Weight loss

I've been on the NO sugar, gluten, alcohol, and dairy diet for over a month now. I eat fruit sparingly. My diet consists mostly of a TON of veggies, quinoa, and soy based stuff. I am losing more and more weight everyday. I was thin to begin with, so I am seriously struggling to keep myself at a healthy weight. I am also allergic to nuts, which limits me even more.

Any recommendations for food and/or snacks that can help me put some pounds back on??

The only way to avoid losing weight is to up your calories. Olive oil as a dressing can boost calories, increasing portion size can increase calories, adding in another meal per day (eat 5 times a day), and try eating more beans or peas.

One of my favorite things to drink is carrot juice. If you juice, adding this to several meals will increase calories.

Are you eating meat? Also, are you taking enzymes? Your body might not be digesting the food well and therefore it is not getting any nutrition from it. I would add enzymes and the olive oil is good as well. Your body needs good fats to function. I'm eating grass fed meats, vegetables and minimal fruit with olive oil. I've heard soy actually isn't good for you. It can disrupt hormones, cause infertility and miscarriages, cause low libido and erectile dysfunction. You can search for more info about it. Maybe eating more starchy veggies like sqaush and such. My doc told me to avoid white potatoes, but you can do sweet/yams. I also recommend the book It Starts with Food.

what do you mean by "drinking" calories?

Add coconut oil to foods. It has some good health benefits that other oils don't have. You just need to make sure it's from a good place that knows how to extract it to preserve the benefits. Tropical Traditions is one source, plus there are a lot of recipes on their site. There is coconut flour too.

I wish you the best! Keep learning!

I lost 18 pounds over a few months. No matter what I ate, I would not gain weight back and I kept dropping. After praying for an answer or miracle, I discovered mold, I had my house remediated. Once I left my house for remediation, I gained all my weight back in two weeks. My doctor was dumbfounded and claimed this was not medically possible. I did not change my diet.

I also drank organic aloe drinks to soothe any inflammation in my stomach. I take probiotics. At night I have big smoothies with milk, yogurt, fruit and some veggies mixed in to hold onto calories when I need them. I eat mostly organic if I can, but I do eat everything.

I have read one theory that you will not recover from lyme if you are a vegetarian.

"Drinking calories"... Sorry to be unclear!

I think one of the reasons I lost so much weight is because eating made me feel so nauseous, so the only way I could have a mildly productive day was to basically fast. Some days I'd say, okay today I'm going to suck it up and eat and feel terrible, but a lot of the time I just avoided the misery by eating incredibly light.

In general I've discovered that smoothies cause less nausea than solid food.. I think it's just a little less work for the digestion. Also, you can sneak in some fat/calories that would be harder to tolerate if they were in front of you on a plate. As in, if there were an avocado in front of me I'd get nauseous just looking at it, but if I blend it up with cucumber, lettuce, celery, maybe some berries, stevia, salt, then I'm fine.

They always tell dieters to cut all liquids that have calories.. because a lot of people ingest thousands of calories in day with beverages and they have no bearing on feeling them "full". Likewise I think we can drink some calories and sneak them in that way. We're all supposed to be drinking tons of water, right? So at the very least add a powerpack (vitamin c, electrolytes, 30 calories), or even better, some juices... or coconut water... so yummy and tons of electrolytes, always comforts my stomach, and it's pretty caloric.

Hope that makes more sense ;)

I'd put maca in smoothies cause it's caloric and good for the adrenals, which can be a cause of rapid weight loss.

Weight loss here, too. I went from 138 lbs to 125 lbs in a few weeks.

I am now stable...but I don't dare miss a meal...if I'm not careful I go down to 124 lbs.
My friends are envious..."Oh, that must be nice"... - no it's not - when you're unwell and you lose weight...it's scary. They just look at me with a blank look.

Cheetah, so happy you like the sounds of my diet suggestions. You're making me want to make you a smoothie!

Okay, so a morning smoothie for me looks
non goitrogen (cause I'm hypothyroid) but very alkalinizing veggies: handful of sprouts, handful of parsley, a few romaine leaves, a couple celery stalks, possible tablespoon maca powder
low glycemic fruit: handful of strawberries, handful of blueberries (I freeze them so the smoothie feels more desert-like :)
possible fats to include, maybe 1 or 2 from this list (I'd ESPECIALLY push these if I were trying to put on a pound or two): 1/3 an avocado, heaping teaspoon raw cacao powder (a superfood and makes it chocolatey), coconut oil or even better, coconut butter (more of the coconut flesh), ground flax seeds.
stevia to sweeten, pink salt to bring out flavors and mineralize
a cup of water

In general I'd advise to eat what feels good, no matter what don't-eat list it's on! If that's soy for you, then eat it and feel good about your choice. I think it would behoove you to try out some different fats that might be possible for you, though. Coconut milk, coconut oil & butter, avocado, seeds. For coconut water I like taste nirvana but only cause it tastes the best to me :)

Girlie, I can relate to getting attention for weight loss. It's very confusing. People acting envious or saying how good you're looking, when although your body fits into tiny clothes now, it's very weak and you've lost all your coloring! It can really mess with your head. Along the same lines as the "well you don't look sick" comments! Or when you're having cognitive dysfunction and someone says, "well you're making perfect sense!" It's so hard to nagivate the illness on your own, let alone fielding all the weird reactions that come at you!!

I think as much as possible you've got to try to incorporate fats. Adding fats to smoothies helps make them tolerable I think. But also just trying to have some fats throughout the day... Some avocado, or some coconut butter maybe. If you're eating quinoa as you say, add some fats to it... chop up an avocado, stir in some coconut oil, add some seeds. Add an avocado/cucumber smoothie as a beverage along with a meal... Just be opportunistic about getting some fats down.

I am also dealing with the same issue. Before getting really sick I would work out 3-4 times a week and consume 3-4 thousand calories per day. I was 190lbs with a 32" waist. I have already lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks. I am eating a lot of fruits and veggies, some meat, yogurt and cheese. Trying to stay away from dairy but its really hard, I used to drink close to a gallon of milk a week. I am avoiding carbs to the best of my ability. I need to find time to do more research on recipes with beans.
Any input would be appreciated.

Andrew