bloating

british beef

does anyone suffer from this? i find that some days my stomach is so bloated its practically level with my chest! (and im fairly lean!!) does anyone have any ideas?

LeeB

yer i get this problem alot

it can regularly be linked to teh types of food you eat and if you have any intolerances.. sometimes it can be as simple as changing to another brand of protein shake.

make sure you take in fibre with eevry meal. also, tonic water should help, as well as peppermint oil capsules.. i try and take a few of these a day..

Tall

Bread can do it to me, as well as give me hiccups.

Plus drinking 1.5ltrs of water during workout doesn't help either.

You can get some anti-bloating tablets - they are marketted for women but I can't remember the name of them.

british beef

thanks for the help.i am getting fibre at every meal (except bed time shake) maybe ill try and up it.
i tried eating yogurts with pro/pre biotics with my evening meal and this helped for a couple of weeks but its started coming back!
will give peppermint oil a try though

LeeB

yer i tried the pre/pro biotics and got the same.. for a few weeks they seemed to have an impact but then they didnt seem to help at all...

the peppermint oil/tonic water was suggested to me by a friend of mine who had half his bowel/intestine removed so obviously suffers bloating/discomfort occasionally.. the doctors told him to use these.. they break up the trapped wind. so technically they are not treating the problem of what is causing bloating.. but its stopping the worst symptom.

british beef

ok thanks lee will give that a try then! i dont really suffer from wind (much!!) my stomach just swells up and goes rock hard!