Re: NEW HERE & NEED 2 quick ideas/tips
02/13/08 09:21 AM
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Erilyn
Reged: 11/14/07
Posts: 743
Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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I definitely recommend buying or borrowing Heather's book, "Eating for IBS". It is very helpful, and a very quick read (only 37 pages – the rest is recipes). I started this diet back in November and I felt pretty overwhelmed at first, too, but after a couple of weeks I was getting the hang of it! I definitely feel for your daughter – I was diagnosed at 17 (I'm 29 now), but remember having symptoms from as early as 12 (I recall running off the softball field at summer camp praying I would get to the bathroom in time and wondering why this seemed to happen to me so much). When I was diagnosed the doctor gave me some pills (antispasmodics), told me to eat more fibre, and sent me on my way (the pills did NOT help, in fact they just ended up making me feel worse).
As for the pasta, I seem to do okay with a little tomato sauce. Other folks here like to sprinkle just a wee bit of olive oil on it, with some salt and pepper, and just eat it plain. For the baked potato, you could try some of the Tofutti brand soy sour cream – it actually is quite good – but go easy on it as it is fairly high in fat. I also like to mash my potatoes with a little bit of dairy-free, low-fat margarine and soy milk. It's good mashed with just chicken or vegetable broth, too!
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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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