Eating Less Fiber

[mutated_queer]

My stomach seems to be of an increasingly sensitive disposition so before I start gaining weight (for sports reasons, also hence the high protein) properly again I thought I’d look into how to best reduce my fibre intake. I can’t seem to find anything from google because it all seems to assume you struggle to eat 15g.  I doubt I’ll ever get it to

Comments

[mangiati_vivi]

I'm not a nutritionist, but if it were me I'd make the following cuts/substitutions:

Tofu scramble with veggies (and maybe even some seitan or tempeh, if you really want to go for protein overkill) instead of the cereal & milk.

Swap the pasta in the lasagna with eggplant or zucchini. Or do something like a rollatini using greens.

Swap the lentil & seitan burgers for plain old seitan, marinated tofu, portabello caps, etc.

Swap the brown bread in the hummus sandwiches with white bread or tortillas.

Good luck!

[mutated_queer]

Thanks

If tofu wasn't so damn expensive I would do but I think that would about triple the cost of my breakfast. Zucchini will be the new pasta. The lentil burgers will get a re-think, I could have plain seitan instead. Bread is def getting banned

[mangiati_vivi]

No problem.

Just out of curiosity, how much is tofu where you are? Where I am (Baltimore, Maryland US) I have the exact opposite problem. A box of cereal costs me upwards of four dollars, but I can get a lb. of tofu for anywhere from fifty cents to a buck and a half, depending on the brand.

[mutated_queer]

In a supermarket tofu is over $3 for 400g (0.88lbs). I can get it cheaper in the Chinese supermarket but not by an awful lot. I can get 6 days worth of cereal for less than a dollar, if you eat like a normal person then it's 12 days worth.

I'm in the UK

[restingstate]

I drink a 300-400 calorie smoothie every morning instead of cereal or anything else fibrous. I figure that blending all the fruit, veggies, and nut butter into liquid obliterates most of the fibers. You could add a couple scoops of protein powder and get an extra 20-25 grams of protein, if you wanted. My friend uses a powder made of pumpkin seeds that she really likes.

[icanseenow]

I thought the point of a smoothie was to keep the fiber intact.

[spyral_path]

The fiber is still there no matter how much you blend it. It's what the cell walls in the fruit, vegetables, and nuts are made out of.

[restingstate]

To this and the above comment: thanks for telling me! I love me some fiber, so smoothies aren't a problem for me, but I guess OP shouldn't listen to my advice :p

[forisma]

I don't think reducing fiber is a healthy way of living..
You might get some big trouble with you guts and flora!

[mutated_queer]

I get big troubles with my gut eating such a high amount too :p My experience is fiber is one of those things you should aim for the recommended amount of because both extremes are unpleasant

[crasherwake]

note: ugh, the community marked my comment as "spam," so here it is without the link I provided

[mutated_queer]

it let me see the link when I looked under 'suspicious comments'. Calorie for calorie the women in the article eats more fiber than me. I'm not sure beans could go but I think bread is getting banned and replaced with wraps. I'm not sure how much improvement can be made by change veg while still keeping it varied but I think everything will be getting peeled

[fadeviolet]

Too much fiber? That's not a problem. Drink more water to keep things running smoothly. You don't say why you need to decrease your fiber, but given the amount of processed proteins you plan on taking in, keep the extra fiber around.

Have you ever tried running this diet through a diet analysis? Try fitday.com or something similar, and it will tell you what you're really taking in. An adult honestly needs 25 g of fiber a day, so 30 is not bad.

Do your bowels a favor and do not go low fiber.

[mutated_queer]

30g isn't so bad but I'm 90% of the time at more than double that- what I posted is 65g. I need to drink over 5 liters a day (often closer to 6) to keep things going which is rather annoying in itself. I have no intention of going low fiber but if I could get it to reasonable fiber