#digesting belly

*Use headphones for a WAY better listening experience! xx As promised, here's that recording of my insanely unhappy belly 😵‍💫

Here's me thinking that eating or drinking next to nothing for a day (besides water and tea) to give my stomach a break after a VERY overindulgent weekend would sort out my overworked tummy...but nope. I swear I've hit my own personal record for how distended my poor tummy has ever been, and it wasn't shy about letting me know that it really wasn't happy about it. I didn't even know my belly was capable of bloating that much seeing its pretty flat most of the time 😅

Everything in my stomach still felt it was sitting like a rock, which felt super blegh, so I had a liiittle bit of water to hopefully settle and help flush things out.

That was such a mistake 😖

The second the water hit my stomach, I felt a deep 'glug' just above my bellybutton, and I thought that was going to be it, but with zero warning it started to feel like my already tight belly was fighting to make room for those few sips. It felt like everything in my tummy was shifting, and soon after, the bubbling gurgles became almost constant. I'm so so glad I managed to get my phone out quick enough to catch that super long rush of gurgles (from approx. the 30 - 55 second mark).

Despite what it may sound like, it wasn't the kind of upset belly that meant I needed to run to the bathroom (thank god). Every time my belly erupted in waves of liquidy gurgles and groans, I could feel the movement rolling from one side of my bloated stomach to the other. It was super unsettling, crampy and uncomfortable, but at the same time...fuck, it felt good.

I don't think my belly gave me a break at any point after lunch yesterday 💀

After the pizza, I was going to take a break from food for the rest of the day, but I forgot it was a friend's birthday dinner that night and had to force down even more food... ugh. On top of what I'd had for lunch, I felt so pressured to eat by everyone that my belly is now also fighting to process a burger, some chips (fries), onion rings, a milkshake and a small slice of cake.

The second I got home and stretched out on the bed, I just felt so bloated with everything I'd eaten today, and it didn't even feel like my tummy was able to digest anything 😭

I meant to record earlier, but honestly, I felt too sick while my overstuffed belly was trying so hard to work through it all that I just couldn't.

So anyways, here's a very short vid of the tail end of the night. By the time I felt like recording this, my belly had settled a lot, so it's really quietened down compared to a good few hours before.

I only got about a minute of recording before I had to stop. My belly still feels really upset and full, and even gently touching or massaging it feels icky.

I wasn't even pressing that hard but the second my hand was on my tummy, I felt so much bubbling under my hand and down the sides of my belly 😭 A couple of them felt weirdly good, but for the most part my stomach was just gurgling and groaning like it was personally offended by the amount of food I had today 😵‍💫

✨️You're sitting back, tummy warm and full after your meal. You can feel it start to work on everything you ate; slow, thick gurgles deep in your gut, the bubbling and shifting down your sides as it works through into your intestines, little pockets of air moving as everything settles✨️

✨️But no one else can hear any noises from your belly, not even you. It's like your gurgly little secret, like experiencing a massage only you can feel from the inside as you digest, and no one around you is paying any mind to it...✨️

Ate a little bit too much out at lunch today with some friends and ended up with a super bloated belly 😩 I didn't even eat that much, so idk what's going on in there 🫠

I got changed as soon as I got home to get more comfy, and this shirt is normally HUGE on me to the point where it may as well be a dress, but my tummy was pressed right up against it and I look (and feel) borderline pregnant 🤰💀 Every time I move even a little bit, I can just hear and feel everything sloshing around mainly in my upper stomach 😷 It feels like I need to burp so badly but my body just isn't letting me, so I don't think all the trapped air is helping either