My Daily IBS Diet with Calorie Count and Activity Level
I can think of more exciting headlines, but that about covers what this post is all about.
When my doctor and I were talking–all to briefly, of course–about what to eat for IBS, she asked me, “Well, what do you eat?” There wasn’t time to tell her, so ultimately I decided to work out exactly what I do eat, and the calorie count.
What is helpful to the rest of the world, I think, is that in the process I discovered www.calorie-count.com, a FREE site recently purchased and maintained by the About.com people. At calorie-count.com there is a good database of foods already listed with calories and other nutritional values. Once you sign up, you get access to the “community” or forums, of course. You also get tools that allow you to log the food you eat, and your activity level, and your weight. There’s no demand that you use all of them. If you are just tracking activity level to maintain fitness, use that. If you are tracking weight, but are on a diet that doesn’t count calories, just track weight. Or if you mostly need to know what your calorie intake is, actually, then use that.
I’ll keep my weight out of it, except to say the the excess pounds were gained on exactly the high-carb, low-fat diet advocated by Heather Van Vorous, a well-known advocate for dietary therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
Here is my typical diet result for a fairly typical day, with an analysis of the diet. As difficult as it is to omit all the triggers for IBS and still get adequate nutrition, this seems to do okay, if the A- grade actually measures nutritional value.
The foods are vegetarian and kosher–possibly vegan as well. The links are live links to my listings for foods and results.
Tummyblogger Diet (Click on the link and a viewer will open)
