Hey docs, hope all is well. I’ve recently encountered a bit of a problem in regards to my food.
Thanks to diet recommendations from you guys I was able to get my cholesterol and triglycerides into the normal range. This included increased fruit intake, fish once a week, mixed nuts daily. A few months ago I figured why not take it further with vegetables almost daily. I generally hate veggies but I’ve found by buying frozen bags of mixed veggies I can just mix it into my food and have no problems with it. I also remembered Austin mentioning how he started adding beans into his diet so I started doing that also ( kidney and black beans)
Due to my crazy schedule, only one of my meals throughout the day is the traditional hot meal. The rest is a mix of protein shakes, pb&j, oatmeal, mixed nuts and fruit etc.
im finding that when I eat these veggies and beans together at the same time I’m getting some pretty negative consequences, mostly stomach pain, bloating, and insane gas. It’s been well over a month now so I don’t think it’s just from my body getting used to it. Would it be better to maybe alternate them day to day? One day veggies, the next day beans, etc? Or maybe veggies all week and beans on the weekend?
Great to hear about your triglycerides and cholesterol. With your symptoms, this sounds to me like it’s related to the foods not being cooked well enough and/or the volume consumed at one time. I would try to cook the beans and vegetables more thoroughly or split up the dose. I acknowledge that this may be challenging with one hot meal per day. Alternating them may be an option and provided you’re getting > 30g fiber per day, I think that would be viable too.
Thanks for the input Jordan. I don’t think them being cooked enough is an issue but you could be right about the volumes. I try to do a little less than a fistful of the veggies and with the beans it ends up being a little less than 1/3 of the can.
I’ll try both ideas and see which one works better. Daily fiber is no issue between my whole grain bread, oatmeal, oats in my shakes, and fruit.
Some people do a bit better from the symptoms you described if the pre-soak some of their fiber-containing foods overnight and/or cook them more thoroughly. Between that and the volume, should do a bit better!