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Carley Adolf: weekly FODMAP reintroduction trials on a vegan diet
Carley Adolf on YouTube, about four weeks of reintroduction trials.
- What they tried
- Low FODMAP dietReintroduction phase, one food per weekend: blackberries, apples and apple-grape juice, Romano beans, dairy-free chocolate chips
- Timeframe
- about four weeks of reintroduction trials
- Outcome
- Reported that blackberries, beans and dark chocolate chips passed with no change in energy or digestion, while apple juice and a whole apple left her overly full, tired and unsettled for a day or two; very ripe bananas caused immediate upper-stomach pain.
- Caveats
- Self-reported; no diagnosis details or dietitian involvement are mentioned. A thyroid medication dose increase during the same weeks caused nausea and bowel changes, which could confound the later food trials.
Original: Carley Adolf on YouTube
Carley Adolf, a vegan creator documenting what she calls her FODMAP journey, filmed this update across roughly four weekends of reintroducing foods one at a time while otherwise keeping to her usual limited diet.
Blackberries, tested first, went smoothly. Apples were the second trial: half a glass of apple-grape juice left her uncomfortably full, a second portion an hour later did the same, and after eating most of an apple the next day she felt drained, unmotivated and vaguely unwell for a day. She decided apples may be a tolerance issue, stopped the trial early, and skipped the third day so she could run.
Romano beans and dairy-free chocolate chips, tested on later weekends, produced no change in energy or digestion, which she took as a sign she could keep them. She also noticed that very ripe, brown-spotted bananas gave her sharp upper-stomach pain within a couple of bites on two occasions, while yellow ones did not.
She says knowing her safe foods has removed her fear of eating and the nightly stress of deciding dinner, though she is bored of her tofu staples. She closes with an unrelated complication: a thyroid medication increase that caused a week of nausea, more frequent bowel movements and morning gas, and a new need to keep calcium-rich foods away from her dose.
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