Undigested Food in Stool, Bloating and Food Allergies from HCLF Vegan & Ketogenic Diets // ED/Diet Recovery

Suffering from undigested food in stool, bloating, digestive issues, food allergies / intolerances / sensitivities and wondering what the causes are?

Have you tried EVERYTHING, without any success?

Or worse... it's gotten worse?

If you want to know:

👉how to heal food allergies,

👉why you're unable to digest food,

👉why you're constipated or everything you eat is coming out undigested in your bowel movements,

👉why you're suffering from stomach pains and bloating after eating,

👉should you do intermittent fasting, keto, HCLF Vegan, fruitarian, GAPS, fast, cleans, FOODMAPS for digestive issues?

👉why does everything I eat gives me gas?

...you're in the right place!

In this video I talk about my experience with stool coming out completely undigested, Bloating and Food Allergies from HCLF Vegan & Keto Diets and what I did to heal these issues even after no one had the answers... Only a process of Diet Recovery was able to heal me.

In my experience and my health and healing journey, this was a huge problem for me as I kept tweaking my diet and trying new healing protocols.

I tried to reach out to certain experts that I followed and to whom I looked up to and no one really had an answer for me.

I went to the doctors, I got stool tests, blood tests, hormone tests, allergy tests and they couldn’t find anything wrong with me according to the tests.

I even broke down crying in my doctors office at one point as he told me "Nothing seems to be wrong on the tests, you look healthy and fit, you eat healthy and exercise, just keep doing what you're doing, it's probably just all in your head."

Basically my doctors sent me on my way, and wanted to prescribe me some colon medication and depression medication... and I knew instinctively that wasn’t the answer and there had to be solutions.

I couldn't keep living this way, and things were getting WORSE, not better.

Let me rewind really quick, and fill you in on some details.

Let’s bring this story back to the point where I was in bikini competitions, fitness training, extreme fitness, dieting, exercising, all of that stuff.

I was very lean, abs and all.

I was dieting, in a caloric deficit, on strict meal plans, such as oatmeal with egg whites, chicken, tilapia, broccoli, and green beans six times a day, and that’s it... oh and cheat meals here and there.

So at this point, I was having a lot of bloating and distention in my abdominal area and severe, severe constipation.

I’ve talked about this before in this post and this post, but these bloating issues that began to appear, amongst other hormonal imbalance symptoms, binge eating and food obsession is what led me to eventually going down the rabbit hole, searching on the internet,

Googling: what was wrong with me?

Googling: how to heal my body?

Googling: how to heal digestive issues?

I was relying on laxatives and fleet enemas because I was so constipated and there were no answers for me.

So that led me into that part of my journey where I then became vegan and then raw vegan and then I was embarking on cleanses, juice fasting, GAPS, Gerson, Paleo, Low FOODMAPS, Low Histamine, Gluten free, sugar free, dairy free, water fasting, oil fasting, intermittent fasting, Keto and all of these kinds of diets.

And from this point on, the constipation only got worse, the hormone problems only got worse, the dizziness, fainting, hair falling out, constant thoughts about food and cravings.

Everything got WORSE on the supposed most "healthy" ways of eating.

And, on top of this, I started to realize that all of my food that I was eating was starting to come out completely undigested.

So first I was constipated, but now if anything did come out, if it came out the way it went in.

And so I at this point was having to rely on water enemas every day, sometimes multiple times a day to even have a bowel movement.

The bloating and distention where you feel like you’re nine months pregnant, it’s painful, it’s hard on the lower back, it’s hard to even stand for like five minutes without you being like, ugh, this is so uncomfortable - yea, that kind of feeling.

Nobody had any answers. Nobody knew what was going on. Nobody else seemed to deal with these issues, so I began to think: "What am I doing wrong? What’s wrong with me?"

I was trying to do everything perfect, like always, according to what I was researching and learning about (or really obsessing about).

At that point, I was studying nutrition and dietetics as I was trying to learn from anything and anyone on the internet that had healed themselves, but then also science, educational nutrition and dietetics on how to heal my body in my college studies.

Then I fed into that thought process of

"oh, these symptoms are all just detox."

"oh, you just have to get through this point and then everything’s gonna clear up and you’re gonna be perfectly healthy"

...so I just kept pushing and pushing, saying "this is all detoxification and healing crisis symptoms... this is all just coming from a past acidosis and that my digestive organs are weak and that’s why they can’t handle all of this sugar and raw goodness and water rich and fiber rich foods."

In a nutshell, that’s pretty much my experience summed up shortly.

I’ve left out a lot of details because it was super in depth than this, but if you want to know more about my story, you can check out my book, “Damn the Diets,” if you haven’t already.

