What food do you enjoy that your body seems to hate?

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  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,941 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    This thread is making me soooo glad to have the digestive system of a true genetic peasant!

    (Just in to brag and gloat, I guess. ;) ).

    The only thing I can think of is that if I eat something with enough secret meat in in (lots of chicken broth in something strongly-flavored enough to cover the flavor, say), I'll get mild intestinal distress (that's usually how I figure out I ate it by accident). But that's just about the gut adaptation after 45 years of vegetarianism, nothing really profound; if I phased meat back in, I'm sure I'd be fine after a couple of weeks.

    This is great (well obviously not the intestinal pain!) because I feel less like I’m going crazy after reading your experience. I’ve been fully vegetarian/occasional pescatarian for 4 years, prior to that I’d eat chicken if I had to, never any other meat, my entire life. When I got to the point only the youngest of my 4 children was left at home and the logistics of mealtimes got simpler I decided I wasn’t going to ‘go along for convenience’ anymore.
    I’m still cooking meat for husband and daughter and visitors etc and am sometimes in a situation where I have little option but to taste test a sauce whilst cooking. My husband mocks and says I’m being dramatic and it’s all in my head when I later have quite severe pain and gas symptoms. He doesn’t really see why I can’t just eat meat and get over being a ‘hippy’ about it 🙄. So it’s comforting to know that it’s an actual issue of adaptation and not me being stupid!
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    broccoli amd cauliflower :(
  • Addictead
    Addictead Posts: 66 Member
    Cantaloupe, Which is weird because I eat every other kind of fruit and vegetable with abandon without any issue. But I eat more than a bite of cantaloupe my stomach gets all weird and gassy. I once ate half of a cantaloupe for breakfast and my tummy was hurting ALL day. I have other food intolerance I can track down, But something odd in cantaloupe that effects me.
  • fitnesscat2014
    fitnesscat2014 Posts: 30 Member
    Dairy. Especially milk and cheese. I’ve had to switch to lactose free but I have to monitor how much I drink of that too or else I get horrible bloating and cramps 😣I could live off of cheese in an alternate universe lol
  • fitnesscat2014
    fitnesscat2014 Posts: 30 Member
    And coffee. I have two limit coffee to two cups a day because of chronic acid reflux issues (it’s pretty bad) I actually shouldn’t even be drinking coffee anymore but it makes me complete ❤️ ☕️
  • Allgaun
    Allgaun Posts: 222 Member
    Fruit
    I can eat bananas and melons but all other fruit gives me massive heartburn
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,142 Member
    It's interesting reading about everyone's issues! I didn't think of it but doughnuts for breakfast always give me diarrhea. I don't eat them at all because this kept happening. Guess it's one less calorie-dense thing I don't have to worry about!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,995 Member
    Katmary71 wrote: »
    Milk. I can eat yogurt, ice cream, and cheese but straight milk I'm sensitive to.

    It's likely you are lactose intolerant. For milk and cheese, the bacteria that made the milk or cheese has already digested the lactose. Don't know what is going on with the ice cream though.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,995 Member
    My husband can't digest fatty meats. He loves a hamburger and beef dripping fries, but he will probably be throwing up a few hours later.
  • lollie1285
    lollie1285 Posts: 239 Member
    edited July 2019
    Coffee. I absolutely love it, but I have stomach issues that I try to take care of naturally and it just kicks my acid reflux up to a really uncomfortable level. I try to compensate with richly flavored teas, like almond. Mmmm.

    I’m also really salt sensitive so if I have too much, that will also make my reflux go crazy. Even if other people don’t find it salty and the salt content is not crazy, my stomach begs to differ.
  • sexynurse801ms
    sexynurse801ms Posts: 37 Member
    Avocados- l love them but end up with severe acid reflux.
  • lovesummers
    lovesummers Posts: 5 Member
    Cheese! I adore cheese, but it totally stops me up! :(
  • Pickle107
    Pickle107 Posts: 153 Member
    hot cross buns. Used to adore them with some butter. Now I get dreadful indigestion. First food that's ever affected me this way.
  • texasredreb
    texasredreb Posts: 541 Member
    Carolina reapers.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    fitnesscat2014 wrote: »
    Dairy. Especially milk and cheese. I’ve had to switch to lactose free but I have to monitor how much I drink of that too or else I get horrible bloating and cramps 😣I could live off of cheese in an alternate universe lol

