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I can maintain weight but struggle to loose it
I'm really confused with my body strange weight issue's. I can eat healthy food's like salad's and fruit's ect and my weight will go up and down between about 3 kg. Yet I can eat lollies and maintain my weight pretty steedily in fact the 3 weeks ago I was eating carrot's, cerlery, a little bit of cheese, banana's, saltana's, no bread, no pasta, no butter, no sugar. yet I gained weight of between 1 to 2 kg. two weeks ago I gave in had lollies it took me a week to eat the lollies I got but I still ate them I also started eating some bread's and pasta's, this week I had lots on pasta and bread and even butter and sugery foods like jelly. Yet I've lost the weight I'm down 1kg.
This is not recent strange event this is my whole life. I eat ONLY healthy food's and I gain or dont loose any weight and I eat a little junk that should cause me to gain weight and I loose it. I compleatly eat only junk I gain weight for sure but if dont avoid junk compleatly I seem to loose weight I dont understand but I dont loose much Although 1y ago I started using the gym and was having pancakes for breakfast often Mc donald's and/or KFC chicken burger for lunch NO chips or high calorie drink's. And I lots 10kg when I stop having the mc'donalds and KFC I stopped loosing weight. The only thing that i get from this is that maybe I dont eat the required amount fat's needed for my body or maybe my metabilisim is compleatly out of wack. All I know is want to loose weight and keep it off for eva and maintianing weight I can do but I gained weight from zyprexa and 4 pregnancy and I want my body back.
oppionions please
This is not recent strange event this is my whole life. I eat ONLY healthy food's and I gain or dont loose any weight and I eat a little junk that should cause me to gain weight and I loose it. I compleatly eat only junk I gain weight for sure but if dont avoid junk compleatly I seem to loose weight I dont understand but I dont loose much Although 1y ago I started using the gym and was having pancakes for breakfast often Mc donald's and/or KFC chicken burger for lunch NO chips or high calorie drink's. And I lots 10kg when I stop having the mc'donalds and KFC I stopped loosing weight. The only thing that i get from this is that maybe I dont eat the required amount fat's needed for my body or maybe my metabilisim is compleatly out of wack. All I know is want to loose weight and keep it off for eva and maintianing weight I can do but I gained weight from zyprexa and 4 pregnancy and I want my body back.
oppionions please
I tryed to grow my one several time but it was taking so much time up and australia has also been going threw dought the past 5 years even the professional farmer were struggleing to keep crops alive.
I would love to try again but it would be so much easy if can aleast get an automatic watering system up and running first.
I'm finally in my own house no land lord can have a go at me now which is a huge releif.
I've been so focused on getting out of depression then getting out more and this year I have been focused on getting a better education to get a job they I will enjoy.
We had a farmers market happening every 2 week end a fue years back but then it stop for some reason. I use to be able 3 times as much for 3 times less when we had a farmers market. We live near the farms I cant beleiave we dont have farmers wanting to see to straight to the people. I think part of the problem was that the farmers market was situated off the bus route. We only have 1 bus in our area and it went no where near the market when it was running thats a sure fire way to make some thing fail. People in our area dont all drive and even if they can there is still plenty that dont have car's.
This has been a topic that has been raised in my class as I'm trying to get Cert 2 in community service work.
I just think its so wrong for company's to make millions of profit while farmer struggle to make enough to survive them self. Our welfare system has special supplement just for farmer the past fue years because it been so hard on them.
thank you
I would love to try again but it would be so much easy if can aleast get an automatic watering system up and running first.
I'm finally in my own house no land lord can have a go at me now which is a huge releif.
I've been so focused on getting out of depression then getting out more and this year I have been focused on getting a better education to get a job they I will enjoy.
We had a farmers market happening every 2 week end a fue years back but then it stop for some reason. I use to be able 3 times as much for 3 times less when we had a farmers market. We live near the farms I cant beleiave we dont have farmers wanting to see to straight to the people. I think part of the problem was that the farmers market was situated off the bus route. We only have 1 bus in our area and it went no where near the market when it was running thats a sure fire way to make some thing fail. People in our area dont all drive and even if they can there is still plenty that dont have car's.
This has been a topic that has been raised in my class as I'm trying to get Cert 2 in community service work.
