I started CICO 14 months ago. After less than two months (during which I lost 1-2 lbs a week) I had to stop because a hospital stay made tracking hard and I didn't have access to low calorie food there (you can't get lactose free low calorie food apparently) and because my mental health didn't allow for trying to keep on track during this crap.
I wanted to start again once that was better but before that happened I was in the hospital again with serious health issues. I was lucky and survived (which is a wonder in itself) but to regain my strength I needed to eat whatever I felt like whenever I felt like it (doctor's orders) and I could not exercise (took me half a year to recover enough for normal walks). For the same reasons they needed to switch my medication to one that leads to weightgain. By some wonder I only gained less than 20lba trough that. This month I finally felt stable enough to get fully back on the train by not only having walks and being careful with what I ate but starting tracking again. Tracked for a week despite having had a nasty cold and feeling unwell for a while now. Guess who just today found out that her GP failed to see the second pneumonia in a year (on the bright side this time it's only pneumonia, last time they also failed to see a kidney infection and a gallbladder infection which ended in peritonitis as well as mononucleosis).
So here I am again bedridden, to weak to do anything (I'm lucky if I have the strength to knit for an hour a day) and not really in the position to do CICO as I fight with lack of appetite and having to eat for medication so again it's "your body needs strength, it's good you are chubby, you can loose weight when you're better, ear whatever you feel like"
Oh and the cherry on top: my weightgain came from being bedridden with chronical illness and the medication that was used to control it and I can't get to the bottom if why my body seems to hate me because the specialists only see my weight and tell me my health problems will vanish once I'm back to normal weight (my BMI is around 30). So I can't loose weight because I'm ill and can't get treatement until I lost weight...
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