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If there was any way I could hook a tube up over the computer, I would gladly give you a few of my pounds. I am one of the ones that gained weight with this rather than lose it.
With your attitude, I'm sure that 2009 will be a much better one for you.
You GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!
Jan
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jodibelle352
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LOL!!! Hi Jan:
If I only could receive all the offers I've received to pass me others extra pounds I TRULY would.
Even my GI said that she read in a current medical journal that a procedure is now being worked on where instead of using lyposuction for retracting excess fatty tissue they are trying to also perfect a procedure where someone can actually give excess fatty tissue to someone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So even my GI who happens to be a female doctor has offered to be my first donor when they ask for volunteers for this new procedure.LOL
Hopefully, before they put this into operation I will have gained back more of my own weight.
Love and God Bless:
Jodi
If I only could receive all the offers I've received to pass me others extra pounds I TRULY would.
Even my GI said that she read in a current medical journal that a procedure is now being worked on where instead of using lyposuction for retracting excess fatty tissue they are trying to also perfect a procedure where someone can actually give excess fatty tissue to someone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So even my GI who happens to be a female doctor has offered to be my first donor when they ask for volunteers for this new procedure.LOL
Hopefully, before they put this into operation I will have gained back more of my own weight.
Love and God Bless:
Jodi
May God and All His Angels, watchover, protect and guide you "One Day At A Time".
This weight discussion is hitting close to my heart. My body has always insisted on storing every extra calorie and I've never been underweight in my life, even as a competetive runner and triathlete. I'm too much of a cookie monster. This is the first time I've been dropping weight easily and, although my skinny bitch doctor would still consider me overweight, I'm getting lots of compliments from people who don't know why I've been thinning down. Kind of ironic. For now I'm enjoying the silver lining, but Jodi, you make me see beyond this point and realize that, yes, I've got to keep trying to eat. It is just so much easier not to sometimes. Which again, is funny to hear myself say, since in the past it was a challenge to not eat.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
TP
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Hi TP!
Just read your reply about your weight loss, weight gain and eating habits.
Facts are Facts when it comes to myself. I started out at 153lbs. which was slightly over weight for my size and height. I am only 5'2" and truly vertically challenged. My 31 yr. old son chooses to call me "Stumpy". LOL My discription choice is the one my Father explained to me growing up. "You're just 'vertically challenged', but when you were made you were blessed so that whenever you stumble and fall you won't hurt yourself because your distance to the ground is limited."
TP, I waited way to long before I decided to find out what was going on with myself medically. It very hard for me to eat because it caused me constant pain and hours of D. IMO I was truly starving myself because the honest to goodness fact was very simple. IT HURT TO EAT! Point blank! Not only did I have CC issues to deal with but my gallbladder was hitting me with it's own pain as well. I was having chest pains that started below my breast bone in the front and radiated like a vise between my shoulderblades in my back. This pain I experienced would send me to my knees in pain and also running to the bathroom to vomit. Yup.................that was my life. If my food didn't come out one end it came up through the top!
Sweety, please don't allow yourself to make the choices I did. Everything I'm sharing with you is what happened and continue to happen before I found this site. I didn't have any knowledge about a GF diet so when I was hungry I continued to TRY and eat something/anything but nothing stayed with me and it was because I was eating the WRONG foods. As time passed and the pain and D continued to progress I choose only to eat enough to curb the hunger pains.
Sharing these things with you is important so that you NEVER get to a medical point where your could loose your life. I've made progress in the past 6 months even if someone may think "How can she consider 99lbs. progress?"
I am now able to make choices with a clear mind. Mentally I'm no longer trying to kill myself without realizing that's what I was doing. I can now either "get a grip" or I can choose to fall back into the dark hole that I came to know as my life.
I hope this helps you understand what can happen if you allow yourself to let things get out of hand. You're a runner a athlete and a beautiful person and I want you to stay healthy while you continue to reach your goal for remission.
Happy New Year and God Bless:
Jodi
Just read your reply about your weight loss, weight gain and eating habits.
Facts are Facts when it comes to myself. I started out at 153lbs. which was slightly over weight for my size and height. I am only 5'2" and truly vertically challenged. My 31 yr. old son chooses to call me "Stumpy". LOL My discription choice is the one my Father explained to me growing up. "You're just 'vertically challenged', but when you were made you were blessed so that whenever you stumble and fall you won't hurt yourself because your distance to the ground is limited."
