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\"IntroductionIt’s one week post launch of Fructopia and the tingling hasn’t stopped yet. After turning the whole blog thing over and over in my mind and testing numerous<\/del> two blogging platforms for months, I’m pretty surprised how fast everything happened the moment I finally settled for one service. Now I am out and about with a topic that on the one hand is quite intimate, on the other hand affects so many people and still lacks a lot of attention. Time to change that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Three years back on the timeline. After the diagnosis and a first moderately successful online research I found myself standing in a supermarket. What can I tell you, it was a true nightmare. No more instinctive grabbing of products I was used to buying for many years, no more carefree rushing through the aisles. From this moment on I had to say goodbye to the daily, learned shopping routine I was used to. I literally spent more than an hour in the supermarket, moving along the aisles step by step, taking out one product after another, reading label over label, just to put the products back in place right afterwards. Most of the things available in a normal supermarket contain sugars, a dozen “E’s” or strange additives such as onion powder. Stuff my maltreated stomach doesn’t like too much. When I finally made my way to the cashier not that many products had actually found their way into the shopping basket. I don’t remember what it was, but I guess it was something like feta cheese, salad and a cucumber.<\/p>\n

To be honest, it takes a long, long time for this frustration and feeling of powerlessness to vanish. Frustration simply because I no longer knew what to buy, what to cook and what to order when eating out. I was scared to buy, cook or order the wrong thing. Scared of stomach pains and bloating. Powerless because I couldn’t do a thing about it, besides accepting it. That has been difficult, really difficult. If you\u2019ve recently received the same diagnosis, you probably know what I’m talking about. And I’m sorry to tell you, these feelings won’t go away too soon. You will have to deal with the frustration and powerlessness for a while. I think it took me at least a year to find balance in my new eating routine.<\/p>\n

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In order to help you figure out what your stomach might tolerate or not, I made a list of “foods to enjoy with ibs”, ingredients I usually have at home or eat fairly regularly. I deliberately say “might tolerate” because there are probably things on my list that your stomach won’t handle too well or won’t handle as well as my stomach does. This brings us back to the main problem when talking about fructose malabsorption: Every statement is very vague and based on personal experience. That said you will need to find out the amount of fructose your body can handle without problems. Sad song. Next week I will show you my list of absolute no-go ingredients.<\/p>\n

What’s in my fridge now:<\/strong><\/p>\n