is it easier to lose weight while on capap?

anyone know ? i got 20 pounds to lose

In theory, yes. OSA is supposedly proven to make people gain weight from being tired and inactive. If you have more energy from CPAP you should be burning more calories. For me it hasn't made a difference weigh wise.

Hi Cateyes,
Surprisingly some people actually gain weight after cpap. They start feeling better and arise from osa depression and start eating from pleasure. It's purely individualistic and so you need to use your own judgement.
Jamis

Yep definitely, I have lost 17 kilograms in 3 weeks. That is 37.4785846 pounds in the imperial system. (geez America, when are you going to drop the Imperial system and go to metric like the rest of the world!! It is alot easier although I know both for my trade)

Hey, I though this was about your personal weight loss issues.

Are you sure it wasn't 37.4785845 or 37.4785847?

J

Bad breathing and bad sleep can make it difficult to do ANYTHING.

On the other hand, improved breathing and sleep have the potential to improve EVERYTHING.

The improvements in mental, emotional, and physical energy that come to some people from CPAP may give them the ability to eat healthier foods and adopt healthier activity levels. But whether we choose to take advantage of that ability or not is a personal decision that each one of us must make individually.

@jamiswolf,

LOL

Do I detect a hint of bitterness or are you angry at my attack on the imperial system?

I can go and f**k myself now I have lost the weight! I couldn't even 'see' it before my gut was in the way I had to use a complicated system of mirrors!

If it makes you feel any better the three weeks was basically a constant panic state with wrist slitting depression episodes and I ate healthy choice meals (You got them in the states?)

-Matt

Matty 332 wrote: Do I detect a hint of bitterness or are you angry at my attack on the imperial system?

It's the system that we use and so criticism of it is pointless. That being said, I hope you succeed at weight loss and cpap therapy should help.
J

It's easier to lose weight when you sleep well.
Cpap and stop apnea is the first step for a good night os sleep.

I only lost 8 pounds doing nothing different during the first 9 months.
I then had the energy to cook the right foods, and get a bit more exercise--and it worked.
30 pounds during the following 5 months.
I do like to see the kph when I drive, though. . .

I wish I could say CPAP/BPAP has helped me lose weight. So far, it hasn't.

JNK makes sense tho.

jamiswolf wrote:It's the system that we use and so criticism of it is pointless.

Not pointless, but mostly futile.

There are many reasons for not switching to metric, a major one being legacy technology, but not least of all, just plain American arrogance.

Back to the weight thing. My DR. seems to inply that using the Cpap every night should make me lose weight well it
shure didn't help me lose. I have 4 people I know local who use the hose too and none of us has lost weight using cpap.
And I saw one little study that in children sometimes the reduction in snoring following having their tonsils out let them
gain weight. ( it may have been an OLD OLD study to make a reference to snoring but not sleep apnea )

Matty332 wrote:Yep definitely, I have lost 17 kilograms in 3 weeks. That is 37.4785846 pounds in the imperial system. (geez America, when are you going to drop the Imperial system and go to metric like the rest of the world!! It is alot easier although I know both for my trade)

Never, you won't see us turning in our guns either. It's tough in the real world. Jim

This is blog is amusing. Why would you expect Americans to use the metric system? Are they not the descendants of the rebellious rejects of Europe? Do not children rebel and do the exact opposite of what their parents teach? Give them time to live and learn, they are only 236 years old.

I didn't believe I was loosing weight when I was in the processes of adapting to my CPAP use. But, I did. People I worked with for YEARS noticed within a week I had lost weight. By a month I hopped on the scale and didn't believe it was right. Went to the Dr and found sure enough, I lost 20 POUNDS.

Don't ask me how much that is in kilo-whatever. If you tell me, it will mean nothing to me. I am American. Schools here teach you the metric system when your are in elementary school. Spending a total of a 40 hours on the subject (maybe). If you 'want' to learn more on they system, go for a PHD and pay to learn it or learn it on your own time.