TP, I waited way to long before I decided to find out what was going on with myself medically. It very hard for me to eat because it caused me constant pain and hours of D. IMO I was truly starving myself because the honest to goodness fact was very simple. IT HURT TO EAT! Point blank! Not only did I have CC issues to deal with but my gallbladder was hitting me with it's own pain as well. I was having chest pains that started below my breast bone in the front and radiated like a vise between my shoulderblades in my back. This pain I experienced would send me to my knees in pain and also running to the bathroom to vomit. Yup.................that was my life. If my food didn't come out one end it came up through the top!
Sweety, please don't allow yourself to make the choices I did. Everything I'm sharing with you is what happened and continue to happen before I found this site. I didn't have any knowledge about a GF diet so when I was hungry I continued to TRY and eat something/anything but nothing stayed with me and it was because I was eating the WRONG foods. As time passed and the pain and D continued to progress I choose only to eat enough to curb the hunger pains.
Sharing these things with you is important so that you NEVER get to a medical point where your could loose your life. I've made progress in the past 6 months even if someone may think "How can she consider 99lbs. progress?"
I am now able to make choices with a clear mind. Mentally I'm no longer trying to kill myself without realizing that's what I was doing. I can now either "get a grip" or I can choose to fall back into the dark hole that I came to know as my life.
I hope this helps you understand what can happen if you allow yourself to let things get out of hand. You're a runner a athlete and a beautiful person and I want you to stay healthy while you continue to reach your goal for remission.
Happy New Year and God Bless:
Jodi
May God and All His Angels, watchover, protect and guide you "One Day At A Time".
Jodi - Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Sounds like you've truly been through hell. Are you able to eat without the pain now that you're GF?
I haven't checked on this site for a couple of weeks because I am feeling so much better now I just got back to living life! I'm holding steady at 154 since I started the diet and Entocort. That's okay for my 5'5" frame. My four year old put it well the other day: "Mom, you and me, we're skinny-fat. That means we're just right the way we are."
Not to worry, I am taking care of myself and enjoying life. I hope that whatever your number is (99? 100?) you're feeling "skinny-fat" too.
I haven't checked on this site for a couple of weeks because I am feeling so much better now I just got back to living life! I'm holding steady at 154 since I started the diet and Entocort. That's okay for my 5'5" frame. My four year old put it well the other day: "Mom, you and me, we're skinny-fat. That means we're just right the way we are."
Not to worry, I am taking care of myself and enjoying life. I hope that whatever your number is (99? 100?) you're feeling "skinny-fat" too.
TP
As someone who had the misfortune to be a somewhat normally built and very fair-skinned teenager during the low-fat/no-fat deep tan craze of the mid-1990s, I've always struggled psychologically with weight issues, although I realize (now) that my real physical issues with weight itself have been fairly minimal. I am 5'6" and 110 pounds right now, which is the lightest I've ever been since puberty. I was never overweight anywhere but in my mind. The heaviest I've been is 135 pounds my senior year of HS.
All that is to provide background for this, though: I've never felt I had much control over my weight. i.e., At some points in my life I could eat whatever I wanted and never gain a pound (in fact, lose significantly), while at others I could watch every calorie and still gain. I tend to lose and gain very quickly and inexplicably, too, and I'm wondering if this is a characteristic of MC, or of some other autoimmune issue.
For example, all through HS I weighed about 120-125 pounds and really tried to lose (calorie counting, gym, etc.). Then, my senior year, I had a number of health problems including fainting and hypoglycemia. I gained to about 135 pounds. Then my first week of college, I lost ten pounds. (Like that! In one week! No explanation!) For about two years I stayed at 125, then my junior year, I lost another 8 pounds or so. Again, with no explanation. I started having abdominal pain my junior year, which I think must have been related to MC, bc I started having D in the fall of my senior year. Over the past 5 years or so, my weight has slowly dropped to where it is now.
I'm just wondering if there might be some reason other than just the D for weight issues (loss or gain) and MC. Probably related to other autoimmune factors, but I'm just guessing.
Anyone have thoughts?
Courtney
All that is to provide background for this, though: I've never felt I had much control over my weight. i.e., At some points in my life I could eat whatever I wanted and never gain a pound (in fact, lose significantly), while at others I could watch every calorie and still gain. I tend to lose and gain very quickly and inexplicably, too, and I'm wondering if this is a characteristic of MC, or of some other autoimmune issue.
For example, all through HS I weighed about 120-125 pounds and really tried to lose (calorie counting, gym, etc.). Then, my senior year, I had a number of health problems including fainting and hypoglycemia. I gained to about 135 pounds. Then my first week of college, I lost ten pounds. (Like that! In one week! No explanation!) For about two years I stayed at 125, then my junior year, I lost another 8 pounds or so. Again, with no explanation. I started having abdominal pain my junior year, which I think must have been related to MC, bc I started having D in the fall of my senior year. Over the past 5 years or so, my weight has slowly dropped to where it is now.
