tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post3142579918505659826..comments2024-03-17T10:07:53.205-07:00Comments on The Well-Rounded Mama: Lipedema Treatment, Part 5b: Weight and Special Nutritional ApproachesWell-Rounded Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-33201193028363440752017-02-26T09:04:51.621-08:002017-02-26T09:04:51.621-08:00I can say self management is the only way, there a... I can say self management is the only way, there are approximately 15 to 20% of us who are of normal weight as a small but significant minority there is a complete lack of information for us maybe because the powers that be can't see beyond calorie restriction kalpitahttp://www.bodyzwellness.com/obesity-programme/weight-loss-treatment-mumbai.html#noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-8843641883477739522016-05-15T15:18:29.179-07:002016-05-15T15:18:29.179-07:00Thank you so much for this article. Couldn't ...Thank you so much for this article. Couldn't have said it better myself. I too have had gastric bypass 13 years ago and suffer from lipo-lymphedema/venous insufficiency/ PCOS/insulin resistance/Hashimotos-Hypothyrodism/severe anemia/estrogen dominance/ malabsorption/secondary hyperaldosteronism/stage 3b-c adrenal fatigue/osteoarthritis and large doses of humiliation and hopelessness. All this was diagnosed on my journey to finding what was really the issue...the lipo-lymphedema. I had no idea it even existed until a few months ago. That is after close to 50 docs/specialist I have seen over the course of 25 years telling me just to lose weight. I became an expert at research and all things medical. Much of this we know is genetic and I have a mother/grandmother/sister/ cousins that all look like me. I was told my veins failed me in my teens maybe earlier. I struggled since puberty with my hormones for sure. Everyone just assumes it was diet related yet my family and I were the healthiest fat people you have ever seen. My mother lived with same complaints and no one would help her. No one is willing to help me. Just visited my first Lipo/Lymph doc and was told to lose 10% of my body fat. I guess they weren't listening when I described my journey, pain and problem with gaining weight with no explanation and how I work my butt off (I wish) at the gym and eat very healthy. I left feeling defeated again. I just want to be healthy, normal, not the biggest person in the room. I want to be seen for my strengths not my (supposed) weakness...I am fat!! I am not unintelligent/incapable/unmotivated...I have a disease...many diseases that make it almost impossible to live the life I know I could/should/would. <br /><br />I set, on as many supplements as I need to keep my nutrition normal, help my inflammation and my immune system. I have no pouch from bypass so basically have a sleeve and am slowly dying anyway from malabsorption/malnutrition. I do not absorb fats so how can I go on the low fat diet suggested by so many...we do NEED fat to live. I can only eat so much...I am not one of those gastric bypass patients that went back to old habits. I eat around 100g of protein a day and still have borderline low protein...how can I go NO beef/dairy (it's grass fed/organic anyway)? I need those things just to get me through day to day. I have to be low carb or I dump. I can not change anything there. They say eat more fruits/veggies but I have very little HCl so can not digest well even with supplements and get very gassy...ever felt like you were being cut in half with pain? I have numerous times because I ate a normal portion of fruits/veggies...they turn to gas because of the fiber. It is pain you will never forget and takes hours to go away. I too have felt better with low/no gluten however, that means no fiber for me because of the afore mentioned so now what? I barely get to eat much of anything anyway. I dare any of those above mentioned 50 docs to try to eat like me for a week and see how they feel. <br /><br />I don't know what the future holds but I am focused on quality of life at this point and I am only 40 years old. I know I will not see 60 years old most likely. My body already feels like it is 80 years old and there is no cure to what I have...lipo-lymphedema and then some.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-26470282996858293142016-02-05T01:18:50.988-08:002016-02-05T01:18:50.988-08:00Thank you for this well written, informative post!...Thank you for this well written, informative post!Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03409519773345794208noreply@blogger.com