muscle, you are supposed to eat complex carbs. However, I can't handle oatmeal, and with an Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet, I have to eat white bread, simple carbs, and can't have protein whey or protein bars, all of which most weight gaining diets preach.

What I would like to know is, how can I while on a Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet gain muscle, not fat, and have satisfied appetite if I am eating simple carbs?
You see, most weight training diets recommend having complex carbs, and having these early in the day less than protein, where Irritable Bowel Syndrome makes me eat simple carbs and at the begining of every meal because you are to start meals with soulable fiber base.

This worries me with a weight gaining diet, because I read that simple carbs first are more likely to add fat and they make you more hungray. Also, if you eat carbs later in the day, and eat more carbs period, it makes you fatter because carbs are for energy, but if you don't use all the carbs, the energy gets stored as fat. If you are eating more carbs, and having to eat carbs at meals later in the day, you are going to be increasing the amount of unused carbs which raises fat content.
Add in that simple carbs make you more hungry, which means it would be harder for me not to overeat. This could mean in order to quench my stomach I might eat more carbs, and have more enegry unused or I could just eat junk food, you know how people get when they are hungray.

This is my big concern with the Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet and weight gaining diet, I am worried that having to have soluable fiber, simple carbs, at all my meals is going to blow me up.

I read that for carbs, you should eat complex carbs at breakfast, lunch, and before you workout, but after that, through the night, you should not have more than a small amount of carbs if you do.
I am afraid that having simple carbs, to summarize, if I were to do so at just breakfast, lunch and before I workout would make me fat and lead to me being hungray, let alone having to have simple carbs at all the meals I eat now.

How can I gain muscle, not fat, on an Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet which asks me to have simple carbs all day, this seems impossible.

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