Re: IBSrunner
#334763 - 08/18/08 11:04 AM
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Fen
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I forgot to mention - the absolute worst food for me personally is corn on the cob. It kills me! I ate two ears a few days ago in an attempt to trigger a BM and I'm still suffering the consequences!
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I think the absolute hardest thing for me is that I'm fairly well read and very interested in nutrition, so I know what is recommended to eat to be "healthy." While I also know that most of those foods do not agree with me, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I need to eat white bread, not whole grain bread, and that I need to cook the crap (and vitamins!) out of my veggies, that I can't eat them raw. Plus, for instance, I think brown rice is way tastier than white, but I don't always handle it so well.
I know what you mean by this. I have an MS in nutrition and the EFI diet goes against every fiber (so to speak) of my being. But, it seems to help, so I have to keep telling myself that feeling well trumps all my "book learnin'".
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Re: IBSrunner
#334767 - 08/18/08 11:42 AM
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I know what you mean by this. I have an MS in nutrition and the EFI diet goes against every fiber (so to speak) of my being. But, it seems to help, so I have to keep telling myself that feeling well trumps all my "book learnin'".
Ha - and if we get colon cancer in 25 or 30 years from not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so be it!
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oh my gosh that helps so much. I think you and I have the same body well minus your bladder LOL I am the same with most of the foods you talked about. I felt the same about the whole wheat and steaming veggies for so long. But I really noticed a difference when I took whole wheat out of my diet. It is so hard to be such a health nut and love nutrition and still eat in a way that follows the EFI diet. I will try blueberries (cross my fingers) bc I miss berries.
PS Gorilla Munch cereal worked great today and as a snack yesterday!
Thank you so much!  I will definitly take you up on your offer to answer any questions I have. thank you!
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I've heard some very positive things about this diet.
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Have you both given up the GF diet? Did it help at all?
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Re: IBSrunner
#334820 - 08/19/08 04:08 AM
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Good luck with the blueberries!
If you're interested, Envirokidz also makes cereal bars in flavors similar to their cereals - there is a berry one, a peanut butter one, and a chocolate one. I stock up when they are one sale and eat them almost every day - super easy to digest (for me, anyway), and a portable snack to boot! I'm sure you could make your own rice-crispy-type cereal bars with the gorilla much or whatever, but I've never tried.
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Hi Jordy - to answer both of your questions:
I have wavered back and forth on this GF thing for a really long time now. I've been keeping a food journal for months and here's what I've noticed - while I get bloated about half of the time when I eat GF, I consistently get bloated every single day when I eat gluten. And I believe it also makes me very tired, which makes sense if I can't digest it. So I am going to give the GF diet a real go.
As far as the avocado - I eat it in all sorts of things! I like to eat sliced chicken and avocado between rice cakes for lunch (tip - if you make the "sandwich" in the am and let it all sit together for a few hours, the rice cakes soften up a bit by lunchtime!). I also mash it up, add some sea salt and sometimes some garlic powder (and whatever else you can tolerate - diced onion, diced tomato, etc.) then I eat this with corn chips, carrots, etc. I also dice it on top of dishes such as rice and beans. Mmm! It's my favorite!
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Grr - I was all excited to come to work and make a cup of tea this morning, since it's a little chilly here in the Northeast. But my tea I have here has barley malt in it!
Oh well, I guess if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right. No gluteny tea for me this morning 
Brr...
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