Feeling really fed up and dont feel like anyone understands, so thought i would have a rant on here, ive gain so much weight over the last few years, only got diagnosed with ms last year after looseing my sight , but previous to this ive suffered terrible fatuige which stops me being as active as i used to be and am proberly not as active as other 35 year olds.
Well ive tryed a few slimming clubs tryed slimming world failed to loose any weight even tho ive followed the plan, so now am trying weight watchers, followed the diet and stuck to it all week and not losted a ounce, so fed up, does any other ms people have problems looseing weight
i was dx with rrms last thurs after 16months with dx of tmā¦anyway been on loads of pills and put on just over a stone and a halfā¦havent tried losing it yet though but do some excersise a week so time will tell
Youāre not on your own Iāve put on so much weight I feel like an elephant, (donāt look like one though)
Iāve tried losing weight but all the different drugs I take each leaflet says the same:-
āCan cause weight gainā I think the maufacturers do it for fun!
Donāt give up, try to eat properly, give up all those lovely cakes, sweets, all the things we love and exercise. Iāve tried it all and still the pounds keep piling on so Iām sure itās the drugs.
Hi all Just a quick question and I donāt know if anyone knows this. Do the drugs themselves cause weight gain or is it that we are all more sedentary with MS or do the drugs make us hungrier? Anyway, I was just interested to know. Teresa xx
I tend to be the opposite. When Iām relapsing or when the fatigue is really bad I canāt pluck up the energy to eat so I lose weight. Iām like a stick anyway so it shows really quickly. Not many 37 year old mumās of 3 that weigh less than 8 stone (Iām 5ft5). I also have tremendous will power so will not snack if Iām taking steroids, sometimes I think its the gastric irritation that causes the hunger, so I up the dose of the gut protectors to twice a day. No wonder Iām osteopenic
Yes, Iāve gained a lot over the past few years. I suppose itās partly my age (45), but diminished activity due to feeling ill all the time can hardly have helped.
Iām still not dramatically overweight, but at the upper end of ānormalā, for my age and height, so still heavier than Iād like to be, and Iām not overly impressed when I look in the mirror.
In the past three months, Iāve made a concerted effort, and drastically increased my activity levels, but Iāve still not shifted a pound! Iām not one for diets, but have been keeping an eye on the calorie content of foods lately, and Iām sure Iām not putting in an excessive number of calories.
Iām wondering if a lot of itās water retention, because when I weighed myself this morning, I had ostensibly gained a pound - yes, a whole pound - since yesterday! I donāt see how itās possible to gain a pound in 24 hours - not if it was fat, anyway - so I can only assume itās water.
I didnāt go on an insane eating binge yesterday, and I was quite active, walking over 2 miles at lunchtime. How can I be 1lb heavier?
I am fitter overall, since I began exercising, and more shapely. But as to actual weight loss? Nada!
I woke up 12 months after dx to having a body suit on AND now it slowly increases from initially 1 stone to 2 stone depressing but hey, I still manage to get aroundā¦Take care, M The drugs mess with our brain chemistryā¦
Oh to be back to my pre-marriage weight (1964!) when I was 6st 4lb.
Six months later I was half a stone heavier - I want to know why signing a piece of paper puts on weight.
Now, after 3 children and signing another marriage certificate (2nd husband) I feel like a balloon and weigh 12st 11lb.
Getting rid of the weight by exercise doesnāt work because of the fatigue of MS and the fact that I struggle to walk at all thanx to a stupid left leg that has become a passenger not a worker.
The fact that I stuggle to do anything tires me out but doesnāt loose me any weight!!!
I am beggining to think the only answer to my growing bulk could be the ābacon slicerā.
Good luck to all our fellow weight watchers out there - it appears the only thing we can do is watch it grow!!!
Yes I imagine we all do, if you have trouble walking either because of fatigue or balance you will naturally spend less time moving about. Your eating habits wonāt change and naturally you will burn less calories as a result.
I am over a stone heavier then I was last year and last year I was about half a stone heavier then the year beforeā¦Iāve decided to cut down eating so much but while I am trying, itās going to be a slow battle given the lack of prolonged exercise I can do.
