Why the hell am I get bloated eating VEGETABLES?! 🤬 “My gut is literally broken.” These were my exact thoughts as I was laying flat on the couch, feeling frustrated at another day gone to waste because I felt too bloated & uncomfortable to move. “This shouldn’t be happening.” I had spent countless hours googling online, looking for the best “gut healing” foods that would fix my symptoms. I ran to the grocery store that day, excited to start preparing the meals that were going to give me that sweet digestive relief I had been looking for. So I’m sure you could imagine how defeated I felt, after feeling 10x WORSE that night. What the hell??? What I didn’t realize at the time, is that a lot of those “gut healthy foods” weren’t the best for my gut at that time. You see, what I later found out was that I actually had something called gut dysbiosis. This is essentially where you don’t have enough good bacteria, and an overgrowth of bad bacteria. I also didn’t realize that it was these bacteria that were responsible for breaking down these fiber-rich foods, and because I didn’t have enough of the good guys, the bad guys were going to town on these foods, creating tons of excess GAS as a by-product. So how did I fix it? I had to go through a 3 month gut healing protocol, where I took specific probiotics + herbal antimicrobials to bring down the unwanted overgrowths... Then I had to go through a systematic process for reintroducing certain fibers that would feed and strengthen my good bacteria. In a sense, I had to pull the weeds from my “gut garden”, then reseed that garden with new beneficial plants. If you’re curious about what this process actually looks like, DM me the word “BLOAT” and I can send you a full breakdown!