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Posted 7/23/2009 11:39 PM (GMT 0)
I am not thin but I am 54 yo, postmenopausal and have low thyroid (on synthroid for it.)
Posted 7/24/2009 12:47 AM (GMT 0)
I'm not skinny. And I usually gained about 8-10 lbs on prednisone during flares.

Although I was normal as a kid, now I'm on the big side (175 lbs), although I am also strong, active and pretty fit. My mother says I am built like my aunts. My 3 sisters are chubby, not fit because they don't exercise or have a sport. But we don't eat more than skinny people. It's just genetics.
Posted 7/24/2009 12:52 AM (GMT 0)

I am actually connsidered morbidly obese - 5 ft. and 240 lbs.  Only time I lost weight was when first diagnosed - lost little.  Years ago lost 100 lbs. and once 75 but I can eat no matter what - LOVE TO EAT!

ElaineNY

Posted 7/24/2009 7:20 AM (GMT 0)
I lost a bunch of weight at first, but I'm back to the point where I'm hoping not to gain any more. I do sometimes have a hard time exercising, though not just because of colitis, also because I'm freaking lazy. But running, which is the cheap way to get in shape, always makes me have to go...and if you're running, there isn't always a place to go.

I'm having a flare up now, and I think I've lost a few pounds, but I've also been trying to cut down on calories generally, just because I don't think I've been very healthy in the last few years. I've got a pretty healthy BMI though, 180 at six foot one. Very little of it is muscle though :-)
Posted 7/24/2009 8:12 AM (GMT 0)
I seem to be like everyone lost weight to start with but put it back on +++ with the help of pred i was a size 8 now a good 12 so have gone up at least 2 sizes since flare in march it is coming off very slowly.
Posted 7/24/2009 9:57 AM (GMT 0)
No I don't think so.
I was 110 pounds but no I am 149 so I am not skinny anymore :)
I am 5 feet 8 inches

So I would just say that I am normal today, just need a bit of muscle and than I am fine.

You louse weight during a flare but hopefully I will come back.
Posted 7/24/2009 1:02 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Tofu4Dinner- It is true that alot of people with learning difficulties also have food sensitivity. I have a friend how is severly dyslexic and he flys off the handle when he eats chocolate. I was very sentiive to milk as a child, then I was given loads of it when they thought I grew out of the allergie. The thing is you never really grow out of it, you can build a tolerence to it but not grow out of it. I have now cut milk completly out of my diet. And this proves my point of if you are allergic to it. I had a tiny amout by accident at a company dinner. Imediatly I felt it in the back of my throught and my ears felt as though they were pluged up. When I got ibd- i didn't relize how seriouse this desease is. So I kept eating milk. everytime I ate milk I would get mucus.
Posted 7/24/2009 2:59 PM (GMT 0)
Quit eating milk!



I am thinly. 6' 160-170lb's, weight fluctuates alot.
Posted 7/24/2009 5:14 PM (GMT 0)
I've never been able to gain weight easily ... I'm 6'1" and ~170 lbs now. I have to eat A LOT to stay at 170. If I eat 3,000 calories per day, I lose ~2 lbs per week and have dropped to as low as 125 lbs ... I just force myself to eat 5000-6000 calories per day and my weight stabilizes. In college I went up to 225, but I was lifting every day and had to eat over 15,000 calories a day to maintain it (1 gallon of whole chocolate milk in the morning and another at night was the only way I could get this much on a college kid's budget).
Posted 7/24/2009 7:27 PM (GMT 0)
I see that no guys posted yet, I really don't lose much weight at all considering I eat 3500-4000 calories a day. When I get a flare though I don't eat as much, but my belly likes to expand like crazy I seem to retain water and everything else. I basically just remain in a bloated state mostly due to the inflamation I would imagine. I'm 5'8 and 225lbs so I wouldn't say I'm skinny. I'm more of a tree trunk.
Posted 7/24/2009 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
goforbroke - guy here (just enabled signature) ... as I stated above, I'm a beanpole. :)
Posted 7/24/2009 9:50 PM (GMT 0)
I was skinny my whole life till UC and thyroid trouble, plus soon to be 53 doesnt help. Im 5'8" and wiegh about 150, I have gained.
Posted 7/25/2009 12:08 AM (GMT 0)
I certainly have not been skinny my whole life.
Posted 7/25/2009 12:24 AM (GMT 0)
I'm not skinny.  I've gained about 60 pounds since I had my first child.  I had my last child a year ago and I lost 18 pounds.  I was just diagnosed with UC in March 2009.  Now they put me on pred.  I've been on it a month and have gained 5 pounds.  I started exercising this week because I don't need to gain anymore weight.  My thyroid is messed up too.  I was wondering the samething because when I went in for my remi infusion there were a few people there with crohns or uc and all where skinny.  Not me. 
Posted 7/25/2009 8:46 AM (GMT 0)
I am very slim, i weigh in at just under 7 stone! I have always had trouble putting on weight. I am going to try exercising to see if i can gain some muscle and put some weight on that way.

