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😅 Advice I would give for constipation if I wasn’t scared of hurting your feelings (and my clients know that I’m pretty straight talking as it is 😅😅😅).

1. 1500 calories or less is not enough – you are not a child. Time and time again I see people eating no where near enough food in comparison to what their requirements are. Sometimes this can come as a shock because that person has a stable and healthy weight but their body’s metabolism has simply dropped into survival mode to try and avoid malnutrition.

2. Just because you don’t have panic attacks doesn’t mean you don’t suffer with anxiety. Ongoing stress and poor sleep (amongst other mechanisms) can mean that your body suffers with this chronic low level anxiety all the time. This can cause your body to ‘prioritize’ survival mechanisms over your bowel functions.

3. Your Friday – Sunday food habits aren’t good enough. Wherever it is eating out a lot and forgetting your fiber or perhaps a lay in which means you skip breakfast, your gut needs consistency and there is no magic pill around this.

4. You are not a medical anomaly, you have IBS. 99% of the clients I talk to tell me they have ‘tried it all’ and nothing has worked for them. Sadly this has even led them down alternative pathways. When in reality, they DO have IBS but have never tackled it correctly. It is rare that we would see someone @theibsdietitianclinic now who doesn’t have a correct diagnosis.

🫠 I would love to know how you feel about those points and it it hasn’t annoyed you too much, don’t forget to grab your free IBS guide by commenting ‘guide’ below.

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✈️ I am traveling a lot this summer 😅 are you?

🥰 As much as traveling usually means positive things like seeing family, it can wreak havoc on the gut – especially if you have IBS!

🙋‍♀️ Here are my top 4 travel tools..

1️⃣ A simple hot water bottle – this is so good at easing those cramps.

2️⃣ @fodzyme which is a digestive enzyme supplement that breaks down the following FODMAPs – GOS, fructans and lactose.

3️⃣ A foldable poop stool – this will help unkink the end of your bowel and aid full evacuation.

4️⃣ Psyllium husk powder – fabulous for constipation and diarrhea as it bulks up the stool.

⭐️ Ad – if you want to get 15% off FODZYME then head to the link in my bio (please note this is an affiliate link).

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🙏 Thank you Emma for sharing your personal experience of how IBS impacted your life for so long!

🥹 It has been a pleasure to have you on our Take Control course and see your symptoms become well managed! Well done!

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😅 Why does small talk always involve that question ..’what do you do?’

🫠But people always presume that I help people lose weight when they hear I am a dietitian but the truth is that I haven’t worked with weight loss clients in around 10 years! My whole career is in gastroenterology.

😩Sadly, there are a lot of people out there that may avoid seeing a dietitian for their IBS because they are perhaps overweight and this is not what they want to address right now. Or perhaps they have experienced negative weight bias in healthcare before.

🙋‍♀️ In IBS, I ask what a persons weight is but this is because significant weight loss can be a sign of some nasty underlying conditions or malnutrition.

😅 I don’t really care if someone is actually overweight as it isn’t why they are working with me. Although some clients do want to address this as well – I am pretty upfront that this is very much an IBS journey.

🙏So please don’t let these concerns stop you getting the help you need. At @theibsdietitianclinic we provide a service for gut health, we are not here to judge you in any other way.

✅ comment ‘guide’ below for my free IBS guide.

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😩 Unmanaged IBS can impact every area of your life making it smaller and less varied.

😩 The impact often starts off small but over time it escalates as anxiety kicks in over what may happen , even before it does.

😩 We even see some people feel like they are in control when actually they have just developed a number of safety behaviors – like allowing someone else to go to the shop for them, avoiding travel, working from home etc.

🧐 Can you relate to this?

🙏 The good news is that we absolutely can manage IBS so life does not need to be like this.

✅ Comment guide below if you would like a copy of my free guide.

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