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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
    Matt said:
    I just don't like anything else, I've always been like this with my diet.

    That's the key.

    I have a very limited diet and unfortunately it's mainly carbs.

    I was thin when I was into my 40s but no longer so because my metabolism has slowed down.

    Texture, colour, taste and smell are all important and also I'm more or less (with the very occasional aberration) vegetarian.

    Your symptoms seem quite likely to be IBS.

    They are very similar to my own (+ I have some more) and although I have had hospital examinations, nothing onerous has so far been found apart from hiatus hernia causing acidity + a chronic cough, and diverticula (which can lead to problems and I think have with me).

    I also should go for more tests but contacting my GP is like licking sandpaper.

    I'm going to try to eat more veg (yuk) by mashing it (just like a child's).

    I hope that you can see a way forward with this.

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  • over 1 year ago
    Matt said:
    I just don't like anything else, I've always been like this with my diet.

    That's the key.

    I have a very limited diet and unfortunately it's mainly carbs.

    I was thin when I was into my 40s but no longer so because my metabolism has slowed down.

    Texture, colour, taste and smell are all important and also I'm more or less (with the very occasional aberration) vegetarian.

    Your symptoms seem quite likely to be IBS.

    They are very similar to my own (+ I have some more) and although I have had hospital examinations, nothing onerous has so far been found apart from hiatus hernia causing acidity + a chronic cough, and diverticula (which can lead to problems and I think have with me).

    I also should go for more tests but contacting my GP is like licking sandpaper.

    I'm going to try to eat more veg (yuk) by mashing it (just like a child's).

    I hope that you can see a way forward with this.

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