Some weight seems to be coming off. Gluten free may have changed some things. I do get scared, one little thing can make it go back up. The kidneys are still doing better to point I don't have to take as many kidney tests anymore. What did Celiac DO to me all these years? If I can get to the lower 400s, it would help functionality quite a bit. I have noticed hunger is not as bad as an issue, I can still get hunger pain at times I don't want it. I haven't been in the 460s since 2013 and the main reason for that loss was throwing up from kidney problems. I was around 450lbs when I had my 250lb weight loss in 2002 down from 700lbs. This metabolism has never been normal. I don't expect to ever be thin, impossible in this body, but smaller at all will make things easier, and that weight loss from medical treatment saved my life back then and gave me 25 plus more years.
One thing I'm wondering ...
ReplyDeleteWouldn't lymphedema cause a lot of the weight? The concentration of fluids in the legs?
And if so, would that fluid be half of the weight? Like if you didn't have the fluid, would your weight be more like 232 (which is at the half-way point)? You look much thinner on the top, and if you were to take a picture of yourself from the waist up, no one would think "465 pounds". They'd guess "200".
It's amazing what disease can do to our weight. Once I had surgery for a DNA related illness (privately you know which one it was), I lost 35 pounds, and no longer had swollen feet or ankles. I was actually starving beforehand (not hungry, not absorbing food regardless, which may be why I was not eating). After surgery I ate more than before it, and the pounds kept coming off.
It is so obvious that disease effects weight. Possibly many diseases and not just lymphedema.
Yes the fluid impacts the weight, a lot of me is fluid, I can move even my stomach around in ways a lot of regular fat people cannot, from what I can tell theirs is a lot more hard rock solid. I change in fluids everyday too, like the way I look. Remember when Facebook did facial recognition, it never worked on me, because my face chances everyday [the entire body] from fluids. I have a lot of hanging skin, as big as I am people forget I once weighed 240lbs more. So a lot of it is droopy. I can never get skin surgery because of dangers of lyphedema or even regains from fluids and my other risks. Yes people would guess a far lower weight. This is funny but years ago, I was on this group online where someone recognized me in public, they knew what my face looked like since it was Facebook but they were not a friend just someone on a group, and they got mad, they saw me sitting in a car, and they went back to the group and yelled, "Why is this woman telling everyone she is 500lbs, she didn't look more than 250-350lbs." I thought that was kind of funny but hated to be called a liar. Oh water weights more than fat too. Yes diseases impact weight. It can take it off or put it on, and you know this from your own illness. I have noticed some fat people get thinner as they age too, hope I am one of them. LOL but have seen this in big actors. I have 4-6 medical problems that all influence weight. My size differential is a lot compared to top to bottom, I even own a size 2x dress that fits, because it's loose on bottom and have size 3-4 x undershirts, but wear size 8x on bottom, it may be 7x now.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought. It doesn't surprise me that you fit into a size 2X on the top. And what a big difference to have 7X on the bottom.
DeleteA seamstress would probably make a 2X dress and make it an A-line style.
Anyway, thank you for the explanation.