Have you ever tried having just plain one full meal a day in the morning, taking only raw vegetables at night and drinking slimming tea excessively for 2-3 weeks?

Know what you’ll get in return?

Besides losing 2kg in 2 weeks, you’ll experience something that you will regret doing this stupid stunt for the rest of your life.

WIND … really really BAD WIND in your stomach. For ladies, with lack of proper nutrition and vitamins, you will miss your period or experience immense delayed period and that would mean your reproductive system is affected.

When my colleague mentioned that I eat like a sick person, I never thought I will be actually sick after eating like that!

The changes was obvious. I notice that a simple 2 pieces of biscuits could keep me very full for the next 4 hours. My body was beginning to reject food or avoid food.

6th November (Friday)

My ordeal started last Friday evening when I realized I was getting drowsy and nauseous. I started burping and belching more often than usual and had to depend on my ‘minyak angin’ (Chinese medicated oil) to release the drowsy and nauseous feeling. I was not able to play golf properly so I opted just less than five balls and rested one side to rest while my boyfriend and his friends played. I had too because my golf balls were flying everywhere with my lack of coordination…

7th November (Saturday)

At 5.45am in the morning, I was awakened with an intense pain in my stomach and rushed to the toilet. With that, my first of the few diarrhea rush began. I assume it was another bad case of food poisoning as how I had experienced last month since it was logic that with the lack of nutrients in my body, I could easily catch a bad virus in my stomach.

I was fully awakened at about 11.00am. My stomach was not getting any better. I still felt nauseous and the dizzy feeling was not helping me with my coordination when I walk. Without anyone at home to assist me, I took a slow walk to the kitchen and made myself a bowl of porridge since it is always doctor’s best advice for food intake during food poisoning trauma. While preparing the porridge, I managed to scour my previous food poisoning medication and prepared on the dining table so I could take it after my porridge.

During that time, my stomach began to reach an intense pain. Damn the virus! I thought. The pain just teases me with the coming and going. When I could take a few breath of relaxation, the pain returns to punish me again and again.

The hot porridge helped eases my tummy. By that time my parents just got back and saw me all pale and uncomfortable while chewing my porridge slowly.

I finally took the medicine when I finished my porridge. Vomiting tablet, stomach pain tablet, diarrhea tablet and antibiotics (which I didn’t finish taking during my last ordeal).

At about 12.00pm or so, my stomach began reacting to the next stage and I rushed to the toilet to vomit. Out goes some water I drank to swallow the tablets. I was glad by then, the tablets had already melted in my body system and began to work its way to recovery. How I can prove it? I slept like a log thanks to the vomiting tablet.

My boyfriend came back shortly after my vomiting experience and accompanied me by my bed side while I knocked out for the next 5 hours.

When I woke up, it was already 6.00pm. I felt a little better but still feel nauseous and dizzy. By that time I had already experience two vomitings so I was pretty exhausted. But being stubborn as I am, I insisted that my boyfriend take me to the place that he wanted to for some time. He planned it on that day and I never wanted to cancel it. So I insisted that he bring me to my surprise place and probably it’ll cheer me up a little.

At 7.00pm, we headed for Subway to have plain sandwiches. While my boyfriend went to order the food, I went to a nearby toilet to vomit. Out came some foam and bubbles. Just pure trapped air in bubble form and nothing else. I felt better and able to eat after that.

It was a long trip alright… the long trip didn’t help me with my nauseous feeling. I had to hold it in and prepared a plastic bag on my lap in case anything happen in the car. The burping and bleching continued but there wasn’t any smell. By that time I suspected that it was not food poisoning but a really bad case of wind. But I was still unaware what caused the wind.

When we finally reached, I realize by boyfriend wanted to bring me to Look Out Point near Cheras or some people call it as Little Genting. Cold and cool, we sat at a restaurant balcony where we can see the whole of Kuala Lumpur while enjoying myself a nice cup of hot chocolate to ease some wind.

At 1.00am, we reached home and the belching and burping continued. The nauseous feeling never stop… It was non-stop feeling of needing to vomit all the time with slight stomach pain every now and then. I vomited again at home since it was the best place to release all urges in my own toilet.

I took the same tablets again and knocked out within 30 minutes until next morning.

8th November (Sunday)

I woke up at about 11.00am in the morning. While my boyfriend went out to see his friend for a game of golf, I rested at home and google on the causes of wind in stomach. While it was obvious that my diet was the cause, I needed to know a more detailed picture of it. With that, I discovered the most obvious reason: lack of food + acid reaction = wind. I further discovered that misuse of slimming tea can create tons of wind issue in my stomach. And to think, I took it with only one meal per day diet… what was I thinking! To top it off, too much of raw vegetables and without any meat to balance the raw veg increases the wind trap. I was practically punishing my stomach with the crazy obsession to lose some kg.

I went down at 12.00pm with be with my mother and shed some light on her about my findings. The result? My mother BANNED me from taking the slimming tea and made me take some light snacks before my boyfriend comes back with a plain roti canai. I had a long nagging from her concern of my stupid diet that my tummy reacts even more.

My boyfriend came back with my lunch around 1.00pm and I immediately took it to fill my stomach before the acid reacts even more with empty stomach. Gosh it was a big change for me since I hated the wind so much, I made myself eat more often to fill up my tummy.

