Can you look at my diet & tell me why I'm constipated? It's really getting me down.

[RubySunsett]

Typical day:

Breakfast, a whole banana chopped up with full fat Greek yoghurt, a decent sprinkling of chopped hazelnuts, pecans & chia seeds, dessicated coconut on top.

Lunch, omelette with two eggs, onions, peppers, mushrooms. Decent portion of rocket on the side and a modest piece of smoked salmon, 5 cherry tomatoes.

Dinner, a piece of plain cod with half the plate piled with cauliflower & purple broccoli

I only drink water, either hot or cold as I don't like tea or coffee. I have no snacks.

I'm fed up of being constipated. I'm beginning to think it's adding to my low mood all this old food hanging around in my gut. Any bright ideas gratefully received.

@Inextremis

Are you low carbing? If so, have you changed to this way of eating recently? I have always found that I get constipated for the first month or so of a low carb diet - but deal with it by adding a tablespoon of linseed/flaxseed to my morning yoghurt - it works.

If not low carbing, then try something like dal - I have a bowl of moong, chana or toor dal most days now, and it's improved my regularity in a big way! Add some asafoetida if you find it increases your - erm - flatulence levels :)

Best of luck!

Yes! This!

I cycle through low carbing every few months, and the first couple of weeks or so, I'm always not my usual self. It takes a good few weeks for the body to adapt and for me to fall off the wagon again

We have used a similar low carb diet for the last two years, a triple magnesium supplement was recommended to us after a normally had situation was made worse. Adjust your dose to suit but these give us beautiful sleep and bowels

Lifeplan Triple Source Magnesium 200mg 60 Tablets https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0013G8M1E/ref=cmswwrcppapiglttfabcT6X9XJW32N4909G30K0E

I haven’t read al the thread but try a glass of prune juice with your breakfast.

You mention eggs and it could those that are ‘binding’ you up but the prune juice is usually sufficient to get rid of your constipation.