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My food intake for today was... mixed... 2 pieces toasted white bread, with butter and 2 cooked sausages, for breakfast.
2 2 pieces wholemeal bread, with a couple of sardines, cucumber, lettuce and tomatos for lunch, and, for dinner, boiled basmati rice with sweetcorn, with a hardboiled egg, and boiled haddock, with some natural plain yogart, cucumber tomato and lettuce... and I'm still gaining weight I'm eating 1/3 of what I did last year, if not less... and still gaining weight damn hormones damn steroids Probably doesn't help that I've not left the house in two days and spent most of my time in bed feeling yuk

My food intake yesterday was two cups coffe cappucino, six two inch diameter round corn chips for breakfast; a slice of pizza with mushrooms, olives, bell pepper and pepperoni slices about sundown; a quart of salad, mostly leafy butter lettuce, with half a cup of yellow crook neck squash slices, half a Roma tomato, half a two inch diameter tomatillo, all barely moistened with Italian style dressing, a cup of large curd cottage cheese and half an avocado, minced, on top, with corn chips on the side before bed.

My own food intake is way down from last year and before and I'm still gaining weight myself, though I hope to turn that around.

Another wheat variety I like for a pilaf is the Persian kamut, or khorasan wheat (same thing).

Like the levant native emmer wheat, kamut is notable for exceptionally large kernal size, which makes it a good choice for a pilaf.

I think the Egyptian emmer wheat may have evolved its extra large kernal size over the necessity of coming through an annual deposit of Nile silt several inches deep.

MMM... sounds interesting! there are clearly so many differnt varietys of it to try from all over the globe - just had some cottage cheese on toast for supper 9 (cottage cheese ment to be good for sleeping on, as its slow to digest, and also has hormonal efects, including being able to stimulate release of human growth hormone... but given I don't make any HGH I doubt it can do that in me )

"Coruscant, the capital of the Republic. The entire planet is one big city." [Wookieepedia]

How can you grow Coruscant wheat in a city?

Proof positive that "eat less, lose weight" is a massive oversimplification...

I have eaten cereal, 2 toast, a sandwich, a muesli bar and a potato. I'm going to eat a fish pie, and then I will have more cereal and more toast (or maybe yoghurt or an egg), and I'm only just maintaining my weight after all that...

I've not tried many different grains, especially not in risotto type things, although I did enjoy a cereal called Kashi, that was a variety of grains puffed up with a bit of honey (they don't seem to sell that in the UK any more, sadly, so Sugar Puffs and Popcorn are the next best thing).

at 1500 to 1700 Kcal a day I would remain stable at my weight (11 stone 10 to 11 stone 11 Lb), or lose very slightly; 1 to 2 Lb Per week.

ut. that was when I had functioning hormones. now, anything more than about 900 Kcal a day I'm gaining at about two stone a year, and constantly hungry; I have to eat more than that, just to enable me to stomach the hormone drugs I need to prevent me dieing - my body due to the hormonal things, can't process glucose and sugars to get energy, and over-stores sugars/carbs into lipds, hence my colesterole is through the roof (long term panhypo people die of heart disease eventually), but, I need sugars/carbs in diet, as the steroids play about with insulin levels, and I shoot hypo and hyper glycemic all day long (25% to 50% of panhypo people end up developing diabetes in addition due to the steroid affects of insulin an sugar metabolism) steroids are poisenious things Mind, prednisolone isn't quite as bad as I found hydrocortisone to be, for messing with my blood sugars though its longer term affects are more severe and fatal ultimately I really need to start getting back into doing some kind of exercise, but its diffuclt when I sleep all day due to the affects of teh steroids and half the time I'm now unable to walk due to muscle wastage and bone/muscle pain Unless I can get them to do anything soon, I tink winging it minus the medication is the only option that will make any sense... true it makes me stay alive... but what purpose if I just spend all day sleeping and can't do anything most days ,wah>

Gone are the days when I could demolish two or three 12" deluxe pizzas all by myself and stay skinny as a rail at the same time.

Coffee cappucino for breakfast; a double salami sandwich with a thick slice of swiss cheese, half a roma tomato, a thin 3 inch slice of onion, two large leaves of lettuce with mayonaise between two slices of dill rye bread for lunch; half a cup of lightly roasted and salted shelled pumpkin seeds for a mid-afternoon snack; a bowl of ramen noodles soup with a cup of steamed shredded cabbage, a third of a cup of diced yellow crook neck squash, half a 2 inch tomatillo cut into wedges, a liberal dash of basil, a sprinkling of powdered kelp and half a hot link sausage thin sliced with club soda crackers on the side for supper; a diet cola on ice constantly at hand.

No wat could I eat that much. I can't usually manage even half a portion in a restaurant. The less I eat, the mre I put on weight. And yes, my thyroid is bing monitored. Post menopause there's no stopping it, I guess.

three typos in one post. Sorry, I'm on the tablet.

1500 to 1700kcal is what I aim for to maintain 8 stone, so the exercise I get from cerebral palsy muscles makes a difference! At 900kcal a day, you're not fat, but you are full of water...

