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Bad Diet

Matt
over 1 year ago

I don't know how to improve my diet. I only eat and drink sweet sugary things. The healthy stuff always tastes and smells wrong. I know the problem, but I don't know how to get around it.

Whenever I try new stuff my stomach hurts. It hurts anyway, usually aching or sharp pains even without food. I get a lot of burping and it always feels firm and tight. Going to the toilet is ok, hurts sometimes but I'm always getting yellow mucus. I practically live on antacids to ease this. And my stomach feels hungry a lot despite that I'm eating sweets throughout the day.

I'm guessing my poor diet is behind this? 

I keep fit. Do a lot of workouts and sport but my food and drink is all the wrong stuff. I just don't like anything else, I've always been like this with my diet.

I've thought of calling doctor's but it's not worth the emotional and mental strain. I can do phonecalls no problem but actually going to be checked out and have tests is now impossible. My anxiety explodes like a great big bomb and I'm destroyed, it can take months to recover from one appointment, if not longer.

I don't think there's acting seriously wrong. The yellow mucus isn't nice but there's no blood, no vomiting, just discomfort and burping. Sometimes nausea but not a lot.

If anyone else has this problem then any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks team. Thumbsup

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  • over 1 year ago

    I saw that last forty minutes of that Christine McGuinness autistic journey documentary, and at one point she visits a rehab clinic for eating disorders. Someone there had done research and found that a high percentage of the in-patients were autistic. Anyway, she said at one point that if an autistic person finds certain foods just too overwhelmingly jarring to persist with, she doesn't really care what they eat instead as long as they can maintain a healthy weight, some baseline nutrition and so on. 

    So, maybe that same lady would tell you to make small adjustments but to keep on 'doing you' on the diet front, as the trade-off and cost to your overall wellbeing is not worth the hassle. 

    I eat relatively plain and bland for the most part, and I do have a bit of a sweet tooth but still eat savoury stuff too - really as the main part of my diet.

    Knowing that I'm going to find the 'five a day' stuff a challenge, my strategy in recent times has been to do a kind of intermittent 'take your medicine' thing a couple of times per day. This takes the form of juicing celery for a quick 'down the hatch' and then I swallow some of the pulpy pellets left behind as well. I also have a bag of spinach in the fridge that I take a handful or two of in any given day, just raw and as quickly chewed and swallowed as I can. It's not a gruesome taste, but nor is it especially nice - just a neutral 'must do' thing. Small doses of blueberries as well. And I might cut a pear up into sections and have that. And the occasional pre-packed Caesar salad. Beyond that, I'm kust living off carbs and cheese. And tinned tuna. My elderly mother tells me off all the time for being insufficiently diverse in my nutrition pallette and culinary experimentation, but it's just not who I am. 

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  • over 1 year ago

    I saw that last forty minutes of that Christine McGuinness autistic journey documentary, and at one point she visits a rehab clinic for eating disorders. Someone there had done research and found that a high percentage of the in-patients were autistic. Anyway, she said at one point that if an autistic person finds certain foods just too overwhelmingly jarring to persist with, she doesn't really care what they eat instead as long as they can maintain a healthy weight, some baseline nutrition and so on. 

    So, maybe that same lady would tell you to make small adjustments but to keep on 'doing you' on the diet front, as the trade-off and cost to your overall wellbeing is not worth the hassle. 

    I eat relatively plain and bland for the most part, and I do have a bit of a sweet tooth but still eat savoury stuff too - really as the main part of my diet.

    Knowing that I'm going to find the 'five a day' stuff a challenge, my strategy in recent times has been to do a kind of intermittent 'take your medicine' thing a couple of times per day. This takes the form of juicing celery for a quick 'down the hatch' and then I swallow some of the pulpy pellets left behind as well. I also have a bag of spinach in the fridge that I take a handful or two of in any given day, just raw and as quickly chewed and swallowed as I can. It's not a gruesome taste, but nor is it especially nice - just a neutral 'must do' thing. Small doses of blueberries as well. And I might cut a pear up into sections and have that. And the occasional pre-packed Caesar salad. Beyond that, I'm kust living off carbs and cheese. And tinned tuna. My elderly mother tells me off all the time for being insufficiently diverse in my nutrition pallette and culinary experimentation, but it's just not who I am. 

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