Odd question. My husband and I are about 4 weeks into the Atkins diet (stalled for the last week). Last night, we went out to dinner. Our dinners were Atkins-friendly, except for some taters. We each had about two-three bites of the taters (roasted). Other than that, we were well under our carb count for the day (35).

Later that evening, we both had some serious gastro-intestinal distress - gas, bloating, sour stomach. Was it all caused by those couple bites of potato, or did we get bad meat last night? :-)

Could be the taters.

I just started a new job, and part of my training was to taste some pastries. I told my boss that I didn't eat carbs, and he asked if I would try just a nibble of each one. I did, and that night, I was sick as a dog.

To make a long story even longer, years ago I was a vegetarian, and was told by my doctor that time-released medication wouldn't work for me, since it is designed to digest in the stomach at certain intervals, and vegetarians, when they give up animal products, lose the ability to digest them, because they stop producing the enzymes needed to do it, and those enzymes are what are needed to work for one stage of the dissolving process.

The point here, (finally!) is that I believe that we lose the ability, whether it is enzymes or something else, to digest carbs correctly. When we do eat something carby, it causes us intestinal distress.

Just my theory; I have never researched it, but it makes sense to me.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy.
And cooking done with care is an act of love.
- Craig Claiborne

Oy! I can attest to that too. I had kind of a carb binge this weekend. I ate some pumpkin pie AND some fried tortillas w/ cinn/sugar.. and I had gassy bloating blech stomach.

I had not realized how pleasant it has been to not have tummy troubles like that. So maybe I have learned my lesson.

Michelle -- 208/194/140
Started Atkins 9/03
Days exercised in November ****

oh yeah.. my body knows when then "bad" carbs enter! Unfortunatly for my husband he does too!





Tanya
Member since Jan 2002
re-started on 1-3-03
272/185/172<--(next goal)

Yeah, it was the potatoes. If you low-carb long enough, you don't digest starches as easily as you used to, and, consequently, get gas. If you go back to eating carbs, that situation reverses itself very quickly.

BTW, stay away from the taters. Even a little bit of taters is enough to blow your plan out of the water.

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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door."

BAD taters, BAD BAD!

I won't touch them any more. They cause me too much grief!

Char

Don't squat with yer spurs on!