JUST HOW OVERWEIGHT ARE YOU?

I note that a lot of people on here state they are overweight but not by how much so... if you don't mind can I ask what %age overweight you are?
For example I weigh 13 stone but should weigh 11 stone so I am 2 stone overweight or just under 20% if 2 stone taken as a %age of 11stone.
I recognise that many users of this site are in the USA and so measure their weight in LB's not Stones (1st = 14lb's)
I hope that makes sense!!

Currently about 10%. I've lost about 50 lbs. since starting treatment a year and a half ago.

My pressure needs are exactly the same as they were when I was more than 40% overweight and started CPAP.

You didn't leave an option for those of us who are not, nor have ever been overweight. I would be curious as to how many of us fall into that category. Sleep apnea is NOT always due to being overweight. Several of our members are underweight.

Bev

OutaSync wrote:You didn't leave an option for those of us who are not, nor have ever been overweight. I would be curious as to how many of us fall into that category. Sleep apnea is NOT always due to being overweight. Several of our members are underweight.

Bev

Sorry about that, I had my mind on one thing and being male and unable to multi task got stuck!!!LOL

I chose 20% although a case could be made for 20-40%. I had undiagnosed SDB when I was in the proper range of weight for my 5'4'' smallish frame. I hover around 158 pounds these days.... was fittest as an adult (muscles and all) in the mid 130s.

My current body mass index is slightly over 27.......too high, .....mostly in visible belly fat.

I had bad snoring long before I had excess body fat.... and other sleep breathing/sleep issues even before obvious snoring.

I will say that my current level of body fat is certainly the highest ever, and probably affects me, but is not the beginning nor end of sleep/breathing issues for me.

I don't expect to ever give up my APAP.....although I could see better fitness having a good effect on my numbers and my functioning generally.

J

I had flashes of the hip pain which I now know was a sign of the sleep apnea back in 1981 when I weighed a normal 135 pounds (9.64 stone). Then I had a fall, and a back injury, and lost my ability to take long walks or ride my bike or much else, plus my gut issues went nuts, and I gained over 100 pounds (7 stone). Curiously, the hip issues did not get worse.

I struggled with weight and gut issues over most of the next 20 years, and my weight went absolutely out of control in the late 90s. I found the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in 2001, which solved my gut issues, and began to solve my weight issues.

Ironically, it was after losing 60-75 pounds (4.5-5.25 stone) that my hip pain -- and hence, my unrecognized sleep apnea -- went crazy.

In the last seven years, I have lost 180 pounds (12.85 stone), and have about another 100 pounds (7 stone) to go. It's going much slower, but it's going. Perhaps therapy for the apnea will make it possible to get the rest of the weight off.

Kiralynx wrote:I had flashes of the hip pain which I now know was a sign of the sleep apnea back in 1981 when I weighed a normal 135 pounds (9.64 stone). Then I had a fall, and a back injury, and lost my ability to take long walks or ride my bike or much else, plus my gut issues went nuts, and I gained over 100 pounds (7 stone). Curiously, the hip issues did not get worse.

I struggled with weight and gut issues over most of the next 20 years, and my weight went absolutely out of control in the late 90s. I found the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in 2001, which solved my gut issues, and began to solve my weight issues.

Ironically, it was after losing 60-75 pounds (4.5-5.25 stone) that my hip pain -- and hence, my unrecognized sleep apnea -- went crazy.

In the last seven years, I have lost 180 pounds (12.85 stone), and have about another 100 pounds (7 stone) to go. It's going much slower, but it's going. Perhaps therapy for the apnea will make it possible to get the rest of the weight off.

I had asked in a previous thread but do not recall ever reading an answer to the following question ...
Why is it not ok to eat canned veggies but it is ok to eat frozen veggies in the SC diet?

I try and keep up with all diet/nutrition info that comes out.

Right,OutaSync. Like you, and many other with sleep apnea, I am not overweight.

I'm not overweight, merely undertall.

