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Originally Posted by Zeraph
So I try to eat fairly healthy and do a decent job at succeeding. One of the more recent (last 5 months) things I've incorporated in my diet is more fiber. But my body seems to be particularly sensitive to it. ...diarrhea...sandwich on whole wheat ... diarrhea.... fiber at night ...diarrhea. I'm sensing a pattern here.
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It seems like the constant here is diarrhea, not fiber. Perhaps your diarrhea has little to do with fiber.
I myself don’t usually eat a whole lot of fiber, because my usual “diet” is a carnivore’s diet, high in protein, quite a bit of fat, no sugar or white flour, and little in the way of other carbs, except for salads, berries, melon, and some from dairy.
However, with winter coming up I eat somewhat more carbs (and fiber) mostly because oatmeal in the morning is to me a kind of a “winter comfort food,” though I don’t eat it the rest of the year.
So, I’ve done this transition before, I go through a transition every winter, oatmeal gives me gas, and it usually takes me a few days to get past that. One thing that I do notice, though, is the effect of coffee. If I eat the oatmeal, and follow it with a couple cups of coffee at work it’s bad news. That oatmeal goes through me like a hot knife through butter. I tend to blame the coffee more than the oatmeal, but there is nothing worse than diarrhea and gas. Eeew.
Anyway, yours sounds like more than just a transition problem.
I’m with onesnowyowl and she-lish on the food diary, too. Could really help you (or your doctor) in a diagnosis. I still keep one kind of off-and-on, (especially when traveling) and kept a dairy for several months when my new doctor wouldn’t believe that I really ate 1800 calories a day while maintaining a 112 pound weight.
Lindy