Some people are sensitive to coffee. Fortunately I'm not!

Ohhh, casein, protein not sugar. Zog understand.



Awesome Nancy! Congrats! Now that there are no more food-related events coming up, I am doing the same. Mainly meat and egg, with some veg/fruit. Keeping carbs low as well. Hopefully, I will be reporting the same good news in a week or two.

Welcome, ShayKNJ, to our bloat-a-palooza! Puffy tums begone!

Hi and Thanks Way.

I just was reading some threads regarding fruit and how they will bloat you and give you gas. What are your thoughts on this? I am starting a food journal and tracking my feelings starting today but I eat 2-3 servings a day. I am bloated now after lunch. I ate spinach, grilled chicken, tomato, sunflower seeds, O&V, grapes and blueberries. Why the bloat? Fruit? There will be nothing left for me to eat.

Could be the spinach? I've never noticed it with fruit - though I was always so used to being bloated, I never noticed it at all - but some veggies have a horrifyingly gaseous effect on me. Ask my poor BF about the time I ate brussels sprouts. He's never forgiven me.

I tell ya, I wish I could have some sort of monitoring system that told me exactly how what I ate affected me. Like a watch. As soon as I ate something, it would let me know if it was helping or harming me, and how.

What threads were you reading? I'd like to check them out. Some fruits do give me a weird sensation in my tum after I eat them - bananas, for example.

Here is the link:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...highlight=fruit
Mike D posted a website for a bodybuilding site and this is what got me really thinking. Let me know what you guys think.

Today my stomach was great! No soy, no wheat, no raw almonds and no fruit. I did have my coffee and daily raw spinach and I am fine. I have been eating mock danishes for breakfast and my spinach and grilled chicken for lunch and dinner is usually chicken or beef with veggies.

Well I know now, thanks to Nancy, that you need to eat fruit (and veg) with fat to actually get an appreciable amount of nutrients from them. Guess that's why I've always loved apples with cheese

Other than that, makes sense to limit fruit (sugar) during fat-loss. I notice I get hungry much quicker if I eat fruit with a meal. No staying power.

Glad the stomach is happy today! Mine is too, still bloated but feeling so clear!

I have been taught to eat fruit with a protein so your sugar is more stabalized. I used to eat a cheese stick with my apple too but since I gave up dairy I don't. I eat PB instead so that has fat.

Stomach was great yesterday so something is working. It is hard to figure out yet what since I recently gave up several things. This morning the scale was down a pound. Maybe because I had no fruit yesterday. Time will tell.

The little things that make us happy huh? Have a bloat free day.

My stomach has been great since I cut out the fruit. No bloat and the scale went from 134 last Sunday to 131 today!

Sharon, regarding your fruit bloat, it may have been the grapes, which are sugary (& often drenched in pesticides & chemicals to keep them looking plump & juicy - I react to only 1-2 grapes!). Next time try the berries separately. Once you've got your safe meat/egg/veggies/fats figured out, then it is easiest to keep track of what you are reacting to if you only add one new food a day. I try one serving per meal (serving size dictated by carb allowance, not standard sizes). Some people don't have a reaction from a rarely ingested food, but will notice a reaction when the amount is increased. Some reactions take a day or more to develop, so the one new food per day (perhaps with no new foods on day 2) challenge helps isolate problem foods quickly.

Thanks Deirdra, I am trying blueberries again today and see if they affect me at all. I won't have any tomorrow and see how I do.

Congrats, Shay!

I'm still bloated, it's fluctuating between 33" and 34". My weight, however, is dropping. Woo hoo for that, anyway! But I really want the belly to deflate, much more than I want to lose poundage!

Came here to post something about celiac to Nancy, but i see she started a gluten thread...off I go...

In BTVC (http://breakingtheviciouscycle.info) the author says that some fruits can cause problems because of things like pectin in the skins. She recommends peeling and cooking fruit until you get your gut healed up.

Thanks Nancy I have to look through that website.

Wayward-Congrats on losing! I am losing weight again since I cut out the fruit. My stomach is not bloated either. I did incorporate blueberries again yesterday and today.

Just popping in to report that I am still bloated. I am trying a few days without my usual constant influx of tea to see if that makes any difference. Of course, I have a stagette tomorrow night, and will be drinking wine. I'm going to try to limit it. Didn't have trouble with it at my Dad's.

I just want to get a damn test done. It would be a hell of a lot easier. It's hard to limit like this when you have functions to go to - okay not hard, but undesirable! Boo, wah.

Yeah, but you fall off the wagon on a regular basis too.

I found that thinking of wheat as poison works pretty well. I imagine myself with a few more autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's, heart disease and a colostomy bag. That keeps me pretty faithful.