I do hope you get someone to look holistically at the medication situation soon... Definitely sounds like they need to start again and find a regime that means you take the medication at the time you need it to make you feel better (eg when your body actually needs something to wake it up, rather than the time the doctors think it should be waking up, ready or not) rather than taking medication at a time when you don't need it so it makes you feel worse...

A lot may be water, but \ a lot is fat too; due to the steroids, the body tends to convert everything into stored fat, and then also breaks down body muscles, and converts them into fat too; and weird thing is, it alters the distrubution of fat on the body; so I got this massive sticking out tummy thing now! which is very painful if nothing else, but as far as I can tell, there isn't much that can be done... cept just reducing and reducing calories, but I cna't see how I can eat much less than I am at the moment, and still be able to function There doesn't seem to be any give with the meds, steroids is all that there is, and the only one to 'try' after the prednisilone is the one people really really don't want to be on, as the side effects are ment to be horrific hoping maybe they'll increase my levothyroxin at some point, or put me on T3 as well, and then I might process nutrients a bit better - the growth hormone injections oughta help, as they can really help reduce colesterole and bad lipids, as well as help in the body being able to metabolise glucose etc properly

As goes the steroids, basically I've never had symptom,s of being low, and now I only have symptoms of being hyper... so I'm being treated for hypo that I never had symptoms of, and given hyper state instead yeh I'm kinda baffled too

today was good. now have the new suppy of the decent levothyroxin (i.E., the drugs tha t work).

took 75 McG first thing, after a rubbish nights sleep (maybe only four hours or less).

and. haven't felt totally corpse like all day even the 4 MG prednisolone after the levothyroxin had had its hour to soak in, didn't hit me like a lorry and send me back to bed unable to move for once even made it outside, during the day, and now off out to meet up with some friends in a pub with W, after we've had dinner I'm guessing today might be a bit more than 900 calories

That was the body shape of my partner, but hers definitely was mostly water, as she lost weight when her medication was changed, without any change to her diet, and she needed a wee frequently. It was a bit disruptive for our snuggle bunnies game, but we adapted no problem

"As goes the steroids, basically I've never had symptom,s of being low, and now I only have symptoms of being hyper... so I'm being treated for hypo that I never had symptoms of, and given hyper state instead "

indeed...

Glad you've had a better day Enjoy your evening

My own weight is current 102 kg/224.5 lbs, so in English units, that would be 16 stone.

At 5' 11.5"/181cm in height, that's almost 10 kg overweight.

For me, the problem is in part rooted in type II diabetes (late onset type).

Given an excess of blood sugar, one of the defense mechanisms of the body

My own weight is current 102 kg/224.5 lbs, so in English units, that would be 16 stone.

At 5' 11.5"/181cm in height, that's almost 10 kg overweight.

For me, the problem is in part rooted in type II diabetes (late onset type).

Given an excess of blood sugar, one of the defense mechanisms of the body is to get rid of it by means of packing it onto to the liver in the form of glycogen or storing it away as fat.

Meanwhile on water weight, dehydration stress is intimately related to liver function, something I learned in connection of desert endurance hikes during my twenties and thirties, undertaken without food or water.

The first four days without food or water the body compensates by means of taking glycogens (animal starch) off the liver and doesn't commence a fat burning cycle until usually the fifth day.

The body compensates for dehydration those first four days do long as one's pace is moderate by means of taking waters off the glycogens and 'burning' the carbon residue.

exactly! basically my steroids I take, play with my insulimn, err, insulin to give me the same effect ATM as if I were diabetic.... sadly, over time, that will mess with the pancrease enough that it does actually then cause insulin diabetes ; quote how I'm ment to then manage another hormone inbalance on top of the others ,doh>

I'm now 15 stone 10 Lb, at least stable at the moment, but I was 11 stone 10 or 11 stone 12 before I started steroids I'm almost* 6 ft tall, but actually quite a small bone structure, although I've always been broad shouldered, useually about a 46 to 48 inch chest, now about 50 to 52 inch, though some of that is now breast growth, due to the femal hormone thing happening I don't mind growing breasts, but, its making an awkard body shope shape.... I'm 14 or 16 on the waist, my 'tummy' then sticks out so much due to the steroids, then I'm a size 24 or sometimes 22, to fit my shoulders anyhow

how dod.... had a good day, about two days ago, on starting back on the 75 McG dose levothyroxin, but yesterday and today both aweful....

Didn't feel quite so terrible first thing after taking meds today, and was going to go out into town with W, so I had a quick wash, wnet to the loo for the second. then third. then forth times, got dressed.
and was so exausted by the dressing myself, I coudln't consider going out
tried to nap.
Thanks to steroids insomnia, heart palpitations, and feeling so hot coudln't sleep... so did nothign all day, then tried again to nap later on... which didn't work etiehr....
now reheating the chilli from a couple days ago (looks like we'll get eight meals worth from the 500 G beefmince etc)
and ... just starting to wake up a bit/come round from the steroids I took at 10 AM Must try and leave the house one day soon. I hate being stuck in and housebound...

off out tomorrow morning, to get bloods drawn by the GP surgery, for doing some more investigations into the enlarged heart thing, before cardiology at the hospital will agree to see me