Day 20: Bloating and headaches are back

[Bridget4997]

I'm on day 20, and feel like my body is on a backslide. This week, I was feeling awesome: steady energy, great mood, etc. Starting two days ago (Day 18), I began feeling bloated and started having some digestive issues. Yesterday (Day 19) and this morning I've had the same digestive issues plus a headache. I haven't experienced these symptoms since the first week of my Whole 30. Is this common? The only culprit I can identify is that while traveling earlier this week, I was eating more fruit than usual. 

Day 18 diet: Breakfast was eggs and ~2 cups of fruit (pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries), lunch was a chicken breast with sugar-free tomato sauce w/olives and artichoke hearts plus a spinach salad with no dressing, and dinner was a Chipotle burrito bowl (chorizo, lettuce, pico de gallo, tomatillo salsa, hot salsa, and guacamole). 

Day 19 diet: Breakfast was a piece of sausage and spinach frittata plus a larabar, lunch was another Chipotle burrito bowl (chorizo, lettuce, pico de gallo, tomatillo salsa, hot salsa, and guacamole), snack was carrots with guacamole, and dinner was halibut with orange ginger glaze (from Whole30 book) and butternut squash soup. 

Help!

[ArtFossil]

That's a ton of fruit, and Larabars are sugar bombs. Couple that with being way light on vegetables, especially green ones (you would need a huge bowl of raw spinach to get to even a cup, and you're aiming for 1-3 cups at every meal)--I'd likely feel boated or have a headache. 

[Bridget4997]

14 minutes ago, ArtFossil said:

That's a ton of fruit, and Larabars are sugar bombs. Couple that with being way light on vegetables, especially green ones (you would need a huge bowl of raw spinach to get to even a cup, and you're aiming for 1-3 cups at every meal)--I'd likely feel boated or have a headache. 

I suspected the fruit was to blame. I typically don't eat much fruit, but I was traveling and it was all that was Whole 30 compliant on the buffet, besides eggs. Today, I'm not having any fruit or Larabars, but hadn't thought about upping my green veggies. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try!

[violetta]

I am seeing a lot of very acidic and spicy stuff there, tomato, sausage, fruit, chorizo, salsa etc.  Maybe try turning down the heat, some potato soup and definitely more vegetable but maybe not brassica type, broccoli etc..  Try some cooked vegetables rather than the raw ones for a few days, some green beans or snap peas, zukes, peppers and mushrooms.  I get a big bag of washed french cut green beans from Costco and cook them all at once and eat for a few days.  If you can eat broccoli, you can get a big bag od washed broccoli and do the same thing (I do have some trouble with brassica so I skip that). Crumble a bunch of spinach in your eggs and add zukes and peppers.  I cut up a bunch of these so I can add some to my meals every day.  Also, a great way to get lots of veggies that is easy on the stomach  is to make a soup with celery, carrots, onion and anything else you have on hand and then add potatoes or squash or pumpkin, cook it down and puree it in the food processor and add some coconut milk.  I often add some pumpkin seed for texture. I also keep a container of little purple potatoes or sweet potato chunks in the refrigerator, the little potatoes travel well and are delicious.