Hi all,

I've been having this problem for some time now, in fact, I am suffering from it right now. Essentially, I limit myself to one cheat meal a week. If I have an overwhelming urge throughout the week, I can usually calm it by either eating a meal earlier than usual or by eating a piece of fruit. Sometimes though, I may skip my 'free' meal in a week because I don't feel like it. Why cheat for the sake of cheating, right? But sometimes, after I've been eating clean for an extended period of time, I start having stomach discomfort. I've since learned that eating some candy, bread, cake or regular soda helps the feeling. I don't always feel like eating the unhealthy food (mainly I think the sweet/appealing taste helps settle my stomache) but I have learned that it helps. I'm having trouble figuring it out because I did have my cheat meal yestarday, but am having issues today. I have though been eating especially clean this month, which is why I am not surprised that my stomach is bothering me.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Is it stomach, uppoer or lower abdominal area? What's your age? Yes...lol, that's important.

For one, you need to diversify foods. After several months, you need cheat meals, sometimes an entire day of not so good food.

Frozen mixed veggies has been terrible for me.

It's more of an upper stomach pain and I am 25. I generally try to diversify my food, but I do have a habit of getting in the mood for something, and then eating it for every meal for a week (this month it was turkey chili for about 2 weeks).

It seemed today too that water really made my stomach sick. Drinking a soda really helped, though it pained my heart to do it :-D.

So you're thinking that it's maybe something I ate?

my wife has this issue too. It was too much protein for her. I switched her diet to more balanced and it went away. Now the problem is she over does her cheat meal and then feels icky the next day.

What is your diet looking like? Is it balanced?

My diet is fairly balanced aside from the 'moods' I get in.

This past month it has been:

Week 1
Meal 1/3:Chicken with veges (sprouts, green been pods, asparagus)
Meal 2/4: Turkey Chili (ground turkey, black and kidney beans, seasoning, chopped tomatos, 2 ounces organic tomato paste)

Week 2

Meal 1-4: Turkey Chili


Week 3
Meal 1/3: Turkey Chili or Chicken and veges
Meal 2/4: chicken over Egg noogles

My plan for the last part of the mont
Meal 1/3: pork over egg noodles
Meal 2/4: chicken and veges

*This is not counting my pre and post workout protein shakes

My 3 cheat meals this month were
-small strawberry milkshake
-small cookies and cream milkshake
-personal pan Pizza Hut Pizza

For May, I'll probably rotate between these for the month:
1. Turkey Chili
2. Chicken and Veges
3. Checken and beans
4. Checken and sweet potato

You are kidding me right? You dont really think that is balanced? Sorry for the bluntness, but Id bet my bank account that is your problem.

Plus when I said balanced I meant some nice carbs, like oats, yams, brown rice, white potato I see none of that. The bulk is protein....its not the sugar in the cheats that helps, its the fact you actually ate some carbs aside from fiberous small trace veggie carbs....

These diets are so wrong on so many levels.

You need variety and balance quickly.

try:

eggs/oats, protein powder/white potato, turkey/brown rice, protein powder/oats, lean ground beef/white potato, oats/chicken.

Add green veggies to any of the meals you want in the form of spinach, broccoli, green beans, lettuce, celery, etc and so forth.

Thats much better balance.

Yeah your pretty much just clogging yourself up thats where the pain is coming from. You need the good carbs for the source of fiber.

......XRUGGER.... You are gonna kill yourself. You can't be doing that with your diet. First of all, that is what is considered "Extremes". You must have that type of personality? This you must get over, like yesterday... Secondly, this kind of dietary intake (or lack there of) is gonna give you severe gastritis, colitis, and possible pancreatitis.

JTHEO is absoultely correct. You need a balanced diet.... ABSOULTELY NOT WHAT YOU THINK IS BALANCED. You need a variety of food sources from clean carbohydrates, various proteins, and essential fats. Your current diet is robbing your body of nutrients that you NEED not only for life, but absolutely for bodybuilding purposes.

It is a good thing you are young, if you were doing this at the age of 45+ you would be in the hospital by now.

YOu must be the type who doesn't like to prepare your various meals ahead of time? Change your thinking. Focus your attention to a more conventional diet. It will take some effort in getting your food together, but you will 100% feel better, look better, and be stronger because of it. If you need help putting a diet together just ask......

I am concerned about you......

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Originally posted by ChunkyButt:
......XRUGGER.... You are gonna kill yourself. You can't be doing that with your diet. First of all, that is what is considered "Extremes". You must have that type of personality? This you must get over, like yesterday... Secondly, this kind of dietary intake (or lack there of) is gonna give you severe gastritis, colitis, and possible pancreatitis.

