Your Weight

[MomOfTwo]

I don't think that they get it. I don't think you ever get over an eating disorder. I think you learn to cope but I can honestly say my disordered thinking around food has never left my mind even when I am at a healthy weight. I It is hard when your drug of choice is food whether restricting or overeating.

My husband when stressed over-eats. He is over 300 pounds now. I met him when he was 175 pounds. I came from a background growing up where my father withheld food. Would only feed me and my siblings once a day on average. Sometimes we ate more but were hungry all the time. You learn to just not feel hungry. I think I really only deserve food is if I have accomplished something.

When I am depressed I don't eat well or restrict because it for some reason makes me feel more in control of my life when intellectually I know I am not. If lithium or a mood stabilizer made me gain like 20 pounds I would lose it because I just would just eat less than I do which is not much either. I also hardly drink anything which is bad and I think on lithium you have to increase your fluids. I have to force myself to drink water. Tea is a little easier. i have lost weight but think it is from restricting and have been feeling in the not so derserving of sustanance. I am 110pounds and five foot four. I don't feel I look it and want to get into doing yoga to tone and hopefully it will help with sleeping as well.

 

[JustBe]

I gained a lot of weight the years I was taking Zoloft. I was always hungry and my blood sugar highs and lows made me eat more. I am hypothyroid as well.

I have lost over 40lbs the past year. I think because of a few things. First I got off the Zoloft and Xanax. Also I was so depressed last winter that I developed an aversion to food. It made me sick. When I began feeling hunger again I adopted a totally vegan and whole foods diet. No processed foods at all, no caffeine or alcohol.

Since I couldn't rely on food for comfort anymore I began walking with the dogs more when anxiety took over. I'm on Citalopram and it is not causing me to gain weight. I wish I was losing more and faster, but after decades of inching upwards on the scale I just figure that every day I don't gain a pound is a victory.

I've recently started reintroducing yogurt and the occasional cup of coffee or wine

 

[TxGyspy]

As close as I can tell, my problem is cortisol. The adrenals produce cortisol along with adrenaline and a bunch of other substances. When I have a stress episode and get a good big dose of adrenaline, I am going to gain weight...doesn't matter what I eat.

I have completely changed my way of eating due to some pretty significant health concerns. I now eat an ovo-vegan diet(no dairy or meat, but some eggs). I also limit wheat and carbs and do my best not to eat any chemicals at all. The good news is that my health has improved dramatically! The bad news is that my weight hasn't improved.

I've been experimenting and for the last several times that I have had a stress episode the only thing I ate for 3 days was a powdered vegan meal replacement(sprouted live foods) mixed with rice milk that was about 150 calories a serving. I still gained weight!!!! Aaarrrgghhh! Between times of stress I do my best to fight my weight down, because I know it's going to come back when I get stressed.

 

[KP the nut]

My weight is through the roof, literally off the scales. I keep trying and failing miserably. Years and years of comfort eating, diet after diet end with me weighing more than I did before.

Now at 52 years old, I must do it for keeps. Today I ordered a set of bathroom scales which (please god) my weight will register. H is away so there is just me to cater for. My aim is three small meals a day with fruit as a snack. No alcohol and no chocolate.

At the weekends (Fri & Sat) I will relax a little but not to the excesses I have been. I am disgusting and the only one who is responsible is me and I am the only one who can change as well.

Wish me luck.

 

[piratelady]

I went shopping this weekend and stocked up on lean meats, veggies, lots of healthy foods. I'm hoping to finally manage to get my eating under control so I can stop gaining weight. None of my clothes fit anymore. My thinking is that vegetables should be cheaper than a new wardrobe.

Good luck KP! Maybe we can both start moving in the right direction!

 

[KP the nut]

None of my clothes fit anymore. My thinking is that vegetables should be cheaper than a new wardrobe.

Ah but when we lose the weight we can have new clothes as well - well at least some new clothes;)

 

[piratelady]

I just found out my health insurance plan will be offering a Wellness coach next year to help with weight management. I think I'm going to try that. Maybe having someone to be accountable to once a week will help me get on track. Something has to work.

 

[KP the nut]

Damn scales don't work - not me this time I think the battery is dead :mad:

 

[Nicolette]

My aim is three small meals a day with fruit as a snack.

Just remember KP that fruit is best eaten at the beginning of a meal or well after eating a main meal as it digests at a faster rate than normal food. If you eat it after a main meal it sits at the top of your stomach and ferments as it has broken down before your body has digested the main meal.

 

[Nicolette]

Maybe having someone to be accountable to once a week will help me get on track.

There are also online groups which some friends swear by like Weight Watchers if you have it over your way. Mind you my sister in law said that she still went to be weighed once a week as it did help her be accountable.

 

[KP the nut]

it sits at the top of your stomach and ferments

So my stomach makes wine :facepalm::p

Thanks Nicolette, I have fruit or fruit and nuts as a snack.

 

[JustBe]

Damn scales don't work - not me this time I think the battery is dead :mad:

I can't have scales at home or I get crazy about weighing in daily. I do better stopping by the scales at the clinic when I go to see T.