Getting sick while eating healthy?

[Anonymous]

I lost a bunch of weight at one point, and want to finally get down to my goal after hitting a plateau, so I've started really cleaning up my diet - lots of produce, cutting out processed foods, balancing nutrients, so on and so forth. Occasionally I'll deviate for something small if my friends and I go out, since last time I lost weight I still went out on occasion, but now I've started noticing that I get sick really easily if I eat anything that's a bit fatty or has some extra sugar in it.

Is this normal? It's happened before, but never really this badly. Before I just figured it was my body not being used to that kind of food anymore.

[martyfellow]

Yes, totally normal. Your digestive system has adapted to a healthier diet, and now when you eat something with fat, it's a mild shock to your system and you get sick, or feel sick anyway.

When you were eating fatty things all the time, your body adapted to that the best it could, so you didn't feel sick when you ate that way.

This is the body's way of warning you not to relapse into eating unhealthy things.

Isn't your body amazing? With a little effort, you can form lifelong good hapbits, and your body will resist changing back!

[Prof_Don]

You're precisely right; your body is more used to "real, natural food"...so anything that is "unnatural", your body is unable to process anymore.

I wouldn't consider this a bad thing in itself; it's a built-in mechanism to not eat junk food anymore. :-P

[Asker]

I like the vespiquen.

And if it's pretty normal, then I don't consider it "bad," really. Kind of like how soda hurts my stomach now and tastes too sweet - it's helpful and I don't mind so much. I was just worried that something might be horribly wrong - impending death is never a good thing. Glad to know most people have come across it.

[Prof_Don]

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[Asker]

You're already on my friends!

[Prof_Don]

oh :-P

[Lizzielu]

After a while your body can't process things that it isn't used to. It's totally normal and can happen with good foods too.

[beastman88]

yeah id say its normal. your body is used to a healthy diet. normal response id say since most fast food id say isn't fit for human consumption even though the government deems it so.

[Asker]

Well I'm not really even just talking about fast food. I'm talking about anything with too much fat or that is too processed. I don't eat much typical fast food for a number of reasons. But a lot of processed stuff probably has the same basic qualities as most fast food.

[beastman88]

not too sure maybe an allergic response? I typically only feel ill if I eat fast food. if I make myself a nice rare steak I feel good. the next day I feel even better, stronger even. mind you I don't eat steak that often but when I do its great

[TheThirdSeason]

I feel that way, I can't take too much sugar.

[XNicholex3]

It happens to me also.