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looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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Ok without being to disgusting in this post I need help!

I have really begun to pay close attention to my diet this last month as well as my symptoms.

I have the weirdest thing happening. My bathroom issues seem to be on a cycle! Maybe I am losing my mind?

Day one======Major D

Day two======Less D almost nothing at all

Day three=====goes to C

Day four=====C gets cleared out only to be followed in same bowel movement with D!

What is going on? Any suggestions?

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Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
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what are you eating?

looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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what are you eating?

Ok, I have gone completely fresh. I don't even eat processed gluten free stuff on suggestion from this forum. I have been gluten free since April '10.

I have also cut out almost all dairy and even soy.

Breakfast: 2 slices bacon, 1 scrambled egg

Lunch: usually skip because of lack of hunger and I eat breakfast late usually

Dinner: some type of fresh meat (chicken breast, pork chop, fish) usually seasoned with only gluten free cornflake crumbs or just plain ole salt pepper, mashed potatoes, and some sort of fresh veggie, green beans are my fav

I do consume 1 Dr. Pepper in a day but the rest is water

My diet has been extremely limited this week trying to figure out what is triggering me.

????

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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I am going to suggest dropping the Dr Pepper for a week and seeing what happens.

It won't hurt and may help.

Skylark Collaborator
Skylark
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How funny. Is there anything you do every four days? Workouts, job? Your diet looks very low fiber. I wonder if adding something like an apple to breakfast and having some brown rice instead of the mashed potato would help normalize things?

K8ling Enthusiast
K8ling
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I was just telling husband that this week (the "vacation" - for everyone BUT me *gir*) I had almost the same thing! Now I am all sorts of messed up from heavens knows what. I don't trust anyone with my food now :(.

I would suggest cutting out the dr pepper and upping the fiber. Also, with the C sometimes a Larabar a day helps (it takes a few days) because it's all dried fruit. I love them. It helps even me out.

I hope it gets better!!!

looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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I was just telling husband that this week (the "vacation" - for everyone BUT me *gir*) I had almost the same thing! Now I am all sorts of messed up from heavens knows what. I don't trust anyone with my food now :(.

I would suggest cutting out the dr pepper and upping the fiber. Also, with the C sometimes a Larabar a day helps (it takes a few days) because it's all dried fruit. I love them. It helps even me out.

I hope it gets better!!!

Ok, thank you for the responses so far. I will drop the DP this week. I went to the store yesterday and bought fruit and rice. So, I will add those in and skip out the potatoes as well.

I do know that I dropped the milk from my diet about a week ago and the loud rumbling in my tummy stopped. It would rumble for hours after having the milk from my cereal. No more cereal either because I dropped the processed gluten free products and went to scratch cooking the few items I eat.

Any suggestions for adding fiber?

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ravenwoodglass Mentor
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Ok, thank you for the responses so far. I will drop the DP this week. I went to the store yesterday and bought fruit and rice. So, I will add those in and skip out the potatoes as well.

I do know that I dropped the milk from my diet about a week ago and the loud rumbling in my tummy stopped. It would rumble for hours after having the milk from my cereal. No more cereal either because I dropped the processed gluten free products and went to scratch cooking the few items I eat.

Any suggestions for adding fiber?

One of the best ways, IMHO, to add fiber is to add sweet potatoes to your diet. They have been used in oriental medicine for a very long time to regulate the digestive system. They have both soluable and insoluable fiber so they help with both D and C. If you like them they might help a great deal. I like them best sauteed with a sprinkle of brown sugar, sliced and baked into 'fries' or mashed and if you add a bit of cinnamon they may help with blood sugar issues also.

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Ok, thank you for the responses so far. I will drop the DP this week. I went to the store yesterday and bought fruit and rice. So, I will add those in and skip out the potatoes as well.

I do know that I dropped the milk from my diet about a week ago and the loud rumbling in my tummy stopped. It would rumble for hours after having the milk from my cereal. No more cereal either because I dropped the processed gluten free products and went to scratch cooking the few items I eat.

