Stomach pain after eating fast food for the first time in a month.. is this normal? And why is this?

You're still reacting to taco bell! Lol

takemetosingapore19 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Spices and fat. It sounds like you've been eating pretty low-fat and possibly bland foods. Your gut adjusts to what you eat.

This is helpful and probably right. Ironically, I did eat very high fat because I ate a ton of avocado, nuts and used avo spread in my tuna or high calorie hummus with my meat for the day. I went over fat everyday. I realize there may be a difference in how mono fat and sat fat are metabolized though.

Based on anecdotal reports I've heard, some people have a different reaction to dairy fat than they do to, say, plant fat. So if you were getting a lot of fat from avocado, nuts, and oil, you still might have potential digestive upset when eating a meal that is high in dairy fat (like some pizzas can be).

cwolfman13 wrote: »

Have you eliminated dairy from your diet? Re-introducing a bunch of dairy when you haven't been eating it for awhile can cause issues...really true of pretty much anything you eliminate and then re-introduce or if it's something new. Eating more vegetables even gave me stomach issues in the beginning.

I eat a pretty healthy diet overall...but we always have something "fun" on weekends...be it pub grub or pizza or whatever and I haven't had any issues.

Yep! I ate fast food for the first time 2 weeks ago for the first time in 2 years. Had my first heart burn in almost 2 years. It might be another 2 years until I have it again. It also tastes really processed, almost like Styrofoam!

It's your body saying don't feed me processed fast food. How I feel after I eat food, whatever it may be, tells me if my body liked or didn't like the food.

Anything fast food I literally feel completely bloated and have stomach cramps afterwards... my body is telling me to not eat the stuff but it tastes so good!!
The last couple of times I’ve ate it though it’s really not worth the pain, so if I can help it I’m staying off it.

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

Spices and fat. It sounds like you've been eating pretty low-fat and possibly bland foods. Your gut adjusts to what you eat.

This.

Happens to me every time I decide to eat something fried/greasy. In general, I hardly eat out, and when I do it's always something that isn't fried/covered in oil- but I totally catch the pizza or french fries craving on the rare occasion, and when I indulge, my oh my stomach cramps are SO BAD. Your gut learns how to digest based on what you feed it. I highly suggest probiotics in the morning and night, ESPECIALLY on a day where you know you're going to splurge. I try to eat yogurt or keifer before a more indulgent meal as well, helps aid in digestion.

Honestly, I always have some sort of stomach issue when I eat that stuff, but these things definitely help a little. I do purposefully keep lots of spices in my diet at home so it's really only the grease that's an issue now. Good luck!

okay...
first - some foods that you haven't eaten in a while will be harder to digest for a bit, if they require certain enzymes to digest them properly and your body has not been making these enzymes with the lack of the food, for example, and needs to build up the supply (it will start making more enzymes as you eat more).

Second - the idea that your body will have problems with a food SIMPLY because you haven't eaten it in a while, however, is a complete fallacy. Our bodies are actually built to be able to do this - we developed in a world without grocery stores, where typically, you have a food for a few weeks out of the entire year, and then it's a new set of 'in season' foods. We HAVE to be able to digest food that we may not eat for long periods of time.

Also, if you are just avoiding foods for a month? No WAY is that enough time for your body to even stop making the enzymes. For anything.

So if you are having problems with a food? There are strong odds against it having anything to do with the simple fact of your not eating it.

That said - many, many, MANY people discover that they have problems with certain foods after they go without it for a while.

This often happens to celiacs who stop eating wheat, rye, and barley for a while, and then try to eat it again.
This often happens to those who may be mildly or moderately lactose intolerant when they start eating more dairy again.
This can happen if someone has a mild food allergy or intolerance, and once the body is finally cleared of said food, you start noticing problems with it.

And for all of these, even a couple weeks can be enough to start to notice an issue, in my experience.

As someone who had to track down my own reactions to foods I hadn't had in a while, I would look at everything you ate, and try to get individual ingredients that were involved, and then try them, one a day or so, to see which ingredient in question may be the problem (for info, taco bell meat is very high in wheat, weirdly).

And you probably want to pig out a little on the ingredient, just to make sure, as some - like lactose intolerance - are quantity based reactions that won't cause problems below a certain level.