How to Cure Loud Stomach Noises

After eating, loud stomach noises are more common than many people think. This can be a very embarrassing problem for those it affects, I know as I was one of these people. Many have visited doctors and written food diaries but still have had no luck. Many people are wrongly diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and sent on their way by their doctors - again I was one of these people.

The embarassment of the loud stomach noises became too much after a while so I took it upon myself to research this problem and find a cure for myself, I didn't believe that this could be IBS and if it was then I believed that this could be cured with a better planned diet. This is a digestive food related problem so it HAS to have a food/diet related solution!

It took me several months of reading the logic behind diets like the Atkins, Low GI, Low Fat Diets and caveman diets to come up with my strategy. If there was one thing that I got from all of these books it was that we are not eating natural foods anymore, we are not eating what we are designed to eat. We are designed to eat like cavemen - Meat, Vegetables, Fish, Fruit, Nuts and Seeds. That is all that a caveman could really eat, that is what our body is designed to eat. Do you honestly think that our body is designed to eat bread, pasta, refined sugars, refined carbohydrates. I agree, the body is able to digest them but not in the quantity that we consuming them. So there is my strategy - to cure my loud stomach noises I was going to eat like a caveman, I was going to limit my food intake to basically meat, vegetables and natural foods.

The other major problem that I discovered was our sugar intake. Our sugar intake is incredibly high and most people are consuming far more than their recomended daily allowance of sugar (90g for women 120g for men). This is a major factor in digestion and in a lot of foods such as fruit we are consuming very acidic, sugary foods which does not go down well with a sensitive stomach. This is a big cause of gas and wind and will cause a gurgling stomach noises.

I gave this two weeks and was very strict with what I ate, I gave myself a selection of 5 low sugar, low carb vegetables and didn't stray from these. I gave myself a selection of meats such as as chicken, beef, lamb, turkey and pork and all non smoked fish. I also gave myself eggs, cheese a little milk in my tea and coffee (although this was limited to 2-3 cups a day). For lunch I gave myself all leaves, radish, onion, celery and peppers. These foods alone gave me a wide variety of meals for two weeks. For example; a wide variety of salads for lunch, omelettes and sausages for breakfast, meat and vegetables for dinner. It was a high protein, low carb, low sugar diet. I ate smaller portions so I was never bloated but never hungry.

Within no time at all my loud stomach noises had gone - it was completely cured. My visits to the toilet were far fewer, I had far less wind, I no longer had a bloated stomach or diarrea and work was far less embarrassing for me. This was a total success - better than I could ever have hoped! I am now six months on and I have slowly introduced more foods a week at a time, I know what does agree with me and what doesn't.

I have written a full write up and step by step guide of how to cure loud stomach noises so take a look. I still hear the digestion noises if I eat things like apples or oranges but I know now to avoid them. If you are a sufferer of this problem then PLEASE try this. It costs nothing but will power and you have nothing to lose. The only thing you will need is maybe a suitable cookbook to give your meals variety but this link is also on my article.

Good luck and let me know how you get on.

Why Drinking Water Helps You Lose Weight

It sounds like a contradiction but drinking more water will avoid water retention and weight gain. Basically drinking more water aids weight loss.

When you diet and begin to lose a few pounds, most of this is water weight. It varies with each individual but once you lose over 7 pounds your body begins to panic and immediately thinks "prepare for famine" - in a sense it goes into 'starvation mode'. You must remember that the bodies primary goal is survival, nothing else, so losing weight and losing water worries the body and it will begin to retain everything it can from both food and drink to avoid losing any mroe weight. This is why a lot of dieters lose the first 7 - 10 pounds and then their weight loss stalls. This is the phase where the body is retaining everything it can for survival.

How do we get around this? Basically you need to reassure the body, give it as much water as possible to tell it that there is nothing to worry about. This stall in weight loss could last up to week (again varies with each individual) but its perfectly natural, its the bodies way of adjusting to your new weight, it needs to reassure itself that it is getting enough water and to reassure it that it isn't heading for starvation. Drinking water through this will reassure the body.
How much water should I drink? As a general rule of thumb we should try to drink around 8 glasses of water a day, some say 2 litres a day. The problem is most people find water boring, and lets be honest - it is! It doesn't taste of anything but it is vital for good health so we need to find ways of sneaking it into our daily routine without noticing.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Do you have a pattern in your daily routine of when you drink?
• Do you always have a coffee when you get up?
• Do you always have a drink with your meals?
• Do you always have a drink before you go to bed?

If you answer yes to any of these you can easily substitute some of these drinks for a glass of water. For example; have glass when you wake up, have a glass when you go to bed and one with your lunch. Are any of you drinks fruit juice, or diluted quash? Change these for water, you will find as time goes on you will be drinking it without noticing. Set yourself a target of 4 glasses a day and promise yourself you will have these 4 glasses for a week at least, at the end of the week increase your intake to 5 glasses a day. Build it up slowly, sneak it into your daily routine and you will feel better for it.

I read an interesting post in a forum the other day. A young girl (in her twenties) had lost a stone in her first month of dieting, she continued this for 3 months and lost a further stone. During this time she was eating a low sugar and low carb diet, she had substituted all her diet cola drink for water during this time and just had a few mugs of coffee a day - all was going well. A week into the fourth month of her diet she continued to eat the same foods in the same quantities but increased her intake of diet cola to 10 cans a day! This was the same amount that she used to drink before dieting. In the two weeks that followed she put on 7 pounds!!! The body was shocked into not getting its usual healthy intake of water so again began to retain what it could. I would like to see what would have happened if she continued to drink the same water - my guess is that her weight would have remained the same.