I’ve been bulking for about nine months now, and am getting on the fat side. I’m currently around 18% fat. Normally I’d start cutting before I go that far, but I wanted to finish IBB first. Up until a couple of days ago the problem with this was that I had lost my appetite completely. Every meal was a battle, so I figured I should mix things up a little, and health be damned, eat something I really love that I haven’t tasted in years. I remembered how Wendler said grilled cheese makes you awesome, and I love grilled cheese, so as sort of a half way joke I decided to fry up a few with whole grain bread, and for the first time in ages my digestion felt lightening quick after a meal.
The thing I was most tired of eating was eggs. I’ve been eating on average six a day for years, so I cut them completely. To get enough calories I went from low fat milk to whole milk as well. Now, three days later my bloat is gone, I feel more energetic, and I’m constantly hungry like I used to be when I started lifting. I was doing this as a psychological fix, but the result seems to be physiological. Could I unknowingly have been allergic to eggs? Is bloat and loss of appetite common symptoms of egg allergy?
The grilled cheese thing is pretty weird as well. Everybody dumps on bread, so I hadn’t expected a physical improvement from eating tons of that, but I feel much better now that I eat twice as much of it as I used to, even though I was eating a liberal amount of carbs already.
Hey, I read a few articles recently talking about how our body’s can become allergic to a food if it is consumed all the time. Now the reasearch behind it is kind of vague but it was an interesting read, I will try to find a link for you as soon as I get a sec. It talked about switching up protein powders as well for instance not only using whey. Using whey for a month, then casein, then maybe a pea protein or even a beef protein isolate. So from that its possible you may have developed and egg allergy??? Again I’m not 100% sure but I thought it might be relevent. Just try switching things up it sounds like you have found the solution. As long as your energy is high and your feeling good then stick with it.
Thanks! I don’t think I’ll eat grilled cheese for long. It can’t possibly be healthy, and I don’t see it working on a cut, but I think from now on I’ll put more effort into mixing things up.
No Problem! And I agree Grilled Cheese may not be the best cutting food but every now and then it wont hurt! Good luck to you. 
Well, some foods definatly just doesnt sit well with some people. In my opinion, its not healthy if it makes you feel bad. In my case, i know of quite a few food items that are very good for you, but gives me trouble, like oatmeal making me crap like a fire hydrant.
I am pretty sure food intolerance can be aquired, meaning that if you overeat a particular food, you might one day have a problem, depending on the allergenicity of the food itself. I mean, you dont see many asians being allergic to rice even though they eat a fucking pound a day, but there are quite a few people worldwide allergic to stuff like eggs and nuts.