Digestive Diary

Catching up with the past few days.....

Thursday last week I had a lot of work to do and started my day after my usual breakfast of weetabix. That wasn;t quite enough so I ended up eating a few chocolate digestive biscuits which always give me a gurgle tummy and on top of the weetabix I had quite a racket coming out of my gut for a while! 

As I worked through the day I noticed how soft and fat I felt. I;ve had a hard time of eating lately with my health being rocky, first the mouth ulcers stopped me eating and then the meningitis hit and took away my appetite. I know I had lost quite a bit of weight but o;d been striving to keep eating as much as possible whenever I could and had especially been putting away a lot of bread which was funny because my tummy sure felt doughy!

I ended up taking a few photos and even some video I’ll be sharing soon, even though I was still in bed and unwell, just pics and video of my tummy but it‘s given me a real taste for doing this again and I’m so looking forward to making full videos again soon! 

Encouraged by my rounded stomach I put away several snacks and meals through the rest of the day, eating cheese and bead, then chips (fries), then soup and more bread, quite a bit of it, and then chocolate and milk. I’d been drinking a lot of coke through the day as well and by the time I went to bed I had a heavy, contented belly, burping often as the food inside me jostled around and tried to make room for itself! 

On Friday I had the overspill from last week’s art marathon and so was busy again al day leaving me little time to eat. I started the day with a tremendous amount of gas, I swear I have gotten sooo much worse lately, I;ve become increasingly flatulent over the  past few months and I wake every day with a big tummy-full of air that I;m desperate to let out. Unfortunately it sometimes takes a while and I had a stomach ache from all that bloating so Luce rubbed me for a while before I could go and let it all out on the toilet.

I had three weetabix for breakfast, even though I knew I would suffer for it, and sure enough I bloated back up again and listened to it churning its way through my digestive system for quite a long time. I enjoy the feeling of my stomach working away, I can’t wait until over the move to really overtax things! 

I started to get on with my art for the day and worked my way through several pieces when my stomach started growling. My stomach isn;to shy about being vocal when it wants food but it will usually do a few thunderously loud rumbles and then go quiet for a couple of hours which makes it kind of hard to catch on a recording because I can;t reliably make it happen. I also get a lot of violent silent hunger pangs which I hate so I’m not going to starve myself to get hunger growls very often if at all! However on Friday my stomach was just very insistent about how hungry it was - I guess I *had* stuffed myself a lot the day before and probably stretched it somewhat so I should have expected that! But unusually for me it just kept on whining for about 15 minutes, one growl after another, and I took a fairly long recording which I’ll share some of on here this week!

the groceries arrived late that evening which I brought in and finally got something decent to eat, just two tins of soup and a lot of bread but it filled me out nicely for a few minutes. I think the soup and bread combo has been stretching me out nicely inside and hopefully after the move I can expand my intake to 3 tins of soil and more bread 👍

on Saturday I woke with a horribly upset stomach. Ugh, it was making all kinds of gross noises, growling and gurgling away like o;d taken a double strength laxative and I ended up having to rush to the toilet where a lot of wind exploded out of me along with everything I;d eaten from the last 2 days. I had a rotten tummy ache for hours and my stomach wouldn,t stop making these horrible whiny noises. I couldn‘t even eat breakfast!

in fact I didn;t do very well with food on Saturday and generally had a pretty poorly day all round. I am lucky that Lucy is such an expert at issuing tummy rubs by now and her expert hands soothed my gut several times, coaxing iut the stuck burps and farts that were making me feel worse and gently cooing to my noisy tummy to calm down which made me squirm with intense embarrassment!

I just about managed something cheese and some bread for lunch and a few biscuits later on but it wasn;;’t a great day all round unfortunately.   

hiwever, Sunday was a better day and I woke with an enormous appetite! lucy said my gut was growling in my sleep and It was certainly doing the same when I woke up! I ran my hand back and forth across it and it felt so sad and empty, deprived of a big meal the day before. I ate 4 weetabix for breakfast and immediately I bloated up so badly I thought I was going to explode!

when my stomach began to deflate through a series of belches and gurgles that ran the length of my digestive system until they exploded out of my backside in a series of loud farts I got hungry again and couldn’t stop eating. I had chips (fries) and pizza for lunch and more chocolate biscuits, then bread and cheese, milk and chocolate, and finally a big round of toast, 5 slices again. I had a lot of coke and extra bits of chocolate throughout the day, any time I felt like I had a little bit of space! I felt so fat when I went to bed, my domed-out stomach resting neatly in the curve of Lucy’s back as my stomach got to work on all that i’d consumed! 

and then yesterday I woke up with an ache in my gut that said everything o;d eaten wanted out and I spent quite a while emptying myself on the pot. Ohhhhh and I had so much gas, it was ridiculous! I hadn;t been brave enough to weigh myself since I got sick because I didn’t want to see my weight drop but I could feel how big my gut was and felt like I’d regained enough to step on the scale and see. Oh my god, I was 13 stone 8 pounds 2 ounces - I’d managed to get more or less back to where I was!!! I was THRILLED! I was scared I was going to reverse all the hard work I’d been putting in but i’m more or less at the weight I was before my health divebombed!

yesterday was an insanely busy work day so indidn;t do great with food, snacking mostly on bread and cheese but god I was hungry last night and ate my way through 10 chocolate digestive biscuits just before I went to bed. As soon as I laid down my stomach kicked off. Oh my god, the constant gurgles were really embarrassing and sort of kept waking me up as I tried to doze off!