Week three and feeling unwell

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Wombat123

5:29 pm
27 Jan 15
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Hi everyone, I’m new on here, and on my third week of 5:2. It had been going really well so far, and I have lost 3kg.
Yesterday was my fast day, and I made the Coq au Vin from the 5:2 recipe book for dinner (it was very tasty and filling!)
However, I have had the most horrendous indigestion since last night – has anyone else had this? I was awake until 3am with it, and am still not right. I have an under active thyroid, but this has been stable with thyroxine for a few years now, so don’t think it can be relevant.
Any advice etc would be great, thanks

QuietOne

11:41 pm
27 Jan 15
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1. Don’t eat that recipe again.
2. Try Papaya enzyme tablets if you have them or access to them, they help me with the worst of indigestion.

I don’t know the recipe but is there something new to your system in it? A spice or combination of ingredients you haven’t encountered together before?

I think that when fasting my digestive system is more sensitive to everything. I try not to eat anything on fast days. A couple days I’ve had to have a few crackers 4 crackers and I was good to go.

Sunday night I started on a 3 day fast. Today 42 hours into fast I had a cup of bullion with 3 tblspns of brown rice and 2 tblspns mixed vegetables as I had horrific cramping going on. That seems to have settled it.

LOTS of water on any fast day.

Wombat123

10:58 am
28 Jan 15
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Thank you for your reply.
I think you’re right, it must have been something in the recipe. The irony is the last 2wks I’ve bought ready meals and been fine!
I shall have a look for the papaya enzyme too

egbdf

7:54 pm
25 Feb 15
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Pleased to read about the indigestion, as i too have been experiencing this since starting fast diet 3 weeks ago…i too have an underactive thyroid…please note i have not eaten anything i don’t usually eat (unlike your post) ; i am not sure if this way of eating or rather not eating is beneficial to folk with this condition