GI Problems with Diet change

amdevns23

**This may be TMI**

So I'm on my second week of making a change and joining MFP. I've been eating lots of veggies and drinking 90+ ounces of water a day. A couple days in, I started having diarhea, one day was really bad. I attributed to the shock on the GI system. However, I'm now experiencing it again after being fine for several days. Has anyone ever had this issue when changing their diet? Does it go away? Thanks!

alexistexas33

I did, turns out that I was not only over working out, I became allergic to dairy at the same time. I personally would cut back on the dairy for a while and then go from there, especially do not drink or eat any before working out.
I had it from week 2- week 5, and I went to the doctors about it as well.
Also it takes time for your body to get used to things, I began eating whole fiber bread in the morning, and bananas, and then began a woman's multi-vitiman and my symptoms cleared up.

amdevns23

I'm not really having any dairy. Except for the occasional cheese stick. I was thinking it was related to the drastic increase of fiber and water (I'm a busy college student and my diet was reallllllllly bad). I just thought it was over with and my body had adjisted, but it's happening again.

bbontheb

Yes, depending on the veggies. If they are high in fodmaps they can be difficult on the stomach. Start with smaller serving sizes of veggies in one sitting. What is an example of how much more veggies you are eating? Meals, snacks?

purplishblue

Do you have any digestive disorders? For me dieting activates my IBS (as does going back to maintenance). I think for me it's more the quantity of food changing which messes me up. Were you eating much fiber before? Perhaps cut down on fruit for a week and see how you feel. Definitely changes in fiber can bother one's stomach.

winnie141

Sounds like IBS...try cooking your veggies and watch dairy...all this with the assumption that you talk to your doctor about it! On and another thing to try is Metamucil...supposed to help with diareah!

amdevns23

I eat a good serving of steamed veggies with dinner and often have a salad as lunch or with lunch... Also have fruit as snacks and/or with breakfast. I've also been doing fruit infused waters.... So I definitely am eating a lot of fiber. Before now, I didn't eat much fiber ate a lot of processed and convinient foods. IBS is a complicate disease but it's related to emotional responses (depression, stress, etc.). I've never been diagnosed with it, but I don't think that's it. I'm really thinking it's the great amount of fiber I'm eating. However, I've been loading up on veggies with meals because they're low cal and filling. Without big servings of veggies, I'd be starving, so I don't want to give them up. Any tips of things that are filling other than veggies?

tomatoey

You have to introduce fiber slowly to not freak out your digestive system. But as people said, you could focus on low-fodmap veg (and foods with more soluble fiber, vs insoluble), and cooking veggies helps you digest them.

OTherwise you could focus more on protein and fats.

amdevns23

I'll try and cut down on the veggies for now... Thanks for the advice everyone.

dizzieblondeuk

I had one day of that in my first week - the day I had a big kidney bean salad! My gut soooo didn't like that, but since then, I've maintained a reasonable high fruit and veg consumption, just kept the beans/peas/legumes to a slightly lower level, and got my soluble fibre from a variety of sources (oats, oatbran, celery, carrots, apples etc) and I've not had a problem. But I can see how it can be a shock to the digestive system at a suddenly increased level.