This probably sounds like one of the stupidest questions that you are ever likely to hear on a dieting website but bear with me, I’m being serious. When I talk about your stomach I’m not talking about the layers of fat hanging around your midriff, I mean the actual stomach, the inner workings.
It’s something that has slowly crept up on me over the last 2 years and having spoke to several people about it, it seems to be becoming more common. As I begin to eat less the functions of my stomach appear to slow down or almost stop altogether. I’m not talking about going from eating lots to eating nothing I’m talking about a healthy diet approach, just slightly reducing your calorie intake. The result of which seems to be endless bouts of constipation followed by diarrhoea several days later. It’s an impossible situation in which to lose weight as you find the only reliable way of getting a good “clear through” after being blocked up for days is to have a full on heavyweight meal. Even tablets don’t seem to help.
As I get older this is becoming more and more frustrating. It seems to only take a week of reduced calorie intake before the natural flow of things starts to grind to a halt. The other side affect of constantly feeling bunged up is that it zaps your energy and getting out and exercising is a serious struggle. The irony of this situation is that when I’m in dieting mode I tend to eat far more healthily and much more of the types of food that should have the opposite effect on your stomach. My fruit and associated fibre intake goes through the roof but to no avail.
If this sounds familiar to you and you’ve found a solution to it I’d love to know what you’ve have found that works? Losing weight is about burning more than you put in but if reducing what you put in has serious implications on your stomach what are you supposed to do?
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