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Originally Posted by Moochie
Hi...............I have been on low carb since 4-5 and have only lost 5 lbs and that was the firsr 4 days which I think was water weight....Iam 70 and almost 50 lbs overweight........so unhappy and discouraged...I am on meds for bp and chlos and pain in joints and on and on...5 pills....and the 2 bp I am taking...they first thing it says on side effects is weight gain.........................when I was youger and gowing as a parent with kids.... I never weighed more then 120 and then after 55 this all happened and also when all the pills came into my life.............I have gone around and round with the dr but he says the pills are more important then the weight and I disagree..................hard for me to climb stairs....to walk in the neighborhood...even just to put my socks on!.....I follow the directions and do not cheat..........I stay under 20 carbs a day.....example
Breakfast......scrammbled eggs 2 with little cream cheese mixed in...and a dish of chopped spinach and almonds
Lunch.....3 pcs of thin lunchmeat and 1 cheese stick cut in 3 pcs uand wrapped each pcs in the 3 meats.......lettuce and cherry tom and spinach salad..................dinner..........small pc of salmon with steamed asparagus and a cup of unsalted broth...............for snacks I have abt 5 almond............or........jello.....................I used to drink alot of coke 0 but have stopped..........................I cant fgure it out..........................years ago I would hav lost at least 20 # s by now...........................does anyone looking from the outside know what Iam doing wrong? thanks for listening..................
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Hi Moochie. First of all, a big {{{hug}}} for you.
I'm only a pup of 65, but have been through some of the complaints you mention. At one stage (a while back now) I was on 5 different drugs that had "possible weight gain" as one of the side effects.
On to those pesky statins. First of all, I urge you, if you haven't done so already, to read the links in Nancy's signature. When I first joined this forum, way back in 2002, I too was taking statins. And after reading just a little bit about them here (in the Research section), I simply stopped taking them. I knew my doctor was going to be really unhappy, so I took the easy way out and, ah, didn't tell him. I kept accepting scripts that I never filled, and fortunately for me he retired soon after that. I was a bit braver with the new dr, and simply told him I didn't agree with the lipid hypothesis. He shook his head but said it was my choice.
Which it is.
The thing is with cholesterol drugs - and I apologize to be raving on for so long here - that they have been pretty much proven to be worthless.
1. For women, statins have never been shown to be of any value whatsoever.
2. For anybody at all, unless they have actually had a heart attack, they have never been shown to be of any value whatsoever.
3. For older women, that's those of us who are post menopausal, a higher cholesterol is
better and healthier than the so called "normal".
I really, really hope you stop taking them.
I also used to get a lot of joint pain. [Stand by for an advertising message
] Until a few years back when I read here on this forum about the virtues of taking Vitamin D3. Now I used to walk with a heavy limp, struggle up stairs one at a time (if you know what I mean) and sleeping, oh boy. I could only sleep by having a heating pad under my hips. (Can't sleep on back or front due to chronic back pain) Trouble was the heating pad turned itself off every 2 hours, so... Anyway, within a few weeks of taking 10,000 units of D3, the bulk of that pain had gone and has stayed gone.
Now you may already take Vit D, but if not I urge you to give it a try.
Now to the weight loss. As you can see from my stats, I have lost 100 pounds. But I have to tell you, it took me a long, long time, with lots and lots of ups and downs along the way. So never give up! And do as Susan (omablue) suggests and join some challenges to get yourself a cheer squad. Our forum is chock full of friendly people.
All the very best to you, matey.