I Got a Lean Tummy in 30 Days By Quitting These Gut-Irritant Foods

And introducing wholesome nutrition

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I’m not new to the world of fitness because I’ve been working out and eating healthy food for the past 10.5 years. It started as a journey to lose 55lbs because I was tired of being overweight all my life and it has become a lifestyle now.

However, I still struggled with

• adult acne
• craving sugar after food
• even after all this work, I had a wobbly tummy

All this when I’ve been lifting weights and eating mindfully for years, yet it’s been demotivating to have abdominal fat that I see when I look at myself without clothes.

The game changed when I hired a nutritionist who a friend told me about because she wanted to lose weight before her wedding. I hired her for a month and we ended up working together for 1.5 years.

After our first month together, I looked and felt so much better. Which is when I realised I was eating so-called ‘healthy’ foods that were causing inflammation and hence giving me acne and bloating.

The Foods I Quit

Now, I have been eating healthy for over a decade so that means I anyway eat junk only 20% the time and don’t consume large desserts or touch sodas. I’ve done calorie tracking for so long that I have an idea of what to eat and what not.

1. Bread: yes, even the ‘healthy’ kind.
2. Chocolate: I have now resumed it after a year but I could see a direct correlation between my chocolate consumption and acne. I’ll tell you soon about how I overcame the craving to consume it after every meal.
3. Processed foods: no dipping 2 biscuits in my Indian chai no matter how ‘healthy’ they were, even if they claimed to be multigrain. It’s just high-calorie stuff packed in something that doesn’t even fill you so you have it in higher quantity.
4. Outside food: I didn’t completely quit it, but I reduced this a lot. Junk food at home is healthier than healthy food outside, which has too much oil in it and we don’t even know what kind of oil.
5. Refined flour: I used to think that as long as I’m in a…