JTHEO is absoultely correct. You need a balanced diet.... ABSOULTELY NOT WHAT YOU THINK IS BALANCED. You need a variety of food sources from clean carbohydrates, various proteins, and essential fats. Your current diet is robbing your body of nutrients that you NEED not only for life, but absolutely for bodybuilding purposes.

It is a good thing you are young, if you were doing this at the age of 45+ you would be in the hospital by now.

YOu must be the type who doesn't like to prepare your various meals ahead of time? Change your thinking. Focus your attention to a more conventional diet. It will take some effort in getting your food together, but you will 100% feel better, look better, and be stronger because of it. If you need help putting a diet together just ask......

I am concerned about you......

Great points, there was a guy who posted on here about two years ago, forget his handle, but I remember him coming on here and I think he actually gave himself colitis from eating the same protein and too much of it years on end, he had to have surgery I believe. Wish I could remember more about it, but yeah, please change up your diet.

If you need help getting a sensible plan I would be more than willing to help, but you need to be willing to try it.

Your symptoms is your body telling you something.

I believe XRUGGER has some food limitations, too and cannot always have things as she wants.

What does a lady, 5'7", 165 eat? Anything she wants. (Please don't say 5'5" bodybuilders!)

I bet you have an awesome physique because I know you pack a lot of strength.

XRUGGER, the questions I asked earlier are because of two possible problems: Food allergies and/or IBS. IBS typically showing up in women after age 30, you'll need to keep a high or higher intake of fiber and depending on how serious it is, the diet can get more restrictive, even going gluten-free! There's a diet Jason posted for KellyKel. If you have access to all those foods, try it. Use the same protein percentage, but add more on the carb side.

With this type of diet, change out food sources by keeping the concentration of one in one week then it is weak the rest of the month. As an example:

1st week of May, high beef intake, low fish, no chicken or eggs.
2nd week: High chicken and turkey, some beef, no fish.
3rd week: High fish and use of eggs, some chicken/turkey, no beef.
4th week: High beef, moderate fish, no chicken/eggs.

Cycle foods in this manner, one or two week intervals. Keep your calories high with carbs and always keep in top shape in the cardio area. You never know when it's time to run 2 miles at high intensity.

Detox yourself for a few days when you're off and just relaxing. Use several grapefruits, green teas and, if possible, limit yourself to only breakfast being a solid meal. The rest of the day have 1/2 grapefruit with green tea in 2 hour intervals, lemon water all day. Bed time: 1 cup of oats 1 sweet potato. I don't suggest fasting, simply help yourself start fresh with the new diet.

The one misconception about body building and being carbaphobic and always keeping the physique. It can be done in a healthy way, but eating disorders arise by going contest dieting then off season. Some never leave the contest diet and others just up the calories of the same contest diet. It doesn't work that way on the healthy side of dieting.

Body builders need to be educated that keeping the physique year long can be done, you just can't keep the ripped, stage body all year long and maintain good health.

PM me if you need to. I'm always open to anyone.

Hahahah, thanks all for calling me out. My diet hasn't always been like this. For the past 4 or 5 months, My work and school have been killing me to the point that it has become a 'trade off' to get my workouts in. My choices are 1.) Do I get 8 hours of sleep or 2.) Do I get a workout in. Or 1.) Do I finish my paper and cook my meals for the week,get maybe 6 hours of sleep before going to work for 12 hours or 2.) Do I finish my paper, get a quick workout in and get about 6 hours of sleep before going to work 12 hours at work. Every day, I have to choose what suffers.

So, since I've missed A LOT of workouts, I've tried to compensate by making my diet more restrictive. I've also picked food/meal combinations of which I can cook very quickly. Chili is easy enough--dump all the ingredients in the pot and let it sit for an hour while I multitask other things. Chicken and veges can be done in a half hour and I can make enough for the week. I've seemed to have maintained a good amount of my muscle mass (that's my body type anyway) and the belly fat hasn't become to obscene as of yet.

But yeah, I'll take all the help that I can get! Thanks for your recommendations. I've recently hit a bit of a lull at work and my semester just recently ended for school so I have a breather. I'll definitely hit you up, Frank!

XRugger

I hear ya, but if you can get your hands on some quacker weight control oats and then a can of tuna or a packet of chicken or packet of tuna there is a couple meals. Then add white potato, you can cook white potato in a baggy in a microwave for 6 minutes and its done...no preparation.....I think it can be done without taking too much sleep from you.

Good Luck