I hate being small i am only 5'2, and being super slim as well makes me feel very feeble especially when i am having a bad flare. I also have osteoporosis, so my wrists are super small and my hips stick out a bit, so it makes me feel like i am going to break or something!
Posted 7/25/2009 8:51 AM (GMT 0)
God just worked out that i am about 98 pounds on a 5'2 frame .. !
Posted 7/25/2009 4:37 PM (GMT 0)
Mercury28 You are skinnery than me. I weighed myself this morrning and i was at 106 at a 5 foot 1 inch fram. I hate my twiggy arms. There is a picture of me on rawfoodsupport.com to do this diet I wanted to make sure that i got the right advice so that I wouldent lose any weight. well so far I havent Im stable but still skinny. I want to weigh 114 in the morrning. Then I will be happy. Its just the twiggy arms that bother me.
Posted 7/25/2009 7:40 PM (GMT 0)

goforbroke said...
I see that no guys posted yet, I really don't lose much weight at all considering I eat 3500-4000 calories a day. When I get a flare though I don't eat as much, but my belly likes to expand like crazy I seem to retain water and everything else. I basically just remain in a bloated state mostly due to the inflamation I would imagine. I'm 5'8 and 225lbs so I wouldn't say I'm skinny. I'm more of a tree trunk.

I've been a guy as long as I can remember.
Posted 7/25/2009 11:18 PM (GMT 0)
Heeeeey, relax I can't tell with some of the names everyone comes up with. turn turn turn
Posted 7/26/2009 1:15 AM (GMT 0)

Hellokitty said...

I hate my twiggy arms. There is a picture of me on rawfoodsupport.com to do this diet I wanted to make sure that i got the right advice so that I wouldent lose any weight. well so far I havent Im stable but still skinny. I want to weigh 114 in the morrning. Then I will be happy. Its just the twiggy arms that bother me.

Have you tried lifting weights? If you want your arms to be a little bigger, something as simple as 3 sets of pushups (on your knees to start if you need to) every other day can work wonders.
Posted 7/26/2009 3:46 AM (GMT 0)
I'm 5'4" and currently 140 lbs ... However, I am slowly losing weight without extra effort because I cannot fried foods, soda, artificial sweetners and sugar - just to name a few things ... the only sugar I really consume is in fruit ... this really cuts down on the calories!

Since being diagnosed with UC, once I come out of a flare, I tend to gain weight in the mid-section. I am slowly introducing walking and hula hooping to try and whittle this away.
Posted 7/26/2009 9:08 AM (GMT 0)
Im not sure how my build would look on the raw foods diet with I start lifting. I am going to start Yoga.
Posted 7/26/2009 10:13 AM (GMT 0)

Hellokitty said...
Mercury28

You are skinnery than me. I weighed myself this morrning and i was at 106 at a 5 foot 1 inch fram.


I hate my twiggy arms. There is a picture of me on rawfoodsupport.com to do this diet I wanted to make sure that i got the right advice so that I wouldent lose any weight. well so far I havent Im stable but still skinny. I want to weigh 114 in the morrning. Then I will be happy. Its just the twiggy arms that bother me.

I hate my thin twiggy arms aswell!! I thought about lifting some weights to bulk up my muscles I have also thought about yoga but unsure how that would help me.

I am starting to play with my diet I am now looking at the IBD remission diet, I don't think I could do the raw food diet as I can't tolerate any fruit and veg at present, I survive just on carb rich and sugar rich foods. I hate what I eat, I would love to eat healthy fruit and veg.
Posted 7/26/2009 1:17 PM (GMT 0)
have you tried eating fruit on an empty stomach. I know that I have problems if I eat a sandwich and then I eat fruit. I have to eat it on its own or it gives me D. there is alot of calucium in spinach so I try to eat it raw. It seems to stiffen up the stool. I have had acouple of blips this week eventhough Ive eaten raw. No blood so keep praying It works. I will not say it has been succesful for me or not yet because ive only done it for a few weeks. Im really not experinced in raw foods right now so the fruit thing is the only advice I can give. I don't know about the IBD remmision diet so if you do it please keep us updated. anything that helps im for. Paul Nison is willing to speak with anyone who has IBD. which is nice of him. I want a sucess story like his but only i cant garentee I will have it. And if I don't have it I promissed myself I would just carry on and not get depressed
Posted 7/26/2009 2:03 PM (GMT 0)
I'm 6' at 195 now with not much fat. When I was flaring for two years non stop a few years ago i was at 155.
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