Food that makes you feel terrible.

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  • crlyxx
    crlyxx Posts: 186 Member
    Bread. I tend to eat quite a bit of it, and I've been slowly cutting it out, but it makes me bloat up like crazy, like my stomach will swell up like a woman that's 4-5 months pregnant <.<
  • sweetnlow30
    sweetnlow30 Posts: 497 Member
    Really greasy food like fried chicken makes me physically ill so we avoid it completely. I make my own oven fried chicken andi like it better anyway. Potato chips also make me sick but only because I have portion control issues and will eat the whole bag until I am stuffed. After I feel sick and guilty. It is something I am working on.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Shrimp occasionally gives me hives. Well, hive. For some reason, I only get one, and if I put a cool washcloth on my face it will disappear from that spot and rise up again in another. Acidic tomatoes will do the same thing. But it's totally unpredictable, so it doesn't affect my eating habits. Except if someone offers me shrimp and I'm not in the mood for it, I can say, "Thanks, but it gives me hives."

    I don't know how I would react to sugar-free candy. I can't imagine any circumstances under which it would pass my lips.
  • 1223345
    1223345 Posts: 1,386 Member
    Greasy food for sure. I can handle some stuff like burgers, but not when you get into the big fat greasy ones. For example, I can handle a Big Mac but not a double from Wendy's. More meat on Wendy's and less lettuce and bread. I definitely struggle with fried chicken. I can eat a little but more than say one piece and I'll be sick. It's just too greasy. My body essentially is rejecting this food.

    UGH! GREASE! It makes me feel like I have been punched in the stomach! Not necessarily all fat, but something about grease from something like fries or pepperoni pizza, it's like my stomach just punishes me for eating it. :sick:
  • Runnersshouldlift
    Runnersshouldlift Posts: 1
    I would say any fast food can do the trick
  • RoadsterGirlie
    RoadsterGirlie Posts: 1,195 Member
    Fast food of any kind, especially if I have it with fries.

    Yuck!
  • SleeplessinBerlin
    SleeplessinBerlin Posts: 513 Member
    Dill.
  • zrmac804
    zrmac804 Posts: 369 Member
    I can't stomach "diet" foods with Sucralose. They cause instant nausea. :sick:

    I also dislike heavy, creamy sauces, especially anything mayonaisse-based
  • ThousandMilesAway
    ThousandMilesAway Posts: 11
    Donuts, fish and chips and OTT chocolate bars.
  • laele75
    laele75 Posts: 283 Member
    Artificial sweetners and straight up sugar in moderate amounts make my stomach hate me and my fibro flare. High fructose corn syrup is my bane. Anything with 'natural fruit flavors' generally means 'orange concentrate' and I'm allergic to citrus.

    That's pretty much it.
  • 1223345
    1223345 Posts: 1,386 Member
    Something I recently discovered is ascesulfame potassium. My spelling may be wrong. I had some yogurt that had a funky after taste. I read the ingredients and there it was. I went googling and discovered it is artificial sweetener. I despise the funky aftertaste left behind by artificial sweeteners.
  • emelia_
    emelia_ Posts: 91
    Pie. And bagels. I had them both today and already have a headache.
  • fightingthefood
    fightingthefood Posts: 45
    Since starting MFP and cutting way down on salt I find that I can't eat fast food. Love hamburgers and all but now all I can taste is the salt. Also chinese food makes me feel like I've died and just havent laid down yet. Doesn't matter if it has MSG in it or not. White rice and raw carrots like to make my throat close up. Also used to work with a girl at a restaurant that if she even touched a small piece of lettuce within an hour her hands would start cracking and bleed.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    If I eat too much refined sugar, I feel terrible the next day. Hungover, hard to exercise, hard to do anything much beyond sleeping.
    I also had a bad reaction, as in a thudding heart, when I had a savoury pie recently, followed by other carby foods. I have never had an issue with carbs before and assume it happened because I was intermittent fasting at the time. I guess my body could not deal with the onslaught of all those carbs in a single meal.
  • stargazer008
    stargazer008 Posts: 531
    Too much dietary fat.

    The odd thing is I love fatty, rich foods like butter but if I go over a certain amount, my stomach feels at unease.
  • meaningful99
    meaningful99 Posts: 174
    Pop tarts.

    I eat one and think

    'Great I just wasted 200 calories on an over hyped stale pastry with icing that I'm pretty sure is made of chalk.'

    Me too! I had pop tarts the other day when I was running late for work and didn't have time to have breakfast at home. I felt kind of queasy and remorseful, and then I was starving like two hours later. Pop tarts are bad!
  • dark_angel1554
    dark_angel1554 Posts: 65 Member
    Movie theatre popcorn with lots of butter! It used to be one of my favorite treats but now I can't even eat it without feeling nauseous later in the evening. Of course, I still eat it but it makes me sad that I can't enjoy it as much.

    ME TOO! I use to love the stuff...I could eat a large bag to myself easy. Now, having maybe a cup of it makes me sick :(
  • michellechawner
    michellechawner Posts: 892
    nothing typcailly bothers me - until yesterday. I had philly's best (SO GOOD), and only half a sandwich. I was sick all night. I think it's the grease content.

    also caffeine. I've had to switch to decaf coffee, but chocolate is still ok (weird, I know). It'll clean me right out, and fast.

    Other than that, just eating healthier has made me feel a lot better. And my Fibro symptoms are getting better too. Who would have thought! :)
  • katellanova
    katellanova Posts: 204 Member
    Most meat
  • organic0gf
    organic0gf Posts: 87 Member
    OMG! This was me about 3 months ago. I have always had a rapid, hard heartbeat after eating (most of the time). I was feeling so terribly awful some days that I swear anybody else that felt that bad would think they were seriously dying. The doctor would just dismiss it, thinking I was exaggerating. Finally I had to do "something"!!

