i want to lose 20 lbs in a month but UC makes it hard!

ok... so i'm about $100,000 in debt due to student loans... any advice that is a little cheaper? i'm sure the SCD works well, but people have said it's rather expensive. also, things like baked potatoes are a big part of my diet because my colon can't digest rices...

notsosicklygirl said...
It's expensive because you have to have a meat at a lot of meals or you're hungry because there isn't any filler food.

call it carbs withdrawal... it will pass after a couple of months when the body addapts to the new diet and the excess fat of the body goes away. the need for snakers and carbs will pass. also the quantity of everymeal will decrease substantialy.
probably some of you know that fat excess of the body is mostly caused by consuming foods that require insuline for breaking it (i.e. complex carbs and sugars) thus getting into a strange vicious cycle:carbs&sugars, bodyfat, hunger, insuline excess, hunger, bodyfat and so on.
Fat in excess is also proinflamatory for all our body.


on the other hand, YES: SCD is more expensive. I cannot deny that. Since processed foods are not allowed and also since complex carbs are way much cheaper than real veggies and real meat...it will affect your budget.

Weight loss is never an easy thing to do when ill.
I found its more a state of mind in regards of how much you want to lose weight and how dedicated you are.
Rushing it never works.

Cutting out alchohol, fast food, cake, sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks or anything that has high sugar content but don't stop it all totally.
Have a routine and work out your menu's beforehand if you can. This helps prevent you from having to think about what you are eating too much and helps you stop thinking about what you would rather be eating.

Work out your calorie intake and find out how many you should be having based on how physically active you REALLY are (I know ppl you think they are active but they are not.)

Then find an activity you enjoy. Swimming, Running, Riding a bike etc and do that as often as you can.
When you do not have time to do the above take short walks BUT walk as fast as you can.

If you can walk as fast as you can everywhere.

At home just put some music on and jump around like a loony.

Basically anything that makes you breath hard is good. You don't need a gym or home equipment.

The trick is to stay with it and allow yourself treats but be honest with yourself in regards of how many treats you are having.

I lost a lot of weight while my UC was active when I was very sick.

Now that I am feeling good and recently finished a course of pred that caused me to gain a LOT of weight, I have been having trouble losing the last 10 lbs. I thought I would be able to lose it in a month or two but so far, it's been very slow progress. Last time I went to my doctor, I had lost 6 pounds. I hadn't seen her in about 2 months. I'd be happy if I lost another 12 over 4 months. It's much longer than I'd hoped but I can only do so much. I am not going to starve myself. I already eat healthy and don't over eat. I don't eat a lot of carbs. I exercise 4-5x a week.

What more can I do?

do you track calories at all? fitday.com is free and thats what i was using at first when i was cutting weight.
you said you dance 3x a week. how long do you do that and at what intensity?

everyone responds differently to carbs/fat/protein so you need to figure out if eating a lot of carbs is whats giving you the weight gain. for me lowering carbs works wonders. theres also a diet called keto where you cut out almost all your carbs and live on fats and protein (under 50carbs a day). the basis behind it is that once your body gets used to converting fats into energy instead of carbs, your body will use your fat reserves for energy and speed up fatloss if you're not consuming enough fat calories.

if i were in your shoes, id just up the exercise to 5-6x a week at a moderate pace.