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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 145448" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Steely, come join us over on Healthful Living. A lot of us have complicated problems surrounding a need to lose weight.</p><p></p><p>I also have severe chronic pain issues. I can tell you, if you have breakthrough pain in your sleep, it will work its way into your REM sleep, generally as nightmares. Some of the prophetic stuff - it could be self-fulfilling and it could also be that you have an extremely acute intuition. And sometimes stuff just happens.</p><p></p><p>I've had some horrendous 'psycho' nightmares over the years, I'm sure I could really understand Stephen King's mind and where he gets his ideas from. Pure horror, mental torture so vivid I had a hard time distinguishing reality from dream, even hours after I woke. Or days or months, even.</p><p></p><p>If you can get yourself to a pain management specialist, whose main brief is to find a way to help you with pain, it could help in other areas. For example, if some medications aggravate the pain a pain specialist can sometimes find another way that avoids that medication, or controls the pain side-effects.</p><p></p><p>The weight loss - I was talking to a good friend (very overweight) this morning. Normally when I try to diet, I can lose a few kilos but soon the weight loss slows and stops, no matter what I try to do. But I finally had to go on a diet because the gastroenterologist said I must, my liver is almost saturated with fat and I'm right on the edge of having Type II diabetes. And I thought I already WAS on a diet!</p><p></p><p>What I'm doing is drastic but I am losing weight, at a steady rate. I'm not happy to be so restricted in what I eat, but I AM highly motivated. If my liver can improve, it will be easier to keep the weight down. A fatty liver also can lead to easier weight gain, I've been in a Catch 22 loop.</p><p></p><p>High BiPolar (BP) - mine was climbing but it turned out to be due to HRT. I stopped the HRT and the BiPolar (BP) dropped.</p><p></p><p>There are ways and there are ways... if you just decide, "I'm going to lose weight," and try to do it on your own, you're likely to get trapped in so many silly ways. For example, if you decide to cut out fat from your diet, but you still eat out a lot or buy a lot of processed or partly processed food, it's very easy to find yourself gaining even more. The reason is, when they take the fat out, sugar creeps in. Or salt. or both. And other carbs. Also, taking out the fat often is associated with taking out the protein and research is now showing that we diet better on more protein and fewer carbs. Not the ridiculous amount in some unmentionable fad diets, but less than we would think.</p><p></p><p>I've found that if I eliminate all plain white carbs (such as potato in any form; white rice; white flour products) I can substitute almost the same amount of brown equivalent - brown rice, wholegrain flour products (such as wholegrain bread), oats, linseed etc. Eliminating sugar in any form is also important. That also means no honey or anything else containing sucrose.</p><p></p><p>Depending on how drastically you have to diet, you can ease some of the stuff back in. I can't - I have to be really strict with myself. This means I have to take supplements to replace stuff like calcium and a number of vitamins, since I'm eating less than a dietician would like.</p><p></p><p>Maybe for you it's not so much a matter of weight loss, as eliminating the problem foods from your diet, at least for a while, and substituting more fresh vegetables and wholegrains. Trying to de-stress can help a lot - hard to say at the moment, with all you've had going on.</p><p></p><p>For now, I would just concentrate on eating a healthy diet, and don't count calories until you have the emotional resources to do so. And see if that helps.</p><p></p><p>Also, see a pain specialist. I used to find that when my pain was out of control, I would eat more since food seemed to ease the pain a little. Not enough, though.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 145448, member: 1991"] Steely, come join us over on Healthful Living. A lot of us have complicated problems surrounding a need to lose weight. I also have severe chronic pain issues. I can tell you, if you have breakthrough pain in your sleep, it will work its way into your REM sleep, generally as nightmares. Some of the prophetic stuff - it could be self-fulfilling and it could also be that you have an extremely acute intuition. And sometimes stuff just happens. I've had some horrendous 'psycho' nightmares over the years, I'm sure I could really understand Stephen King's mind and where he gets his ideas from. Pure horror, mental torture so vivid I had a hard time distinguishing reality from dream, even hours after I woke. Or days or months, even. If you can get yourself to a pain management specialist, whose main brief is to find a way to help you with pain, it could help in other areas. For example, if some medications aggravate the pain a pain specialist can sometimes find another way that avoids that medication, or controls the pain side-effects. The weight loss - I was talking to a good friend (very overweight) this morning. Normally when I try to diet, I can lose a few kilos but soon the weight loss slows and stops, no matter what I try to do. But I finally had to go on a diet because the gastroenterologist said I must, my liver is almost saturated with fat and I'm right on the edge of having Type II diabetes. And I thought I already WAS on a diet! What I'm doing is drastic but I am losing weight, at a steady rate. I'm not happy to be so restricted in what I eat, but I AM highly motivated. If my liver can improve, it will be easier to keep the weight down. A fatty liver also can lead to easier weight gain, I've been in a Catch 22 loop. High BiPolar (BP) - mine was climbing but it turned out to be due to HRT. I stopped the HRT and the BiPolar (BP) dropped. There are ways and there are ways... if you just decide, "I'm going to lose weight," and try to do it on your own, you're likely to get trapped in so many silly ways. For example, if you decide to cut out fat from your diet, but you still eat out a lot or buy a lot of processed or partly processed food, it's very easy to find yourself gaining even more. The reason is, when they take the fat out, sugar creeps in. Or salt. or both. And other carbs. Also, taking out the fat often is associated with taking out the protein and research is now showing that we diet better on more protein and fewer carbs. Not the ridiculous amount in some unmentionable fad diets, but less than we would think. I've found that if I eliminate all plain white carbs (such as potato in any form; white rice; white flour products) I can substitute almost the same amount of brown equivalent - brown rice, wholegrain flour products (such as wholegrain bread), oats, linseed etc. Eliminating sugar in any form is also important. That also means no honey or anything else containing sucrose. Depending on how drastically you have to diet, you can ease some of the stuff back in. I can't - I have to be really strict with myself. This means I have to take supplements to replace stuff like calcium and a number of vitamins, since I'm eating less than a dietician would like. Maybe for you it's not so much a matter of weight loss, as eliminating the problem foods from your diet, at least for a while, and substituting more fresh vegetables and wholegrains. Trying to de-stress can help a lot - hard to say at the moment, with all you've had going on. For now, I would just concentrate on eating a healthy diet, and don't count calories until you have the emotional resources to do so. And see if that helps. Also, see a pain specialist. I used to find that when my pain was out of control, I would eat more since food seemed to ease the pain a little. Not enough, though. Marg [/QUOTE]
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