add a bunch more fibre friendly foods with the whole less cholesterol thing, but my stomach gets real weird about coffee now. It was always iffy to begin with, but now I’m getting a lot more grumbling and feeling a bit bloated. Does that eventually settle as my gut gets used to more fibre?
Yes, your gut will settle down. One thing that I’ve found that helped was the good old Metamucil - the unflavored sort. Add to juice or smoothies or just stir some into anything sufficiently liquid. Probiotics may also help your gut grow a range of microbugs to cope with the new diet. If you can tolerate yoghurt, that helps too - choose the live strain versions not the stuff labelled as greek yoghurt that contains a lot of gelatin as a thickener. Real greek yoghurt is fine, it’s just the fake stuff that might not help much. Fermented foods like kimchi and sauerkraut helps your gut grow goodbugs too.
I’m going to be honest - my stomach is used to higher fibre from childhood but after deciding it didn’t like coffee over the last few years, it has never been able to handle regular coffee + high fibre. Would just come straight out sometimes minutes after having coffee. Got to the point that I couldn’t handle lots more things, oatmeal in particular. Tried all the fermented foods and no dice.
The only way I’ve been able to recondition my gut, sadly, was go completely off coffee AND tea for the last two months, and I’ve only been able to do that (without being a completely useless and sad fuck) by getting onto ADHD meds. I’m now able to eat oatmeal and even fibrous fruit smoothies again after 3 years, without a firehose out the rear end. And I can have the occasional coffee without any gut issues
My coffee issues were MOSTLY sorted after the colonoscopy last year. I mean, if I go eat a bunch of lactose free cheese for breakfast then a coffee I’d be in trouble. But yeah its clearly not happy now.
Well that’s promising that you could get the coffee thing figured out. Hopefully your gut adjusts soon, but as a last resort if it stays unhappy try to dial down the coffee for a bit if you can, it’s generally going to add extra stress to the gut so might as well give it an easier time when shifting diets. Of course, easier said than done
Green (for me at least) helps with digestion. Not sure about bloat. Peppermint might do the job. And green has caffeine in it too. If you’re finding coffee gets you a bit funky, perhaps stick to herbals for a bit and see how they work.
Yeah I reckon it will settle. I eat really high fibre mostly and coffee. I don’t have a strong coffee and then set off on a five km walk (learned that the hard way) but it does settle after a couple of weeks. I find eating consistent meal times helps.
When life gets ahead of me and I start slacking on the fresh veg + pulses + brown grains there’s always some adjustment time.
Can’t tell you if no coffee is better because you can prise the coffee out of my cold dead hands.
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add a bunch more fibre friendly foods with the whole less cholesterol thing, but my stomach gets real weird about coffee now. It was always iffy to begin with, but now I’m getting a lot more grumbling and feeling a bit bloated. Does that eventually settle as my gut gets used to more fibre?
you should settle
Yes, your gut will settle down. One thing that I’ve found that helped was the good old Metamucil - the unflavored sort. Add to juice or smoothies or just stir some into anything sufficiently liquid. Probiotics may also help your gut grow a range of microbugs to cope with the new diet. If you can tolerate yoghurt, that helps too - choose the live strain versions not the stuff labelled as greek yoghurt that contains a lot of gelatin as a thickener. Real greek yoghurt is fine, it’s just the fake stuff that might not help much. Fermented foods like kimchi and sauerkraut helps your gut grow goodbugs too.
Yeah grabbed a yogurt at lunch today. I think that might’ve not helped. Its all grumbly and feels strange, but not in a bad way.
I’m going to be honest - my stomach is used to higher fibre from childhood but after deciding it didn’t like coffee over the last few years, it has never been able to handle regular coffee + high fibre. Would just come straight out sometimes minutes after having coffee. Got to the point that I couldn’t handle lots more things, oatmeal in particular. Tried all the fermented foods and no dice.
The only way I’ve been able to recondition my gut, sadly, was go completely off coffee AND tea for the last two months, and I’ve only been able to do that (without being a completely useless and sad fuck) by getting onto ADHD meds. I’m now able to eat oatmeal and even fibrous fruit smoothies again after 3 years, without a firehose out the rear end. And I can have the occasional coffee without any gut issues
My coffee issues were MOSTLY sorted after the colonoscopy last year. I mean, if I go eat a bunch of lactose free cheese for breakfast then a coffee I’d be in trouble. But yeah its clearly not happy now.
Well that’s promising that you could get the coffee thing figured out. Hopefully your gut adjusts soon, but as a last resort if it stays unhappy try to dial down the coffee for a bit if you can, it’s generally going to add extra stress to the gut so might as well give it an easier time when shifting diets. Of course, easier said than done
Sadly with a young kid, I think Im better off shitting myself than I am giving up coffee.
If you find yourself getting too bloated, aniseed/fennel tea is good. I crush up fennel seeds and soak them in hot water with a bit ginger.
The bloat and such does ease up eventually. The more you can poop, the better you’ll feel.
Ah yeah, thats not a bad idea. A green tea would probs help too.
Green (for me at least) helps with digestion. Not sure about bloat. Peppermint might do the job. And green has caffeine in it too. If you’re finding coffee gets you a bit funky, perhaps stick to herbals for a bit and see how they work.
Oh yeah, of course! thats a better idea.
Yeah I reckon it will settle. I eat really high fibre mostly and coffee. I don’t have a strong coffee and then set off on a five km walk (learned that the hard way) but it does settle after a couple of weeks. I find eating consistent meal times helps.
When life gets ahead of me and I start slacking on the fresh veg + pulses + brown grains there’s always some adjustment time.
Can’t tell you if no coffee is better because you can prise the coffee out of my cold dead hands.