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Posted 1/29/2011 6:21 PM (GMT 0)
I'm trying to firm up my stools (using psyllium husk and bland diet). One day I ate perfectly and I had perfect stools. The next day, I slacked, and the results showed. This is like trying to diet to lose weight. Takes discipline to eat right to firm up stools or solve any other issue you believe would benefit from eating correctly.

This all started with a bout of bad, bad diarrhea, from which I am on the mend.

How do you all refrain from eating all the fun stuff? I guess if I was bleeding, had major diarrhea and didn't feel well, it would be easy to keep off of the stuff that's bad for you.

Any thoughts?
Posted 1/29/2011 6:34 PM (GMT 0)
Keep yourself busy with something else. Tell whoever you live with you can't eat those foods. By saying it, it helps me to do it. Plus they keep an eye out and would question you eating something youre not supposed to. Also, get rid of them around you! Temptation is extremely difficult.

After a couple weeks of not eating something, you lose the craving for it, in my experience. (Like with chocolate. And I have even have an entire drawer full of chocolate in my desk.)

Makes me feel good to be successful. The goodness of food only lasts for like 2 seconds, anyways.

Good luck!
Posted 1/30/2011 12:07 AM (GMT 0)
Well, diet doesn't really help me, so I don't usually try. But, I agree with the above. Once you get used to the new food, you don't crave the old. But if you put some in your mouth, you're gonna want more of it lol
Posted 1/30/2011 12:25 AM (GMT 0)
it's not easy when the world is filled with the kind of food that's bad for us.
MNorthern has it right.
I think it might be harder if it's a temporary thing, it gets easier after a while when it's a habit but I'd be confused if I only restricted part of the time.

Make food less important. Get pleasure in other ways. :-)
Posted 1/30/2011 2:09 AM (GMT 0)
'Bad' food/drink ='s Flare/Pain

'Good' food/drink ='s Feeling better

You choose
Posted 1/30/2011 6:51 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks, for the motivation. I'm definitely paying for acting on my temptations.
Posted 1/31/2011 8:46 AM (GMT 0)
Discipline, tell me about it.
Posted 1/31/2011 11:41 AM (GMT 0)
Don't let yourself get too hungry e.g. eat less, more often.

I found when I feel really hungry is when I care less and eat things I shouldn't.
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