Stephanie Clairmont is a registered dietitian from Toronto, Canada. She's a mum, wife, yoga lover, dog owner and passionate about helping people suffering with digestive health issues. After suffering for years with IBS herself, Stephanie now shares all her insights from personal and professional experience to help others better manage IBS, Crohn's, colitis and other digestive health issues.

In this episode, you’ll learn: 

• Stephanie’s IBS story and journey into the low FODMAP diet.
• Why it is so useful to see a dietitian who has personally experienced IBS and followed a low FODMAP diet themselves?
• Why the low FODMAP diet is not for life and why it’s important to reintroduce FODMAPs into your diet to identify triggers?
• Answers to real questions sent in from listeners of this podcast.
• Is a sugar-free diet recommended in addition to the low FODMAP diet, when suffering from IBS?
• Should natural sugars be completely avoided on the low FODMAP diet?
• Tips for following the low FODMAP diet and the GERD diet when you’re eating out .
• How is the GERD diet different from the low FODMAP diet?
• Why it’s so important to identify your trigger food as quickly as possible?
• How long should you follow a low FODMAP diet and what comes next?
• What should you do if you’ve been following the low FODMAP diet for too long and you are scared about challenging high FODMAP food?
• How can the Beyond FODMAPs Insider’s Club membership community help those suffering from digestive issues?
• Which resources does Stephanie’s offers on her website to help those starting a low FODMAP diet?

To read the show notes for this episode, please visit:

www.lowfodmapdiets.com/37

In this episode Dietitian Laura Manning and author Karen Frazier enlighten IBS sufferers through their book The Flexible FODMAP Diet Cookbook, which offers over 100 tasty and nutritious FODMAP friendly recipes, that can be customised depending if you are prevalent IBS-D or IBS-C and can also accommodate other food intolerance, in addition to FODMAPs (GERD, SIBO and more).

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why did Karen keep on putting on weight despite following a very healthy diet?
• Which health issues does Karen suffer from?
• Why was Laura truly enlightened when the low FODMAP diet came about?
• How Karen and Laura’s cookbook differ from most other low FODMAP cookbooks?
• Reasons why a lot of IBS sufferers lose weight.
• What is hypermotility and how can it affect your day-to-day activities?
• What is dysbiosis of the gut?
• Tips on how to reduce bloating.
• How to adjust low FODMAP recipes to help with other health issues? 
• Why planning and preparation are so important to be successful on a low FODMAP diet?
• How to avoid the fear of starting a low FODMAP diet.
• Karen and Laura’s favourite recipes from the book.
• What are the main struggles for IBS sufferers’ starting a low FODMAP diet?

To read the show notes for this episode, please visit www.lowfodmapdiets.com/36

My guest Laura Stonehouse and her young daughter are both IBS sufferers and have been following a modified low FODMAP diet for many years to reduce their symptoms. Laura hasa blog called Our House for Tea with articles, videos, and recipes, as well as a very beautiful book that is also called Our House for Tea- Real Life Low FODMAP and Free From Family Cookery..

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How did Laura came across the low FODMAP diet?
• How Laura helps also her young daughter to manage her IBS symptoms.
• What is her Our House For Tea book about?
• Laura's top 5 Low FODMAP Diet life hacks for busy people.
• How to make low FODMAP tortillas.
• Why does Laura put coconut milk in her pizza base?
• Cooking low FODMAP recipes in the slow cooker.
• How to have convenient and safe food ready in a moment.
• Fantastic recipes for family cooking that are quick and delicious!
• How Laura includes the entire family in the excitement of coming up with delicious recipes for all.
• AND MORE!

To read the show notes for this episode, please visit www.lowfodmapdiets.com/35