    We are in the reintroduction phase of an elimination diet and my husband has already found that dairy and potatoes trigger his inflammation. He used to eat cheese for lunch, dinner and snack, as well as potatoes for breakfast every. Single. Day. No wonder he suffers from chronic pain!
  • lizzynewm
    lizzynewm Posts: 199 Member
    Chia seeds. I adore chia seed pudding, but if I eat more than a teaspoon of seeds in a sitting I end up getting what my grandmother refers to as "the trots" (I guess it's less offensive than "the runs"??).
  • Florida_Superstar
    Florida_Superstar Posts: 194 Member
    Banana peppers--due to acid reflux. I had to give up many things I liked, but I was able to add back in small amounts of some. Not banana peppers, though--found out the hard way.
  • lisaepell
    lisaepell Posts: 103 Member
    Too many baby carrots and I get this weird feeling in my throat and chest. If I eat a few, I'm ok, any more than 2 servings worth and I get very uncomfortable.
  • NadNight
    NadNight Posts: 794 Member
    Grapes and chocolate. Why grapes? I have no idea, no other fruit gives me pain, bloating and has quite like sweet juicy red grapes (although I love grapes so I still eat them and suffer the consequences). Chocolate consumption is almost always followed by a horrible headache and sick feeling. Possibly not helped by my lack of self control around the stuff...
  • Kenjholo
    Kenjholo Posts: 2 Member
    Lactose and bread. My stomach bloats double the size. I have to eat a lot of fibers during the day and eat oatmeal for breakfast or I will be bloated for days.
  • HereToLose50
    HereToLose50 Posts: 154 Member
    edited August 2019
    Okra - I can't have it in any way shape or form. I miss fried okra and spicy pickled okra. Never enjoyed it any other way especially not the little balls of green snot looking okra in soups 😆

    Raw celery - ugh I look longingly at it every time I'm in the produce section. I 😍 celery.

    Both of those are severe allergies. I can't even touch them.

    I also cannot eat raw or freshly cooked oysters without severe gastrointestinal distress. I've tried many times and different cooking methods and different locations so it wasn't just a bad oyster or restaurant. Oddly enough if they are cooked to death canned oysters I have zero problems. I have tried cooking fresh ones much much longer but still end up sick.

    Forgot about dairy - this one is odd. Sometimes I can eat all the ice cream and drink all the milk and I'm fine. Other times I can't even hold either of them down. I can eat cheese without these issues.
  • cyndit1
    cyndit1 Posts: 170 Member
    Apples...I really enjoy a good apple in the fall but it KILLS my intestines a few hours later.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    Sloppy joes. Oh man, don't even ask what happens when I eat one... 😩
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Tequila ;)
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    edited August 2019
    Yeah right my *kitten* loves everything.
    No allergies, no reactions to certain foods.


    The only thing I recall having a reaction to is from eating too much hot peppers, I eat hot scorpion peppers whole by itself- hurt my stomach bad bad.
  • zylkm4
    zylkm4 Posts: 18 Member
    peanut butter makes me very gassy but I eat it occasionally (though usually stick to almond butter or sunflower butter).
  • ThatJuJitsuWoman
    ThatJuJitsuWoman Posts: 155 Member
    Hot, freshly baked bread drops into my stomach like a lead weight. I still eat it when I get the chance though! I also love super strong coffee but I have to have decaf because the caffeine makes my heart race and sends me running to the toilet.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,985 Member
    Sesame seeds, at least when not crushed in a mortar or ground otherwise. It took me years to figure that one out. I'd wake up in the middle of the night with terrible womb cramps, like having the worst menstruation pain ever, never lasting more than 10 minutes. Had this before occasionally on various vacations, and rarely at home in different countries. When living in Denmark it was nearly every night. It usually stopped for about 2-3 weeks when I took a stop week with my pill (longterm cycle). Doctors didn't know what was going on. Then I moved from Denmark to Qatar and the cramps stopped. I completely forgot that I ever had them. Then a business trip back to Denmark, and suddenly they were back :o And gone again when back in Qatar a week later. That got me thinking: what is there that I eat daily in both countries that is sufficiently different? I had a suspicion but wasn't quite sure what. Two week business trip came. For the first week I took a huge pack of Arabic bread along. No problems. Second week I had my usual, beloved bread from the company canteen: cramps came back. Ok, it's something in the bread. I found out through trial and error that it's the sesame seed covering the Danish bread (and everything I cook with it). But crushed sesame seeds, or tahini or similar things are totally fine. So when I make a Japanese noodle or rice bowl I crush sesame seeds before adding them.
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