Fibre diary - Diverticular disease.

The fibre thing is really interesting. I have diverticular disease. This causes me pain in the lower left of my abdomen. The pain only last a very short time probably less than a minute. But it completely stops me in my tracks. I cannot talk I cannot complete the task I am doing when it strikes. This is very difficult for a customer facing job. My doctor has advised me to increase my fibre. So I’m keeping a diary of my fibre intake. I think I’m very good for fibre. This morning I had a banana and an oat-based cereal with dried fruit. For lunch I had lentil Dahl. So I’m thinking surely I’m pretty good I have a low meat diet high vegetable content diet lots of plant based protein. The average adult needs 30 g of fibre day. The average adult is getting 20 g of fibre a day. I am sure I must be above average. So here is my diary.

 Monday 27th Feb

1 banana - 3 g

300g lentil Dahl - 3g fibre

I oatcrunch with strawberries - 2.6 g fibre

2 thick slices of bread - white. 0.9g fibre.

By lunchtime I’m actually pretty disappointed. How can this be? This is a fully vegetarian high plant based day so far. Yet I’ve had maybe 9.5 g of fibre so far! This is shocking. I’ll have to get my other 21 g in dinner somehow.


Dinner

Fish, chips and mushy peas

2 + 2 + 8.8 = 12.8


Saved by the mushy peas! 


Total = 22.3g


I seriously doubt the average is 20.


Day 2


Here it is, my first 7g of fibre of the day
I just made a pasta bake with mushrooms, wholewheat pasta, onion, Greenlaw bran beans, peppers. But I’m too full to eat it given it took until 11 to finish my all bran.

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