Is it just me or....

LisaGamerGirl

Have any of you found that when you switch over to clean, home prepared healthier meals your body has a MUCH harder time handling restaurant food? Almost without fail, when I eat at a restaurant (even if it's borderline healthy like a meal soup) my stomach feels sick and I can't handle it and often have gastrointestinal problems!
Anyone the same as me?

Samstudent88

Yes, I tend to feel really sick afterwards.


Eating clean is also seeming to make me ....well...have issues in the restroom too. Seems like I should just set up camp. Sorry TMI I know. lol

ratherbeskiing

yes, I went to McDonalds the other day with the girl I babysat. She had chicken nuggets and offered me a half of one they looked good so I was like what they heck... THEY WERE THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAVE EVER EATEN. I COULD NOT BELIEVE I ATE THAT FOOD BEFORE!:grumble:



*I do not eat clean- but I not eat fast food or most processed foods. I love morning star products- can't give them up sorry.

MalSponseller

Not exactly the same as eating clean, but...

When I went to London for five weeks I had similar issues when I came back. Their processed sugars are lower over there; I mean candy bars had real sugar in them! So when I came back to the US it took me awhile to get used to all the processed crap again.

Just your body's way of saying, "What the hell is this?!" I guess.

deniseg31

Not only you. I think our bodies get used to cleaner/smaller portions and when we go out it really messes us up. Same with soft-drinks. I used to be able to drink them all the time now they are too sweet and too carbonated...yucky.

kariebo

Absolutely.. I taste all the salt they put in restaurant foods and I find myself with lots of stomach pains and 'visiting' the restroom a lot more.... and dont even get me started about if i get popcorn at the movie theater... omg...

TKHappy

Yes!! Anything fried has me down and out! If I have a moment and indulge in the cake or chips....I pay for it later!!

cookadook

restaurant foods often (dare i say almost always) have high sodium. For example.. I love applebee's and they have a section of their menu that is 550 calories or less. I opted for the Dijon chicken with portabella mushrooms. ended up being only 470 calories but 1820mg of sodium! When you are making fresh foods at home... you are (hopefully) using little or no salt so your body is going to process that much easier than the sodium filled food from restaurants. just my opinion.:happy:

josiereside

I don't necessarily get sick to my stomach from eating it but lets' just say my body rejects it the next day! :blushing:

LisaGamerGirl

Glad I'm not the only one! Just ANOTHER reason to eat healthy... not worth feeling SICK after eating junk!!

DieVixen

nope,I eat whatever and feel fine

ellenxmariex3

Absolutely.. I taste all the salt they put in restaurant foods and I find myself with lots of stomach pains and 'visiting' the restroom a lot more.... and dont even get me started about if i get popcorn at the movie theater... omg...

Once I got popcorn at a movie theater and I believe I threw up everything I've ever eaten in my life. I can't digest all that butter and salt and whatever else they put in there.

Never again. Now I plan to sneak food into the theater in my oversized purse.

stuffinmuffin

I find that my body seems to dislike me after:

Overindulging in rich food & alcohol at one time! But then it always has so it's nothing new to me.

Restaurant food is not particularly a problem but by restaurants do you mean things like fast food and chinese? I have no problems eating in most restaurants but I'm quite fussy about the ones I go to and it will be for an 'occasion'. I have always cooked from scratch at home and have a bug-bear about bottled sauces, over processed rubbish.

However I was eating a very low fat diet for a lot of my time on MFP and have now increased the (good) fat I am consuming which has actually really settled my stomach a lot.

xx

Shelbert79

That's me too, I hate it!

AmyM713

I know I feel sick after, I took this last weekend and had a lot of processed foods and ate out a few meals, I have been so sick for the past few days not sure if I have a regular bug or its from the food I ate.

ttesta20

Yes, yuck! I have the same problem now that I've switched up my diet, even if I go for the healthiest option on the menu. I've always had stomach issues, and they have been so much better since we've stopped eating out for the most part. I remember when I went grocery shopping at Wal-Mart after I'd gotten really serious about changing my diet and eating habits - there was SO much processed junk on display at the end of every aisle, and just SO much crap in huge portions, it was a total sensory overload. I haven't been back there since! If we need anything from Wal-Mart, my husband picks it up, haha!

kristen6022

Yeah. I lost more weight than I should have last week (I'm on maintenance and I'm backsliding badly) so Saturday I decided to just have a "whatever day". Eat whatever I want like I did what I was fat. Yeah, my body didn't like that and I spend all night Saturday and all day Sunday sick.

