Weight issue

Before all of these health issues, it was nothing for me to just lose 10 or 15 pounds or something, but now a days I find it hard to just maintain my weight or even lose a pound.

Here’s my issues

1. I can do all the right things and still just barley lose any weight at all.

2. I can go 6 days of clean eating and exercise but then get a huge setback from just 1 cheat day.

3. Getting bloated after eating only a bit.

4. Food cravings. Now this one is really annoying. Idk what it is or why I do it. I want myself to get better more then anything. I literally dream about getting my old healthy self back, & I know eating healthy 100% of the time is a foot in the right direction. I will literally go to sleep some nights & just wake up in full on starving mode. It’s the person who just wants to get better dissaperears until my belly is full of junk food.

I would normally blame this on just bad discipline but like I said, in the past I could lose weight very easily. Something is not right & idk what it is or how to fix it.

Could it be that is just Lyme disease taking over my body causing these unhealthy habits? Is this something that just gets better on its own through Lyme treatment, or is this something that I can work on?

Another thing with Lyme disease I have noticed I always feel ran down, & starved in a way. My body constantly feels like it’s in need of some food for energy. I remember use to be able to go hours and hours without eating and be totally fine. I feel like now if I go longer then 2 hours I just burned out or something. Which is strange because I though Lyme is suppose to cause you to lose weight not gain it.

This isn’t my worst symptom, or my main concerns but it’s defiantly getting in the way of trying to get some of my biggest symptoms gone I think. Let me know what you all think and how I can fix this. Thank you.

Post Edited (Branch08) : 7/19/2019 2:39:12 PM (GMT-6)

I've had all your symptoms too. I couldn't even exercise because it would make me inflamed. No one believed me when I told them exercise made me GAIN weight but believe me I know my own body more than a stranger and sometimes stuff just doesn't add up especially with Lyme. One cheat day, even a few extra bites of food, will also cause me to gain weight. I can lose it but it'll come right back soon enough. It's like my body's acting like it's constantly in starvation mode. If I eat too little I can actually gain more weight than if I had just eaten normally.

The cravings are from candida and gut dysbiosis. I have them too. Going on the ketogenic diet has helped a lot but now I have cheat meals on the weekends and it's made the cravings come back. But I need to catch a break somehow.

Someone said, I think Klinghardt maybe, that 80-85% of patients actually gain weight. Lucky us we are win that boat. I can only suggest going on the ketogenic diet for a minimum 6-8 weeks for it to take effect. If after that you still have symptoms then I'd do a food intolerance panel or an elimination diet.

Branch08 said...

1. I can do all the right things and still just barley lose any weight at all.

2. I can go 6 days of clean eating and exercise but then get a huge setback from just 1 cheat day.

3. Getting bloated after eating only a bit.

4. Food cravings.

Exact same here. This began before I diagnosed Lyme. Now I know it's also Babesia at work, and probably primarily so. It began with constant food cravings. When I couldn't beat them, I paid attention to what was going on, and I found that I was trying to palliate some kind of internal discomfort. That discomfort eventually became a full-blown gut problem, which still surfaces occasionally. But I'm in the midst of treatment so I will see how it shakes out.

Bartonella ive heard is a major weight gainer. I definitely have that one. What confuses me like I said is that my body seems to think it’s in starvation mode even though I eat plenty. If I miss a couple planned snacks one day I’ll gain weight instead of lose.