Is it possible to make yourself sick after eating healthily?

jeannine71
jeannine71 Posts: 66 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm going to spare you the gory details but after months of eating fairly well and exercising ALOT, I sort of fell off the wagon. Since Thanksgiving I've been eating rich foods, drinkin a little more and not exercising so much. In the last few days I got sick as a dog - gastro-intestinenal stuff.....so, I've been eating bland foods,no caffeine, no alcohol... and it seems to be resolving.

Maybe it was just a bug, but I think the binging made my system go haywire - my boyfriend thinks I'm crazy - but he eats whatever he wants all the time. Has anyone experienced this?

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  • mkmacf
    mkmacf Posts: 101
    Totally happened to me in the last few days! I was good for maybe 10 days, then had some grease and things have been crampy and terrible. You're not imagining it!
  • theflyingartist
    theflyingartist Posts: 385 Member
    Yep.
    I can't eat meat anymore. At all. Period. :(
    I can't have fast food at all anymore, either. Any kind of processed, heavily modified foods are a no-go in my diet. :/
  • Vermilla
    Vermilla Posts: 348
    Yep.
    I can't eat meat anymore. At all. Period. :(
    I can't have fast food at all anymore, either. Any kind of processed, heavily modified foods are a no-go in my diet. :/

    I think the body gets used to new types of food. A year or so ago, I lived on fast food. Sometimes two meals a day and a good four days a week. I had candies, sugars, donuts, sweets all over. Now I try to eat that and it makes me sick. Even the fish sandwich at McDonalds does it to me (yet I still sometimes eat it because I love it). It does help with sticking to a diet, though, when you begin to hate the things that hate your body.
  • Toxictwist
    Toxictwist Posts: 274
    Last week I went out for lunch with Co-workers, I noticed instantly that the food was not agreeing with me (2-3 bites)
  • AmandaJoi25
    AmandaJoi25 Posts: 50
    I was a vegan for a few months and when I went back to eating theway I had before I had many stomach problems but my system regulated after a few weeks.
  • MaraDiaz
    MaraDiaz Posts: 4,604 Member
    I'm kind of wondering if the packaged pastries I had over the weekend were responsible for some nausea. I used to eat those all the time without noticing any problems, but something sure upset my system this time. I blame the tasty pastries.
  • jakeschafer
    jakeschafer Posts: 91
    Did that for me over the weekend im pretty sick i had pizza one night and wendy's the next... idk how i ever managed to do that before... its sooo not worth doing anymore
  • abracasqueak
    abracasqueak Posts: 30
    I notice I feel quite queasy if I eat a medium-large amount of rich, High fat/sugar foods. It's a good thing in my book though. :)
  • kyylieeeeee
    kyylieeeeee Posts: 197 Member
    Absolutely. Every time I go on vacation (the only time I'll eat SUPER carb-heavy foods or anything fried), I spend the entire first night throwing up. This happened to me in Berlin two years ago after eating Burger King (haven't had fast food since then), at the Jersey shore last year after eating a ton of calzone and beer, and it happened last month after eating my weight in fried oysters in New Orleans. A few months ago, I went out to dinner with my mom and we split some mozzarella sticks...I threw up two hours later. My stomach has always been sensitive, but as I make better food choices and get older, it's become much more senstitive to unhealthy thing I don't usually eat.

    I also can't pack away a huge meal...even if it's healthy. My body doesn't seem to like to accept too much food at one time!

    So yes. It is totally possible to make yourself sick after being strict about what goes in your body for a long period of time.
  • MzFury
    MzFury Posts: 283 Member
    I eat VERY little refined or added sugars and very little white wheat products, and very little pastry. I have started to notice a distinct correlation between a kind of sugar-butter/oil-flour combo and zits/inflammatory response. At first I thought it was in my head (and I DO feel it when I eat baguettes, for instance, in my stomach - get painful wind! doh!), but since I really indulge infrequently in this stuff I have paid closer attention and I see a correlation now with my skin, nearly every time. A modest piece of quiche with pastry crust usually won't do it, but half of a cinnamon roll or croissant type thing will, as will a (white flour, at a restaurant) buttermilk pancake with syrup (I typically have one teaspoon of Grade B maple syrup in a latte at home in the morning, and don't feel that sugar)... It's pretty interesting to keep track of, and makes me gladder than ever that I don't eat like this in general.
  • MzFury
    MzFury Posts: 283 Member
    And yeah, Kylieeee, I notice this too - if I eat a meal larger than about 500 calories (450's my usual max dinner/lunch size) now, I feel it big time - if it's over 600 I'm in trouble - I don't get sick, but I food coma out, even when it's good food. Just can't process that much any more...
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