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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
"Reb" wrote in message . net...
Wow, the poor thing. That sounds like insulin resistance, alright. She is getting rebound hypoglycemia, and that can definitely cause bad headaches. The sugar will raise her blood sugar temporarily and thus prevent or cure the headache, but of course in the long run it's making things worse. That's the way it looks to us. The doctor suggested that she may have a problem with lunch meat type preservatives and phenylalanine. That reduces the list of what she can eat also. She's feeling a lot better now (no more headaches). I figure she needs to lose around 20lbs. She was 99lbs this morning. Luckily, I'm doing the low-carb thing also which means we have the right foods around. Unfortunately, our other kids are ultra thin like I was as a kid so we also have the wrong foods around. :-) They don't need it either though. Your doctor is wise. I think a moderate, low-glycemic, reduced-carb diet would really help her. Let us know how she does. I think so too. We started tracking her weight this morning. We'll see where it goes. brian |
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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
"brian lanning" wrote:
To this day, my wife's family defeats her weight loss every chance they get while criticizing her about being fat. Just last weekend it was the same. It's funny you should say that, my mother is the same with me. Whenever I'm there (I visit one weekend a month as she lives over 150 miles away and I don't drive) she goes on and on at me about being fat, but at the same time tries to undermine my diet by offering things she knows I can't have. -- Lexin www.redrosepress.co.uk www.livejournal.com/~lexin LC since 9 June 2003 (300/263/182) |
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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
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|| "brian lanning" wrote: ||| To this day, my wife's ||| family defeats her weight loss every chance they get while ||| criticizing her about being fat. Just last weekend it was the same. || || It's funny you should say that, my mother is the same with me. || Whenever I'm there (I visit one weekend a month as she lives over || 150 miles away and I don't drive) she goes on and on at me about || being fat, but at the same time tries to undermine my diet by || offering things she knows I can't have. || || -- || Lexin || www.redrosepress.co.uk || www.livejournal.com/~lexin || LC since 9 June 2003 || (300/263/182) Another guy in my dept quietly started Atkins about 6 weeks ago, he has lost like 20 lbs and his Crohn's Disease has gone into remission, he looks 10 yrs younger and his color is great and he told someone he 'he has a spring in [his] step.' there was a potluck this weekend and people kept offering him ice cream and cake and they know now that he is on Atkins. He eats really healthy salads with eggs and meat , cheese, stuff like that. They don't offer stuff to me anymore but they need to stop offering it to him. He is kind of quiet . I told them to enjoy their food and leave others to their's. then we all laughed. but I was the one wearing the size medium scrubs (and pretty well I might add) LOL -- Lori 220/150 ( Challenge goal)/135 LC since 1/17/03 Sept Challenge 155/150 http://community.webshots.com/user/lorismiller Back to Curves 6/30/03 |
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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
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"Lexin" wrote: "brian lanning" wrote: To this day, my wife's family defeats her weight loss every chance they get while criticizing her about being fat. Just last weekend it was the same. It's funny you should say that, my mother is the same with me. Whenever I'm there (I visit one weekend a month as she lives over 150 miles away and I don't drive) she goes on and on at me about being fat, but at the same time tries to undermine my diet by offering things she knows I can't have. Hi Brian and Lexin. It certainly sounds like there's a bit of manipulation and dysfunction going on here. To use Lexin's mom as the example, it seems as though she's encouraging Lexin to overeat so the mom can then belittle Lexin and cause feelings of inferiority. Mom feels superior, is exerting a form of parental control over her child and wants to keep that control. A truly loving and healthy relationship should find the mom encouraging and assisting Lexin to do all Lexin can do to attain better health for a longer life. That the mom sabotages progress certainly seems to indicate to me that there's a bit of insecurity and control issues going on. In my opinion, Lexin would do well to distance himself from food interactions with mom. |
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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
Owen Lowe wrote in message ...
That the mom sabotages progress certainly seems to indicate to me that there's a bit of insecurity and control issues going on. In my opinion, Lexin would do well to distance himself from food interactions with mom. Sounds great. But in my case, I know the inlaws are simply nuts. I can go on and on about just her aunt: Started smoking 30 years ago at the advice of her doctor to calm her "nerves". Now chain smokes and gets angry if you even suggest that it's harming her health. You can hear her breathe from the next room. She has neck problems that need surgery, but turns down surgery whenever the grandparents offer to pay for it. The money isn't an issue. Nor is the idea of surgery. Instead she runs around complaining about neck pain, but does nothing to fix it. She irons her bed sheets. (that's all i need to say here) If we come over, she gets angry because she has to cook. If we eat at a restaurant instead, she gets offended because we must not like her cooking. She refuses to throw anything out after the expiration date. medications. food. I was once given a jar of jelly that had an expiration date of 1996. This was last year. There was 1 teaspoon of jelly left in the bottom. All liquid. She has classic martyr syndrome. And it makes me want to kill her. I avoid going over there as much as possible, but sometimes it's unavoidable. brian 290/258/210 july 8, 2003 |
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"Owen Lowe" wrote:
That the mom sabotages progress certainly seems to indicate to me that there's a bit of insecurity and control issues going on. In my opinion, Lexin would do well to distance himself from food interactions with mom. That's a thought: when I go up there, I do all the cooking because she's very disabled. When I'm not there my brother (who currently lives with her) cooks or she has Meals on Wheels. She tends to want to stand in the kitchen to oversee me while I'm cooking, like I don't know what I'm doing, and as she has a wheely-thing to help her around, she takes up the space of two people. I think I'll take to persuading her to sit down with a nice glass of wine and that'll solve two problems - I'll be able to get on with cooking a meal in peace, and I won't have to put up with her wibbling on about what else I could have to eat. Once I've served up, she can make all the comments she likes because it'll be too late. Though the last time I did that, she started trying to get me to do things like finish her potatoes, which rather irritated me. -- Lexin www.redrosepress.co.uk www.livejournal.com/~lexin LC since 9 June 2003 (300/263/182) |
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An interesting recommendation from our pediatrician
bookalley wrote in message ...
I really resent a know-it- all who stands on a soapbox and blames parents for "letting the kid get that way in the first place." Of course you do. But when some know-it-all from the sidelines starts spewing a plethera of sanctimonious new-age guilt-speak, it is disgusting. Bryan, you should just keep your mouth shut. YOU do not know what those parents have been through. You don't know anything about the individual situation, and you don't know what kind of damage your admonitions invoke. When I see a fat mother at the mall with her fat kid, buying the fat kid a big pretzel and a large Coke, I WANT to "damage" her. I know a parent who went to the extent of turning a teenager's doorknob inside out so that could could be locked in her room to keep her from eating. She climbed out of a second story window, fat and all, ran away and got pregnant. I bet her parents let her get fat when she was a child. Probably started in the first few years. Your post is completely infuriating I can assure you that it was intentionally infuriating. Furthermore, I would guess that you are a responsibility-abdicating adult who was or is fat yourself and blame YOUR problems on YOUR parents. Was fat, 198, today weighed in at 154. Could stand to lose a few more. Can't blame my fat on parents as bit didn't happen until after I moved out. Totally my problem. I DO blame some of it on the USDA though. I bought into the lower fat, higher starch is better for you. Allie fat mother of 3 almost adult children of healthy weight (23, 18, 16) Good job. Funny that you are the one who got infuriated enough to post what you posted, when it was obviously not people like you who I was accusing. I wish your kids many years of health. --Bryan, lead singer in the "intentionally infuriating" band, The Bonobos http://www.TheBonobos.com |
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