I'm just wondering if there might be some reason other than just the D for weight issues (loss or gain) and MC. Probably related to other autoimmune factors, but I'm just guessing.
Anyone have thoughts?
Courtney
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Celiac 07/08
LC/CC 07/08
Celiac 07/08
Courtney,
I think that those issues are probably related to your hypothyroidism. I never had a weight problem, (like you, I gained and lost weight, sometimes for no apparent reason, but I always ate as much as I wanted, and never had a weight problem), until my hypothyroid problem began. Now, my metabolism leans toward gaining weight very easily, and losing weight is an almost possible task. Obviously, my thyroid hormone supplementation is too low, and I need to hash that out with my doc, the next time I see him.
Of course, MC obviously affects weight if there is a malabsorption problem, and it's certainly not impossible that MC could affect metabolism or weight control in other ways. There's a heck of a lot that we don't know about this disease.
Tex
I think that those issues are probably related to your hypothyroidism. I never had a weight problem, (like you, I gained and lost weight, sometimes for no apparent reason, but I always ate as much as I wanted, and never had a weight problem), until my hypothyroid problem began. Now, my metabolism leans toward gaining weight very easily, and losing weight is an almost possible task. Obviously, my thyroid hormone supplementation is too low, and I need to hash that out with my doc, the next time I see him.
Of course, MC obviously affects weight if there is a malabsorption problem, and it's certainly not impossible that MC could affect metabolism or weight control in other ways. There's a heck of a lot that we don't know about this disease.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Tex,
I guess the reason I hadn't attributed it to hypothyroid was that I lost all that weight (20 pounds or so, total), before my thyroid issues were diagnosed during my first year of grad school. My understanding was that hypothyroid causes you to gain, not lose, and the whole time I was gaining, my thyroid was normal. (I was being screened.) Also, can the thyroid cause such quick gains and losses?
Courtney
I guess the reason I hadn't attributed it to hypothyroid was that I lost all that weight (20 pounds or so, total), before my thyroid issues were diagnosed during my first year of grad school. My understanding was that hypothyroid causes you to gain, not lose, and the whole time I was gaining, my thyroid was normal. (I was being screened.) Also, can the thyroid cause such quick gains and losses?
Courtney
Hypothyroid 05/05
LC/CC 07/08
Celiac 07/08
LC/CC 07/08
Celiac 07/08
Courtney,
Hmmmmmm. Well, theoretically at least, MC shouldn't initially cause anyone to gain or lose significant amounts of weight, either, for that matter, (unless food intake is significantly reduced). I don't recall anyone reporting that connection, but of course, like a lot of things, that could be simply because no one ever thought to make the connection.
I'm not totally convinced that the current state of thyroid testing tells the whole story, regarding thyroid problems. There are too many people out there for whom the "standard treatment" does not fully resolve their symptoms, even though the lab results appear to be just fine. I consider it to be a one-size-fits-all program, that doesn't work properly for many of us, because we don't fit the standard mold. Virtually all such tests are designed based on the responses of young, healthy volunteers, with so-called "normal" digestive systems and "normal" immune systems. Obviously, most of us don't meet those criteria, because we most definitely do not have a normal digestive system, nor do we have a normal immune system.
If your thyroid hormone level is allowed to fluctuate, (for whatever reason), then yes, your metabolism rate can change significantly.
Tex
Hmmmmmm. Well, theoretically at least, MC shouldn't initially cause anyone to gain or lose significant amounts of weight, either, for that matter, (unless food intake is significantly reduced). I don't recall anyone reporting that connection, but of course, like a lot of things, that could be simply because no one ever thought to make the connection.
I'm not totally convinced that the current state of thyroid testing tells the whole story, regarding thyroid problems. There are too many people out there for whom the "standard treatment" does not fully resolve their symptoms, even though the lab results appear to be just fine. I consider it to be a one-size-fits-all program, that doesn't work properly for many of us, because we don't fit the standard mold. Virtually all such tests are designed based on the responses of young, healthy volunteers, with so-called "normal" digestive systems and "normal" immune systems. Obviously, most of us don't meet those criteria, because we most definitely do not have a normal digestive system, nor do we have a normal immune system.
If your thyroid hormone level is allowed to fluctuate, (for whatever reason), then yes, your metabolism rate can change significantly.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.