Kajun

Am currently 94 kg (207 lbs) 6ft tall (& over 60 y.o.).

Working to get weight down to 90 kg (198 lb) by Christmas. Managed to get down to 84 kg a year and a bit ago.
Over winter (here in Aust) put on 5-6 kg.

I would be very happy if I could hold 189 lbs. (13st 7lbs or 86kg).

I do find it a challenge to keep weight down and attribute part of that to age.

DSM

DreamStalker wrote:I had asked in a previous thread but do not recall ever reading an answer to the following question ... Why is it not ok to eat canned veggies but it is ok to eat frozen veggies in the SC diet? I try and keep up with all diet/nutrition info that comes out.

It probably got lost in the shuffle.

viewtopic/t36873/viewtopic.php?p=317510#p317510

is my reply.

I had asked in a previous thread but do not recall ever reading an answer to the following question ...
Why is it not ok to eat canned veggies but it is ok to eat frozen veggies in the SC diet?

I try and keep up with all diet/nutrition info that comes out.

Canned vegetables are heated and more processed than fresh or frozen ones. The closer one can get to fresh from the garden, the better in terms of nutrition. Thus, Fresh > Frozen > Canned.

One exception I am aware of, and I suggest researching this for accuracy, is that stewed/cooked tomatoes provides higher beneficial trans-lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant that decreases cancer and heart-disease risk. Vitamin C is destroyed by heat, but trans-lycopene is increased by cooking.

I hope this helps.

Kiralynx wrote:

DreamStalker wrote:I had asked in a previous thread but do not recall ever reading an answer to the following question ... Why is it not ok to eat canned veggies but it is ok to eat frozen veggies in the SC diet? I try and keep up with all diet/nutrition info that comes out.

It probably got lost in the shuffle.

viewtopic/t36873/viewtopic.php?p=317510#p317510

is my reply.

Ah yes ... loop holes. Why didn't I think of that.

Thanks.

Mizgrimalkin wrote:

I had asked in a previous thread but do not recall ever reading an answer to the following question ...
Why is it not ok to eat canned veggies but it is ok to eat frozen veggies in the SC diet?

I try and keep up with all diet/nutrition info that comes out.

Canned vegetables are heated and more processed than fresh or frozen ones. The closer one can get to fresh from the garden, the better in terms of nutrition. Thus, Fresh > Frozen > Canned.

One exception I am aware of, and I suggest researching this for accuracy, is that stewed/cooked tomatoes provides higher beneficial trans-lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant that decreases cancer and heart-disease risk. Vitamin C is destroyed by heat, but trans-lycopene is increased by cooking.

I hope this helps.

Thanks ...yes, I considered that nutritional quality is a bit degraded as degree of processing increases but with regard to "specific" carbohydrate a green bean should have the same "specific" carb characteristics regardless of whether it is fresh, frozen, or canned.

The loop hole explanation however would allow evil corporate business to add the wrong "specific" carbs in solution to canning water. Makes sense to me now.

I believe I have read the same as you about the cooked tomatoes and lycopene ... plus it is fat soluble so you need to consume with fat in order for your body to make use of it ... just like Vitamin D supplements.

Mizgrimalkin wrote:Canned vegetables are heated and more processed than fresh or frozen ones. The closer one can get to fresh from the garden, the better in terms of nutrition. Thus, Fresh > Frozen > Canned.

One exception I am aware of, and I suggest researching this for accuracy, is that stewed/cooked tomatoes provides higher beneficial trans-lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant that decreases cancer and heart-disease risk. Vitamin C is destroyed by heat, but trans-lycopene is increased by cooking. I hope this helps.

You're absolutely correct that fresh is best. However, the main issue, as far as the lifestyle I follow (and it is a lifestyle, and not a diet... I would not go off SCD now if I could) is that the more processed a food is, the more chance of "illegals" as we SCDers call them, creeping in.

You're also correct, so far as I have read, about lycopene. (And I did a LOT of reading about anti-cancer nutrients after being diagnosed with same.)