Any suggestions for adding fiber?

I'll bet if you added a good dose of fiber, your system would begin to regulate. Obviously fruits and veggies, whichever you can handle. Almonds, Enjoy Life Trail Mixes, homemade popcorn (olive oil, plain popcorn, light sprinkling of salt), Lara Bars are great--I always have one in my purse, brown rice instead of white.

Start slowly so your body has a chance to get used to the additional fiber and drink lots of water. :)

looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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Thank you for the suggestions. I will go back to the store and get some brown rice. I bought white yesterday. Bummer but hey ANYTHING to get my health right!

On a side note I am allergic to sweet potatoes as well as strawberries and fresh ginger. I get a horrible case of my throat closing shut! It's horrible!

So, fruit has fiber?? I had cantaloupe for breakfast this morning. Hope that was ok.

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Thank you for the suggestions. I will go back to the store and get some brown rice. I bought white yesterday. Bummer but hey ANYTHING to get my health right!

On a side note I am allergic to sweet potatoes as well as strawberries and fresh ginger. I get a horrible case of my throat closing shut! It's horrible!

So, fruit has fiber?? I had cantaloupe for breakfast this morning. Hope that was ok.

Fruits are good--can you tolerate blueberries? They are in season now, have good fiber and not a lot of sugar.

Here's a chart to give you an idea on how different foods compare--

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Again, start slowly and drink plenty of water. You can adjust as you go along.

sb2178 Enthusiast
sb2178
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Asian pears. Eat the skin. I'd start with one quarter to half a pear a day and then up it to a whole pear. Fruits with skins that you eat tend to have more fiber. You also want to make sure that you get both soluble fiber (absorbs water) and insoluble fiber (does not absorb water). Typically skins have insoluble fiber while the insides have more soluble fiber but that's a broad rule with many exceptions.

Blueberries. Cherries. Greens. Start adding beans and lentils if you can tolerate them. Literally, 1-2 tablespoons and then add a little more.

This is a list of food by fiber content. Just look at the serving size carefully (i.e. 1 cup vs a head of lettuce)!

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looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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Fruits are good--can you tolerate blueberries? They are in season now, have good fiber and not a lot of sugar.

Here's a chart to give you an idea on how different foods compare--

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Again, start slowly and drink plenty of water. You can adjust as you go along.

Wow! What a gem this list is going to be for me! Thank you so very much!

How much fiber per day should I attempt to get (of course going slowly, slowly, slowly)? :)

jerseyangel Proficient
jerseyangel
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Wow! What a gem this list is going to be for me! Thank you so very much!

How much fiber per day should I attempt to get (of course going slowly, slowly, slowly)? :)

Recommendations vary, but somewhere between 20 and 30g per day is good target for adults. But not all at once ;)

looking4help Apprentice
looking4help
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Recommendations vary, but somewhere between 20 and 30g per day is good target for adults. But not all at once ;)

Thank you so much! I definitely assure that it will be slow.

I won't tell you the horrors I went through prior to going gluten free in April. Before that I knew something was wrong with my diet so I went "healthy" and went on a freakish diet of EVERYTHING wheat/whole grain etc and you can imagine how my body reacted! YIKES! THEN and only then did I come across gluten free/celiac. What a difference in the pain of my gut!

Thanks for all the help!

miles Rookie
miles
Posted

Try to eat close to the same time every day, and try not to skip meals or snacks. Doing so may help to get your gut back to normal function. Skipping meals can put more stress on your already damaged gastrointestinal tract.

lucia Enthusiast
lucia
Posted

Thanks to Patti for the chart. It's amazing looking at it how much fiber beans have! Definitely motivation to be cooking some up this coming week.

GFinDC Veteran
GFinDC
Posted

You cab also try adding some psyillium husks and or ground flax seed meal to your rice or other foods.

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