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Diet Change - Foul flatulence and Weight Loss.

Clean_Cut

Clean_Cut

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Over the last 18 months I have embarked on a massive lifestyle change after the illness of a family member.
This change has mainly been centered around a new diet.
The main changes include less meat and more vegetables and legumes as well as superfoods such as spirulina and chlorella etc.

I seem to have encountered a problem that is most embarrasing...foul flatulence! It has really started to become so bad that it is impacting my life.
I have done hours of research...all of which confuses me in to thinking that it could be:
a) not chewing enough
b) a wheat allergy/intolerance or
c) some other food allergy/intolerance
d) malabsorption of certain nutrients (perhaps carbs as my diet appears to be quite high in carbs)

I am almost certain that not chewing enough is not the answer as I have really worked on chewing more with little avail.

Other symptoms include:
-Weight loss - I have gone from 68kg to 61kg...although this could partly be due to restricting meat consumption. Even if I eat as often as possible I just cant seem to put on weight!
-Constipation - Constant flatulence has led to a constipated feeling...when I do have a bowel movement it is usually small and not completely 'satisfying'.

PLEASE HELP ME BLUELIGHT!

I am stumped as to what to do!
 
Write up a sample of your daily intake. Be precise. Then we can help you better.

How many calories are you eating in a day? Define "more" in relation to vegetables and legumes--Are you eating about a half cup a day, or three cups a day? Have you introduced a new food into your diet that wasn't there before (I see "superfoods such as spirulina and chlorella etc" as the probable culprits).

My diet doesn't include any "superfoods", is entirely plant-based, and includes a lot of legumes (sometimes up to a cup a day) and vegetables (sometimes up to three cups a day). I get foul gas when I eat something that contained dairy, preservatives, alcohol, pesticides, or artificial ingredients. Are you eating any of those?

Also, have you tried any elimination diets to pinpoint what may be causing these issues?
 
Breakfast - A few pieces of fruit (i.e. kiwi fruit, grapes, blueberries etc)
10-15 mins later -2 boiled eggs
- 2 pieces of toast (organic rye bread) with peanut butter, honey and cinnamon

Snack - more fruit (banana or orange/apple etc)

Pre-Lunch - Shake consisting of: spirulina, bee pollen, honey, cinnamon, hemp protein, coconut oil, rice milk

Lunch - usually a salad consisting of lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomato, avocado etc...with either potato, cooked beans or sprouted and steamed beans, rice.

Snack - banana or sometimes nuts such as almonds, cashews etc

Dinner - Either chicken, fish or a legume/rice combination.

Nightime snack - Sometimes I will have more toast...


Thats a pretty good representation of the things that I usually eat.
I have already tried eliminating muesli and I am in the process of eliminating wheat entirely...
 
I repeat: dairy, preservatives, alcohol, pesticides, or artificial ingredients. Are you eating any of those?

Do you eat any dairy? Are the few processed foods you do eat (the bread, peanut butter, spirulina, hemp protein, rice milk) chock full of weird ingredients? I know rice milk is, depending upon the brand. Most peanut butter isn't just "peanuts".

Have you tried eliminating the spirulina? Or it may even be the fruit first thing in the morning. I know how they say you should eat fruit on an empty stomach, but I asked a registered dietitian about that, and she said the claim that fruit rots in your intestines if eaten with other things is a load of bunk.
 
Only dairy is organic yogurt...but I only have that rarely and it doesnt appear related.
Nothing with pesticides sprayed on it is consumed nor is anything with added preservatives/artificial sweeters enhancers etc etc etc.

The ingredients in the rice milk appear normal..no wierd additives. The hemp protein is just 100% pure hemp seed. peanut butter is just peanuts and salt. The fruit in the morning has been added since the problem began so I dont think that is the issue.

The spirulina could well be the problem I guess...just wierd that most people find it provides a cleaner system!?
 
^ If it's foul smelling, it's because your body is trying to get rid of some of the stuff that's probably backed up in your system.

If it's foul noise pollution, it's the beans.

Either way, I'd believe since you're probably eating more wheat now than before you went on this journey, the wheat's giving you the constipation. I agree with the first point you made: try chewing better. If that's not it, then try switching brands of breads and pastas. Sometimes, certain brands are a different kind of strain of wheat that your body can't digest very well. The changes in wheat have been merciless over the last hundred years and it might be affecting you now.
 
^ And probably vitamin A palamate, some oil, a bit of tricalcium phosphate, some other vitamins like B12, maybe Vitamin D, and maybe even some carrageenan. Depends on the brand though. ;)
 
Try increasing your fibre intake, to help regulate your bowel movements. If you can poop regularly thats half the farting battle.
 
Clean_Cut said:
Breakfast - A few pieces of fruit (i.e. kiwi fruit, grapes, blueberries etc)
10-15 mins later -2 boiled eggs
- 2 pieces of toast (organic rye bread) with peanut butter, honey and cinnamon

Snack - more fruit (banana or orange/apple etc)

Pre-Lunch - Shake consisting of: banana, spirulina, bee pollen, honey, cinnamon, hemp protein, coconut oil, rice milk, 1 tbls whole ground flax seeds

Lunch - usually a salad consisting of lettuce, spinach, carrots, tomato, avocado etc...with either potato, cooked beans or sprouted and steamed beans, rice.

Snack - banana or sometimes nuts such as almonds, cashews etc

Dinner - Either chicken, fish or a legume/rice combination.

Nightime snack - Sometimes I will have more toast...
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With regard to my weight loss issue...does anybody out there with good caloric estimation qualities know how many calories this diet would approximate to?

Im currently 5'7 and 60kg/132lb
 
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