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Is it possible that your body rejects unhealthy food?

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  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Honestly its not because its "unhealthy" or "crappy". Whenever you don't eat a certain type of food for a long time and then you eat it once more you usually end up with digestive issues.

    If you gave meat to a vegetarian they would have all sorts of stomach distress issues from it. Different ingredients in foreign cuisine that you aren't typically exposed to can have the same effect giving you digestive issues when you travel (aside from actual food poisoning). That doesn't make meat or foreign cuisine "unhealthy" or "crappy" it just means you don't regularly eat it and might have some issues digesting it when you are exposed to it or rexposed to it.

    Most of the time in terms of reintroduction to "fast" foods or snack type foods from eating "clean" its more about having avoided sodium for a long time then eating a bunch of sodium rich foods all at once leads to excessive water retention and bloating.
  • ARGriffy
    ARGriffy Posts: 1,002 Member
    My tummy tells me when I've eaten too much fat for sure
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,487 Member
    jbee27 wrote: »
    ladyreva78 wrote: »
    Too much fat in one sitting will make me ill and put me in serious pain, but that's because my gall bladder isn't with me any longer and fat digestion doesn't work nearly as well anymore. :wink:

    Ditto. OP, perhaps you have gallstones. This is what happened to me after I made my first push towards healthier lifestyle. I had a major attack after months of not eating junk food when I had some fast food chicken strips on a road trip, and found out I had gallstones and needed to have my gallbladder removed.

    Your pain symptoms sound very similar to mine. Maybe worth having checked out.

    What jbee27 said. Not wanting to scare you, but it may be worth checking out.

    That said, I don't seem to have much reaction if I eat something(s) crazy, even in excess, though my daily diet is very whole-foods-y and I'm vegetarian.

    For example, the entire order of deep-fried mushrooms I ate with dinner on Saturday, and the two 22-oz Killians alongside, didn't seem to cause any major distress, and I'm a now-tiny li'l ol' lady (60 y/o, 5'5", 120 pounds).

    But I don't even have a gallbladder anymore. Had lots of digestive issues before they removed it last year, though.
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