Keep hitting an invisible boundary with my food choices.
First of all I'd like to say that over the past year or so my IBS has been so much better. I know we're all different, and for some it's just terrible all the time. But maybe it's good that I pass on a little bit of hope maybe?
I haven't done anything special. I did go to a homeopathic practitioner for some time which did seem helpful. But I haven't needed an appointment for at least a year now.
I can't yet shake off the feeling of not knowing what to expect from IBS, as I know it can come and go and spring surprises. But anyway, I'll take what's happening for me right now.
But...nothing is perfect and neither is this!
I eat well, and eat a healthy diet every day. But it is a much narrower diet than I used to have pre-IBS.
I'm actually doing OK on the foods I eat and am doing well, (except of course, a few years older than I used to be!)
But it's quite strange that even with a food my tummy will accept, I can't push any boundaries. I can eat yellow pepper but find red ones don't suit me. Then I can only eat 1/3 of a yellow pepper with other veggies for dinner. If I try to even eat half, my tummy will behave a bit badly in the morning.
I have tried to, gently (such as re-introducing fruit) And I have got nowhere.
The boundaries seem quite firmly set!
I am still not free to eat out or eat someone else's recipes.
There are quite a number of other foods I still can't have also: cheese, tomatoes, cauliflower, many sauces, garlic, onions, oatmeal cakes, coconut, most all root veg (except carrots, but that's only occasionally my gut allows me to eat them)....the list goes on.
It seems if I just plod on in my own steady way my tummy feels okay. But certain foods still remain off-limits to me. I find I can't explore outside a certain framework. That tells me all is really not as well as it should be?
But considering what I can usually eat, perhaps I just need to be grateful?
Does anyone have any experience with re-introduction of foods, and any tips perhaps?