So the reason why I share this and want to talk more about digestive issues and more in specific undigested food in stool and food allergies, is because, if you are suffering and you are going through this and you’re wondering what’s wrong with you,

...and if you’re so weak and fell you're too far gone to even ever repair and heal from this, know that you can heal.

I was basically near death a couple of times.

I felt so weak and depleted as if my body were truly shutting down.

And because literally everything that was coming in that I was consuming was literally coming out undigested.

So on top of being on an un-balanced diet, a severely restricted and ultra pure diet, not getting enough nutrients from that already, my body wasn’t digesting what was coming in, so this led to severe malnourishment.

And even when I tried to go back to ketogenic, GAPS, nothing helped bring up my weight that I had lost when I got down to 90 pounds.

It didn’t help my digestion or anything, which I’ll get to that in a moment.

On top of that, I had so many food allergies.

I was down to literally only a few foods that were "safe" and even those I could barely handle, and everything else in my mind was danger, it was bad for me, and my body just couldn’t handle the foods even if I tried.

So even though I looked super emaciated and malnourished at 90 pounds, even when I got up back to 100 pounds and then 110 pounds, I always had this pregnant looking bloated belly, all the time.

I would look on Instagram or looking at people on YouTube, I was like how are they not looking bloated?

I was trying to suck my stomach in all the time, which only made things worse.

The more I eliminated, the more sensitive I became to foods.

I had constant stomach pains if I ate the foods that were not in my three safe foods.

And I was obsessed with fears around not drinking water with my meals to avoid diluting my digestive enzymes and adhering to food combining rules.

And so if I ate a papaya, what came out was a papaya.

There was no change in coloring because my gallbladder was not producing bile (because it was malnourished).

There wasn’t enough proper energy (from balanced macros) coming in for the gallbladder to work so it literally shut down and stopped producing bile.

On top of that, I wasn’t having any fats so why would my gallbladder produce bile if no fats were coming in, right?

Then when I tried to add back in fats, and since it was shut down, it was hard to digest the fats that would come in and it took a while for my body to adjust

And adjust meaning - it had to get enough and consistent energy coming in to get my body out of a malnourished state.

So I needed to show my body that fat was coming in again so the body needed to start producing bile again in order to digest the fats and foods, but it also had to restore and replenish for the past energy deficit in order for the gallbladder and other digestive organs such as my liver to be able to work properly again.

It all had to go hand in hand.

Even if I tried to eat more fats as a raw vegan or eat more fats as a cooked vegan or eat more fats as a ketogenic, I was still lacking something in my diet in some way, such as fat on a HCLF diet or animal products on a vegan diet, or in carbohydrates on the keto diet.

I was still lacking starch or sugar, I was still lacking animal protein and fats..

...and so no matter what I did, until I let go of all of these restrictions, then and only then, were my digestive organs able to slowly restore, replenish, heal and turn back on in order to produce the bile, the digestive enzymes and the hydrochloric acid again, in order to digest the foods, in order to extract the energy to be able to replenish.

It was this crazy chaotic time of "is it the chicken or the egg and what do I address first?"

There was a lot of nausea in the beginning of my diet recovery process, trying to eat all the things that were off limits for so long such as bread, baked sweet potatoes, eggs, meat and cheese and all of that stuff, so there was that transition of hell.

But, it did get better so if this is you, it does get better if you go through a diet recovery process.

I did have some supplements to help this transition, but you don’t have to stay on them forever (no you won’t get dependent on them IF you’re simultaneously re-feeding yourself in a nutritional rehabilitation process) so because you’re feeding yourself, you can get off of them eventually.

It's just that while your body is healing, your body may need a bit of a boost and support while it’s in such a weak, malnourished state in order to replenish the digestive organs enough, to be able to function a bit more on its own and then the body will continue to heal and restore after you get off those supplements.  

The supplements were: 

I took digest all by Mrm and HCL and pepsin by Thorne (click on the links below to view)

1. MRM – Digestion
2. Pure – pancreatic enzymes
3. Digestion GB - Ox bile OR Nutricology – gallbladder/liver
4. HCL & Pepsin OR Thorne – Stomach

Also, as your body continues to balance out your hormones, metabolism, and digestive organs, use magnesium CALM.

This magnesium supplement will help with the stress load and high cortisol from chronic depletion as well as the transition if you rely on enemas laxatives or if you just have had a hard struggle with constipation.

Take either 2x a day, once in the AM and once in the PM or only 1x a day at night can help at times of constipation:

Magnesium Calm

Again, as you may know, I am a holistic nutritionist.

I'm not your doctor, but these are just things I used personally which worked for me and what I know has worked for many of my clients.

Alright, now I got off topic, but without the bile production, no coloring of the food digested had changed.

Your poop is supposed to be a brown color and it’s supposed to be different than what comes in.

