Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Daliatree-question for you

hey I was gluten free for a few years and then realised i only get discomfort if i eat too much wheat, so i bake cakes and stuff with rice flour sometimes to ease the gluten load.
i buy fresh bakery bread ( I am passionate about nutrition so really avoid junk, and the store ones are full of junky stuff) where I can know exactly what is in it. I would say that the rice stuff is clogging you up.
do you enjoy baking? because if you do, you can yourself little rice flour loaves/cakes with a mixture of brown rice flour and white rice flour...I find if I bake with too much brown rice flour it makes my poos a little too loose when they finally decide to emerge!
exercise: allll exercise helps - yoga, walking, cross trainer, sit ups...it alllll helps...I do a mixture of all of them.
I TOTALLY relate to the 'being scared of the brown stuff'...just as I was reading your reply I was eating a sandwich with half white and half wholewheat bread and I got a flashback to a few months ago when wholewheat just terrified me...and brown rice. start gently, with a half half combination and move from there...be gentle with yourself,...but remember the brown varieties are also more nutritious, which means stronger immunity etc
vegies; squash, carrots, pumpkin, green beans, asparagus (but not too much - gasy), raw baby tomatoes, avocadoes,potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, cooked spinach...
I also can tolerate quite a bit of fat thankfully and I find olive oil and nut butters help me to keep regular...but I would never go near anything deep fried,...the thought of it terrifies me!
I would def consider going off BC pills if you suspect they could have something to do with the ibs deterioating.
good luck!!

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