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With shopping malls and supermarkets progressively bringing in more and more Christmas gifts, decorations and food, Christmas will be here before you know it. Your workplace and friends will be asking you to Christmas parties and events across the approaching weeks. If you're at University, there's a party almost every other night. No sooner do you recharge from one and you're into another. No wonder your guts are tangled up in knots. If you're a bit older and already striving to manage a home, job, and three children, Christmas can make it a nightmare. The kids are already winding themselves up, your mum and dad have given notice they want to stay again, there's gifts to buy, food to get ready and your partner demands more of your time also. It doesn't stop after you're retired, your children feel it's their duty to visit and you've got to feed them and the grandchildren are so exhausting. Christmas! Bah! Humbug! It's bad enough if you're perfectly well, but with IBS, it's just Strictly Come Dancing. You're bowels are doing their own version of the Rumba constantly! So what can you do? How can you party proof your gut and enjoy the festivities? Well, the solution is to pace yourself. You don't have to stuff yourself silly, and drink yourself paralytic to have a great time. Quite the contrary. You will have a much better time if you keep within your limitations. Finest tips are: - Enjoy your food, eat slowly, savour it. Don't eat too much, just have one helping of meat and not too many mince pies and please watch the sprouts. Eat until you are satisfied.
- Enjoy a glass or two of wine, but have plenty of water too. Drink enough, but slowly. Then relax, enjoy the company, stay in control. What you should aim to achieve is that mellow comfortable feeling, rather than reckless.
- Enjoyment is all about regulation. Try to keep to the routine your gut is used to. Try not to eat too late.
- Go to bed at a reasonable time. Try to wind down before you sleep, and don't wear yourself out. Some people may think of you as a party pooper, but that's their problem. The people that really matter will probably know you have a bit of a dodgy gut but will respect you for making the effort and envy you for keeping it together.
You may be the one that's undertaking the majority of the work, if you are plan ahead, devote times to acquire presents, work out what you are going to buy well beforehand, organise shopping, prepare as much food as possible beforehand, so that you can relax when your guests appear. Then if you know that your mum generally winds you up, plan for that also, just think about how you can organise the time so you are both diverted by other activities, involve her, bring out the best in her. She will feel fine and you will too. Get your partner and your family involved with the cooking. Switch off the television and talk, play games and fundamentally enjoy each other's company. It's what bonds families together. You may, in some situations, not see each other until next Christmas so make the most of it. Lastly, don't let your irritable belly spoil the fun, just look after it and take into account all the IBS help given in this article.
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