Sudden start of stomach pains with diet after 4 months of Ketosis

#1

Hi. I have been in nutritional ketosis since January and move up and down from .5mmols to as high as 2.5mmols depending on many factors.
I have also been Intermittent fasting and time restricting my eating to about a 2 hour window.
Have felt amazing the entire time, did not auffer any Keto flu, and have lost 30 pounds.
All of that while usually taking the weekend “off” a little.
About 2 weeks ago for no obvious reason, the foods i was eating statted to upset my stomach to the point of having to vomit to be functional.
My main meal for this timespan has been a bowl containing seasoned chicken, bacon, olives, cheese, hemp hearts, olive oil, pecans.
My macros with that meal are 75/20/5.
The kicker is that “normal” foods or non keto…dont bother me.
Any insights would be greatly apprecoated…im pretty discouraged.
Thanks.

(Jay Patten) #2

Maybe you have an allergy that you didn’t know you had? Maybe you picked up a slow-moving stomach bug?

(TJ Borden) #3

Try not taking the weekends off for a while. Ketosis is just the first step. If you’re depriving your system of carbs during the week only to load up on weekends, you’re just messing with your system. Plus, it will be tough to get to a fat adapted state of your system knows carbs will come on the weekend.

#4

Thanks for your reply Jay.
I am going to try each food 1 at a time this weekend to narrow it down.
I dont think its a bug as i can eat non-fatty foods.

#5

Great points.
I want to go strict again once i get this stomach pain figured out.
Thanks TJ

(Central Florida Bob ) #6

I’m going to go a different direction. You mention stomach pain. Bad pain? Any other big symptoms?

There’s a handful of pain symptoms associated with gall bladder problems, but lots of vomiting is a classic symptom. The most common pains are the right shoulder and the right abdomen, around the bottom of the rib cage, from the right side to the middle.

My suggestion is kind of different from others; I’d stop eating that meal entirely and substitute the same macros from different foods to see if the symptom goes away. I realize that’s hard to do with so many things in the dish, but that rules out food sensitivity all at once.

I had my gall bladder suddenly go bad just about two years ago. It woke me up in the middle of the night with my right shoulder blade hurting. The next thing was abdominal pain, in the middle, around where the ribs come up to the middle of the chest. Never had any vomiting. I had the “emergency surgery” within a week of that pain starting.

Hope this helps!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #7

It could also possibly be incipient appendicitis. I would get bouts of vomiting and abdominal pain peridically, starting approximately twelve months before my appendix finally became diagnosably inflamed. At one point, they even did an EKG because they thought the nausea and vomiting might be a sign of a heart attack. When the appendix finally flared up, all became clear, and fortunately the surgeon was able to remove it just before it burst in his hand.

#8

Update:
Thanks for the insights everyone. So i think i have partially figured it out. I have bypassed the worst of the stomach pains by extending my eating window. I think it may have been partially from eating too much after a fast.
Someone outside the forum suggested the possiblity of an ulcer?
Any thoughts on that?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

Get checked out. Ulcers are easily cured these days, now that we know they’re caused by a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori.