i'm so discouraged i could cry. i'm gaining like crazy and i need to loose about 80 pounds.
i starve myself and still don't loose. i've done nutrisystem and the food was so bad i couldn't eat it. did jenny craig but it was sooo expensive, i dropped it.
i'e done liquid diets and gained as soon as i put anything solid in my mouth.
i started an exercise program of walking a mile a day but had to stop when i twisted my ankle so bad.
i stand in the kitchen and cry because i'm soooo hungry and i don't know what to eat other than veggies and meat and i'm tired of those.
is there anyway to loose weight with lyme? i'm about ready to do gastric bypass, which hubbie has approved, even if i have to take out a loan to do it....
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Starving is not good for anyone's health. Good food is necessary to support all your cells in your body and all the functions of all the organs. Food also helps the body detox.
A gastric bypass can be very difficult on someone, especially someone with chronic infections. And, infections can CAUSE weight gain.
Steroids are usually given during surgeries and, sometimes, for a while following. That can be really bad for lyme patients and, if necessary, there are ways to work with that but it is best to avoid steroids when possible.
Assuming you have fairly good health habits, the weight can be related to inflammation from infections.
This book (Potbelly Syndrome) is specific to lyme and other chronic stealth infections.
The author discusses the endocrine connection and effects of elevated cortisol from the stress of this infections. And, have you been tested for Cpn? That is highlighted in the book, too, as a cause of weight gain in those who even have good health habits.
The book "The Lyme Disease Solution" also discusses the importance of the endocrine connection and what can be done.
By treating the infection and the endocrine system, weight should come back into balance. ---------
You can read customer reviews and look inside the book at this link to its page at Amazon.
The Potbelly Syndrome: How Common Germs Cause Obesity, Diabetes, And Heart Disease (Paperback) - 2005
by Russell Farris and Per Marin, MD, PhD
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There are a million was to wake up good food. Just a couple cookbooks that have delicious, healthful recipes:
A Spoonful of Ginger
and
The Cure is in the Kitchen -
[ 10-18-2010, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: Keebler ]
Posted by dguy (Member # 8979) on :
Carbs are the main source of weight gain. How many grams of carbs are you consuming a day? When I reduced mine to about 50, I was unable to stop losing weight, that despite being homebound and unable to exercise much.
Posted by steelbone (Member # 14014) on :
try a sauna. U burn like 600 calories in 20 minutes
drink tons of water
Posted by joalo (Member # 12752) on :
Have you tried weight watchers?
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
My problem is how do you gain weight?
Posted by lymephobic (Member # 17556) on :
I started dropping weight as soon as my LLMD told me no sugar, no carbs.
Posted by DebAz (Member # 18039) on :
Oh My I feel exactly like you and I posted something just like this. I got a lot of diet responses. But.. I think you might agree. Doesnt it feel as if something is off in your body that will not let you loose the weight. Like metabolism or hormones or .??? Something. I mean I gained 60 lbs the first year I got sick and no matter what I do i can not loose any of that weight. And I eat VERY VERY WEll and healthy and really eat the right portions and foods on a very natural and wholesome and balanced way. And as well if I even decrease at all I just get cramps and I can tell my body does not like it but no weight will leave. Even if I do some expercise which is hard but at times I will when I see openings do as much as I can. There has to be something that happens to use during this illness that triggers the corisols or adreneals or thryoid or something??? It is not about food or diet or exercise.. The more well i get the more I can tell I might at one point be albe to drop some weight. It actually sometimes feels like a car is trying to start up and then it dies off again. When the car actually runs down the road I think my body will return to itself but... until then I try to accept where I am and hope that my stretching and any excercise I do at least will keep my body from loosing tooo much more muscle mass ..
Deb
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
Try food combining. I used to eat on the Fit for Life (book, tends to be sarcastic but good info) plan, but can't keep my weight up if I eat that way. It's healthy, you don't go hungry, and you optimize digestion.
Also, have your thyroid checked. Be sure they test T3, T4, free T3 and free T4 along with the TSH.