Fodmap Eating Plan
I will be starting on the fodmap eating plan next week and I'm looking for some suggestions about following this plan for the first four weeks. Did you have the guidance of a dietician? Did you find any books, recipes, YouTube videos that helped you? I'm also wondering how you went about the addition of foods after the four-week restricted period?
Any success stories (I'd really like to hear them). Anything that was particularly helpful or difficult for you?
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Understand all of this….I carry protein in my urine from my amyloidosis diagnosis that I had a stem cell transplant 15 yrs ago & my husband is diabetic. Going through tremendous fatigue right now….. I have hypothyroidism & wonder if that’s it or long term effects of having covid 2 times…. I called & can’t get into see my PC until Oct…..☹️
Under the guidance of a certified dietitian I followed FODMAP plan. The first think my dietitian had me do was download the Monash FODMAP app. I was advised to eliminate the foods I used that were rated red. My diet was rather bland. After a couple of months the reintroduction phase started. That lasted for quite a while. I have learned to monitor what I eat. Every once in a while my body lets me know that I have eaten something I shouldn’t have. My diet remains bland. I try to avoid processed and prepared foods. I mainly shop the perimeter of the grocery store.
I went through the process with the help of two sessions with the Mayo dietician. It is a meticulous process with big payoffs. Some have tried to do it on their own but I don’t recommend that. For me it’s a lifelong diet, with very few changes from the DASH/ Mediterranean diet we are on. There are two foods I have omitted for most of the time, with eating small portions if invited out for a meal. There are other foods that I use in small portions when cooking at home. Really the changes for me were not dramatic but a friend went through the same process at Mayo and she absolutely cannot eat any garlic. This is hard for her at restaurants. I have tried many things in my lifetime to solve my gastro problems. Nothing helped until FODMAP came along. My suggestion is to be patient, find a dietician trained in this, and enlist family and friends to be helpful during your time of discernment of what you can eat.