Re: Graze...
#226966 - 11/23/05 10:55 PM
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Draupadi
Reged: 07/16/05
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Loc: Santa Cruz, California
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Thanks for your input, everyone! I think I am going to start dividing my breakfast into sections, and eat them a few hours apart...I'll let you know how it goes!
I feel like perhaps my digestive system just isn't functioning fully when I first wake up, and I just need to warm it up a bit before I have anything major...
Again, thanks for the advice and support!
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Julia
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I found that the easiest thing was to graze. Eat a little when I first wake up, eat a little more an hour or so later, and so on. I rarely ate more than a piece of toast when I woke up in the morning, but by lunchtime I'd usually eaten several pieces of toast, cereal, and a banana or some applesauce or something like that.
Eating small amounts often is better for your IBS, too.  And after a while, my insides adjusted and now I'm able to eat a "normal" breakfast (which, for me, is usually oatmeal with a banana or some other large quantity of fruit).
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By the time I get up and take my fiber.....wait an hour and take my Nexium......and have to wait another hour to eat, it's about 11:30-12:00. So, I don't eat anything in the a.m. either.
Michelle
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IBS-D. Hiatal Hernia, GERD
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Quote:
I feel like perhaps my digestive system just isn't functioning fully when I first wake up, and I just need to warm it up a bit before I have anything major...
exactly. that's the principle behind very much of this diet - getting your digestive system working gently, before introducing foods that could shock it and the cause the gastrocolic reflex to go haywire. that's why eating sketchy foods on an empty stomach causes problems, but eating them after some SF foods is often okay. like warming up before a strenuous workout. (more like warming up your voice before singing. sorry, analogies abound. but i find these make more sense, are closer to what (i think) is actually happening in our stomachs than the idea of a 'SF cushion' - it's true that most SF foods are cushy, but - and i'm ready to be corrected - but i don't think the cushion image represents what's actually happening. though, of course, it is a helpful idea.)
anyway, this is why so many of us find it works to graze throughout the day rather than eat a few distinct, larger meals - aside from ensuring we never get famished and overeat, which would cause ibs problems, too, it keeps our digestive system running, gently and smoothly, throughout the day, so it doesn't have the chance to jump into overaction, which is sort of what an attack* is.
*well, D attacks, and some C - C gets trickier because you can be suffering without spasms (the spasms being the jumpy gastrocolic reflex), but the spasms are what a D attack is.
okay. here ends jaime's personal treatise on ibs and the 'SF cushion.'
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Yup every morning. A packet of plain instant oatmeal and a cup of peppermint tea. That's usually enough to last me through to lunch, though I'll still snack about halfway between meals to keep something in the tummy.
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Jonna, IBS-D
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I like the voice analogy... if you're looking for more, you could even go inanimate and say it's like warming up a car. Warming up anything, though, I think is a good way to think of it, as opposed to a cushion - because it implies action, motion etc. Which is what our guts are doing... they're not just staying still, taking it all in, lol.
GREAT post!
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