SW and IBS

[laurz100]

Hi everyone,

I just wondered if anyone on here suffers from IBS? and how SW affects this? I am following EE and have so far lost 1 stone 3lbs since November. I do struggle with vegetable intake and tend to just have carrots and runner beans as most other veg (which I love, brocolli, cauli, sprouts etc) all trigger my IBS. They just go straight through me and give me agonising stomach ache. Just wondered if anyone else has this problem?

x

 

[Mel2]

I suffered terribly with my IBS pre-slimming world but since I started it Ive only had 1 or 2 attacks and thats when I've overdone it with the quark. I think mine's triggered by too much dairy. Do you eat Activia yoghurts? They might help.

 

[laurz100]

Hi thanks for the reply. No I don't eat those as I am also lactose intolerant :cry: it's such a pain and gets so annoying at times. Thanks for the suggestion though. I will just have to keep trying small amounts of things I guess x

 

[Foxy1509]

Hiya.

I too have awful IBS symptoms, which seem to have got worse since I started SW. I thought initially it was wheat and knocked that out of my diet completely. However, I've now been wheat free for three months and I'm still getting the symptoms. I do eat a lot more fruit now than I used to, and I'm currently experimenting to see if any specific types of fruit spark it off. At the moment, I think apples may be one of the culprits, but that theory is still yet to be proven. Will report back again once I've completed some more research!!

 

[Shirleen]

My IBS flares up around my *week so I'll be doing a green week that week as too many veg trigger me off.
The yogurt a day has helped too (sorry I know you're LI).

But the main trigger was fat so that's helped enormously!

 

[JackieN]

I have suffered with IBS for years. I find taking Aloe vera juice daily really helps and I mean really helps. I stopped taking it for a while and noticed the difference. I did have one bout of IBS the first week I did SW (only week 3 for me) but think that was eating less wheat and eating more fruit. You can buy Aloe Vera tablets too but I found the juice worked better for me

 

[captaincuddles]

Have found mine is so much better on the SW plan, but have to be careful not to eat tooo much fruit.

 

[laurz100]

Thank you so mcuh for all your replies. I'm glad I'm not on my own. Mine tends to flare up with lots of veg, so i struggle a bit with the 1/3 superfree on EE. So maybe I will have to try doing some red days or something. Thanks again for letting me know I'm not alone in this battle xx