How can you lose weight with Crohn's?

Not really sure to be honest.  The only time I ever lose weight is when I'm flaring and not able to eat anything at all. I try to eat as healthy as possible, but my body cant tolerate a lot of fruits and veggies. I try to exercise but it seems when I do that, I stir up things in my tummy and it ends up not good and me running to the bathroom.  I was down to my lowest weight ever that I can remember in April due to a flare, which still left me 30lbs overweight, but to me and everyone else I looked good because I have a big bone structure...then started prednisone and gained 50lbs, so now Im at my highest weight ever. Haha...I honestly dont know...some people cant keep weight on with this disease and some people cant get rid of the weight.

I can't lose weight even when I am in a flare... i have tried but nothing seems to work

Portion control, avoiding refined sugar and bread especially, drink lots of water and exercise regularly is the best and safest way to lose weight...you also need patience, losing weight this way (the right way) takes a little longer that's why it's the healthy way.

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Baby steps Kam#7, that's how I did it with my diet altering...I weened myself off the junk and believe me it works and it's worth it...I was a junk food junky because I could always eat what I wanted and as much as I wanted without gaining an ounce (this was before CD as well), of course that caught up with me because of age so I had to start being careful how I ate not just for the CD and IBS purposes but because I was always used to being thin and I DID NOT like the way extra weight felt on me it was sooooo annoying but I got some extra weight off through portion control, proper foods and regular exercise which not only benefit the CD and my IBS but over all health...I have a lot more energy now then I really ever did.

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I am using weight watchers right now. I like it because I can eat whatever I want...they don't put restrictions on what you can eat....if you tell me I can't have something....that just makes me want it 10 times more!

i'll say the same just eat as health as you can and try to say away from pops ... drink as much water as you can. If you do start to try to exerise start off real slow and dont do crunches or situps they will make things worse. try walking and cardio stuff.

good luck and God bless

wow cd is the most crazy thing in the whole world lololol ..... it is allllllllllllllll ways different for every person. I didnt even think that, that would be different for each person. I thought that crunches would hurt anyone with cd.
you learn something every min.

I agree with many of these posts.  The BEST WAY to feel good and lose some fat in the process is to eat foods low in starches, sodium, sugars, and fats.  For 4 weeks try keeping a food log adn at the same time keep a list of foods that are no no's and Green Light. 

Try not to eat :

breads, pastas, cakes, cookies and the like, ANY RESTAURANT FOOD (packed with sodium), no box dinners & frozen dinners (packed with sodium and preservatives), pop, and whatever else you think fits into these categories.

Green light foods- even for many Crohnies:

Salad- add some raw spinach, fully cooked vegetables (do not add butter or salt), fruits (no citrus or skin), lean meats like chicken breast, lean beef, some fish.  Don't fry your food- don't you wonder where all that oil goes when you fry--- into your food and into your blood stream!  drink plenty of Water!!!!!

What I have learned is that people don't realize how much water weight they are carrying around from too much sodium in their diet.  Flush it out with water.  All that fat on our bodies is also in our organs- heart, digestive system, liver, and so forth. 

Try adding some mild exercise to your daily routine, listen to some soothing or uplifting music that really makes YOU feel Good!  Go for a walk and gradually increase your distance and time. 

MAKE A PLAN.  STICK TO IT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.  FORGIVE YORUSELF FOR MESS UPS.  GET BACK ON TRACK AND START AGAIN.  GIVE YOURSELF A "FREE" MEAL OF YOUR FAVORITE SINFUL FOOD ONCE A WEEK IF YOU HAVE FOLLOWED YOUR RULES ALL WEEK.

WITHOUT A ROADMAP, WE WOULDN'T MAKE IT TO OUR DESTINATION.  THAT IS WHY A PLAN IS KEY. 

EAT RIGHT + EXERCISE = A HEALTHIER LEANER BODY

WORKIGN TOWARDS A GOAL AND DOING OUR BEST TO STICK TO IT MAKES US FEEL

STRONG- EMPOWERED

MORE SELF CONFIDENT

IN CONTROL

Boy, I feel inspired now- I think I will put on my headset and go get some exercise.

 

 In order to lose 1# of fat a person needs to burn at least 500 more calories every day for one week.   Keep a close eye on what you are putting in and make sure you are buring off more!

 

Ummm... 4'7" tall and I weighed 122 at the doctors office the other day. 119 the day afterward and now I'm 124. Usually associated with Ensure. It calms the flare but wrecks my weight. I look "right" at about this weight. Thinner looks all Nicole Ritchie (hubby calls her "bobblehead" b/c of the head-body proportions from her previous eating disorder). I look skeletal when I lose weight. It sure is a catch-22. Calm the flare and lose weight. Or eat and hurt. I used to weigh a LOT...as in 175...then I lost it and never got back up to that. Was down to 87 during a hospital visit many years ago b/c I was vomiting up the one thing I ate a day: slice of white bread with honey. I was working at the time too so I didn't eat during the day and instead ate at night, threw up for hours afterward.

Honestly, I'm not sure you won't hurt from too much weight loss. Sometimes I wonder if the pain on my joints may be caused by the constantly fluctuating weight/thinness. As in, malabsorbtion of food, leading to a thinner body.

I swear...if we could sell our disease to anorexics/bulimics...we'd be millionaires...all of us. Sounds awful but consider that they do it to themselves what our bodies do to us for any reason at all.