![]() ![]() I also found peace with food, meaning that I stopped over and under eating, which was a huge shift and a change that I felt supported the improvement in symptoms. "Too much raw food can often give me bloating again so I monitor how much raw food I eat, especially in the winter when really our bodies need heat! I had to listen to my body and found keeping a food diary early on really helped to monitor what was making my IBS symptoms worse. Symprove is by far the best probiotic I have used and if I’m eating a slightly heavier meal, I’ll use some digestive enzymes to support my digestive system. I took a course of probiotics and shifted my diet to be more plant-based, with lots of lightly cooked veg, little meat and lots of organic fish and the occasional bit of goats or sheep cheese. "I’m pleased to say that I have managed to recover well over the years. "Heavier food such as a Sunday roast and too much bread were the main culprits for my flare-ups." Dietary changes that helped me I actually dressed in more tight clothing when I was pregnant, as by this point I felt so proud of my body!" My IBS triggers ![]() It’s funny, I think that that time has actually shaped how I dress now- safe, never too tight and lots of black! My partner says it all the time. When you’re bloated, it also changes how you dress as very often the things you want to wear, such as a tight dress, become out of bounds as you feel like you're too fat to wear it. It actually meant a lot of my recovery of my eating disorder lingered longer by feeling fat, I found it hard to shift those negative body image thoughts. "Always being bloated and feeling heavy can really take its toll on you from a mental health point of view. Career-wise it hasn’t directly affected me too much, although it did make me retrain as a nutritionist from a job in PR!" Daily life with IBS "IBS has affected my fitness levels too- I’ve found that calmer, lower intensity exercise just works better for me. It also affects your mood, and that can be hard to turn around until you get support. I would find that it got so much worse through times of stress and when travelling for example, so often I’d spend the first few days of any holiday in agony. It’s really very stressful and not spoken about enough. For me I never quite knew when the bloating would strike and the really awful times would be when the flatulence would hit you in an important meeting. "My main IBS symptoms were bloating, constipation, irregular bowel movements and a mix of stools on the Bristol stool chart and alongside all of this, an emotional response, which got me down a lot." Daily life with IBS ![]()
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