Hum... so bad posture could be causing the poor digestion in the first place? I do notice that, when I'm very bloated( I get a lot of fluid retention when I sleep too little), keeping good posture is almost impossible, because contracting your lower abdominal muscles( to move the pelvic region forward, where it should be) is uncomfortable, it feels like they're stretching too much. Contracting the abs when bloated also prevents proper belly breathing in my experience .
I agree, It still seems to form a vicious cycle, in which bad digestion leads to poor posture, and poor posture causes bad digestion. The solution maybe is to eat what doesn't give you any bloating for a while until you can fix your posture for good?
I wonder too why some people can have bad posture and still have a flat belly. I know of a few singers who visibly have bad posture( round shoulders, forward neck), and still maintain a very flat belly. I noticed that singing while bloated severely reduces the amount of air the lungs can hold, making throat strain and more frequent breathing more common.
Sleeping or just laying on a flat surface is interesting. I'll try it out.
Very true. People usually look down on losing water weight, saying they "didn't lose fat, it was just water", but just losing fluid can have a dramatic effect, and, although people do want to lose fat, I think it is easy to underestimate how much difference edema can make. It's not fat, but, appearance- wise, it makes the person look fat( and it's very uncomfortable in the gut), and if people realized this, they would see water weight loss much more favorably.
Warning for TMI, but I used to see some weird stuff in the toilet after my number 2. They looked like worms, but I can't be sure they were actually parasites. Maybe it's one of those elusive ropeworms that people report seeing.
I took albendazole many years ago( probably half decade at this point), but it didn't seem to do much for bloating. Maybe I didn't take it long enough? I remember I was scared of liver damage from taking it, that's why I didn't use it for very long( less than a week I think). Do you think it's worth trying again?
I heard of people using a combination of herbs( black walnut hull, wormwood and cloves) to treat parasites. Hans himself took it and said his belly was much flatter after it. Do you have any experience with this combination, or with any pharmaceutical medications for treating these critters?
That's a good point about the volume. Eating a pound or two of fatty meat a day would be all one would eat if they were on the carnivore diet. Compare that with eating a lower fat diet, especially with no refined carbs. Easily 6+ pounds of food per day.
Same with regards to ingesting water. I immediately bloat up in the belly area. More corroboration that fluid retention may well be the most likely explanation for the issue. Now I have more body fat, so I can't see my abs anymore, but even 2 or 3 years ago, when I could, underneath the muscles there was clearly a lot of bloating.
I'm definitely not against bloating being caused by poor posture, but it seems that every time I fast a little bit( especially after having a bowel movement), my bloating goes down and I naturally tilt my pelvis forward while walking. I think I only slouch because it's tiresome to keep a good posture while carrying a huge distension in the central area of the body. I'm willing to try to fix it to see if my gut improves though. Maybe that's the way out.