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Bulking and stomach issues

jbgolf52
jbgolf52 Posts: 210 Member
edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
I've had stomach issues for around six years now and had all the tests done and the diagnosis is chronic constipation. I'm good 95% of the time and eat whatever, but the small 5% I flare up and have stomach pains and am unable to eat and lose weight. When you guys have an upset stomach do you still try to hit your calorie goal? I've been unable to hit my maintenance cals, let alone bulking cals, the last week and have dropped 3lbs as a result (I know glycogen is a good deal of that).

For reference, I'm 25M, 5'10, 140lbs this morning but normally 145. Trying to bulk up to 165 but I keep having flare ups every couple of months. It doesn't matter what I eat/don't eat, nor fiber level, just comes on at random most likely due to anxiety and depression. Just looking to see if you guys tough it out and still get your cals in no matter what. Normally if I don't eat for a day or two the pain passes and I can eat pain free again but I don't want to do that again, it sucks.

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  • AsISmile
    AsISmile Posts: 1,004 Member
    I have Iritable bowel syndrome, so I know what it's like to live with pain in the digestive track.
    One thing that I found that helped me is that someone taught me how to do a shiatsu massage on my belly. It helps reduce the pain and for me kinda kickstart my bowels again. You could look into that. (I'm not really a believer in all of what shiatsu entails, but after doing a massage directly on my belly I imediatly feel relieve and can hear sounds (like the digesting ones) coming from my intestines).

    I don't really have advice for eating when the pain makes you lose appetite.
    If I'm still hungry but know eating will give me pain I suck it up.

    Perhaps you should consider a more liquid diet? Shakes and smooties? And if you can handle it, supplement it with protein powder.
  • jbgolf52
    jbgolf52 Posts: 210 Member
    I'll look into that massage, thanks for the tip, I'll look into more liquids as well. I just hate losing weight, even though I'm in pain at times. It's not as bad today but still not great.
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