I just think its so wrong for company's to make millions of profit while farmer struggle to make enough to survive them self. Our welfare system has special supplement just for farmer the past fue years because it been so hard on them.
thank you
I totally understand about the food price issue and I also have 4 kids so I completely get where you are coming from. Many of your prices you mention have me nodding my head and saying "yup, pretty close to what I pay here". I am in northern Alberta, Canada. Family members and friends who come to visit from other parts of Canada are always shocked by our produce prices. Is there any way you could grow some? Many plants can be container grown or have varieties that are good in containers. Just a thought.
It does sound like you are not getting enough calories to keep your metabolism revved up.
It does sound like you are not getting enough calories to keep your metabolism revved up.
The same issues as I have what would they be.
I dont over eat. why do people seem to asume weight issues are always due to over eating or poor eating habbits.
We dont by crap I dont allow junk to be bought in the shopping and kept in the house. My kids are healthy and stay active and dont over eat. I have always incoraged my kids to keep trying new food incase there taste buds change.
I have increased my range of foods since I was a kid as well. When I was young you could get me to eat anything but fish fingers, bake beans, sandwhich's, egg's, weetbix,
Australia has the most expensive food out of many counrties. I dont know what you spend on food but bread here cost $3.50 a loaf, milk $5.50 3L, cheese 1kg $12, tomatoe's can be $5 kg, banana's are one of cheepest fruits right now at $2kg. apples $5.5kg. cucumber are cheepish $1,30 now but that the cheepest they can be double, letuce is $5 for one, carrots are cheap at $1.30kg but thay can get expensice as $4kg, Potatoes are at there lowest in 10 years at $6 for 10kg at there most expecsive thay were $6 for a kg thats just some of the basic's. I recently had a great conversation with some amercan's that were shocked to hear how expensive food can be here. Your force to buy fresh food from super market's because there are no farmer's market's near where I live.
As far as if I turly intolerant to or allergic to I have had the skin test done it's not my imagination. I was even put on a year long course of injection to hopefully reduce my reaction to food's and other things so that I could hopefully live a more normal life with food and not debilatating symptoms for just walking past a rabbit or being around grass ect. My hayfever alone knock me about when it kicks in I can end up in bed or unable to stop sneezing and red raw eye's and sore nose headach's, migraine's. if you had my body you be scream for mercy with in a week if you lasted I would rather trade it all for cancer right now and be done with it. At least with cancer I would have a chance at normal life.
I gained 35kg from med's NOT from over eating, Zyprexa really did a number on my weight. I was so drepressed I would barly eat so I'd hate to see how much weight I would have gained if I was eating more on zyprexa.
out of all the people I have talked to about there shopping bill I think the adverage cost $350 and week I spend I $150 and people dont know how I do it. Its cheaper to eat to crap like noodles than buy a loaf of bread and salad. I dont buy crap i make sure I buy what ever is on special that week. Our local food co-op sell food worse that what I buy. My kids and I dont have snack's we dont buy biscuits, or prepackages school foods. we dont get lollies or chips.
When I have calculated my calories intake it's almost alway way under what is acceptable. If anything I'm not eating enough. I dont use oil when I cook i think I have had the same 500ml oil at least 2 years and I mostly use it for baking when I have a b'day or for making play dough for my kids.
I'd be surprised if the dietition can lower my food intake if I need anything it would be maybe a diet to boost my metabilisim.
I dont over eat. why do people seem to asume weight issues are always due to over eating or poor eating habbits.
We dont by crap I dont allow junk to be bought in the shopping and kept in the house. My kids are healthy and stay active and dont over eat. I have always incoraged my kids to keep trying new food incase there taste buds change.
I have increased my range of foods since I was a kid as well. When I was young you could get me to eat anything but fish fingers, bake beans, sandwhich's, egg's, weetbix,
Australia has the most expensive food out of many counrties. I dont know what you spend on food but bread here cost $3.50 a loaf, milk $5.50 3L, cheese 1kg $12, tomatoe's can be $5 kg, banana's are one of cheepest fruits right now at $2kg. apples $5.5kg. cucumber are cheepish $1,30 now but that the cheepest they can be double, letuce is $5 for one, carrots are cheap at $1.30kg but thay can get expensice as $4kg, Potatoes are at there lowest in 10 years at $6 for 10kg at there most expecsive thay were $6 for a kg thats just some of the basic's. I recently had a great conversation with some amercan's that were shocked to hear how expensive food can be here. Your force to buy fresh food from super market's because there are no farmer's market's near where I live.
