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Cathe B wrote:

hi,
I'm new to the group, and I'm trying to read enough to figure out who is
into the flame wars, and who will be good for advising me.

Welcome!


--
jmk in NC

"Cathe B" wrote in message
news
hi,
I'm new to the group, and I'm trying to read enough to figure out who is
into the flame wars, and who will be good for advising me. So far,
it's a lot less flame based than many other groups.

I spent most of my childhood battling the pudgy kid look. As a gal in my
twenties I slimmed down and dropped to a size five, staying that way for
nearly fifteen years. When I hit thirty five, I started developing signs
of a genetic illness, and ended up gaining nearly seventy pounds. I'm
five foot three, (okay 5-2 and a half). Three years ago, I dropped
sixty-three of the seventy pounds. I was able to keep all of it off,
fortunately with little effort. It almost seemed that perimenopausal me
was destined to be thinner.
Then I got put on prednisone. I gained twenty pounds while on it, and
then dropped fifteen, slowly, after getting off of it. Now I'm on
specific pain and other medications, and I see that I've been steadily
gaining at least two pounds a month in the last few months.

I've cut WAY back on portions, and I've got an appointment with a
nutritionist. Because of my illness, I'm losing ability to use my
joints, and exercise is limited to isometrics and non-weight bearing
strenghtening physical therapy. I'm getting married in April, and I want
to get back to my "I feel great at this weight" feeling. That may mean
I'm a size five again, or it may mean a seven. It just means I don't
want to feel overweight and I don't want the joints to feel worse
because I've gained so much on this medication.

I know twenty pounds doesn't sound like a lot to most people, but on
someone my frame, it's enormous. Any advice, help, and encouragement
anyone can offer, I'm all for. I'll do the same.
Thanks

Cathe

Welcome and good luck!! You'll get all sort of advice from here. Take it
all with a grain of salt. Do your own research and do only what you feel is
right for you. You will also get a tremendous amount of great support that
will go farther then any advice sometimes.

Cp

"Cathe B" wrote in message
news
hi,
I'm new to the group, and I'm trying to read enough to figure out who is
into the flame wars, and who will be good for advising me. So far, it's a
lot less flame based than many other groups.

I spent most of my childhood battling the pudgy kid look. As a gal in my
twenties I slimmed down and dropped to a size five, staying that way for
nearly fifteen years. When I hit thirty five, I started developing signs
of a genetic illness, and ended up gaining nearly seventy pounds. I'm five
foot three, (okay 5-2 and a half). Three years ago, I dropped sixty-three
of the seventy pounds. I was able to keep all of it off, fortunately with
little effort. It almost seemed that perimenopausal me was destined to be
thinner.
Then I got put on prednisone. I gained twenty pounds while on it, and then
dropped fifteen, slowly, after getting off of it. Now I'm on specific pain
and other medications, and I see that I've been steadily gaining at least
two pounds a month in the last few months.

I've cut WAY back on portions, and I've got an appointment with a
nutritionist. Because of my illness, I'm losing ability to use my joints,
and exercise is limited to isometrics and non-weight bearing strenghtening
physical therapy. I'm getting married in April, and I want to get back to
my "I feel great at this weight" feeling. That may mean I'm a size five
again, or it may mean a seven. It just means I don't want to feel
overweight and I don't want the joints to feel worse because I've gained
so much on this medication.

I know twenty pounds doesn't sound like a lot to most people, but on
someone my frame, it's enormous. Any advice, help, and encouragement
anyone can offer, I'm all for. I'll do the same.
Thanks

Cathe


Welcome to asd Cathe

Susan
280/187/140

Ignoramus30209 wrote:



With 3 hours a day exercise, you hardly need good genetics...

I forgot, are you at normal weight now? Or at least very close
(considering your physical build)? If so, then I would not bother with
trying to achieve the ideal perfect weight...

i


my body type took to exercise well..

I'm 134, and I want to be 120...it's because of my joint disease I need
to drop so I'm physically not straining them as much.


Cathe

Someone on this group will propogate a high saturated fat diet. This is
great if you want to lose your gall bladder ASAP. I already lost mine and
still get sick from too much saturated fat, plus regardless of what this
person will tell you, it's not really advisable to go heavy on saturated
fats. You seem to have enough experience with diet and weight loss to know
that though.

I've lost two friends who had ended up with blood clots on similar
diets. One was 34 when she died. Insane.



Lots of different approaches for lots of different people. The main thing
I've learned and taken to heart is to find a Way of Eating (WOE) that is
comfortable enough for you to stick with - forever (or until the next issue
makes it necessary to change).

HTH

Jenn



Great advice.... thanks!

Ignoramus3773 wrote:

In article t, Cathe B wrote:

I've lost two friends who had ended up with blood clots on similar
diets. One was 34 when she died. Insane.


What happened to that friend? Did she have any health problems?

i


She went diet crazy and only did the bacon, meats, fats route, high
proteins, no carbs, lots of eggs, etc etc... and sadly developed some
blood clotting issues.. not sure how related they are, but she seemed
fine before then. No clear proof, but since it happened that another
friend got the same symptons on the same diet five months later, we kind
of figured the diet helped make that happen.

C

I tend to agree with that!
"Cathe B" wrote in message
k.net...
PL wrote:


Hi Cathe! I'm pretty new here myself and the support I've gotten here
has
been a great help. I'm sure you'll find plenty of knowledgeable people
willing to help you along. I just wanted to say welcome!


I've been catching up on the posts and it seems like a great group of
people.

C

Cplus wrote:

You'll get all sort of advice from here. Take it
all with a grain of salt. Do your own research and do only what you feel is
right for you. You will also get a tremendous amount of great support that
will go farther then any advice sometimes.

VBG Cplus makes a good point here. Maybe we should all add YMMV to
our sig files!

-
jmk in NC

Wellcome!! Please post often and stick around I've been here for a
very LONG while and this IS a very good group . Just read the ones who
help you and stay away from the ones that don't ! Strength will come if
you stay around with others who are going downthis same path .

Good to meet you, Cathe !!!!!

glo

Welcome, Cathe! Since I'm just catching up after a weekend away, for
now I'll just second what others have said. This is a great group.
I've found so much help here and you will too.

I'm sure I'll have more to say in the future :-)

Chris
262/141/ (145-150)