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Why isn't DSister's diet making her ill?

37 replies

sandradailey · 02/08/2022 20:42

She is 24.

Breakfast - Ready Break

Lunch - Soup. Any soup, so vegetable soup, carrot, Mexican soup. Etc etc

Dinner - A 66p pizza laced with salt. She puts a little pile of salt next to the ketchup and dips both in

I'm curious to know why all her blood work is all okay?

She was in hospital recently for another twisted bowel episode. Luckily avoided surgery.

She was in surgery 6 months ago when she had her gallbladder removed due to gallstones

My question is when will this start to impact her? I'm really worried as it's so horrifically bad for her and she has a disabled DC to care for so can't afford to be unwell

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Soubriquet · 02/08/2022 20:42

It’s cos she’s 24….

Lemonblossom · 02/08/2022 20:44

I’ve mainly lived on cheese sandwiches, chocolate and Diet Coke for most of my 50 year old life. I’m fine

Fluffycloudland77 · 02/08/2022 20:45

She’s 24. She could eat cardboard and be ok.

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WeAreTheHeroes · 02/08/2022 20:45

24 sounds very young to have gallstones unless she has an underlying condition so she's already being impacted by it.

gamerchick · 02/08/2022 20:46

She has youth on her side.

Also, ready brek is chocka full of vitamins isnt it?

Samanabanana · 02/08/2022 20:47

Sounds like her diet has caused her to be hospitalised twice so... it is making her ill?

PinkDaffodil2 · 02/08/2022 20:48

It’s obviously not a good diet but what about it are you expecting to show on her bloods? Is she gaining or losing lots of weight, having difficulty with her bowels? Depending on the quality of the soup it is likely lots of salt and fairly low protein but has some fibre, fat, ready break will be fortified with vitamins etc. At 24 I think you can often get away with much worse.

bellac11 · 02/08/2022 20:48

How is Keith Richards still alive?

Look at him, hes desiccated.

Some people are just lucky but she is very young.

Thefriendlymoth · 02/08/2022 20:51

some people can eat pretty much whatever they want with no immediate Ill effect when they are only 24. That said, she’s very young for gallstones so that could be her diet starting to impact her health. I doubt she lives in a vacuum and is therefore completely unaware that poor diet can make you ill long term but there is little you can do unless she wants to change it.

Dizzywizz · 02/08/2022 20:54

I don’t get it - it sounds like it is making her ill?

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sandradailey · 02/08/2022 20:57

Dizzywizz · 02/08/2022 20:54

I don’t get it - it sounds like it is making her ill?

No it isn't. The twisted bowel episodes are from scar tissue complications

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Shehasadiamondinthesky · 02/08/2022 20:58

I was fine too until I had a stroke st 60. I recovered 100% but I've started taking my diet very seriously now.

StaunchMomma · 02/08/2022 21:01

She's had gallstones at 24 and you're wondering when her diet will start affecting her?

Surely evidence suggests it already has!!

Buythebag40 · 02/08/2022 21:02

Gallstones are mainly connected to a bad diet though aren't they? High salt/cholesterol? So her diet IS making her ill, and it'll probably only get worse as she gets older. Lack of fibre will impact negatively on her bowel also.

grapehyacinthisactuallyblue · 02/08/2022 21:04

Surely the gallstone at such a young age is due to bad diet?

LIZS · 02/08/2022 21:04

Liquid and starchy foods may be recommended for bowel issues, less fatty foods for gall bladder, so her diet may be restrictive out of necessity.

bellac11 · 02/08/2022 21:04

At such a young age its unlikely the gallstones are connected to the diet, probably the pill if she has an estrogen based pill.

RampantIvy · 02/08/2022 21:06

Lemonblossom · 02/08/2022 20:44

I’ve mainly lived on cheese sandwiches, chocolate and Diet Coke for most of my 50 year old life. I’m fine

Why such a retricted diet?

maranella · 02/08/2022 21:08

The Ready Brek and soup are okay, but a 66p pizza for dinner every night with ketchup and salt? Okay, that's a dietary disaster. Does she really eat nothing else at all?

Aerodactyl · 02/08/2022 21:09

At 24 I ate no breakfast, a canteen veggie burger with mountains of ketchup and something vaguely adulty for tea unless I was drinking in which case alcohol would be my main meal. She's 24. That how she gets away with it. If I ate like that now I'd be gaunt and grey with no muscle whatsoever.

AnneLovesGilbert · 02/08/2022 21:10

My sister’s ex lived on potatoes, bread, Yorkshire puddings, meat and vodka. Haven’t seen him in ages but I knew him a decade in his twenties and early thirties. He never got ill, ever, had an extremely high pressure job, worked out most days and looked like he glowed with health - clear skin, thick shiny hair, slim. It made no sense, I guess he was lucky.

Aerodactyl · 02/08/2022 21:11

I was fucking radiant btw 😂

bellac11 · 02/08/2022 21:15

Shes certainly on a very low calorie diet, she might not even make 1000 cals a day?

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sandradailey · 02/08/2022 21:19

bellac11 · 02/08/2022 21:04

At such a young age its unlikely the gallstones are connected to the diet, probably the pill if she has an estrogen based pill.

We have spoken about this sort of thing before and I know she's never had any pills, just coils. She was worried it'd make her migraines worse that she use to get (they mimicked a stroke)

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HereIAmBrainTheSizeOfAPlanet · 02/08/2022 21:19

When I was 24, I had a shit limited diet and I was sick a lot.

Noone here can give you an exact date that shits going to hit the fan for your sister.

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