When you say "bloated" do you mean like water retention bloated or bloated in the stomach.??
My training partner was steady losing about 1 pound every 10 days for 6 weeks during her prep eating pretty much there same stuff she had been eating all off season just a little less and nothing off plan then suddenly she stopped losing and gain a couple pounds and held it for 2 weeks.!!
We incorporated a little more cardio and reduced 150 calories and after 10 days nothing budged but she was definitely bloated in her stomach. She did a 24hr fast and felt way better then did a week of PSMF and was making great progress. When we added carbs back , boom stomach bloated. We narrowed it down to the oats and brown rice she was have for meal 1-2. We swapped those carbs for fruit and everything went back to normal. Now any time she eats oats she gets terrible gas and stomach bloat even though she had eaten them for years.
I think her body just built an intolerance or something to them.
So maybe look at her diet and change one thing at a time , a protein powder , protein or carb source ect.
Yes Gunsmith, so many little things can make a huge difference.
Carbs and bloating . . . funny story.
For years I thought, and my experience told me (when I was way younger), that all carbs were alike. And we
all know that is not the case. I found this out for sure, the hard way, last October and November when my
wife and I were in Tanzania and Seychelles.
In Tanzania we were fed rice twice a day, lunch and dinner. Meat being expensive it was never a main course.
But carbs and fats were never in short supply. (If you have never had a avocado right off the tree in
Tanzania you are really missing something. They are the size of soft balls.) When we climbed Mt. Meru the
carbs were great. When my wife went off and climbed Kilimanjaro (I have done it before), I chartered a plane
and went off to went off to Selous Game Reserve and then to Ruaha National Park. Heaps of food at the game
lodges and I love my rice and I had as much as I wanted when I was away. Now . . . sitting in a Land Rover
12 hours a day chasing game with my only exercise being the lifting a 6lb. camera and lens all day for 10 days
does not exactly qualify as exercise.
When I hooked back up with my wife in Arusha she could not believe the gut (bloat?) on me. And now that she
mentioned it, I couldn't either. I have never in my life experienced such a thing. On safari together for the
next couple of weeks, I really watched my portion control and by the time we hit the beaches in Seychelles
and was in more control of what I ate, I was soon back to where I started . . . which isn't saying much.
Oats I love. Rice I love even more. But man oh man, in the quantities I was consuming them, without meaning-
ful exercise, my stomach just grew like I was pregnant. Eating the same number of calories of other carbs, I have
never had a problem keeping my stomach in check.
Yes, all carbs are not created equal.