I’m on a diet

I have decided to try essentially what is a "be friendly to your bowel" diet for the next month (if I hold out that long ) and see if my other pelvic symptoms change/ease at all. One thing I will do is cut out caffeine, so that will mean telling my work colleagues. But how do I tell them? I'm on a diet doesn't exactly work cause I'm a size 12! I'm on a liver-cleansing diet, perhaps? I really don't wanna go into the fact that I have woman issues going on ROFL!

teresa - even size 12 people go on a diet. all you have to say is you are trying to eat healthy - for your health. Most people do that without saying its a diet.

Mind I am a size 12 and I am trying to lose weight (biggest loser challenge at work) and I have lost 4.4kgs since it started 5 weeks ago - wooo hoooo - but this isn't about me (just wanted to mention it lol )

Yeah like the others say, just tell them you're doing it for personal / health reasons. I'm a size 6 and I still think about / talk about eating healthily, exercising & cutting down on coffee!

Getting bigger now that we're almost weaned. Was size 8 before having Elle.

...back to Busymum

Deb I will pretty much have to say I'm cutting out caffeine cause at work we have scheduled am/pm breaks all together and the coffee is made for us all. So I've been having 2 a day where pre-work (September) I only had coffee rarely.

You could ask them to get in some decaf.

ewwwww tea

What else do you have to do on the diet? I might give it a go as well.

Maybe I'll give herbal teas a go someday. One of the ladies in the office already has peppermint tea anyway.

For those who are interested, I got some details from a book on endo on what foods to have/avoid. It recommends this diet for 3 weeks and then slowly reintroducing them to see if symptoms are different or not:

fibre: have wheatmeal bread, not wholegrain
cereals: have rice bubbles, cornflakes, white rice, pasta but NOT muesli, porridge, brown rice
veges: have them well cooked and avoid salads, corn, baked beans, peas
fruit: cooked or tinned; avoid raw, dried, seeds and juice
fats and oils: minimise fat/butter/oil; have low-fat milk/yoghurt/cheese
other: avoid or absolute minimum of sugar, nuts, seeds, alcohol, caffeine (coke/coffee/tea)

After stressing about it for 24 hours I have decided to cut:
coffee
chocolate
porridge
watch the after-dinner snacks, especially sweet things

I just wanted to be careful saying 'diet', I dunno none of the ladies in the office are beyond a size 16 but I'm not the biggest and I wouldn't want them to feel big.