In my opinion, if your body is no longer in agonizing pain, you've done something right. I've had my own diet based discovery, too. Recently I've cut back on meat significantly to the point where I only eat it once a week at most. Anyone'll try to tell you that the protein in meat is of utmost importance, including doctors, and I believed that. I believed that all my life until I watched a very convincing documentary suggesting that it was not.
Now, I don't think I have IBS, but my digestive system is incredibly finicky, and my emetophobia only makes things worse. So where I do not have IBS now, I suspected that I would get it at some point in my life. I don't want that to happen to me.
So on a whim I tried going vegetarian (or flexitarian, leaning heavily toward veg, if you prefer). I ate mostly fruits and vegetables, small bowels of rice and pasta, meatless soups, beans, almonds, and cereal. The milk from my cereal and occasional cheese were my only dairy really. My inspiration to do this came from the fact that I haven't eaten red meat in over three years, so I've mostly been eating chicken. I am now so fucking sick of chicken I could gag. I don't like fish and pork all that much, except bacon, but I can't eat just bacon. I would die of heartburn alone, let alone a heart attack.
The results? I definitely feel lighter in the waist area already. I feel less sluggish, and my appetite doesn't get overwhelming. And you know what? I really don't miss it. I like beans and almonds just fine. I don't even like eggs. I could probably get away with being a vegan even, well, aside from people harping at me about what I should and shouldn't put into my body.
Which brings me to this point, connecting back to yours: If it's healthy and it makes you feel good, do it. Most doctors aren't trained in nutrition anyway, or if they are it's the knowledge they tend to omit since nutrition isn't a terribly stressed thing. Also, it's not profitable.
I don't want to eat meat. It makes me feel gross, and farty, and exhausted, and heavy, and wrong, and the darker it gets the more repulsive. I mean, in small doses I could still do fish and turkey burger, I think, but I really don't care. I like vegetables and fruits. I like nuts and beans. I'm lucky that I'm not allergic to any of it, so I hope no one thinks I'm preaching. I'm just saying that this works for me and I like it. It's inconvenient, though, but that's a drawback I'm willing to deal with. I haven't felt bloat, nor filth, nor gunk since I started doing this. Just irritable occasionally, but that always happens when I change my diet.
So I support you choosing what to do with your diet. Hell, you'll probably save thousands if the pain meds become obsolete. Good luck! I trust your judgement over a doctor's on this.
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Now, I don't think I have IBS, but my digestive system is incredibly finicky, and my emetophobia only makes things worse. So where I do not have IBS now, I suspected that I would get it at some point in my life. I don't want that to happen to me.
So on a whim I tried going vegetarian (or flexitarian, leaning heavily toward veg, if you prefer). I ate mostly fruits and vegetables, small bowels of rice and pasta, meatless soups, beans, almonds, and cereal. The milk from my cereal and occasional cheese were my only dairy really. My inspiration to do this came from the fact that I haven't eaten red meat in over three years, so I've mostly been eating chicken. I am now so fucking sick of chicken I could gag. I don't like fish and pork all that much, except bacon, but I can't eat just bacon. I would die of heartburn alone, let alone a heart attack.
The results? I definitely feel lighter in the waist area already. I feel less sluggish, and my appetite doesn't get overwhelming. And you know what? I really don't miss it. I like beans and almonds just fine. I don't even like eggs. I could probably get away with being a vegan even, well, aside from people harping at me about what I should and shouldn't put into my body.
Which brings me to this point, connecting back to yours: If it's healthy and it makes you feel good, do it. Most doctors aren't trained in nutrition anyway, or if they are it's the knowledge they tend to omit since nutrition isn't a terribly stressed thing. Also, it's not profitable.
I don't want to eat meat. It makes me feel gross, and farty, and exhausted, and heavy, and wrong, and the darker it gets the more repulsive. I mean, in small doses I could still do fish and turkey burger, I think, but I really don't care. I like vegetables and fruits. I like nuts and beans. I'm lucky that I'm not allergic to any of it, so I hope no one thinks I'm preaching. I'm just saying that this works for me and I like it. It's inconvenient, though, but that's a drawback I'm willing to deal with. I haven't felt bloat, nor filth, nor gunk since I started doing this. Just irritable occasionally, but that always happens when I change my diet.
So I support you choosing what to do with your diet. Hell, you'll probably save thousands if the pain meds become obsolete. Good luck! I trust your judgement over a doctor's on this.