What foods do NOT work for you?

Heatherfev21
Heatherfev21 Posts: 21 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been experimenting a little lately, now, I always stay within my calories and I never usually eat back my exercise ones, not because I don't want to, just because I don't feel like eating more!

That being said, I have found that on days I have cheese (and I don't have tons) the next day I am always bloated and heavier, now I can't say if that is why definitely but I was wondering.. do YOU have foods that don't suit you? Do you avoid them or just accept you'll be bloated for a day or two?

I love cheese! I don't eat a lot of it, but I can't imagine never eating it again!
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  • slenderizeme
    slenderizeme Posts: 154 Member
    Lol I have actually started a do not eat list. The reason being I know that certain foods encourage me to binge. This is what it is so far:

    -Buffalo wild wings (after checking the calorie count online)
    -Pepperoni roll ups (homemade from recipe)
    -Baked macaroni and cheese
  • Blondehelmet
    Blondehelmet Posts: 32 Member
    For some reason, Maggi noodles make me really crook and give me a headache.
  • Fozzi43
    Fozzi43 Posts: 2,984 Member
    Bread bloats me so I try not to have too much, I love bread :sad:
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Egg yolks, milk and red meat turn my insides out. I have a digestive disorder that limits my ability to process large amounts of fats - especially those associated with animal products. I have to stick to lean chicken and fish and stuff like that to avoid getting sick.
  • skinimin
    skinimin Posts: 252 Member
    bread and pasta, cannot stand the way it makes me feel. even though it's super yummy.
  • ktbrett22
    ktbrett22 Posts: 17 Member
    It's taken YEARS for this to sink in but I've just started realising that eating bad makes me feel bad and eating well makes me feel well. It sounds so simple written down like that but I've been ignoring these signals for a long time!! I agree though - cheese is too good to just give up! Maybe drink a ton of water after having it? It could be the salt in it that is bloating.
  • donna_glasgow
    donna_glasgow Posts: 869 Member
    Bread bloats me so I try not to have too much, I love bread :sad:

    exactly this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ even the love of bread ... but I don't gain when eating it .. I just don't lose, so once at my weight I will eat it again ... 19lbs till bread time :)
  • Oh_Cat
    Oh_Cat Posts: 59 Member
    I have learned that I just can't have any kind of granola in the house. It is breakfast crack. I *will* eat the whole box. :cry:
  • witchy_wife
    witchy_wife Posts: 792 Member
    Bread and pizza dough really bloat me up. I feel awful the following day if I have it. I am ok with pasta and am ok with whole grain seeded bread as long as not too much.

    I don't eat pasta much now either apart from wholemeal pasta. I eat low-ish carb, about 70 - 100g a day and try and get the big majority of that from fresh fruit and veggies (quite easy with fruit!)
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    I havent noticed anything except soft drinks and things loaded in sugar/salt
  • Lu_88
    Lu_88 Posts: 36 Member
    Fresh mackerel (smoked is fine)
    Scrambled eggs.

    Both make me feel sick.
  • kiekie
    kiekie Posts: 289 Member
    Pizza :sad:

    I love it, I lust it, but it makes my insides feel so bloated and pained. I seem to have amnesia when it comes to this though and always remember afterwards when it's too late.

    I also love bread, but eating it makes me crave more bread and then sugar, then more bread. It's just no good for me. I try to stick to one wholemeal slice with breakfast but find even this starts the cycle. Sucks!
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    I avoid grains, legumes, most dairy, sugar and most processed food as a rule. Both on weight management issues and general health grounds.

    I feel a lot better when I avoid them and I find that I'm not constantly hungry.
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    I get sick/migraines from the following:

    Aspartame
    MSG
    Lactose
    Large amounts of animal fat.


    Other than that, I really shouldn't eat candy because I have no self control with them. I will eat the whole bag.
    Bread is fine with me, as long as I don't eat more than two slices.
  • persephone87
    persephone87 Posts: 220 Member
    I have IBS so my do not eat list is massive and even when I don't eat the bad foods I'm still bloated and sloshy as I call it (like when you move you feel like your foods sloshing around in your stomach like water in a bucket) so the short list is

    Wheat
    Eggs
    Oats
    Pork
    Milk
    Cheese
    Noodles
    Creamy sauces
    Alcohol (I'm intolerant)
    Beans cos they taste like poo and the texture is very weird
    Anything wholemeal
    Anything too spicy
    Nothing too citrus like oranges, lemon etc.

    I think thats it! Some of the things on my list I just eat anyway cos I feel like crap all the time no matter what I eat so I might as well just eat what I want.
  • Kathrynha77
    Kathrynha77 Posts: 103 Member
    I can't eat anything fatty within 2 hours of bedtime. My body seems fine processing it if I'm upright, but it can't cope with it when I lie down. Stomach just churns all night
  • ChunkieNuts
    ChunkieNuts Posts: 135 Member
    I have learned that I just can't have any kind of granola in the house. It is breakfast crack. I *will* eat the whole box. :cry:
    Im the same, any type of Granola and i will keep eating it dry..How weak am i!
  • zoeluiisa
    zoeluiisa Posts: 392
    Any junk food. I don't know if it's the additives, the carbs, the fat, or what. But I feel like cr*p after I eat it.

