Not your average Christmas bloat

 

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Bloated! Bloated! Bloated! How many people are feeling like that at the moment? I’m sure it is not just tricky eaters either. Everyone usually overdoes it over the festive period.

I saw a funny thing on Facebook that said, “feeling festive” … “eating cheese”… “feeling fat.” And another thing that said something like, ‘will start diet when every single bad thing in the house is eaten.’ They definitely ring true with me. (Just Lactofree cheese, though, as I have lactose intolerance.)

I went to visit my best friend last week who also has coeliac disease and she said she, too, feels really bloated.

It is a nightmare – I can hardly wear any of my clothes. But I have only put on 1Ib so I obviously haven’t put on so much weight that I have just outgrown them. Phew!!

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Keeping on top of the gluten and lactose was fine as I am so used to living like that. I was fully equipped with breakfast foods, bread, cheese, milk and butter whenever we were out and about visiting friends and family. Low FODMAP, however, was much harder. See this blog for more information.

For me, there are so many foods that only cause a minor reaction, such as onion, broccoli and mushrooms, but they are exactly the things you end up scoffing more of over Christmas. As for how many different types of FODMAPs were eaten, there was definitely a major increase in that too. I can take a little of most things (except lactose, fructose and gluten) but obviously not a lot of them at the same time or more than once a week, say.

Now my health-kick has started (on Monday – I had to fit in a few more drinking sessions first), I am stripping my diet back to the bare minimum and removing nearly all FODMAPs for a little while to try to get everything sorted again.

Good luck, fellow tricky eaters, if you are also trying to get your systems back to normal. Well, as normal as they can be.

By Karen Woodford, bloated coeliac with lactose & fructose intolerance

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