I Cleared Out Chili's Last Night

  Well, at least one table ..   as "Methane Man" struck once more ..     I have fortunately been able to conquer my diarrhea bout of late and even a lot of the farts (and not the "good" kind) ..  Not sure why, as I haven't changed my meds or supps. any but I have been trying to watch my diet better and am continuing to take my Devrom ...  4 a day ..   However last night, after I had finished my Cobb Salad at my local Chili's (which was packed, btw) ..  I finished up with a single scoop of vanilla ice cream and waited for my check to arrive ..  I had not had any gas problems at all since I had been there, which was great, b/c some cute college coeds were in the place, including a hot beach-blondie type and her g/f sitting at the booth directly across from mine ..  Unfortunately, just before the check arrived I felt one welling up in me and I knew there was no way I was going to be able to hold it until I was outside ..     I had no choice but to let the "silent smoker" escape me and hope no one would notice  ...     I thought my secret was safe, until the 3 college jocks in the booth behind the co-eds caught wind of things a few minutes later ..  At first I heard chuckling coming from their direction, and then someone at their booth say, "geez, did someone (chit) their pants or something???"   A minute or two later one of the other jocks added, speaking to one of their companions, "dude, we need to move, seriously" ..     They then apparently hurried up the remainder of their meal in quiet discomfort ..  On the way out of their booth I heard one of them remark, under his breath, "yeah, thanks for ruining our experience." ..     (fortunately for me, there were a couple of old ladies in the booth in front of the co-eds, so hopefully the jocks attributed the source of the noxious emination to them)   Funny thing is no one else appeared to notice anything amiss, not even the cuties in the booth in front of them ..     Oh well, on a more serious note, this sort of thing is really getting me down ..    Even if I'm ever to initially attract a gal, how could I hope to keep them, so long as I continue to have this "problem"?       

Dear Methane Man,

Sorry, I had to start it that way. What a bummer. I am lucky in that my gas production nearly stopped after surgery. Now it is only sometimes when I eat too heavily on the dark-greens.

I know that pre-surg I could always count on gas when I mixed good proteins with bad carbs. When I was eating mostly proteins (ala Atkins, South Beach etc) I had no gas until I slipped up and ate some ice cream with dinner or something. Have you thought about the food combinations?

You may also want to eat more yogurt. That has helped my friend with her post-op gas. She eats it every morning with breakfast, and then again during a shake sometime during the day. I also eat a ton of the stuff. Always have.

Hope it works itself out. I can imagine how demoralizing this might be for you. Keep your head out of the "clouds", and your chin up. Wait for the "smoke" to clear. It's a stinker....

If not...fly your freak flag, and wallow in the mirth of weightloss.

--Jake

  lol  thanks, Jake ..  wise words!      I've been trying to eat a lot of yogurt as well, and I think it helped bring about the earlier "abatement" of things ..  I wonder if it could have been the scoop of ice cream, but don't see how it could have came about that fast ..     < waiting for the smoke to clear >

  Well ice cream will do it to me every time , and in very short order. I think that'swhy I eat itat night when the wife and I are watching TV. Nick

I have this trouble every morning.  I'm fine during the day, and most of the night.  But after sleeping all night, I wake up with clouds . I'm thinking about going back to driving... but looks like I better stay solo.. I'd kill a team driver .>LOL. Dale