Miss Piggy.....

[booboo73]

I have just been looking at my past episodes and hoping there may be a connection somewhere I have missed and may have found it. .. im a greedy bugger on a night. 

I have cut out alcohol and cheese and most other pleasurable things but still having af. I do have a lot of stress and working on that but 90% of my episodes involve eating late and fast and eating a whole bag of midget gems at once... oink!  Plus on research there seems to be a connection with having a gastric bypass...which I have had. 

I know its common sense that I shall now eat earlier and not be so greedy but do I really have to give up sweets too? Or is it just the amount that I eat at once...or are sweets a trigger too. 

I am getting lots of missed beats and palps all the time now and I was thinking should I try a healthy liquid diet to see what happens...any experience would be appreciated x o x 

[BobD Volunteer]

Go for the healthy diet Sara it will help.

[Buffafly]

Hi, I noticed you said you had fluid in the abdomen? In an earlier post. I have found that anything that causes pressure on the heart causes ectopics which then may morph into AF. So I would say try to eat light meals and certainly give your digestive system a long rest at night. I love this basic advice: 'Eat food, not too much, mostly plants'. Does a bag of Midget Gems fit? 🐷

[booboo73 in reply to Buffafly]

Ha but what about 'fruit pastilles'! Im in shock as just spent £42.65 on healthy food at morrisons and ran past the cig counter...I am reborn!! 

Yes I eat tea about 9pm and eat fast so my plan is to eat very slowly no later than 7pm to start with. I am convinced something is connected with all my arrithmias and food/gastric bypass..my belly sounds like the frog chorus when I eat too much!! Xxx

X o x

[bonnie54]

I found that fructose was a trigger for me, so foods that leave you with a lot of fructose are worth avoiding to see if it helps.  Search for fructose malabsorption and you will find advice.

Also i sometimes found that just eating, the physical act of swallowing solid food, could start me off.  The oesophagus and being close, i suppose.  The gastric btypass may mean that you are sensitive in that are too perhaps?

[CDreamer]

I drove myself mad with trying to correlate triggers, it started with alcohol, the tiniest sip would start me off, caffeine for sure, then sugar was a big one, then various odd foods and on and on.  Then I would eat something I thought was a trigger and nothing whilst episodes would start without any suspected trigger - it is the nature of AF as it progresses, sorry.  

Triggers don't cause AF, they are just triggers.  Some people can reduce or even eliminate AF long term by avoiding triggers whilst others cannot.  Certainly healthy diet, exercise and weight loss will only help your health generally but it will not be a guarantee of eliminating AF.  

Trouble with eliminating sugar is the withdrawal symptoms so reduce sugar intake gradually. 

Bonnie makes a good point.

[buddje]

Hi - try cutting out tea and coffee, stuff like Ribena and cordials- low fat  and low sugar stuff sometimes has phenylalanine in it and I isolated this as a possible trigger 2 years ago. Being overweight is a problem . I have this problem and comfort eat. Trying hard not to but partner works 2-10pm and the smell of food cooking at 10.30.pm is a problem and he is also a "feeder" and encourages me to eat. Not easy!!! Meditation a help.

[Kodaska]

One approach to eating - and other behaviors as well - is to identify those that aren't good for you.  Then every time you eat or do something from that list it's a reminder that you're not doing yourself any favors - or to put it another way, harming yourself.  I walk past the ice cream freezers at the grocery store and drool, all the while thinking "this stuff is really bad for me."  I love me and my health more than I love ice cream, so as I pass by I feel like I've given myself something worthwhile.

You can easily apply that thinking to just about anything else.

[booboo73]

Thanks guys. Well I am taking it slowly. .. cut way back on the cigs and got some patches.  Started healthy eating and drinking 2 litres if water.  Also trying to be positive and keeping busy in my garden. This may sound strange but im feeling so much better already  it could be a mind thing and not physical but who cares. Although I think the water is playing a big part. The ectopics are driving me crazy still but I dont notice them half as much if im not sat on my fat bum worrying about em !!! Sara x