Big weight swings

Now I know some people gain a lot of weight and others lose a lot of weight, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced weight swings.

When I first got ill I lost weight quickly. I was never over weight but soft and doughy. But then become very slender in a two month span. Then in a month I gained it almost all back and was getting back to some doughiness. But then it swung again in the other direction and now I'm back to my early very slender weight.

Dramatic swings.

What's interesting is when I first got ill I meet a new group of friends who saw me for the first time as this really slender person. But then when I gained back to almost pre-lyme weight, no one said anything. No one ever says anything when you gain weight. Then they got use to seeing me at that weight (the weight gained back). but now that I lost it again over the last few months those new friends are noticing.

Once again it's interesting when they first met me it was just "oh he's a rather slender person" but the act of seeing the weight being loss is what gets people's attention. Not when you gain weight but when you lose it.

Has anyone else experienced the swings?

That's me too. Right now I'm holding though. I read an article earlier that red root helps with malabsorption issues. I've been taking it for a month, though I wasn't taking it for that reason. Would be nice to get that benefit as well.

And I know what you mean about people watching you lose weight. I think because people are so caught up on the weight thing. Most people want to lose weight so when they see you losing, their initially like, "great", but as it continues then it becomes, "What's their issue?"

I just had this conversation with my mother yesterday. I told her, right now, I'm just trying to maintain.

Denikeef said...
When I first started noticing Lyme about 5 years ago, I put on about 20 pounds. Then for no known reason in 2014 lost a lot of weight. Gained it back in 2015 and lost it again this year. No explanation! Lol. Losing the weight would be ok if I had some muscle. But thats gone too.

I understand. I don't know about you but my weight loss is more in the lower body. I actually like how my upper half looks. For the first time in my life if I was to go to the beach and take my shirt off I wouldn't be self conscious about it lol. I even like how my shirts fit.

But the lower body I don't like. Skinny stick chicken legs lol.

I hope it swings back the other way again and if it does do all I can to maintain it.

Also, I'll give the red root a try. I was going to get some anyway for its other uses like detoxing/lymph drainage.

I had some crazy weight swings throughout treatment.. it initially seemed to have no rhyme or reason. When I started gaining I would try to do more cardio to stop it but nothing worked.

I ended up gaining and losing 30 lbs in two separate cycles over 4 years of treatment. The gain and loss took about 6 months all 4 times with some stable plateaus of fatness and decent weight in between.

Lately my weight has been pretty stable at the bottom of the range (good weight for me) for about 1.5 years now. There was a small gain of 10 lbs and subsequent loss over the past winter.

The correlation I've noticed is that the weight gain periods have always happened when I'm detoxing like crazy and experiencing tons of die-off. In particular it seems like during these periods I have been getting rid of a ton of biofilm.

I've read this elsewhere and it makes sense to me, that when the body is overwhelmed by toxicity it will try to sequester as much as it can in fat to get it out of the blood stream. Once the toxicity stops the body will start to burn off the fat buffer and the toxicity stored there.

So I'm hoping that my weight stabilizing means I've gotten rid of most of the toxic build up.

project said...
I had some crazy weight swings throughout treatment.. it initially seemed to have no rhyme or reason. When I started gaining I would try to do more cardio to stop it but nothing worked.

I ended up gaining and losing 30 lbs in two separate cycles over 4 years of treatment. The gain and loss took about 6 months all 4 times with some stable plateaus of fatness and decent weight in between.

Lately my weight has been pretty stable at the bottom of the range (good weight for me) for about 1.5 years now. There was a small gain of 10 lbs and subsequent loss over the past winter.

The correlation I've noticed is that the weight gain periods have always happened when I'm detoxing like crazy and experiencing tons of die-off. In particular it seems like during these periods I have been getting rid of a ton of biofilm.

I've read this elsewhere and it makes sense to me, that when the body is overwhelmed by toxicity it will try to sequester as much as it can in fat to get it out of the blood stream. Once the toxicity stops the body will start to burn off the fat buffer and the toxicity stored there.

So I'm hoping that my weight stabilizing means I've gotten rid of most of the toxic build up.

Ah-ha. Now it really makes sense as to why my doctor told me to increase my fats significantly. There is nothing left for my body once it uses the fat to get rid of the toxins.

Dacarte3- you are soooooo right. When we work together we really can figure this stuff out. I mean we may need a doctor here or there (lol).