Your stool is supposed to be digested and look like a poop, not like the food that goes in. 💩 not 🍉 

I literally thought I was too far gone to ever heal again.

On top of this, my liver wasn’t functioning either.

Again, the liver goes hand in hand with the gallbladder, but I was having severe liver pains and really pains throughout all my stomach but especially in my liver, like as if a knife was stabbing me.

That is gone as well through recovery!

So really, out of anything, I wanted to tell my story for people who can’t find any answers, because I couldn’t find any answers.

And I had to find it out myself, trust in the process and go through it with a blind faith.

And then when I got out of it all and recovered I was like "whoa! All of this stuff that I was seeking that was supposedly healthy, it was in the complete opposite of what actually healed me!"

I had to go against all of what I'd learned that our culture says is healthy and what I had learned to be true about nutrition, healing, weight management and health in order to find the answers I was so desperately seeking. 

If you want to heal this as well, you can.

You just have to go through this diet recovery where you let go of these food restrictions and rules.

But what I did was just slowly, but quickly, let go of the diet restrictions.

I say "slowly but quickly" because I had to somewhat be kind of slow with adding in more foods, like bread, animal products and more processed foods because I was so nauseous in the beginning and from my digestive organs being shut down from malnourishment from me not eating sufficiently or a variety of macronutrients, that it took a while for it to come back on, but quickly because I needed to eat a lot of food to satisfy my hunger and heal my gut.

It wasn’t until I stepped back and surrendered to my body and let my body take over.

Once I had my first bowl of pasta and cheese, when I felt out of control hunger that I always talk about, well, it wasn’t completely pleasant, but at the same time, it showed my body, oh wow, food is coming in..

...Like real food with starch and fat and all this stuff.

...Okay. We need to eat a lot.

We need to get it all in NOW because we don’t know if we’re gonna be starved in the future.

And although my body was asking for tons of food, it was really hard because at the same time I was dealing with severe digestive problems, getting super nauseous, so bloated to where it was uncomfortable, constipation and it all got really bad in the beginning...

...it took a while for my body to actually be able to digest food properly again and to come out digested finally, but it does happen.

Again, how do you do this?

You follow the same principles of diet recovery as everyone else, which you can learn more about in my free masterclass here, to learn about the mistakes to avoid and the 4 steps to take to find freedom from food, you can click here to save your seat!

Not that some people experience worse physical recovery symptoms than others.

It may take a little bit longer than another person, but it can still happen.

You’re not too far gone and you just have to be consistent with nutritional rehabilitation and you have to let go of that control around food and you have to go with your gut, go with your cravings and the physical will catch up, it will heal.

I hope that this video/article has helped you.

Just know that you’re not alone.

If you’ve been seeking for answers, I hope that this has brought a little light to your situation to just have hope.

Keep that hope. You got this.

Now before you go, I wanted to read a comment that I got recently on my YouTube channel.

And I want to read this because you can hear from others stories, that this hasn't just been my experience, but it comes from other people going through recovery as well.

This was from Andy. Andy said:

“To everyone who has commented or will comment on this video about how unsure they are and whatever stage of recovery they’re in, trust. Recovery is weird, like really weird, physically and mentally. It feels like puberty all over again and if you’re still in actual puberty, it’s gonna be even weirder for you. The path to remission is not steady. There are no set milestones. If your body is retaining more fat than you think or worry it should, as if your eating disorder or disordered eating or limited understanding of nutritional science could know what’s better for your body than your own body does, consider why the fat is there. Why it needs to be there.So this is pertaining to weight gain in recovery, which is often necessary. The best advice is to stop worrying. Stop overthinking it. What will happen will happen and if you eat as much as your body craves of whatever it craves whenever it craves it and get rest for as long as your body, not your higher logical mind, craves it, you will become mentally and physically healthy again, no matter how unique you feel that your case is. Every ED person feels like a unicorn. Sorry, but you’re not a freaking unicorn. Tough love. You are a person with a human body that can heal if you allow it to. Mine did. I gave it time and it is completely healthy again. Do I still retain some fat? Yeah, a little, but that’s normal, genetic, and totally healthy despite common belief. Sorry if this is tough love, but if you stick with full recovery, you will look back on your comments here and pity the overly worried person you were. Trust.”

I love that. It’s really true.

We try to overthink things and out-think our body but, like a lot of you have realized, biology will end up winning or you will be led to this path for some reason and you gotta just trust through the process.

And this is the last answer you’ve been seeking and you’ll be free from all these crazy diet escapades, starvation, malnourishment, suffering physically, by letting go and trusting and going through the process to completion.

I get comments like these a lot!

You’re not alone.

Xx 

Kayla Rose

Holistic Nutritionist

P.S. I’m hosting a free masterclass specifically for people who want to stop feeling obsessed around food and truly heal their metabolism and you’re invited! Click here to sign up.