Lower abdominal pain

Coffee0ooYummy

Anyone else suffer from lower abdominal pain? I think it might be from low caloric intake. I have only had 518 calories today (120 of we hich was coffee) but I'm not hungry. I seem to get this pain though if I eat something sweet which like a butt I did tonight. I had an ice cream sandwich. I don't eat breakfast. We'll it's rare if I do. And I had a small portion of baked turkey breast and Brussel sprouts for dinner.

If anyone else suffers this, (I also have IBS, ) or if you have knowledge of what this might be, can you give me your input on if you think it's the calories, the ibs, or the sweets? Or what else this might be?

Hurts like a bugger!!!

Thanks in advance yall!!!

MelanieCN77

You need to eat more, regardless.

Coffee0ooYummy

Btw, wish MFP would record that I finished my food diary for the day, even if I am under 1000 calories. Makes it look like I am not consistent with logging my food by not posting that I finished my diary. .... not fair

Coffee0ooYummy

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

You need to eat more, regardless.

Even if I'm not hungry?

I asked my doctor about if it was required to eat 3 meals a day for everyone. He said no. If I'm not hungry, don't force it. I can see trying to eat higher calorie foods but not more food.....

Coffee0ooYummy

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

You need to eat more, regardless.

But if you're saying I need more calories. ... and that's the reason? Thank you.
But how do you know this?

lorrpb

Please ask your doctor if it’s ok to eat only 500 on a regular basis.

bjkoziara

Coffee is quite low-cal, so if you had 120 cals just from that, and the only other things you had to eat were an ice cream sandwich and some turkey, then yes, I'd say it's from not eating enough. What is your average weekly caloric intake?

Danp

Firstly, the internet is the worst possible place to seek medical advice. Go to a doctor.

Secondly, your doctor is right, you don't have to eat 3 meals a day, you can eat 1 or a 100 if you want. But I'll bet all the money in the world your doctor didn't advise you to dangerously under eat and that if you told him you were eating fewer than 1000cal per day he'd tell you to absolutely eat more even if you're not hungry.

MelanieCN77

You need 1200 minimum cals a day to reach adequate nutrition, and that's also the reason MFP won't let you close your diary, which by the way nobody cares about and nobody is paying attention to whether you do or not, and it won't mess with any streak you have going which is just about showing up logged in.

Read around, but I'm gonna disengage and not ask why you asked your doctor about three meals a day.

aokoye

Coffee0ooYummy wrote: »

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

You need to eat more, regardless.

Even if I'm not hungry?

I asked my doctor about if it was required to eat 3 meals a day for everyone. He said no. If I'm not hungry, don't force it. I can see trying to eat higher calorie foods but not more food.....

Not eating 3 meals a day is not equivalent to eating fewer than 1200 calories. So yes, your doctor was correct in saying that one doesn't need to eat 3 meals a day. Heck you don't even need to have your biggest meal be dinner (or breakfast or lunch for that matter). You do, however, need to eat more than 500 calories.

teranga79

It's probably hunger!

totem12

You have IBS but the only things you ate in a day were coffee, ice cream and sprouts? Three well known triggers of stomach issues?

Coffee0ooYummy

Went to the ER this morning was hurting so bad. Turns out I have a UTI.

Coffee0ooYummy

Thank you all for your replies!!!

Coffee0ooYummy

bjkoziara wrote: »

Coffee is quite low-cal, so if you had 120 cals just from that, and the only other things you had to eat were an ice cream sandwich and some turkey, then yes, I'd say it's from not eating enough. What is your average weekly caloric intake?

I use coffee mate non dairy creamer 3 teaspoons in each 12 ounce cup of coffee I drink, that's 30 calories. 4 cups 120.

LyndaBSS

Coffee0ooYummy wrote: »

Went to the ER this morning was hurting so bad. Turns out I have a UTI.

I'm glad it's something easily treatable. Feel better.

Coffee0ooYummy

See I get like 1000 or so a lot

Coffee0ooYummy

This week I really slacked on the exercise, I was hurting pretty bad.

Coffee0ooYummy

LyndaBSS wrote: »

Coffee0ooYummy wrote: »

Went to the ER this morning was hurting so bad. Turns out I have a UTI.

I'm glad it's something easily treatable. Feel better.

Thank you!!!

Danp

Coffee0ooYummy wrote: »

bjkoziara wrote: »

Coffee is quite low-cal, so if you had 120 cals just from that, and the only other things you had to eat were an ice cream sandwich and some turkey, then yes, I'd say it's from not eating enough. What is your average weekly caloric intake?

I use coffee mate non dairy creamer 3 teaspoons in each 12 ounce cup of coffee I drink, that's 30 calories. 4 cups 120.

This sentence makes me think that you might not be under eating quite as much as you think. using spoons, cups and volume measurements are generally pretty inaccurate and tend to under report pretty regularly.

For anything that's not a liquid (and even liquids if you can) go by weight, not by measurement

Coffee0ooYummy

Danp wrote: »

Coffee0ooYummy wrote: »

bjkoziara wrote: »

Coffee is quite low-cal, so if you had 120 cals just from that, and the only other things you had to eat were an ice cream sandwich and some turkey, then yes, I'd say it's from not eating enough. What is your average weekly caloric intake?

I use coffee mate non dairy creamer 3 teaspoons in each 12 ounce cup of coffee I drink, that's 30 calories. 4 cups 120.

This sentence makes me think that you might not be under eating quite as much as you think. using spoons, cups and volume measurements are generally pretty inaccurate and tend to under report pretty regularly.

For anything that's not a liquid (and even liquids if you can) go by weight, not by measurement

Awesomeness!!!! I do use a measuring spoon and keurig is my fluid ounce calculator lol. Actually I use a tablespoon for my creamer cause 3 teaspoons is a tablespoon.

I also weigh all my food for better accuracy. And if the box says 1 cup, I measure 1 cup. Lol my mother in law this morning told me (when she saw my bowl of cheerios ) That's not very much! I said that's a serving...... lol

But I do have a hard time some weeks loosing weight. And it's usually the weeks when I have days where my caloric intake is way to low a couple days in there somewhere.
I know that when you don't eat enough calories for your body to use burning off normally, if it has to use to much of the body's fat stores during the day for energy, that when you do eat again, your body goes into survival mode and stores it as fat for fear of needing it for the next time there is a caloric deficit.

Trouble there is that I have days where I'm just not hungry. Always been like that. guess I should buy some of those ensure shakes to have on hand for days like that so I get the calories and nutrition I need for the day.

glovepuppet

If eating low calorie for the occasional day made you gain, 5:2 wouldn't work for so many people.

What are you eating? That might be just as important as how much, especially as you have IBS and a fluctuating appetite.
Are you regular? Because if your digestive system is sluggish and bunged up, it's not going to help your appetite, and you're going to weigh more if you're filling up but not emptying out properly.

Gut flora is responsible for a huge amount of appetite. Healthy flora thrive on a healthy diet. It might not be the whole solution, but there's no cons to making sure you're limiting the processed foods and getting plenty of veg (unless you're in kidney failure, maybe).