Re: intuitive eating and irritable bowel syndrome

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My mother has IBS and I can not ever figure out why she eats things she knows beforehand will flare it up, but I am not familiar enough yet with the official " IE' to know what to say here. I do know for me with my own brand of of intuitive eating I have tried to cut out anything that either made me feel sick or bloated unaturally (hence I cut out soda's, even though I loved them).

I'm not sure about giving in to cravings of things that make you sick...that does not seem intuitive to me...I am new here so this is just my 'intution ' so to speak.

Fried foods do that to my mother too. Heck, sometimes they do it to me!! What happens if you just eat it once in a blue moon, maybe that is the answer, so you don't just cut it out 100% but just enough to stop it flaring up your IBS.

Hope this helps and does not sound critical.

lynn

Hi,I was really feeling good last week because I ate onlywhen hungry and ate only what I truly wanted. Problemis what I truly wanted were fried, fatty foods and bythe end of the week my IBS flared up.

How do I work around this w/IBS? Should I eat onlythose foods that won't affect the IBS? I feel like itgoes against the whole idea of eating intuitively, no?I know this is commonsense: " if it's affecting your

body negatively, don't eat it " but I'm new at this andwould like some feedback, esp from anyone who alsosuffers from IBS.Thanks,Tellulah__________________________________________________________

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>How do I work around this w/IBS? Should I eat only

>those foods that won't affect the IBS? I feel like it

>goes against the whole idea of eating intuitively, no?

No, because part of eating intuitively is eating what makes you feel good. I

love ice cream, cookies, cheesecake, and french fries, but when I eat too

much of them I feel sluggish, tired, run down, and just plain yucky. So it

makes sense to eat what my body wants, which is good healthy food.

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= - that's exactly right. The challenge is when your mind wants the

cookies, etc., and your body knows it is not good for you. You need to remind

your body of how badly you will feel after you have it.

Liz====================

Date: 2006/11/13 Mon PM 02:06:58 CST

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject: RE: intuitive eating and irritable bowel

syndrome

>

>How do I work around this w/IBS? Should I eat only

>those foods that won't affect the IBS? I feel like it

>goes against the whole idea of eating intuitively, no?

No, because part of eating intuitively is eating what makes you feel good. I

love ice cream, cookies, cheesecake, and french fries, but when I eat too

much of them I feel sluggish, tired, run down, and just plain yucky. So it

makes sense to eat what my body wants, which is good healthy food.

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[Guest guest]

= - that's exactly right. The challenge is when your mind wants the

cookies, etc., and your body knows it is not good for you. You need to remind

your body of how badly you will feel after you have it.

Liz====================

Date: 2006/11/13 Mon PM 02:06:58 CST

To: IntuitiveEating_Support

Subject: RE: intuitive eating and irritable bowel

syndrome

>

>How do I work around this w/IBS? Should I eat only

>those foods that won't affect the IBS? I feel like it

>goes against the whole idea of eating intuitively, no?

No, because part of eating intuitively is eating what makes you feel good. I

love ice cream, cookies, cheesecake, and french fries, but when I eat too

much of them I feel sluggish, tired, run down, and just plain yucky. So it

makes sense to eat what my body wants, which is good healthy food.

_________________________________________________________________

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Hi Tellulah and everyone,

I have had IBS for many years and fortunately it has been very mild for

many years. Actually, now that I think about it, since I adopted IE it

has been much better. That's interesting, I never realized there may be a

correlation.

Anyway, I think I have talked about this on this board before, and

hopefully it will help. With IE you can eat whatever you want, but I

divide my choices into three groups. The first group is foods I like.

These are all the foods that I enjoy and I eat them whenever I am hungry.

I enjoy them and I feel satisfied after eating them. The second group is

foods I don't like. I made a promise to myself that I never had to eat

these ever again. I don't care if they are super healthy or whatever, I

won't eat them. As a child, I was forced to eat many things I couldn't

stand, like mayonnaise. Even if it gets put on something on accident

(like at a restaurant), I refuse it and get something else, I can't even

pretend to be polite about it. OK, third group is foods that don't honor

me. These are foods that cause me to not feel good, even if they taste

good. Raw onions are in this category for me, I can't eat them without a

bad stomachache. Eating a certain amount of sugar is the same thing. I

know how much I can eat and beyond that it makes me sick and I feel like

I need to lie down and sleep it off.

So the foods that cause your IBS to flare up may be on that do not honor

list. By putting them on this list, you are making a choice to not eat

them, to honor yourself. This way they aren't a food that you

" can't " have, you choose not to.

Hopefully this will help!

Thanks!

Gillian

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At 05:03 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote:

Hi,

I was really feeling good last week because I ate only

when hungry and ate only what I truly wanted. Problem

is what I truly wanted were fried, fatty foods and by

the end of the week my IBS flared up.

How do I work around this w/IBS? Should I eat only

those foods that won't affect the IBS? I feel like it

goes against the whole idea of eating intuitively, no?

I know this is commonsense: " if it's affecting your

body negatively, don't eat it " but I'm new at this and

would like some feedback, esp from anyone who also

suffers from IBS.

Thanks,

Tellulah

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