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I Got a Lean Tummy in 30 Days By Quitting These Gut-Irritant Foods

4 min readMar 22, 2025

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I’m not new to the world of fitness because I’ve been working out and eating healthy food for the past 10.5 years. It started as a journey to lose 55lbs because I was tired of being overweight all my life and it has become a lifestyle now.

However, I still struggled with

  • adult acne
  • craving sugar after food
  • even after all this work, I had a wobbly tummy

All this when I’ve been lifting weights and eating mindfully for years, yet it’s been demotivating to have abdominal fat that I see when I look at myself without clothes.

The game changed when I hired a nutritionist who a friend told me about because she wanted to lose weight before her wedding. I hired her for a month and we ended up working together for 1.5 years.

After our first month together, I looked and felt so much better. Which is when I realised I was eating so-called ‘healthy’ foods that were causing inflammation and hence giving me acne and bloating.

The Foods I Quit

Now, I have been eating healthy for over a decade so that means I anyway eat junk only 20% the time and don’t…

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