TMI Warning....Diarrhea Issues :(

[bnlauren]

So.....everything is going great except for (sorry folks) diarrhea......I started on June 3rd and have noticed since the last few days of my Whole30 I've been having softer stool which is now pretty much diarrhea.

 

My usual diet consist of 3 eggs with onions in the morning, banana and almond butter, black grapes, chicken or beef and some veggie like broccoli, squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, kale, etc. I'm not eating many nuts and when I cook my chicken and eggs they're always cook with coconut oil....spray can for eggs and spooned out of a jar for chicken.

 

90% of them time I'm eating my food cooked in coconut oil. Could this be the reason for my diarrhea? I'm wondering if I added it too my diet to quickly but not sure.

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

 

[amandapandatm]

In "It Starts With Food", they say that in the first week it's normal to have diarrhea or constipation, this is what happened to me the first couple days of whole30.

[Tom Denham]

I get diarrhea as often as once per month. I don't know why. I speculate about a stomach bug, not washing all the dirt off vegetables from the farm, eating a bug that I did not find while cleaning chard or kale, etc. If I take any kind of anti-diarrhea medicine in the house, that generally stops it and I don't have another episode for weeks. I know lots of people want to do things "naturally," but I encourage trying some generic anti-diarrhea medicine and see if that doesn't fix things for you.

[bnlauren]

Thanks...yeah....it just started happening sometime before July4th which is at the end of my Whole30 challenge....my stool just kept getting softer and in the last couple of days it's just being diarrhea....I will try the immodium.....is there a particular brand I should take?

[Bet]

You could try eliminating the onions and broccoli. They are FODMAPS and know to trigger D in IBS and Chron's sufferers.