As far as if I turly intolerant to or allergic to I have had the skin test done it's not my imagination. I was even put on a year long course of injection to hopefully reduce my reaction to food's and other things so that I could hopefully live a more normal life with food and not debilatating symptoms for just walking past a rabbit or being around grass ect. My hayfever alone knock me about when it kicks in I can end up in bed or unable to stop sneezing and red raw eye's and sore nose headach's, migraine's. if you had my body you be scream for mercy with in a week if you lasted I would rather trade it all for cancer right now and be done with it. At least with cancer I would have a chance at normal life.
I gained 35kg from med's NOT from over eating, Zyprexa really did a number on my weight. I was so drepressed I would barly eat so I'd hate to see how much weight I would have gained if I was eating more on zyprexa.
out of all the people I have talked to about there shopping bill I think the adverage cost $350 and week I spend I $150 and people dont know how I do it. Its cheaper to eat to crap like noodles than buy a loaf of bread and salad. I dont buy crap i make sure I buy what ever is on special that week. Our local food co-op sell food worse that what I buy. My kids and I dont have snack's we dont buy biscuits, or prepackages school foods. we dont get lollies or chips.
When I have calculated my calories intake it's almost alway way under what is acceptable. If anything I'm not eating enough. I dont use oil when I cook i think I have had the same 500ml oil at least 2 years and I mostly use it for baking when I have a b'day or for making play dough for my kids.
I'd be surprised if the dietition can lower my food intake if I need anything it would be maybe a diet to boost my metabilisim.
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You will need to be straight up with the dietician - tell him/her exactly what your issues are and that you expect them to help you either overcome your fears or work around them. You will also need to be straight up about your allergies and/or intolerances; if you are truly allergic or intolerant of a food, no reputable dietician will expect you to eat it.
Of course, you will be expected to work with THEM also; so if it's just something you don't care for, maybe you could try to develop a taste for it. *I* always hated green peppers, but I got some on a salad one day, along with red, orange and yellow, so I "nibbled" on them and they just really weren't too bad -- over a period of time, eating small amounts, I gradually came to like them and I buy them whenever they are on sale or if I go to a farmers market where they are less expensive....
You can buy healthy food that's inexpensive, but you will need to tell them what you can or can't afford.
Your relationship will have to be "give and take" on both sides or they won't be able to help you.
Since you have 4 kids, this might be a good time to teach them healthy eating, too and make sure their meal times are pleasant, so they won't end up with the same issues you have.
Best of luck to you.
Of course, you will be expected to work with THEM also; so if it's just something you don't care for, maybe you could try to develop a taste for it. *I* always hated green peppers, but I got some on a salad one day, along with red, orange and yellow, so I "nibbled" on them and they just really weren't too bad -- over a period of time, eating small amounts, I gradually came to like them and I buy them whenever they are on sale or if I go to a farmers market where they are less expensive....
You can buy healthy food that's inexpensive, but you will need to tell them what you can or can't afford.
Your relationship will have to be "give and take" on both sides or they won't be able to help you.
Since you have 4 kids, this might be a good time to teach them healthy eating, too and make sure their meal times are pleasant, so they won't end up with the same issues you have.
Best of luck to you.
