weight loss!!!!!

Perhaps it will take a little more work and you'll loose it slower, but I'm sure you'll get there in the end, if you watch your diet and keep up the exercise.. I have the opposite problem now, although I used to be "chubby". Last week I wasn't feeling too well and I lost more weight, I'm trying to maintain it, as its no fun really trying on new clothes and the smallest womens sizes hang off you, then you start looking in the kids section. We still had snow on the mountain tops after yet another cold snap and I shivered all last weekend when we went to the local A & P show, I don't have much insulation and this Spring weather has yet to warm up.
Tess

Eat more protein. Once I started doing this, I started to lose weight. I worked out 4-5 days a week, and I would eat lots of protein, and good carbs in moderation.

Hi,please don't give up,I know how frustraiting it can be.I was on steroids for over a year and it took another six months of winging off of them so for a year and a half I gained a little over a 100 pounds.Well I was like you no matter what I tried nothing was helping.HuskerFan sister in law is right I was told the same thing as well.I have lost 54 pounds so fare.From the time that I got off of the steroids to the time I finally started loosing weight was about thirteen months.So know that you are not alone and you will loose the weight.

Are you still on the sterioids? How high? I know that I'm only on 2.5 mg from 40 mg February to June. In only the last month my face has lost some of that swelling. My face is starting to look familiar in the mirror. I am swimming and doing elliptical now and when I can. Oh and last week I was able to sit on a bicycle seat the first time since my surgery (I'M SO HAPPY!!!!), so I'll be doing that.
Anyway, it is said that it can take six months to a year for the effects of the predinisone to wear off. Wishing you all the best.

Its really hard to lose the weight I find, regardless of whether I gain it on steroids or because i just have to have that extra sleeve of cookies. I go up and down a lot because of crohns and my flares stopping me from eating sometimes. My last short stint with pred added 15 lbs.

I've got just about all of it off now, and I did it the old fashioned, sad to say...no miracle pill. I'd cut portion sizes way down and what I did eat was protien (for example for lunch today I had 5 ozs grilled chicken and a couple spoonfuls of white rice). I'm off diet sodas and diet this and that...I tend to overeat that kind of stuff. I also go to the gym 4 days a week - 1 hour on weights and 45 minutes cardio per session.

It'll come off, just dont give up.

I gained 40 pounds after my first go-round with pred a few years ago (Fortunately or unfortunately, this time around, I was so sick, I didn't gain anything but lost weight). I finally went to see a nutritionist who put together a plan that gradually allowed me to add back foods as I could tolerate them while cutting back on the calories so I could start to lose the weight. It took about 8-10 months to lose the 40 pounds but I did not aggravate the Crohn's as I was trying new foods. This time around, while I did not gain the weight, I got a real moon face, which is only now starting to go down 2 months after I stopped the pred. I've struggled with weight all my life. It is so furstrating because when you are in a flare, you want comfort foods and sometimes all you can tolerate are the low-residue, refined processed to death foods. I've lived on white bread and white rice for months now, can only tolerate bananas and really well cooked carrots. I've been on Humira for about 2 months and I think its beginning to kick in. Its only the fear of triggering the D and the cramping that stops me from eating mega amounts of anything.