I like oatmeal a lot but I have noticed that when I eat it, it seems to make me very gassy. I eat it in the morning and go to the gym in the evening after work. So about 6-7 hours after I eat the oatmeal. It definitely doesn't feel good to lift when I am like that. Is there anything I can do besides stop eating it? When I make it I usually do like a half cup of oats(dry), almond milk, peanut butter, half scoop of whey protein and a banana. and some non-fat greek yogurt. Am I somehow just fricking my guts up by doing this?
What kind of oats? Some of them have a lot of insoluble fiber which can cause you to bloat up. Steel cut oats is preferable IME
The kind I have is the Quaker "Old Fashioned" oats. Should I be using a different kind? I also make them by not heating them up but by chilling them overnight in the fridge. Does one way or the other cause more gas?
That shouldn't matter, it depends on how the oats are processed. The insoluble fiber is causing the issues, w/ steel cuts they remove some of the insoluble fiber and roll them up again
Okay. I will probably try steel cut then. Does fiber frick up everyones guts? I thought it was supposed to help? maybe I am just eating too much at once or something?
When you eat more fiber your gut is going to notice and bacteria that love fiber will grow strong and multiply and go to war with whatever other non-fiber loving bacteria is there until some sort of equilibrium and peace is reached. During this war cannons are fired. That's what you're noticing. Hopefully the cannons stop firing when your diet has been stable for awhile and they make peace.
fiber itself should not be making you gassy. I think this is incorrect, and I also think how they're processed won't meaningfully change the fiber content. I would look to how they're cooked
too much fiber/grains.
try eating less oatmeal in a serving
try making it with less protein powder and maybe regular milk or water
oh and take out the yogurt too. who eats yogurt with oats?
>look up oats on Amazon
>steel cut and old fashioned, Amazon brand (same brand for both)
>steel cut is 4g of fiber, 1g of soluble and 3g of insoluble
>old fashioned is 4g of fiber, 2g of each type
It's the same chief, they will have the same amount of fiber. OP just drink more water and accept that you will be gassy from oats.
like with beans, cooking oats help break down saccharides that make you gassy. If you eat undercooked beans, you'll be gassy, just as you will be if you don't eat cooked oats that are well-broken down
this is one area where the raw-diet movement has really got it wrong. I think that community has wrongly fetishized raw eating... maybe it's because it's seductive as more "natural"-seeming or people are in need of some kind of alternative solution to their dietary/health problems, so they buy into this raw diet campaign. But it is solidly understood in nutrition that cooking your food helps break down difficult-to-digest components, as well as frees up and makes much more bioavailable nutrients and vitamins contained in the food. It's understood that animal protein is made much more digestible and bioavailable when cooked, cooking breaks down cellulose and vegetable matter to help release nutrients/vits, and it kills parasites. All of this holds true with oatmeal, which is pretty tough plant matter that has lots of complex starches and fibers that aren't easy to digest
also this guy
has a point... trying knocking off the dairy and see if it helps
Raw diet sounds stupid as shit.
Cooking makes healthy eating so much easier.
Might be the milk chief. That gmo shit ain't good for you.
Schizo.
fed post. gmos will be the death of western civilization. raw grass fed babies will be tall and giant to ward off the evils of post industrial society
Single proof that gmos are bad for you?
who is the milk chief
It may take your body a while to get used to them. Cut down the portion size for a week or two while your gut bacteria adapts. Oats used to make me constipated and fart fiercely but I managed to get over it.
No such thing as too gassy. Break wind where you please and own it. I’ve met chicks who ask me to fart on them
Sir, you are meeting women who are mentally ILL
sounds like you aren't actually cooking them/letting them soak
Get some digestive enzymes and take 'em with the oats. Also add a daily probiotic.
The phytic acid in oats and most whole grains makes their breakdown in the gut more troublesome. Soaking the grains for several hours helps break down that acid that's bound to the fiber and generally makes it more digestible..
Try making overnight oats and see if it helps. Take the oats, water/almond milk, and peanut butter, throw them in a jar or sealable container and pop them in the fridge overnight. Then just mix the whey and banana in before serving.
Humans can't digest fiber which is why you're gassy
Stop eating dairy. Holy shit. It's not the oats.
frick off israelite/Black person/paki
Could be Coeliac : D
Oats are a sham. Loaded in glysophate. Go organic if you must eat them otherwise do whole eggs with bread
frick, I've been eating great value oats for about 6 months, they helped me lose a ton of weight. I love overnight oats. How fricked am I?
You're good. Mostly just a fear campaign when I looked into it (i.e. regular oats have it, but are well under toxicity limits). Organic will have a lot less glysophates though.
Dude if it's working it's working. How do you prepare yours? I haven't had oats yet I really enjoyed
1/2 cup oats (old fashioned)
1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp raw honey
dash of cinnamon
1 scoop of Orgain vanilla protein powder
>When I make it I usually do like a half cup of oats(dry), almond milk, peanut butter, half scoop of whey protein and a banana. and some non-fat greek yogurt. Am I somehow just fricking my guts up by doing this?
week 1: make the same oats, but cook them fully before putting them in the fridge overnight
week 2: go back to not cooking overnight oats, but remove whey
week 3: remove dairy
week 4: remove almond milk and peanut butter
In 1 month you'll have the data on what is causing your farts. Grow up and solve your own damn problems.
are you mixing it with milk? too much protein powder? oats never do that to me but I put onions boy juice in mine
as other anons said, try cooking proper and try different processing
oatmeal will bloat you moar than porridge because making porridge gives the oats time to get saturated and push out any excess air as they swell, i don't actually know how you guys cook oatmeal because it's not eaten here but that's what you want to be doing even if you're not making porridge
i get bloated if i drink milk & yogurt or kefir because the yogurt/kefir is fermenting the milk, depends on how much i drink though