terbaer
Senior member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2014
- Messages
- 430
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 10/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- WA
Looking at my figure you wouldn't be able to tell, but I hardly eat most days. I'm lucky to get an atkins bar or yogurt with grape nuts and MAYBE a dinner. If food is in front of me I'll eat it, but to make it myself, forget it.
I did this HCG diet once that limited you to 1,200 calories. I felt GREAT! It was more food than I normally ate and it gave me simple ideas on what to eat. Usually chicken, seafood, fish or steak; a vegetable and a breadstick for dinner. Similar food for lunch and breakfast switched the meat for an egg I think. I had to put drops under my tongue that was supposed to trick your body into thinking it was pregnant so it would pull from your fat reserves. The pounds just flew off me. Not that I'm a huge person, but I went from like 165 to 140 in a couple months I think.
Anyway, squirrel! So now, I'm still doing the same thing I have done for quite a long time now and I had been keeping my weight to about 146-149. Comfortable at almost 5'7". Not skinny, not overweight, but just out of shape (fat in the belly and around the upper hip area the "tire"). So my pain management doc wants me to try gluten free and eat 3 square meals a day. This was in August that I started doing that. Still eating sensibly and healthy, I put on 30 pounds over 2 months. And never did feel any better for eliminating gluten.
It wasn't sustainable for me to do that. It was so hard! I just don't have an appetite. So now I've gone back to my old ways of eating my atkins bar and/or yogurt in the morning and maybe dinner and I'm stuck with the extra 30 pounds. I know I'll get it off because I still intend on working out, but it's going to take a while. Meanwhile, I'm still not interested in eating. I probably wouldn't have too many dinners if my parents didn't invite us up about once a week.
Way more info than I planned.....My question is, does anyone else suffer from lack of appetite? I have been wondering if it's just me, or if it's a common side affect of the fibro...
I did this HCG diet once that limited you to 1,200 calories. I felt GREAT! It was more food than I normally ate and it gave me simple ideas on what to eat. Usually chicken, seafood, fish or steak; a vegetable and a breadstick for dinner. Similar food for lunch and breakfast switched the meat for an egg I think. I had to put drops under my tongue that was supposed to trick your body into thinking it was pregnant so it would pull from your fat reserves. The pounds just flew off me. Not that I'm a huge person, but I went from like 165 to 140 in a couple months I think.
Anyway, squirrel! So now, I'm still doing the same thing I have done for quite a long time now and I had been keeping my weight to about 146-149. Comfortable at almost 5'7". Not skinny, not overweight, but just out of shape (fat in the belly and around the upper hip area the "tire"). So my pain management doc wants me to try gluten free and eat 3 square meals a day. This was in August that I started doing that. Still eating sensibly and healthy, I put on 30 pounds over 2 months. And never did feel any better for eliminating gluten.
It wasn't sustainable for me to do that. It was so hard! I just don't have an appetite. So now I've gone back to my old ways of eating my atkins bar and/or yogurt in the morning and maybe dinner and I'm stuck with the extra 30 pounds. I know I'll get it off because I still intend on working out, but it's going to take a while. Meanwhile, I'm still not interested in eating. I probably wouldn't have too many dinners if my parents didn't invite us up about once a week.
Way more info than I planned.....My question is, does anyone else suffer from lack of appetite? I have been wondering if it's just me, or if it's a common side affect of the fibro...