Food Poisoning

real no kidding food poisoning will kick your , sounds like what you have. I have it multiple times. It is no fun.

Usually takes about 24hrs from the time symptoms start till the time you begin to feel better again. But those 24hrs are pure hell. You probably havent eaten or drank anything in that time.  Good news is you'll be fine in a few days. Once you can start keeping water down get yourself hydrated again and slowly ease back into training. You'll feel weak for a few days but you should bounce back.

Ya, I'd say this is a bad bout of it. It's now 48 hours since the symptoms started. I can keep liquids down and just started on noodles.

I'm wondering about the 7 lbs in weight loss. Can it all be from fluid loss? Granted, there has been a lot of fluid lost directly due to the symptoms, but is some of the weight loss fat or muscle too?

There is no reason to believe you have lost 7lb's of muscle mass in 24 hours.  You are dehydrated.  Most of your fuel processing system has been wiped out.  If you  were to attempt an endurance event at the current time you would not have you typical reserves of energy.  Are you still running a fever?  I would recommend no training until your fever subsides.  In the mean while drink lots of your favorite lo-carb electrolyte replacement beverage and you'll minimize the damage (dehydraton) done during your battle with the bug.

I feel you pain.

a bunch of us did a metric century and all went out to eat after and got "food poisoning" as a result.

turned out to be viral and not bacterial, specifically Norwalk Virus.  the Dept of Health got involved and that's how we found out it was Norwalk.

Took about 2-3 weeks to get completely over it. Really awful, we tried to get back in the "swing" of training, but it kept us down.

incubation period was really long, so we all blamed it on other sources.

as you probably know lots of different bacteria's and viruses can cause food poisoning, it might be worth trying to figure out what it is/was.  and report it if you suspect it came from a restaurant.

Well, it's day three since my symptoms appeared. I can keep food down and the fever is gone.

I mowed the lawn today and *that* was tiring enough. So I'm going to take the week off to allow my body to recover.

@ fit4infinity. You wrote to drink a low carb beverage? I haven't seen that advice for recovering from FP. (The bananas, rice, apples, toast, and crackers I'm eating are all full of carbs)

@ jmot.  I'm 99% certain it was food poisoning based on the symptoms and their timing.

My wife and I think it is from a salad we made. We are diligent about washing our veggies, but are thinking it might have been the canned bamboo shoots or water chestnuts we used. It makes me wonder if I should quit being a vegetarian and go back to eating meat. ;-)

Ironically I was vegetarian as well when I got food poisoning.  I did go back to eating meat.   Not for that reason though.  I'd actually report the food poisoning so that they can track the source.  If there is a product with it it rarely is just the stuff you took home.  Mine was from salad.  Washing helps but it is not foolproof sadly so it might still have been that.  Glad your feeling better.  I always heard of the 1-2 day symptoms and mine went on for a full week.  I eventually had to go to the dr and they were pretty close to sending me to emergancy for rehydration.  Poweraid became my friend, stuff I normally wouldn't touch.

Highly doubtful you got food poisoning from canned veggies and lived to talk about it.