Ate carbs, holy tummy ache!

[LeeChrista]

For Easter today my family decided they wanted pizza. Umm..okay. So tommorrow should be my switch to Phase 2 but today I made my own pizza. Boboli 100% Whole Wheat crust, 100% organic garlic sauce with tomatoes (all proper ingredients), low fat mozzarella and a ton of bell peppers. I ate two pretty small pieces. I'd say 2/8ths of the pizza, maybe a bit more, but not a full 1/4.

Stomach hurts. Oh. So. Bad. Cramping from top of stomach to bottom of abdomen. Is this normal?

[Kimboroni]

Moderator duty first: You appear to have posted essentially the same post in 2 different sections, which clogs up the board. I've deleted one and had the one with a tiny bit of extra info that the other one didn't have reside in the p2 area, which is the appropriate place. I left a "shadow" in the p1 area that redirects you to the p2 area when reading this topic.


As an advice-giver, I'm a little confused. 2/8ths is the same as 1/4. 1/4 sounds like too large of a portion, unless it's a pretty small pizza. 1/8 is probably an appropriate size.

I wouldn't say it's normal to experience cramping when first incorporating a grain/starch or fruit (not "carbs," since there are carbs in a bunch of p1 foods, too). It could be that you've uncovered a gluten sensitivity by removing those foods for a period of time, or sometimes grain products can have weird fibers added to pump up the fiber count that can cause cramping. Inulin comes to mind, as do the gums and things like cellulose fiber. I had one tortilla brand do that to me.

[LeeChrista]

Um yeah...crawling out of my hole of utter embarrassment. Sorry I can't do math. My husband said the pizza I ate was an 8th.