Swampjuice said:
I had the surgery when i was 19 (im 29 now). Never had any eating issues prior to it. No other medication taken other than test and eq atm. I try to maintain high protein and high carb meals. My metabolism is insane and i cant put fat on if i tried (some may think im lucky but its hard to put on size). I stay around 8 to 9% bf year round at 210-218lbs. Ill be honest and here lately my diet has been shit and water intake has been minimal compared to the past. I have been drinking protein shakes to help keep my cals up. Since my surgery i have IBS to extreme levels and the only thing i have found to be helpful is the testosterone. I dont know what it changes but IBS is reduced drastically on cycle, if i come off completely i have diarrhea 5 min after every meal. Ive been to specialists and had scopes up my ass and they all say the say the same thing "looks good and you must fall into the percentile of patients that suffer from extreme side effects of the removal".............just f'ing great. Im almost to the point where im just gonna have to deal with it and learn to live with it. Dehydration is a huge enemy due to the diarrhea.
Swampjuice
Well the two things that maintain fullness is protein and fiber, fat maintains satiety and carbs stay in your body longer (will depend on the quality of the carbs as well) than other foods do. I am going to say your fiber intake is probably low (For IBS fiber doesn't help with the pain but it will help with making your stool not so liquid) so you have a build up of food remaining in your body, if you clear it out you might become hungry more often. I know when Im bulking I will hit a wall where I don't want to eat anything for awhile, but I hadn't been getting enough fiber. I add in the fiber and in day one I will crap literally 5-10 pounds, be less bloated and feel my hunger come on more.
Also if you are off cycle and are having flair ups from your IBS without a large amount of water intake to support your body your going to have a hard time taking in more food due to dehydration. Think of moving stuff around in water and think about it moving around in honey, its gonna move around faster in the water then the honey.
It interests me that you don't have many problems with your IBS when cycling. Your intestines are muscles so they do get benefits from your gear. If you take in more fiber they will work harder and maybe you won't have such a problem later. I would love for you to do a self study and let me know. If it worked this would be a great research project for me for my masters degree.
Give this a try and let me know how it goes. There a lot of good fibers out there, oatmeal (the real oats, in the natural foods section that you can buy in bulk), chia seed is fantastic you get a different fiber, its the gel type, you know the fiber supplements you can buy in the store that cause gumming in your body, this is the stuff they use to make it. You get less gassy feeling. Also chia seed is high in essential fatty acids, i.e. omega-3 and 6. They are loaded with high quality carbs as well. In my opinion it is a super food that is looked over by many.
Fermenting and germinated fibers such as brans and barley's help in many other gastrointestinal diseases so you could give that a try as well to see if it helps you.
There isn't much research that is done in the dietetics/medical world on IBS, so these are a few things to try. One thing I would try and not do is add on things that increase your hunger. If you have lost your feelings of hunger then adding them will do no good. You don't have an eating disorder so don't worry. That type of thing is normal in American society for people to not feel hunger.
