When you go from a bad diet to a marginal diet, your body starts healing
and you start feeling good. Eventually the healing slows down and you
start to revert to how you were before, but not as bad.

Fruit smoothies and raw salads are not what I call a balanced diet.
Balance your diet and thing should start to improve again.

Don

> Sorry for the long post but I think many people have my problem but
> are afraid to admit or talk about it. And since I believe that most
> illnesses start in the bowel I think it's an important topic to
> discuss and diagnose.
>
> In the past I used to always get regular bloating and flatulence,
> almost every day for years, which I thought might be normal until I
> got rid of it last year! Last year in June I started eating only raw
> large salads for supper, I would get satisfied and full. Then
> something amazing happened, I started having bowel movements
> twice/day, very emptying and satisfying and non-smelly. After a few
> days of this my bowels became very quiet, I never experienced
> bloating or flatulence again. I could not believe how good I felt, I
> wasn't sure what had happened to me. My digestion seemed to be made
> of iron after this: it DIDN'T MATTER what I ate anymore, I would
> NEVER get the bloating or gas.
> I have again just started getting episodes of bloating and flatulence
> after meals that last 4-5 hours! This frustrates me because my diet
> is so good, and has not changed since I thought I beat this problem
> last year. For the past year or longer my diet consists of the
> following:
> Breakfast: raw fruit smoothies made of bananas, mangos, peaches,
> papayas. Sometimes oranges. I never include milk, yogurt, protein
> powder or any of that nonsense, just pure fruit and a bit of water to
> thin.
> Lunch: Fast food usually, either small amounts of chicken and rice
> with peas, or rice, green beans and corn.
> Dinner: Salad with a sandwich, or potatoes, soy protein. There was
> usually a salad involved though.
> Now however, I seem to be getting random bouts of bloating flatulence
> again. Sometimes I will eat a large salad on an empty stomach and
> nothing will happen, then the next day I'll eat the same salad on an
> empty stomach and get tons of bloating and gas again. I ate a stir-
> fry one night with lots of bloating and gas, then 2 days later I eat
> the exact same thing again with nothing. I eat on an empty stomach,
> so I know that the food was not mixing with another food that was
> still in my stomach from a previous meal. Besides, it didnt matter
> what I ate before I would not get bloated. I do not think that
> producing gas is as simple as what you eat, or from being constipated
> with 4 days worth of food in your bowels. I'm thinking it can also
> have something to do also with bacteria types in your gut with
> different levels of it at different times?? Could this be true? Could
> I possibly have inadvertently eliminated this bacteria last year, and
> now its creeping up again, causing random bouts of bloating and gas?
> I tried a detox to mimic what I did last year with only salad for
> dinner, eating raw foods for a week with a cleansing supplement. The
> herbal laxative of this supplement gave me bad diarrhea so I stopped
> using it.
> So to a sum things up, my diet has not changed in the past year, yet
> the bloating and gas is coming back sporadically, slowly increasing.
> Could higher levels of some sort of bacterias that produce bloating
> and gas cause it? If so, what could they be and how do I eliminate
> them?