    On March 8th, I went gluten-free, as well as about 90% organic, dairy free and soy free. In about a month, I had days where I actually said to myself.. "geez, I feel really GOOD today!" ..and I have felt better and better. I feel very good most days now.

    Since I quit everything all at once, I can't be 100% positive what made the difference, but if I had to bet my life .. I would choose the gluten. I'm (almost) 100% sure that's what caused me to feel so ill.

    I recently made an appointment with a dietitian and she said it was probably the gluten as well.

    Anyway, I wrote about this in my new profile. OP: You must try going gluten free. I would plan ahead and do some research as to what to avoid, because gluten is in almost everything you buy that's been processed. It took me a while and I went without any bread for a time, but I found a local bakery that makes gluten free breads, etc.

    Good luck to you.

    PS About 5 years ago, I was tested for gluten sensitivity and the doctor said I was NOT sensitive to gluten. I have felt so badly for so many years, I am amazed every day that I don't have to feel like I'm dying. By the way, my heart doesn't beat wildly after eating anymore either.
  • Willowana
    Willowana Posts: 493 Member
    I have an iron stomach. Food never makes me feel sick, nor does too much alcohol. I am relentlessly healthy, haha. I don't get sick when I eat unusual food traveling (drank tap water in Africa, even), and my body seems equally happy with a Big Mac as with organic vegetables. No allergies, no intolerances. It's lucky but it's also not great for weight loss/a healthy lifestyle.

    go eat a pack of sugar free candy and tell me how iron your stomach really is.

    I do it frequently. Also Coke Zero, baked goods with Splenda, and sugar-free Starbucks syrup in my Americanos.

    That is not the same thing I am mainly talking about.
    I can handle splendas, sugar free syrup, diet drinks... but...

    go buy a bag of sugar free werthers... So much abdominal pain and gas. Same thing with stevia...

    never again

    That's unfortunate. I don't have that problem though.

    I don't have that problem either. I have several Stevia plants (and the real leaf tastes a whole lot better than the processed powder stevia you get in the grocery store). But depending on what I'm making, sometimes I use the powdered Stevia or Splenda.

    What kills me is steak, bacon, or greasy foods.
  • organic0gf
    organic0gf Posts: 87 Member
    Anything containing wheat.. So that pretty much rules out bread, pastries, many breakfast cereals, pie, cake, cookies,crackers the BEST gravy (cornstarch gravies are YUCK), most beef stews, pizza, pasta, pretzels, wheat germ, bran muffins, most meatloafs, most meatballs. Yeah, basically all of my favorite things!

    I am NOT celiac.. I can have gluten from barley and no problem.. it's something else in the wheat that gets me and makes me feel bad in my belly.. and if I eat it for a few days in a row.. my joints start to inflame with unbearable pain. Also It gives me reflux.. I used to blame fatty foods and dairy, but I had no idea it was the wheat!

    I guess it's a blessing in diguise since most of the wheat containing foods are foods are the ones that I overate on and helped me get so fat in the first place...Maybe that's why I'm intolerent now? Maybe my body just OD'd on wheat and now it's rejecting it. Who knows... all I know is that I feel SO MUCH BETTER with out it.. until I gave it up, I never even realized how bad I felt!

    Wow! You are so lucky to find this out young. I'm 65yo and just discovered what made me feel awful all the time. See my other post and profile. Good Luck.
  • missability
    missability Posts: 223
    I use to love meatball subs from our local bistro, I use to love burritos from Moe's, filet of fish from McD's, and pizza pizza pizza.....now whenever I decide to have a "treat" and eat any of these things it is BAD!!! real bad....at first I thought it was beef with the sub, but then I bought a grass fed sirloin tip and put it in the crock pot, and ate it with no problem...with the fish I thought OK it's the fish...but at home I can make wild caught tilapia, and again no problem....the last time I had pizza it hit me!!!! They all have one thing in common! The white enriched flour! The bread, crust, bun, wrap,!!!! And the same thing for me...it's like a sugar crash....I get light headed, tunnel vision, my heart beats in my throat.....so I try very hard to avoid it...in fact today I bought a 7 layer burrito at the Bell, because as of right now until after surgery Tuesday morning I can having nothing but water, and tea.....so i wanted to try and "UP" my calories tonight....I ate a 3rd of it, and in the trash it went....
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    fresh pineapple. I adore it, but the stomach gas isn't worth it.

    I truly mourn for you. That is just tragic. No, really.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Pop tarts.

    I eat one and think

    'Great I just wasted 200 calories on an over hyped stale pastry with icing that I'm pretty sure is made of chalk.'

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  • amcshaw
    amcshaw Posts: 13
    Bacon and anything that's really greasy. I try not to eat fast food.
  • Colorfan
    Colorfan Posts: 230 Member
    High sugar stuff. Cant have too much or else my heart rate goes crazy.
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    Cheese, chocolate and caffeine. They're all triggers for my migraines. I still consume them, but very sparingly.

    Also, MacDonald's or most fast food. I want it, I eat it, it tastes GREAT, then I feel like a bag of smashed *kitten* for the rest of the day.
  • poohpoohpeapod
    poohpoohpeapod Posts: 776 Member
    apartame have tried it many times. headaches, vertigo, racing heart. ripe bananas give me a pounding headache and dry mouth. Ice cream or too much milk stuffy nose swollen eyes.
  • Elisirmon
    Elisirmon Posts: 273 Member
    Alcohol I have a thyroid problem and take medicine everytime I have any alcohol it makes my heart race and I feel super swollen and ill. Not drunk!

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