Cutting and damn horrible farts

Protein farts are absolutely a thing. Your gut microbes are fermenting all that chicken and beef into sulfurous gas, and the onions are just making it worse. The bigger problem is your meals are basically protein + rice + fruit with almost no veggies, so your microbiome doesn’t have much to work on except undigested protein and it produces foul gas. Add some spinach or broccoli to lunch and dinner — very low calories and it helps a lot. Also consider psyllium husk in addition to Benefiber since it’s a different fiber type and promotes faster transit. Take digestive enzymes with your protein meals so the protein gets broken down before bacteria can snack on it. A probiotic can help too by increasing beneficial bacteria that outcompete sulfur-producing strains. Weird but true: chlorophyll tablets can neutralize odor. Cut back on the onions (they’re sulfur bombs). Add greens and stack those supplements and you should stop clearing rooms. Good luck with the surgery prep — try that and let us know how it goes.

Will do. How do I take psyllium husk without it being miserable? I try to stick to just water, black coffee, and zero-cal drinks so it’s tough to mix into those. I’ll drop the onions — great call — and add broccoli. I’ll also shave off 25 g of rice per meal to make room for the swap. So per meal I’m thinking: the digestion supplements you mentioned, 175 g rice, 1 cup broccoli, and the meat.

Mix the psyllium into your protein yogurt. I recommend psyllium to basically everyone I know who uses it — when I’m consistent my stools are so solid I barely need to wipe; when you do it’s like, wow. That plan sounds solid. One more note: some people are occasionally lactose intolerant, but you don’t seem to be eating a lot of lactose anyway.

Before I started cutting I drank a ton of whole milk and never had stomach issues. Thanks man, that advice is super helpful. If this doesn’t fix it I might swap my banana for an apple to up the fiber.