It is fall ya”ll! I made these pumpkin oatmeal cookies for the spousal unit, who is not an individual that struggles with irritable bowel syndrome (lucky man). Please disregard the icing job. It is rather ugly but in my defense, you don’t taste the ugly when you eat them! The recipe came from the blog, Sally’s Baking Addiction. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/brown-butter-pumpkin-oatmeal-cookies/
Sally used browned butter. If you haven’t tried browned butter, stop right now and brown some butter. Life changing stuff. Two cookies have been consumed on my behalf and I’ve come out on the good side so far!
Sure, I have some anxiety problems, call me a nervous Nellie if you must. I am one of the lucky people who gets the “nervous shits.” I know that anxiety is a psychological thing, so there it is, the IBS is in my head. But that can’t be the root of all my gut problems. I often wake up in the middle of the night in the dead of a sleep and have explosive diarrhea. I am sleeping, no anxiety, no nerves, just sleeping. And I am a good sleeper. One positive quality, I can get my sleep on. I can tell you by my symptoms before going to bed for the night if I am going to have a problem in the morning. No physiological stress there, just a poor choice in something I ate.
Food makes me happy. This is where human emotion comes to play, I like to eat and I want to eat what I want to eat. I have kept a food diary. It seems when log what I eat things get better for my gut. Is it due to the fact that I am conscious of what I’m consuming because I have to write it down and hold myself accountable? I am sure that has something to do with it. With my food diary I have found food items that I stay away from, like far away from. So food diary has been plenty helpful. I am just going to side with there are multiple factors that come to play in IBS, we just have to learn what works best for us as individuals.
I was going through an IBS flare a bit ago. There have been plenty since this story, but this one has a story. I was listening to a fitness podcast and the guy was talking about a probiotic that really changed his gut health. I hadn’t heard of this particular probiotic yet so I did my research on it. It is Saccharomyces boulardii (S. boulardii) which is a probiotic yeast that is a variety of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (also known as baker’s or brewer’s yeast). https://www.verywellhealth.com/the-benefits-of-saccharomyces-boulardii-89509
This probiotic that I couldn’t pronounce, was going to straighten me out. The bloat, the cramps, the nausea it was all going to go away as soon as I could get my hands on this stuff. Found it on Amazon and ordered it right away. Soon as it shipped I started tracking it, I needed the relief that it was going to provide and I needed it yesterday. I get the delivery notification. As soon as I get home from work, I can start taking it and relief will be soon. Amazon is so great with the little delivery notification, “Your package has been delivered to your preferred safe place.” Huh. I never set up a preferred safe place, but they provide a picture of the package in the “safe place.” Oh. Not a safe place.
When I got home from work there was nothing but shreds of a package. Not bottle of probiotics to start the journey of my gut health, nothing. Shreds. In my desperation I searched the grass for a capsule of probiotic, again, nothing. I cried. Ugly cried. I was in so much pain and looking for relief and this was my answer and it was gone just that fast. I started the process of getting another bottle ordered but that was going to take time. But while waiting on bottle #2, I needed to do extensive google research to see if probiotics were harmful to my dog. Ugh. What a fiasco. Trust me, I clicked on the thumbs down, not so great option.
Have any of you made any gut friendly fall treats? or maybe chanced it with not gut friendly treats?
Any luck with your IBS and probiotics?
