Is everyone with Chron's thin?

I too saw private practice and  I know there is weight loss but I am by no means thin.  I have always said that with the amount of food I eat I should be much much heavier... like needing a fork lift or something... but it would take an awful lot to keep me from food.  Even when I was having vomiting and diarrhea with cramps/pain I would still eat.  I am like the dumb lab who eats when all other dogs know better.....

So, let me know is everyone with Chron's thin?

Theresa

I am by no means thin.. what so ever..

But I agree with the amount of food that I eat, I should be bed ridden.. haha.
My weight does yo-yo a ton though... eh.

I'm very thin and always have been. The older I get the more weight I lose. I am very embarrassed by the way I look. People do make comments. Most of them seem to think that it's a choice I have willingly made. I have no appetite and eating is basically a chore. It gets mighty tedious.

Don't let those morons get you guys down. They don't have a clue, its whats inside that counts and from what i read in these post you guys are all beautiful people to me. Stay well and take care..

no...not thin here 255 ib and 5"2 ....what I hate about ppl is that when I say I have crohn's they reply I didn't know you can have crohn's when you are overweight.....so ignorant

No Not Thin...fatty here. There was a time when I was "paper thin" as my mother would say. I was drastically underweight and lost even more with each flare. Once I had two pregnancies,2 c-sections I gained a bit....but in the last 4 years, since my "MS" attack, and being confined to cruthches or scooter I have ballooned up to a whopping 225. Mind u I am 5 feet 9 inches tall...but that is a lot of weight for a small boned person....of course, when I tell ppl that I am small boned they laugh at me. (unless they knew me in my "twiggy" days).
Now ppl give me a strange look when I tell them I have CD because the assumption is that you will be bone thin.
I have a tshirt with a pillsbury dough boy on it that says "Poke me and DIE!"LOL
Oh well....the walking is what did it for me....once I stopped walking everyday I just packed it on!!!
Mary

I'm currently 173 lbs - height 5''77.  I'm not fat, but I'm certainly not thin!!!  During my first flare 9 years ago I lost 44 lbs in 2 months.  Now that I'm feeling better I gained 11 lbs in 1 month, and that's not good.  All my trousers are too tight, and I suffer everyday at work, but I still wear them to remind me I should loose weight...

But it's so difficult, because you all know that when we don't feel good, we don't have an apetite for anything and we practically live on rice and crackers (at least I do).  So when we are feeling better, we make up for the lost time (and food).  At least I do!!!!!

greek hugs,

Christina

Not thin and never have been---well except when I lost 35 pounds in under 3 weeks when I was first diagnosed. If someone comments on your weight, they are opeing themselves up to hear the gory details of this disease in my opinion. If they ask why you are thin/fat, then give them the grossest images of Cd you can imagine---I found that stops a lot of morons from making further stupid weight comments.

I have always been thin, even before I was diagnosed. Right now I am pretty comfortable. I am 5'5" and weigh 139. Not bone skinny, like when I am sick. I think I am at the stage right now where I like to keep the extra pounds, cause you never know when you will get sick and lose it all again. I think like most of us Crohnies I keep different size clothes in my closet all the time because of the constant up and down in weight.

I've always been a fatty. I probably just knew enough about Crohn's to get me in trouble to. I was one that had the assumption you had to lose weight when you had Crohn's. I never did so I couldn't have CD, right? And I have never been a big eater either. My metabolism is shot not because of how much I eat but how little exercise I did. I had no energy to even walk to the mail box. After I found out I did have Crohn's and had my resection, I joined the YMCA, started eating better and have lost 60 lbs. Still need to lose another 40 but I'm flaring again and haven't had the energy to do much of anything. That scares me more then anything else. I don't want to go back to that cave I lived in for so long. At least I know that it wasn't because I was a lazy slug afterall.

I weigh 118, and am 38 years old. I used to weigh 112 till I was put on Entocort and now Remicade. I also work out because it makes me feel better but now also because I have gotten osteoporosis from the entocort.

I was very thin when I got dx, 5'8" and 130lbs.. Then came the steroids and all of a sudden I gained 80 pounds!!! I am now down to 190 and still working out and eating healthy and trying to shed this weight. It is a LOT harder than I imagined, gaining weight is so much easier than losing it!!!

Thinest was 145 lbs (there abouts... running a marathon) and highest was 293 (bad crohns flare at the time too) female and six feet tall...