Hi, Iām in the same boat and itās so frustrating. I eat healthy food only, have one vice which is couple glasses wine every evening and I effectors as much as poss. Am walking at least a mile a day , two to three on good days. I know itās a combination of periods of less activity and some meds we have to take but itās very DEPRESSING when you canāt lose weight no matter what you do! I really struggle with this and hate it more than ms itself, if you find an answer Please let me know. Good luck and donāt give up trying, I havenāt.
I went to my GP and said my meds are making me fat. He said āNo Pam, you are making you fatā. I had a very strict telling off and a warning not to even deviate for a moment so no bread, I donāt tend to eat it anyway, no booze, few fats, still have a packet of chocolate buttons or a small cake everyday but no crisps really, lots of rice, boiled things, steamed things, roast once a week, roast veg once a week and lots of green crunchy things and fruit.
He told me that as winter approaches, I cannot and must not give in to any naughty things as gaining weight will just increase my chances of being more ill and getting more things. In a nutshell he said as he was pointing his finger at me, every day must be a conscious eating day. I had thought and still think to a degree that gabapentin messes with your weight a little but I am quite strict now, his warning rings in my ears everyday so if I have a naughty day, I eat a lot less the next day and eat pure. I allow one over ready meal a week and if I want a butty I go down the shop and buy one bread roll because I think if I bought a packet of 6 I would probably eat six! I never buy in bulk, I get in what I need and if I feel myself really hungry whatever time day or night I do eat, just a little.
I have been known to have pudding for breakfast which is about 11 ish but then only eat salad or veg at tea time and it is a spur to do some exercise even if it is leg lifts in bed or stretching. A good trick, able or not for me is to not feel bad but put either a youtube health video on like relaxation and meditation (sounding a bit hippy here but it helps), or Adriene from America who does this amazing yoga thing. Sometimes if I canāt get up, I put her yoga in 30 days on and do whatever I can in bed such as interpreting her able body yoga to whatever the heck I can do on that day. I also do it on good days if I can be arsed in the front room with various pieces of furniture to help me bend a bit or stretch.
Also, as a girl from the 70s, laxatives are essential I think if you take painkillers which bung you up like a big flippin cork. No messing about in my house, donāt want to be sitting around waiting for something to happen. Get them laxies out if the painkillers are around. It is all upsetting but by heck, if there are ways of keeping the weight at bay I will find them. Just been caravaning for two days, the mirrors in caravans are really cruel so today for tea I have boiled rice and peas and a small piece of smoked fish and naff all else. Be stubborb people, donāt let it win!!
My lovely daughter Emma asked me when we were at the seaside last week what I wanted for my birthday, I said liposuction ha ha and while Iām there they can do something about my inherited neck ho ho, laugh a little today people, itās not freezing or piddling it down yet, we will have something to frown about when the weather comes. Bobble hats, long socks, thermals! My well wishes to everyone who is on here today, I am enjoying life from my bed and in a bit when the bunging up pain killers kick in I might enjoy 10 minutes in the garden in my nightie then tuck in to my delicious rice and peas yuk. Then I might even decide to get dressed - or not and save on washing.
Personally I feel that Iām as fat as a house (as the saying goes). In actual fact Iām within the normal range for my height, maybe the top end of the range these days but still fairly normal.
Its not the weight thatās the problem, itās the distribution of wobbly bits. And thatās got little to do with medication or anything else except my lack of mobility, and the fact that I love to eat / live to eat and enjoy lovely wine and have a husband whoās improved his cooking skills enormously over the past few years, ever since he retired from work.
I keep saying āwe must do something about our gourmet lifestyleā but crikey thatās hard.
So ultimately, so long as my clothes fit and Iām not absolutely out of control diet wise, I believe Iām staying at the heavy end of normal. So the question about battling with weight gain, at the moment the battle is at a ceasefire. Maybe in January Iāll rethink that, but probably not, since after the Quality Street fest that is Christmas, we enter the countdown to birthday season (me and OH at the end of January) so perhaps February? Thatās what I did this year, it lasted a good two months.