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My new unpleasant lesson for the day (for me, obviously): Don't touch Ice pops !! Remember all the lessons I learned with drinks and juices, one of my strongest and most unpleasant reactions? Same applies here.

Hi folks, just a quick note to share a hard lesson I've been learning recently about experimentation. If I look back about a week or so ago after a "good run", I was starting to feel a bit more confident in trying out some things I felt I really should test. These included pureed apple and soy yoghurts. I did experiments of both within a 2 day period. Combine that with some stress around birthday, an important midweek meeting to do with work, and some anxiety about a deeply personal issue of faith and I was all set for a deeper level of gut instability and suffering that can no longer be traced to food item A B or C. Don't do it! Also comma consider limiting experimentation to maybe two new items per week and integrate good conditions that are necessary for successful experimentation on a very sensitive gut, such as sleep and peacefulness. Be patient, we have all our lives to work out these details. Thanks for reading.

As I hinted in my first post, I am very interest in the potential benefits, now I think fairly well proven, in the ever-honing FODMAP diet. I am just on the edge of seeing some longer spells of bloatation and pain-free eating. But I am not good at self-discipline. When things seem more settled, I naturally look quickly outward to the other many foods that I am dying to reintroduce. I am like a desperate dog, straining at the leash , and I sometimes introduce 2 uncertain foods/drinks within the same 24 hour period. Like, yesterday, resulting in seriously uncomfortable and meal-aborting gut discomfort that was not easily traceable. So what do we do with that desperate dog within us? How tightly do we reign her in? My answer until recently would have been to strictly limit to ONE new uncertain food or drink item at a time, and not at crazy quantities either. The fallout just isn't worth a massive dose of discomfort. BUT my answer for my map toward my free tum, is not ONE, no...

Hi and welcome to my brand new blog I am launching on freedom from digestive disorders. My name is John, I'm 38. As I write this, I still suffer from chronic IBS, which I first recognised as an issue back in 2010. It's been seven long years of increasing famine, and since then I have lost almost 10kg. That's swinging between 60-61 kg. I am 187cm tall (over 6ft 1in). This condition, as anyone suffering from similar issues will know, can feel terrible, especially around times of social gatherings like Christmas which has such a focus on eating, drinking and shared pleasure. Because life likes to throw just as many challenges, digestive-disorder sufferers can also have other unrelated problems which exacerbate the psychological challenge of staying positive and a pleasure to be around. Because life also puts fellow sufferers on our route, we often hear a thousand-and-one titbits of advice and haphazardly (and expensively) try many of them, confused and lost between con...