Since then I've been on the straight and narrow and trying to figure out how to stop the backsliding. I wish I knew this secret 40 pounds ago...

mdsjmom98

ME, ME!! I always have tummy troubles after I eat at a restaurant. I have to watch what I eat while out, otherwise I will get cramps, and the poops. (TMI) If I eat something that is grilled, I seem to do better. Anything fried is pretty much off limits.

thetrishwarp

I usually feel like I have a brick in my gut. Or it just doesn't taste *that* great.

Although I had a restaurant panzerotti on Saturday and oh baby was it delicious. The cheese wasn't too kind, but eh..

juliaamilee

Not only you. I think our bodies get used to cleaner/smaller portions and when we go out it really messes us up. Same with soft-drinks. I used to be able to drink them all the time now they are too sweet and too carbonated...yucky.

^^ me too. the carbonation burns my throat. LOL and way too sweet

callikia

.... and dont even get me started about if i get popcorn at the movie theater... omg...

That stuff KILLS me now! EEP!

plafleur76

I had always heard this will happen, well a couple weeks ago I was out running errands with my kid and it was lunch time, as a treat I got her taco bell, OMG, I felt ill afterwards. I now understand what others have said about feeling run down and just not right after eating fast food after eating healthy. I won't be making that mistake again anytime soon. It was kind of a NSV for me to reach that point in my health.

LindaCWy

Have any of you found that when you switch over to clean, home prepared healthier meals your body has a MUCH harder time handling restaurant food? Almost without fail, when I eat at a restaurant (even if it's borderline healthy like a meal soup) my stomach feels sick and I can't handle it and often have gastrointestinal problems!
Anyone the same as me?

Never fails... atleast it cleans me out though lol! Once it hit me so bad I had to take an immodium, which did the opposite affect and I was bloated and ahem "plugged" for 3 days (don't take immodium).

lporter229

I tend to find this to be more the case with big chain restaurants. They have things pre-made at a corporate location to ensure unity in taste from restaurant to restaurant and that results in tons and tons of preservatives. I never, ever order chicken at a chain restaurant. That rubber crap is the nastiest stuff on the face of the planet!

alltacht

I made cheesecake brownies for my nieces party the other day and I had a big piece and the headache I had was unbelieveable. I think its because I dont eat sugar anymore except for some fruit. When I was making the brownies I was like... this recipe must be wrong how can there be so much sugar in these!!!

debussyschild

Yep, and it really doesn't matter if it's fast food that I've eaten or at a fancy restaurant. My stomach is pretty sensitive to begin with, so changing my diet or eating something that I don't normally eat throws me off. I think a lot of the problem has to do with the richness of restaurant foods. Good restaurants use better products, but they use lots of heavy cream, real butter, sugar, etc., but that's why it tastes so yummy... And why my stomach goes "what?!" All of that excess fat in a meal will do a number on anyone's stomach, especially if they're not used to it.

brewface811

Yep I know what you mean. I don't even eat clean, just healthier than I used to and I get sick everytime I go out to eat.

momtokgo

Yep, I hate eating out now. At home I eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and everything is pretty light. Nothing heavy, or sugary, or fried.
We went on a roadtrip last week and we ate out for 5 days, I got so sick. I have terrible IBS symptoms, and even though I didn't eat anything that was a "trigger", I still got sick just because everything was so heavy. Pancakes, and muffins, and hashbrowns, and thick peices of bread. Things I really don't eat much of at home.

bathsheba_c

I find that any consistent diet change does that to me. I've pretty much cut out desserts, and now the idea of eating something that high in sugar is kind of gross. But I've also had the same issue in switching from lunch as the main meal of the day to dinner, even with overall nutrition being the same.

VMarkV

Most "clean eaters" don't combine enough fat in meals...fat stimulates bile to help digest food. Eating carbohydrate and protein heavy foods mostly is pretty hard to digest.

I can always smell who had a massive bowl of egg whites for breakfast

Rilke

Most "clean eaters" don't combine enough fat in meals...fat stimulates bile to help digest food. Eating carbohydrate and protein heavy foods mostly is pretty hard to digest.

I can always smell who had a massive bowl of egg whites for breakfast

In my experience, this is true. When I stopped worrying about my fat intake and let fat calories edge out some of my carbs and protein, my digestive issues (bloating and regularity) vanished. I think it's a balance between fiber, water, and fat.