upping the fats, and my bowl's in turmoil!!! ahh, IBS sufferers hellllp!

I have irritable bowl syndrome and to gain i'm getting over 3000 cals now and A LOT more fats (2 oz nuts or seeds every day, a serving of peanut butter, protein bars,protein shakes, ensures,boosts, avocadoes, dressing, etc)

anyway thats really the most efficient way to get my cals up, but I must've gotten sick 5 or 6 times today. (d...) how could I make my icky picky irritable bowl tollerate fats!? does it just have to get used to it? please helpp!

ps. I have a drs appt in the morn... if I'm 90 I can finnally start running eith the xc team. That I was supposed to rock this year. :-( and now I couldn't run 100 meters i'm so out of shapee.  POSITIVE THINKING- 90 pounds- right!!! Wish me luck

 

I would suggest you try to do without the shakes and ensures if you can but to get your calorie from real foods instead.   If you have digestion problems, it's often ingredients in the artificial foods that cause it.  Try to balance your intake with a lot more carbohydrates.   They're bulkier but less greasy and you may find them easier to digest.

Try food combining, so if you have foods high in fats: avocado, nuts, etc eat them with some neutral food like vegetable strips, or just incorporate a little of the fatty stuff into every meal. 

I find I am very dairy sensitive and used to get the worst stomach pains after my protein shake, I was using whey protein and never thought of how it is such an obvious trigger food.  try and identify exactly what it is that causes the problem and then either remove/substitute it, or if it is fat then do like I said above.

The thing that has really helped me is having a list of 'safe' foods as well as a list of 'IBS' foods, I find that if I combine the two lists  I can still have a little of what i fancy no problem.  Also once something triggers your IBS it's good to know what you can eat that won't make it worse.  For example my safe foods are: potatoes, green vegetables, carrots, peppers, bananas, rice.  whereas: meat, pasta, bread, beans, nuts, seeds are not, they don't give me cramps but they don't help either so I wouldn't eat them after an attack.

Common trigger foods: acidic drinks (inc fruit juices), dairy products, eggs, caffeine, highly processed foods (HFCS, sweetners, additives), fats, meat, spicy foods, wheat.

Sorry long post, just trying to help =D

don't worry about it... Thank you so muchh!! I think I'll start to try pairing my foods. Its so hard for me to get up to my "quota" w.o boosts and ensures! haha, I'll have to try, but I was hopeing to slowly cut those out as I don't need as many calories.  Maybe I'll have to alter my eating plan again.

Heres my big problem: Every doctor thought I had an eating dissorder because of my weight loss... no one believed Ihad stomach problems. I convinsed one of the doctors that I did not have an ED by gaining weight, and being egar to gain weight, but now I'm scared to death to tell the nutritionist fats are bothering me because shes going to jump to conclusions and think I am trying to lose weight or something

If your nutritionist isn't willing to look at food allergies being a possible cause of your problems I would seriously suggest getting a different nutritionist.  If you suspect a particular food causes your stomach to be upset there's nothing to stop you excluding it from your diet temporarily to see if it helps.  Obviously, you have to make up the shortfall with something else.   Have you ever been sent for allergy tests? 

Yes... unfortunatly i've had REALLY bad experiences with docors. My friend with celiacs desise was telling me about her disese when my stomach issues were at their worst, so I reserched it and I had EVERY symptom. reluctantly, I cut out wheat and milk (bread, ohh bread!) and actually started feeling better. When we went to a GI he said I had an ED because I was cutting out food groups, and sent me for a biopsy. >:-( that was fine... and now I think the insoluble fiber from wheat products is what was makeing me react so bad. I just wish ONE doctor would see past their eating dissorder "red flags" and treat me as an individual!!

 

Original Post by itstimetorun:

I have irritable bowl syndrome and to gain i'm getting over 3000 cals now and A LOT more fats (2 oz nuts or seeds every day, a serving of peanut butter, protein bars,protein shakes, ensures,boosts, avocadoes, dressing, etc)

You can't eat nuts your colon will go into automatic seizures....you are eating too many nuts and seeds....stop eating that for a week and see what happens..... you have holes in your colon that the seeds and the nuts get into, and that is why you get the bloating and the pain then the diarreha

Original Post by itstimetorun:

I have irritable bowl syndrome and to gain i'm getting over 3000 cals now and A LOT more fats (2 oz nuts or seeds every day, a serving of peanut butter, protein bars,protein shakes, ensures,boosts, avocadoes, dressing, etc)

anyway thats really the most efficient way to get my cals up, but I must've gotten sick 5 or 6 times today. (d...) how could I make my icky picky irritable bowl tollerate fats!? does it just have to get used to it? please helpp!

ps. I have a drs appt in the morn... if I'm 90 I can finnally start running eith the xc team. That I was supposed to rock this year. :-( and now I couldn't run 100 meters i'm so out of shapee.  POSITIVE THINKING- 90 pounds- right!!! Wish me luck

 

i highly recomend you stay away from protein shakes/ensures/boosts that is most likely causeing you IBS also try to stay away from dairy it really doesnt help at all. ever had a low fat granola with honey and some soy?or graham crackers go down soo easily. try not to have to much fat if its really irritaiting you so much.drink some juice too its has calories and its like eating fruit

 

I'm having the same problem - I was just diagnosed with IBS (after a year of agony) and I'm in the quandery of trying to avoid trigger foods while trying to get enough calories. Right now I'm willing to eat trigger foods just because I'm losing weight so fast (another six lbs lost this week, I'm down to 101 now, and was 122 originally) and I think that's an even bigger concern than my IBS. But the tough part is my nausea is making it so hard to eat anything. If I keep eating and try to push past the nausea I just throw my food back up.

I'm so sad to hear all these medical professionals are treating you like an ED case and ignoring the real problem! Luckily I have a really good doctor. And he knows I can't chew (severe TMJ/+facial injury) so he knows that's one of the primary cause of my weight loss. But the nausea is getting to be an even bigger problem for me than the lack of chewing ability.

I used to be a huge eater (I was formerly a bodybuilder), so if I didn't have nausea and IBS, I'd easily be able to get enough calories with protein shakes. But I almost throw everything up after more than three swallows.

Hope you find good help. If you can handle it, high calorie gainer powders for bodybuilders are a good way to get calories. I have a powder (which I can't handle) that when mixed with a glass of milk is 900 calories! If it didn't make me so nauseus I could drink it. But of you can handle it definitely try to find a powder like that. Go to supplement stores for bodybuilders, they'll usually have some type of 'gainer' powder.