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18 Dec 2019, 11:46 am

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I know a little about weight loss. The most effective way to accomplish it is by portion control. So I think you are on the right track. I lost 120 pounds in around 7 months time after weight loss surgery. A couple factors to keep in mind is that if you eat less, you might not be getting enough protein in your diet. So many individuals after weight loss surgery supplement their protein requirement with protein shakes or protein bars. Just make sure they are relatively low in the various types of sugars. Also drink a lot of fluids as you lose weight because they flush the chemicals that are stored in your fat cells through your kidneys and sweat glands. Also it is a good idea to be taking a regiment of multivitamins to make sure you are getting in all your vitamins.


I was thinking more along the lines of avoiding greasy food as much as I could and strictly limiting stuff like cookies and such. I wouldn't say I eat a worrying amount of sweets at the moment or anything, but there's definitely enough to cut from.



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19 Dec 2019, 10:39 pm

Are you feeling better?


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19 Dec 2019, 11:08 pm

Fireblossom wrote:
jimmy m wrote:
I know a little about weight loss. The most effective way to accomplish it is by portion control. So I think you are on the right track. I lost 120 pounds in around 7 months time after weight loss surgery. A couple factors to keep in mind is that if you eat less, you might not be getting enough protein in your diet. So many individuals after weight loss surgery supplement their protein requirement with protein shakes or protein bars. Just make sure they are relatively low in the various types of sugars. Also drink a lot of fluids as you lose weight because they flush the chemicals that are stored in your fat cells through your kidneys and sweat glands. Also it is a good idea to be taking a regiment of multivitamins to make sure you are getting in all your vitamins.


I was thinking more along the lines of avoiding greasy food as much as I could and strictly limiting stuff like cookies and such. I wouldn't say I eat a worrying amount of sweets at the moment or anything, but there's definitely enough to cut from.

An autoimmune protocol (AIP) diet can help reduce inflammation in a wide range of auto immune diseases including UC. Reducing sugar intake is a big part of that diet.



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20 Dec 2019, 5:39 am

Borromeo wrote:
Are you feeling better?


Yup! My stomach still hurts a little, but it's now the kind of pain I usually get from a slightly upset stomach, not the horrible kind I've been having recently. And it's not like the meds are supposed to fix everything this fast anyway... I just hope that the positive effects aren't just from the cortisone but the other medicene, too.



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20 Dec 2019, 8:56 am

Glad to hear it! I hope they can get things even better for you and you don't have to be sick all the time.


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04 Jan 2020, 11:17 am

Situation update:

Stomach problems are gone, but I'm naturally still on the meds. My body's been feeling oddly stiff lately though and I'm wondering if it's because of too much rest, if the meds are already causing me to start swelling or both. I'll be going back to work on tuesday, so if I don't start feeling normal soon after that then I suppose it's the meds. Oh well, it's not like it's intolerable or anything, but it's annoying.



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04 Jan 2020, 5:49 pm

Sorry to hear about your stomach problems, Fireblossom. Glad the pain's settled down to a more manageable level. On the financial side of things, not sure if you're in the UK, but if you are, there are things you can do that makes the cost of meds cheaper(the NHS pre-payment certificate card), there's also about 10 different categories where if you have one of the recognised conditions, you get free medication). If you're in the US, I'm sorry for the difficulties ... I know what it's like to be in California and needing hospital care unexpectedly(was totally flabbergasted at what they charge just to walk down a corridor with your bloodwork in tow!). Was so grateful to have had medical insurance when I was travelling over there.

Hope your body responds well to the medication, and that you cope okay with work on Tuesday.x



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04 Jan 2020, 7:06 pm

Wishing you well as you adjust to this new (temporary?) norm.



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01 Feb 2020, 11:55 am

Update:

So far so good. The meds that are meant to calm down the infection will be gone less than two weeks from now, so it'll be only after that that I'll see if the other meds that I'm meant to take permanently from now on actually work on their own or not. I'm a little worried they won't since the doctor said it's 50/50, but I try to stay optimistic while preparing for the worst. There are times my stomach gets a bit more troublesome than usually, but I'm keeping a strict eye on what I eat and I think it's one food in particular that causes me trouble. I want to test it a few more times just to be sure (it causes me trouble, but not so much that I wouldn't be able to handle my daily tasks) since I don't want to drop it from my diet if it's not the problem.



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01 Feb 2020, 12:29 pm

Good to hear you're getting over this a little better. I hate to hear about the GI troubles with autism--it's a strange sort of condition.


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