I've been trying to gain weight/muscle but have been really limited by my sources of dietary calories.
I'm currently basically meat and dairy only.
I'm gluten free, have to avoid any sweets made with sugars other than cane sugar.
I don't know of any fibers I can tolerate, a little coconut oil is about it. Fruits and veggies typically cause diarrhea.
So for the past few months my diet has looked like this:
3-4oz of meat (fish, chicken, pork) 2 eggs 3 slices of cheese, 1/4 cup cottage cheese 3 times a day. This isn't very calorie dense though, about 450-500 per meal, so 1500ish over the course of a day.
My tolerance for dairy has been good so I started adding more and more milk to my diet, I've reached half a gallon a day but now I'm starting to see increase bowel movement frequency, pale colored stool, not diarrhea but instead of one formed stool it comes out in many grape sized lumps.
I'm thinking this is the result of the high fat in my diet.
I'm probably going to try some Lipase digestive enzyme supplement but wanted to know if anyone had some other ideas first.
Also I'm not sure if this is actually something that should worry me. I mean yes I have as many as 4 BMs a day, however on a no fiber diet, it's sure better than 1 every 2 days. I'm worried I may not be getting all the calories I'm consuming though, so it's not really benefiting me in the long run.
My weight went up a bit when I started and has stabilized. Really could do without another weight plateau.
I'm currently basically meat and dairy only.
I'm gluten free, have to avoid any sweets made with sugars other than cane sugar.
I don't know of any fibers I can tolerate, a little coconut oil is about it. Fruits and veggies typically cause diarrhea.
So for the past few months my diet has looked like this:
3-4oz of meat (fish, chicken, pork) 2 eggs 3 slices of cheese, 1/4 cup cottage cheese 3 times a day. This isn't very calorie dense though, about 450-500 per meal, so 1500ish over the course of a day.
My tolerance for dairy has been good so I started adding more and more milk to my diet, I've reached half a gallon a day but now I'm starting to see increase bowel movement frequency, pale colored stool, not diarrhea but instead of one formed stool it comes out in many grape sized lumps.
I'm thinking this is the result of the high fat in my diet.
I'm probably going to try some Lipase digestive enzyme supplement but wanted to know if anyone had some other ideas first.
Also I'm not sure if this is actually something that should worry me. I mean yes I have as many as 4 BMs a day, however on a no fiber diet, it's sure better than 1 every 2 days. I'm worried I may not be getting all the calories I'm consuming though, so it's not really benefiting me in the long run.
My weight went up a bit when I started and has stabilized. Really could do without another weight plateau.