Hair Loss - more than once?

I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.

April.
Put out the cat.

[1] - I know: I'm supposed to have a great personality to go
with it, but that seems not to be the case.
--
"Things that try to look like things often do look more
like things than things. Well known fact."
Esmerelda Weatherwax (Pratchett 1988)

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I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.

I would get your Thyroid functions tested if you get into a hair loss, in case there is a
Thyroid problem. Or up your Carbs and get out of the starvation mode.

Apparently the thyroid does start to shut down (and make U hypothyroidic) under starvation
conditions

Frenchy

"Frenchy" wrote in message


I would get your Thyroid functions tested if you get into a hair
loss, in case there is a Thyroid problem. Or up your Carbs and get
out of the starvation mode.

Apparently the thyroid does start to shut down (and make U
hypothyroidic) under starvation conditions

Frenchy

Carbs have nothing to do with starvation mode. BMR is concerned with total
calories not carbs.

April Goodwin-Smith wrote:
I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.
I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds.

It's happening to me, too, and I'm somewhat freaked as well. My
hairdresser says he doesn't think I'll lose any more, though how he
knows (since he is a reformed East End gangster) I have no idea. I'm
curious to know if it'll carry on (if I'm doomed to be baldyMcLexin
for the rest of my days, best know about it now so I can save up for a
wig) or if it'll grow back. My hair was lovely and thick - with the
emphasis on the was!

--
Lexin
(300/242/182)

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, April Goodwin-Smith wrote:

I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?


I've never seen anyone post that it was a repeating cycle, so I'd guess
that it's usually a one time only thing for most people. And, I think that
makes sense if the hair loss is part of the body's reaction to the stress
of a new way of eating.

Be mindful that there are other things that can cause hair loss, e.g.
thyroid problems, alopecia, etc. so if it continues, you might want to
discuss it with your doctor.

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.


Yeah, but look at the upside: thin girls look great with short hair.


[1] - I know: I'm supposed to have a great personality to go
with it, but that seems not to be the case.

"Great personality" is just code for undatable, anyway. :-)

Good luck,

Martha


--
Begin where you are - but don't end there.

IMHO you are killing yourself. If your hair is falling out you are doing
something wrong.

See a doctor!

I recently watched a TV show on anorexics, and the poor woman they showed
had lost much of her hair.


"April Goodwin-Smith" wrote in message
...
I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.

April.
Put out the cat.

[1] - I know: I'm supposed to have a great personality to go
with it, but that seems not to be the case.
--
"Things that try to look like things often do look more
like things than things. Well known fact."
Esmerelda Weatherwax (Pratchett 1988)

April Goodwin-Smith wrote:

I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.

April.
Put out the cat.

[1] - I know: I'm supposed to have a great personality to go
with it, but that seems not to be the case.
--
"Things that try to look like things often do look more
like things than things. Well known fact."
Esmerelda Weatherwax (Pratchett 1988)

Need to take your vitamins while doing low carb! Very essential for
everyone, make sure also includes folic acid.

Myway

Both my mother and I (low-carbers) lost lot of hair in the beginning( 4 yrs
ago) I think pretty much all of mine grew back.
We used to joke that we'd rather be bald and thin then fat and have hair.
Anyhow, mine grew back.


"April Goodwin-Smith" wrote in message
...
I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

So, my question is: for those of us who have more than thirty
pounds to go, does this happen only once? Or, will the hair
loss continue until the weight loss stops? Or, will there be
several episodes of hair loss punctuated by regrowth?

As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity. I am probably going to have to
get my hair cut off because it is getting too thin to look good
long. I hate short hair - it requires too many hair cuts, and
too much messing about in the morning.

April.
Put out the cat.

[1] - I know: I'm supposed to have a great personality to go
with it, but that seems not to be the case.
--
"Things that try to look like things often do look more
like things than things. Well known fact."
Esmerelda Weatherwax (Pratchett 1988)

Lexin wrote:

April Goodwin-Smith wrote:
I'm very glad that people discussed the possible hair-loss
thing on here before it happened to me - I'm not *completely*
freaked out, just slightly freaked.
I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds.

It's happening to me, too, and I'm somewhat freaked as well. My
hairdresser says he doesn't think I'll lose any more, though how he
knows (since he is a reformed East End gangster) I have no idea. I'm
curious to know if it'll carry on (if I'm doomed to be baldyMcLexin
for the rest of my days, best know about it now so I can save up for a
wig) or if it'll grow back. My hair was lovely and thick - with the
emphasis on the was!

Same here! Not only wrinklier and gaunt-looking, but also with
rapidly thinning hair.

--
Jean B.

"April Goodwin-Smith" wrote ...

I understand that, if it is going to occur, it often occurs at
around the six month mark in a weight loss process, and often
happens to people who have lost thirty or more pounds. I also
understand that most people who experience this, also experience
a regrowth of hair.

Do you think it happens after 6 months LC or after about 30lbs loss?

I'm hoping it's the first one, since I have been doing this for much longer
than that, though my losses aren't much so far.

I have quite long hair and it will look a bit silly with a bunch of really
short stuff coming through! I'm not ready to cut it off just yet! (maybe
I'll celebrate goal with a funky new hairdo when I have only one chin)


As a fat girl/woman, my one beauty has always been my hair[1],
so this is hitting my vanity.

I know the feeling - to me, my hair is the only bit of me that anyone could
ever describe as 'beautiful'.


Rachel
(New Zealand)