Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
In late 2008 to early 2009, I had ballooned in weight suddenly, going from around 250 lbs. to 345 lbs. at 5'9" in about 8 months. I had been feeling something going on with my legs for a while, sometimes I writhed in agony with sudden jolts of pain. My doctor had thought it was plantar fascitis, but the exercises didn't help and I kept gaining weight. I knew I had varicose veins and had had a blood clot after my second child's birth, so I finally found a vascular surgeon. He wrote on the checkout slip "morbid obesity" and was generally pretty nasty, even angrily smooshing an ultrasound device painfully into my stomach and complaining he couldn't get a reading. He did two procedures and I lost about 20 lbs immediately afterwards. He recommended no follow ups, but told me "no food is good for you."
I did not like being at 300 lbs. and then noticed my leg was getting even bigger. I went to another vascular doctor in spring 2010. He did not even do an ultrasound; I just talked to him in his office and asked if I had lymphedema (I had been reading about that online)... he said I did and probably lipidema as well and recommended a lymphedema therapist. meanwhile, I went to the OBGYN and a nurse strongly recommended I see a nutritionist. another doctor told me to get gastric bypass. I KNEW that eating was not my main problem, but I started eating a teaspoon of peanut butter on wheat toast for breakfast and lunch instead of mini wheats for breakfast and lunch and started on an exercise bike and compression bandages. I eventually lost all the weight I had gained but it took me a year and the help of massagers from Bed, Bath, and Beyond and lots of biking.
Fast forward to now: I hit a weight plateau in fall 2011 and have been feeling dizzy a lot. as more swelling came off my legs, I could see lots of bulgy veins. I went back to another vascular doctor who came out and marveled at how bad my legs are and said most of the swelling wasn't lymphedema, even though I did have it (and I was born with it) it was my veins. I am heading into multiple procedures, but I am hopeful. I just don't understand why I couldn't get more help in 2009. Was it the way I looked? why did I have to take this long road and suffer and nobody would believe I was not eating too much? I don't understand!
I did not like being at 300 lbs. and then noticed my leg was getting even bigger. I went to another vascular doctor in spring 2010. He did not even do an ultrasound; I just talked to him in his office and asked if I had lymphedema (I had been reading about that online)... he said I did and probably lipidema as well and recommended a lymphedema therapist. meanwhile, I went to the OBGYN and a nurse strongly recommended I see a nutritionist. another doctor told me to get gastric bypass. I KNEW that eating was not my main problem, but I started eating a teaspoon of peanut butter on wheat toast for breakfast and lunch instead of mini wheats for breakfast and lunch and started on an exercise bike and compression bandages. I eventually lost all the weight I had gained but it took me a year and the help of massagers from Bed, Bath, and Beyond and lots of biking.
Fast forward to now: I hit a weight plateau in fall 2011 and have been feeling dizzy a lot. as more swelling came off my legs, I could see lots of bulgy veins. I went back to another vascular doctor who came out and marveled at how bad my legs are and said most of the swelling wasn't lymphedema, even though I did have it (and I was born with it) it was my veins. I am heading into multiple procedures, but I am hopeful. I just don't understand why I couldn't get more help in 2009. Was it the way I looked? why did I have to take this long road and suffer and nobody would believe I was not eating too much? I don't understand!
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I don't really know how to label this but I having a rough week and I can't say it's one thing.... I have a lot on my plate which is nothing new and I try to cope in many positive ways and do but I still have my moments.My kids more so my daughters talk to me about everything which I know it's cause of comfort and we are close.... however I really struggle with the venting about their dad which...
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I'm horrified! I knew my insurance would go up due to getting a new car but I didn't expect it to go up over $2,000. I did have an accident with the snow/ice in the winter. I was just telling my brother that I have had my car since March 2, 2026 and have only spent $75 on an oil change. Now this! I called another insurance company and their quote was over $4,000. I guess I have to pay...
Good on you for getting the exess weight down. Bet you feel almost a million dollars now. Hope your surgery goes well.
WE HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. During the 1980's when I was in my late 30's to early 40's, I also was treated horribly by doctors. My weight ballooned to 334 lbs. and like yourself, I KNEW eating was not the issue.
When I said I was eating normally, I was considered a delusional person or a liar. It was infuriating. Still unable to get help, I suffered a heart attack.
They just wanted to ship me off to a psychiatrist. The prevailing theory in the 1980's was that morbidly obese women were repressing memories of early incest! Or even more bizarre, repressing memories of satanic abuse!
Turns out I had a severely underactive thyroid. Along with other endocrine gland issues.
Today I am still overweight, but ONE HUNDRED POUNDS LESS than I was then.