THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING. I go to the gym 4 times a week...3 of them to lift weights as I am trying to get a ripped, clean body.
It literally brings me to tears to see myself as I am vs. others who chug beer and pizza. I know (when I am not bloated) what the real me looks like..and I am lean and cut.
But most of the time and especially now I am so bloated it robs me of all my tone and defintion. Not only do I feel weaker (and actually lift less!) but when I feel bloated in my stomach
My muscles (chest/arms/legs/shoulders) ARE smaller and more flimsly. When I am less bloated...I feel like I have more beef on my muscles and they feel more firm. It pretty much is a double whammy when bloated as 1) I am bloated 2) my muscles are smaller in size
I go from looking cut and toned to fat and weak, and it is SO frustrating I want to cry because it really feels like no matter what I do to look in shape, there is nothing I can do to escape.
1) So it is not just me...others of you have the SAME problem...that when bloated you feel like all the fluid/matter in body is sucked from your muscles to your gut...resulting in a fat gut and weakish looking/feeling muscles?
2) Why does it happen, that when bloated it feels like all the matter in my body has been sucked into the gut...but when not bloated it feels like all the matter has been distrbuted and I feel/look stronger and cut? -Is there an explanation?
3) What, if anything, is the best remedy, because the EFI diet after years ain't doing it? Does anything work really well that I have not tried?
-Tea? -Yoga???? Anything to get the bloating down and release the matter from my gut elsewhere?
Quote: probiotics such as Align may relieve these symptoms in some IBSers.
If I didn't know better, I would say Align is to blame....because after just 1.5 weeks of it, and being off it for a week, I still feel as horrible as I ever have (before I found this site...that bad).
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