Hi I'm Michelle the irritable vegan I'm here to share my vegan low fodmap story and
hopefully take some of the BS out of IBS welcome to the channel so if you've seen
any of my previous videos before you realize that this is a very different
type of video when I went to bed last night I had no idea that this is the
video I been making for you today but after a pretty crappy sleepless night
tossing and turning when I woke up this morning I was absolutely determined to
do something like this for you so basically we're gonna try and do a what
a in the day in the life of completely lofi just on my camera just on my
phone and I'm gonna let you follow me around just to see how I cope with
having flare-ups and how I cope on a day when my tummy isn't feeling its best and
I'm trying to keep things as low fodmap as possible so the reason behind this is
that I'm currently in the modified phase of the low fodmap diet which for those
of you that don't know means I've completed of strict elimination phase
I've systematically challenged the high FODMAP groups to determine my own
triggers my own tolerances and I'm now in the modified phase which in in
essence is the long term individual eating style where you incorporate all
of the knowledge that you've learned over the last few months throughout the
previous two phases and you now begin to experiment and basically challenge
your tolerances and and try and find the most natural normal eating style for
yourself which keeps your symptoms at at the level that you find tolerable so
basically the that obviously comes with its own set of challenges
and with the potential for flare-ups there's no one-size-fits-all it's not an
exact science it is very much about experimenting and there is the potential
for flare-ups there is the potential to trigger your symptoms you're not going
to get it right all the time there is the the potential that throughout your
experiments you are gonna have times when you struggle and this is the phase
that I'm in at the moment this is the stage I'm at I've been trying to bring
in some of the high FODMAP foods I've been having multiple high FODMAP ingredients
per meal multiple FODMAPs in a day multiple high
FODMAPs in a week to try and check exactly where I stand with with doing
those things and I've managed to overdo it it's quite easily done and especially
these past few months when I've also been working really hard to complete
Got Guts one recipe edition where basically I created recipes for for each
of the individual fodmap challenges and in order to do that I've spent the last
few months in a permanent state of challenge phase if you will trying to
come up with recipes testing them making sure that everything worked for you so
alongside I've been also been eating in a in a
modified way so basically I've let a lot of high FODMAP ingredients creep back in and I'm
determined now to try and get myself back to that baseline where I was at
after had completed elimination phase and the challenge phase originally and
trying and really get myself back to those baseline symptoms and start again
from there let's see how we go with the video
I have no idea how this is going to turn out but stick with me and we'll give it
a go I'll speak to you soon
so I said we're going to try and keep it real today so just to show you that I
mean what I say welcome to my first fodmap fail a deliciously appetizing
grey smoothie
so basically I've used a protein powder which I've never tried before throwing
it together with some other ingredients and the result is this really appetizing looking
grey smoothie
hashtag keeping it real. [End of voiceover]
[Slurp]
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