I have wonder about the starvation mode issue. I recently got put in hospital due to trouble with my heart. The first cardiologist came said my heart was fine and that I was just fat, lazy and gready, he said I needed I needed to go watch a good concentration camp movie and half what they eat. I just fell compleatly apart saying I dont over eat he dont me told me if I wanted him to treat me I would have to get real and be honerst about what I eat. Once he left I was glad when my partner came to see me I wanted to go home and forget about everything I did not care if I was really sick I wanted to die at that point in time. That cardiologist tryed to came back to see me again and my partner told him I did not want him any where near me ever again. My partner kept his cool and told him that he no right to talk to me that way etc. I made a complaint to the hospital and they got another cardiologist to see me the next day thank goodness they did as my tachycardia issue was getting worse by the 3rd day in hospital I was getting to 135 just sitting in bed drinking a glass of water. When I stood up i was getting to 150 for a while and then it would go down, that's nothing compared to what my heart was doing when I was trying to be active with my kids, shopping, house work, etc. I was tachy all the time when standing an adverage of 150 HR when standing highest HR of 185 walking slow. The second cardiologist diagnoised inappropriate sinus tachycardia and put me on Ivabradine and with in a fue hours of starting the med in hospital my heart rate had come down 30 beats on adverage, my breathing was easier, I felt like some one had lifted some weight off me everything felt easier to do. Three weeks later I feel a lot better my HR rarly gets above 130 and I want to get back to exercising as soon as I'm able to. I'm already able to walk faster and for longer, I have done a 30 min decent paced walk twice now and I felt tired and weak and a little faint but no where near as bad as before the med's.
I'm a waiting list to see a dietition at the hospital. I a little worried about what the dietition will try to convince me to eat lol I'm a fussy eater and I have allergies and intolerance's as well. I'm also worried about how easy it will be to follow a diet a created by a dietition as I'm mum with four kids and I dont have time to make seperate meals for my self all them time and no time to weigh food if they expect me to weigh food. I'm also worried about the dietition asking me to buy food I cant afford like fish. My shopping consists of healthy food that are the cheapest for that week. I can't afford not to save money just as much as much as I cant afford to put any more weight on.
I'm proberly over thinking this I have anxiety and OCD and I can very OCD about food I'm better than I was a fue years ago before I went on OCD med's I could not eat the food if I saw it cooked in the wrong order(different to me). I have tryed resorted to diet shacks in the past just to have something to take the hunger away when I could not make my self cook or eat food due to my OCD getting in the way. I a fue minor OCD issues about my kitchen and food but for the most part I do OK. I just hope I have a dietition that wont get angry or upset me if my OCD kicks in at any stage. I want to see one but I need them to work with me and let me work with my phycologist about any OCD/anxiety issues that might come up along the way.
My mum made meal time negative growing up and was underweight due to my food issues as kid/teen untill I saw a dietition but the dietition and my mum was making me eat the strangest food's and while I loved a lot of them buying the special flour's etc due to my allergies were so expensive for my mum and she never let me forget it.
I think I got a bit OCD with writing lol but oh-well.
I'm a waiting list to see a dietition at the hospital. I a little worried about what the dietition will try to convince me to eat lol I'm a fussy eater and I have allergies and intolerance's as well. I'm also worried about how easy it will be to follow a diet a created by a dietition as I'm mum with four kids and I dont have time to make seperate meals for my self all them time and no time to weigh food if they expect me to weigh food. I'm also worried about the dietition asking me to buy food I cant afford like fish. My shopping consists of healthy food that are the cheapest for that week. I can't afford not to save money just as much as much as I cant afford to put any more weight on.
I'm proberly over thinking this I have anxiety and OCD and I can very OCD about food I'm better than I was a fue years ago before I went on OCD med's I could not eat the food if I saw it cooked in the wrong order(different to me). I have tryed resorted to diet shacks in the past just to have something to take the hunger away when I could not make my self cook or eat food due to my OCD getting in the way. I a fue minor OCD issues about my kitchen and food but for the most part I do OK. I just hope I have a dietition that wont get angry or upset me if my OCD kicks in at any stage. I want to see one but I need them to work with me and let me work with my phycologist about any OCD/anxiety issues that might come up along the way.
My mum made meal time negative growing up and was underweight due to my food issues as kid/teen untill I saw a dietition but the dietition and my mum was making me eat the strangest food's and while I loved a lot of them buying the special flour's etc due to my allergies were so expensive for my mum and she never let me forget it.
I think I got a bit OCD with writing lol but oh-well.
Im not sure what is happening, but one option it could be, is not enough calories when you are eating only the fruit and veg, your body could be going into starvation mode, then when you eat the bread and pasta your calories increase,
you can still eat the breads and pasta and lose weight by chooing whole wheat versions
You can use the food diary on med help to track what you eat, and it will tell you how,
good luck, keep strong
you can still eat the breads and pasta and lose weight by chooing whole wheat versions
You can use the food diary on med help to track what you eat, and it will tell you how,
good luck, keep strong
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