    Also, bread and pasta. I have known this all my adult life, and I'll go through phases of reducing it but somehow I always let it creep back in... Because I don't have an actual allergy I feel a bit pretentious refusing to eat it. Also, it's SO GOOD - much harder to give up than the junk food which I'm not crazy about anyway.
  • LisaMariaMuir
    LisaMariaMuir Posts: 14 Member
    After years of suffering from IBS the main foods that trigger it are anything from the onion family, any fruit juice and diary especially cream. (Try going out to a restaurant and telling the server that you can't have onion or garlic in your pasta sauce etc.......it's a nightmare!)

    Having found out in the last 4 weeks that i'm gluten intolerant I feel a heap better and am losing that sluggish yukky feeling that wheat, etc gives you. I'm wondering if this has been my major problem all along?? :flowerforyou:
  • LCgymnast
    LCgymnast Posts: 258
    Pork is my enemy, mostly because it has so much sodium in it. I bloat up with all the salt and feel gross the next day.
  • zoeluiisa
    zoeluiisa Posts: 392
    Pork is my enemy, mostly because it has so much sodium in it. I bloat up with all the salt and feel gross the next day.

    I don't think pork is naturally a high sodium product - it's only when the supermarkets inject it with salt water. Could you buy from a nice local supplier who doesn't mess with it like that?
  • jenneal89
    jenneal89 Posts: 243
    Eggs. I get terrible stomach cramps that last at least 6 hours if I eat eggs plain (cooked into things is fine like egg fried rice or cake although I've given those up too due to calorie content). I love eggs but I can't afford to spend all day curled up into a ball :cry:
  • shoneybabes
    shoneybabes Posts: 199 Member
    I have IBS so my do not eat list is massive and even when I don't eat the bad foods I'm still bloated and sloshy as I call it (like when you move you feel like your foods sloshing around in your stomach like water in a bucket) so the short list is

    Wheat
    Eggs
    Oats
    Pork
    Milk
    Cheese
    Noodles
    Creamy sauces
    Alcohol (I'm intolerant)
    Beans cos they taste like poo and the texture is very weird
    Anything wholemeal
    Anything too spicy
    Nothing too citrus like oranges, lemon etc.

    I think thats it! Some of the things on my list I just eat anyway cos I feel like crap all the time no matter what I eat so I might as well just eat what I want.

    What do you eat and do you get enough nutrients?

    I had IBS and lived on crisps, toast and the occasional hotdog for about a year as it was the only things that didn't upset my system.

    It took lots of different meds before I could eat veg again (pain free) My first salad was awesome!!

    I learnt to find my trigger foods and now don't eat them. It is weird that processed food worked better for me than fresh!

    I don't eat:
    Dairy
    meat
    MSG products
    no fruit juices before a meal but can drink them at any other times of the day
    alcohol
    caffeine
  • PibblesRun
    PibblesRun Posts: 236 Member
    I try to keep my salt intake really low. Any large amount of sodium in food really bloats me and makes me feel terrible! Pizza as well, makes me feel horrible...probably from the salt, or maybe the cheese! I noticed if i eat large amounts of dairy at one time I get bad stomach cramps and poops all next day!
  • xenah
    xenah Posts: 4 Member
    LMAO!!!!
    Awesome!
  • xenah
    xenah Posts: 4 Member
    Dairy & Grains. Anything processed bloats my tummy.
    Have turned to coconut milk and roasting veggies, making interesting salads. We also have fish and eggs and all kinds of meat regularly.

    If you have an iphone, check out the paleo diet recipes app. There is definitely planning involved when changing from processed foods to whole foods.
  • snapril68
    snapril68 Posts: 76 Member
    I try to keep my salt intake really low. Any large amount of sodium in food really bloats me and makes me feel terrible! Pizza as well, makes me feel horrible...probably from the salt, or maybe the cheese! I noticed if i eat large amounts of dairy at one time I get bad stomach cramps and poops all next day!

    This just happened to me this morning and I was wondering what triggered it? But after reading this I'm thinking it was the slice of pizza I ate yesterday at work. At the time it just looked so delicious that I caved but I've been paying the price all day today :( Super bad cramping and the runs. I'm thinking maybe it was the grease in the pizza?? I've been eating super healthy for about a month now so maybe it's harder for my body to handle the "junk food" since it's gotten used to the good stuff like lean meats and non-fat dairy, etc.
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
    I try to avoid eating out whenever possible now. I just never feel that great when I do.

    I also try to keep my potassium intake high and my sodium intake low to prevent pregnancy bloating that seems to happen so easily these days.

    Other than that, it's just preference.
  • WickedPixie1
    WickedPixie1 Posts: 111 Member
    For the most part, I can eat and drink anything. But wheat...too much and I'm a balloon.
    Anything deep fried makes me very nauseous...which is really, really bad since I occasionally like to hit greasy spoons for some burger and fries action.
    I can have carbonated stuff in moderation...which is good for my occasional pop or beer binge.
    I rarely eat junk food anyway (candy, chips, chocolate et cetera)
    Some veggies like peppers use to make me swell up and cramp really bad within minutes of eating it, but that's gotten a lot better now. Same with some grains.
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    sugary snacks with no protein at same meal, anything with a bunch of chemicals in it, white flour, 90 percent of fast food, hamburger, corn-fed beef, pork, and unfortunately cabbage and beans. i so want to eat cabbage and beans more but no matter what i do, they hate me! Also mushrooms freak me out beyond words.

    honestly the worst meal i could probably eat would be a commercial pizza (not homemade). i feel like they give me gastrointestinal problems and also make me want to pig out for days after. Dang it they taste soooo good though!

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