27/08/2026
If eating more fibre makes you bloated, gassy or sends your bowel habits into absolute disarray, it’s very easy to conclude:
“My body just doesn’t tolerate fibre.”
But poor tolerance isn’t necessarily a fixed state
If you’ve spent years eating a relatively low-fibre diet, your gut is adapted to… a relatively low-fibre diet.
Then you decide to suddenly introduce more veggies, salads, legumes, oats, berries, oats and rye bread in the same week.
Your gut did not get the memo! It has questions!
Your colonic bacteria ferment many types of fibre & increasing the amount reaching the colon can temporarily increase gas production. Fibre also changes stool bulk, water retention & intestinal transit.
The practical answer is usually much less dramatic than sticking to bland beige baby food for the rest of your life
Instead…build your fibre intake progressively.
Increase the amount gradually.
Increase variety gradually.
Drink enough fluid.
Pay attention to which foods, portions & combinations you tolerate well.
Then keep building.
Gut tolerance can be trained! Just like a muscle!
And this is exactly the sort of nutrition work I can do with my 1:1 clients. Consider me your fibre whisperer!
I create completely personalised meal plans from scratch, based on what you already eat, what you love, what you hate, your routine, your goals & what your gut can currently tolerate.
Nothing copy-pasted, nothing generic. If we’re working on fibre, I’ll build it back in gradually through foods you actually enjoy, so the whole thing feels very doable and very much like your life!
Send me a DM if you want to chat about working with me 🤩