I was stubborn again. While my boyfriend suggested that I rest at home, I insisted that we stick to the plan to go visit his family. It is sort of a weekly arrangement and since I missed the last visit, I didn’t want to look bad by missing this weekend again because his mother was asking for me.

Thus, we left for his family place at about 3.00pm.

The wind was lesser now. Still dizzy and nauseous with burping and belching but lesser as I continued to slowly fill my stomach with food and water to push out the wind. Even the vomiting was lesser. I have yet to get myself charcoal pill as advised by my mother.

I was with my boyfriend’s family until 12.00am with all the chats and talks and laugh and feast. It took my mind off my wind problem. It was a good night nevertheless!

9th November (Monday)

I was awakened with nauseous and dizzy feeling again as usual but I felt that I could go to work without a problem. It was an innocent thought. When I reached the office, I realize I was very nauseous again. I kept putting on some medicated oil beneath my nostrils and sucked in real good to release the nauseous feeling.

My colleague noticed and the first thing he said was, “PREGNANT!” in the middle of the office. Oh the humanity…

As if my morning wasn’t bad enough, after explaining to him the cost of it, he turned from cheeky mode to serious mode and started nagging me about being too obsessed about dieting. “You have to accept the fact that your body is like that and you can’t force it to change. You’re Eurasian blood doesn’t allow you to have the kind of body you desire for. Why can’t you just accept yourself the way you are?” See, the whole office practically know my diet style and everyone are always concern about my way of eating… like a sick patient. I guess he was right to nag me like that. I was getting pretty darn obsessed as I minus my food intake every day.

I was getting too uncomfortable and went to nearby pharmacy to buy charcoal tablet. The nightingale of my life. My wind reduced within 30 minutes. Though there are still lots of trapped wind, I was feeling better as the tablet takes it’s job to reduce them for me. Of course that came with the burping and the farting. I had to go to the toilet so often but it was something I was more than happy to do to release them.

I took a good half hour nap at my table after the wind reduced and woke up with saliva on my hand because I rested my head on my hand during that period. I ended up with a soar neck and a cramp hand.

I didn’t do much that day. Just surfed the internet to know more about my wind problem and ended up telling myself:

My Angel Side : What have you been doing to yourself… are you trying to be bulimic or anorexic? Are you trying to get stomach cancer?
Me : OKAY OKAY!!! I’LL EAT NORMAL!! I DON’T WANT TO GO THROUGH ANOTHER SICK DIET TRAUMA!! I’LL EAT NORMAL AND EXERCISE OKAY???
My Devil Side : That is what you should be doing all these while honey.

My boyfriend picked me up from work at about 7.15pm and we headed home. By that time I already took a total of 3 charcoal tablets. I was still exhausted from all the wind problem and took a good nap after a good Campbell chicken soup and toast bread dinner.

We both woke up at 11.00pm. My wind started reacting again and this time I can hear my stomach growling. Guess my stomach is starting to get used to me eating again. My boyfriend went out to buy some yogurt, Yakult, 100 Plus and Tosai food for me. After taking the food, eating yogurt and drinking 100 Plus, I went to vomit and what came out was 100 Plus. Thus I avoided that drink and opted for Yakult which helped eased my tummy. Vomited twice and took the 5th charcoal pill then went to sleep at 3.00am.

10th November (Tuesday)

Heaven shines… I woke up without much dizzy and nauseous feeling. My stomach still feel tight a little with wind but lesser. I forced myself to vomit in the morning since I knew there are still some trapped wind. What came out was pure air as I vomit. Air and little bit of bubbles. But it felt so much better. I continued to force myself to burp when the air was trapped between my stomach and throat. I drank Yakult and it helped filled my stomach thus pushing out the air to allow the drink to fill up the stomach.

Had another nagging from my mother again on the way out of home because she discovered I vomited again. “Don’t avoid food! Take them at lesser quantity. Don’t punish your stomach and STOP TAKING THE SLIMMING TEA!!”

It was a good burping in the morning. On the way to work, I have no motion sickness anymore. I could smile better. Gave my boyfriend a good kiss when we reached my office and waved goodbye to him as I walked into my office. I still have tiny burpings but so much lesser now. The charcoal pill does help. Took a good cup of hot milo in the morning at 9.00am, having my simple sausage breakfast right now at 11.00am and will digest them down with yogurt. Will plan to have another simple meal at 1.00pm so my stomach have consistent food intake. I cannot think about diet now. I have to ure my wind problem first them think about a proper slimming program later…

A really PROPER one this time.

Well so much for my Wind Problem… Such a long story but I hope that this will help any girls out there to realise even a simple wind issue during a non-proper diet program can give tons of headache and ordeal. Imagine when one become bulimic or worst, destroying your stomach digestive system.

During the early period when my body started to reject food, I realizes I was always tired, weak and constantly feeling cold from morning until night. That was pretty much a sign to tell me I’m not eating right. But I was obsessed and I was wrong.

Never ever follow my way of dieting. It’s stupid and unacceptable. Consult a specialist if you need to diet desperately but never avoid food because these are your daily supplement or protein, nutrients, energy and health!