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if my question, suggestions were taken the wrong way. I sincerely was concerned for your health and for your IBS condition.

I only suggested the rice and safe muffins as a way to help you tolerate your veggies in case you were having problems with them...or to get your opinion on them. I have read "Going Against the Grain" and have always wondered about how feels to live this way...if anyone had had success. Plus, as you know from my previous posts, I am really stuggling to find my answers and tolerable foods and so I like to "pick other peoples brains" for ideas on how they chose the foods they did and the reasons why the foods heal them. Your diet is not the "traditional" IBS diet and that intrigued me.

I also have a friend who died of anorexia, and it hurt me to see her kill herself by limiting yourself to vegetables and fruits as her only source of food. I am very alert and sensitive when I see this pattern in others, fearing they may be dealing with such a devastating demon that my friend Jennifer fought until she died at the age of 22. She was tired from no protein (and no weight!) and although she was "vegan" I know she could have chosen to eat vegan forms of protein if she hadn't been afraid of the calories. In my opinion, it is healthier to eat carbs, proteins, and fruits and veggies.

I don't know why you seem to take my suggestions or comments so negatively when I am truly trying to help and offer advice and suggestions, which, as jaimie pointed out, is the point of these boards...to help each other and share are thoughts and advice.

I don't post my foods because I would become too obsessive about it.

I will try not to ask you for advice or questions anymore since you seem to take offense to them. I truly, truly, only wanted to help you and to understand how maybe your choices might help me since I am hurting on the "traditional" IBS diet and often wonder how you and others have found a menu of foods that have helped them. I would never have thought that rice or cereal could be hurtful to me or anyone else. So, I wonder how you figured htis out for yourelf. I have thought about going "Against the Grain" too, such as the SCD by Elaine Gottschall and was wondering if you were doing something similar. Or, how you were working the IBS diet without eating the safe traditional SF foods.

I wish you well, and will not upset you by posting to you anymore. I was just trying to understand and to learn.

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