POLL: Weight gain/loss and cpap therapy

I have two GF's that had bypass surgery. One is about 2-3 years out (I can't remember) and the other just had hers last fall, I think.

I'm proud of them, and impressed with their weight loss. AND HORRIFIED AT WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE NAKED.

I'm really hoping to avoid that, if I can. Technically, I'm still not fat enough to qualify for a medically necessary surgery. My Mom would pay for it in a heartbeat, however, if I asked her. She's tried to talk me into the LapBand as a Xmas gift before.

I just emailed the BF that Chore #2 for him this weekend is to skim through this diet book I bought, and make a grocery list for me, and we'll go shopping so I can start this new diet on Sunday. I know, I know.... It's just a seven day "jump start" thing. I'm hoping it will help motivate me to get off junk food. If you care, it's the "UltraSimple Diet". You can google it.

Great site though, Rooster!
B.

rooster wrote:It is sometimes amazing what is in those fat bodies trying to get out: http://knownbyname.wordpress.com/

That is one interesting story & the pics speak for them selves.

Gee Rooster, I dunno where you get these stories but you sure manage a good job of it

DSM

dsm wrote:

rooster wrote:It is sometimes amazing what is in those fat bodies trying to get out: http://knownbyname.wordpress.com/

That is one interesting story & the pics speak for them selves.

Gee Rooster, I dunno where you get these stories but you sure manage a good job of it

DSM

Lots of friends emailing me things. Downside is I delete a lot of email without reading it. Closest friends know to speak to me if they email something they don't want me to miss.

It is sometimes amazing what is in those fat bodies trying to get out

You mean like the ton of butter the potatoes are fried in or the whipping cream then added?

I have a friend who probably weighs a good 400 pounds and she was tested for sleep apnea, yet her 8 year old daughter AND her husband both has OSA.......hmmm...

Going from 310 lbs to 195 didn't change anything with my apnea. I had a sleep study assuming I would be 'all better' and it was all the same. Oh well.

Slowly gaining again and found 'The Beck Diet solution' kind of handy.....and energy tapping works if you find the right practitioner....that was how I lost the 115 lbs.

Babette, you are funny.

wrenn wrote:Going from 310 lbs to 195 didn't change anything with my apnea. I had a sleep study assuming I would be 'all better' and it was all the same. Oh well.

Slowly gaining again and found 'The Beck Diet solution' kind of handy.....and energy tapping works if you find the right practitioner....that was how I lost the 115 lbs.

Babette, you are funny.

I'll support you 100% re that cycle. Went for follow up sleep study after losing lots of weigh (got down then to 83 KG) - convinced doc would say - you are cured & don't need cpap any more, only to be told that the current settings & set up I had devised (based on my own extensive testing) was just right & to stay with it !!!. So here I am today again having lost even more weight than before (down to 80-82 KG range) but with no illusions about not needing cpap therapy

I don't diet now but do exercise & made this easy by swapping my car for a bike to do the 13.5 kms journey to work & same back. Doing this keeps me fit & means I can live normally re wine & food. If I don't do the cycling - weight just creeps up - as we get older we don't burn anywhere near the same calories as when younger & thus it becomes sooooo easy to incrementally add weight in a relatively short period even when we can be convinced we are eating lightly.

Exercise is an absolute necessity for us mature aged folk - without it, we bloat. Fact of life & an intrusive reality we have to come face-to-face with.

DSM

>>>>It ticks me off when people trivialize obesity...it's a disease>>>>.
I dont think its a disease, I thinks its a chosen behavior, and when illness hits because of the behavior, the logical thing for a sane person to do would be to change the behavior

Billy6 wrote:>>>>It ticks me off when people trivialize obesity...it's a disease>>>>.
I dont think its a disease, I thinks its a chosen behavior, and when illness hits because of the behavior, the logical thing for a sane person to do would be to change the behavior

Obviously tens of millions of people in the world aren't as smart as you Billy6. We get fat and we do nothing. We're obviously illogical or insane. Thanks for your compassion and understanding of our limitations. We're all going to change our behaviour tomorrow and be wise, logical, sane, skinny, and healthy like you!

Oh wait... I guess it ticks me off too when people trivialize obesity. If you ask any obese person what they most want to change in their life, you'll likely get the answer lose weight/get healthy/be in shape. It's what I've wanted most in my life for several years. I tried multiple diets. I tried exercise. Nothing worked. I was always exhausted due to untreated sleep apnea, and became incapacitated by fatigue and muscle cramps if I tried to push my body.

Now that my OSA is treated, I am successfully exercising and I am slowly losing weight. But my metabolism is a wreck and my fitness level is shot, so it's going to be a long hard road.

Saying "obesity is a chosen behaviour" is just as simplistic and mean-spritited of a mindset as saying "AIDS is a gay disease" or "alcoholism is a chosen behaviour". Try walking a mile in someone else's shoes Billy6.

OK, I admit it... the troll got me! I shouldn't let people like this rile me up, but I do.

TSSleepy wrote:OK, I admit it... the troll got me! I shouldn't let people like this rile me up, but I do.

No biggie. They get me all the time too

This particular billy troll is a habitual troll too .... despite his own loathing of those with a habitual behavior.


Anyway ... here is some food for thought regardless of whether you are suffering from the disease of obesity or not.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/ca ... index.html

Seems logical. Living requires that we burn energy. Life is like a candle ... the slower it burns, the longer it lasts.

Your poll choices and the title of your poll are completely different. After many years at the same weight, I immediately gained 10 pounds in the 6 weeks after starting CPAP. But your questions only relate to impressions about the affect of weight on OSA. Why the mismatch?

decatur11 wrote:Your poll choices and the title of your poll are completely different. After many years at the same weight, I immediately gained 10 pounds in the 6 weeks after starting CPAP. But your questions only relate to impressions about the affect of weight on OSA. Why the mismatch?

You are responding to a 5 year old post.

Both doctors and the general public are as dangerously misinformed now as they were 5 years ago.
This forum is a light in an abyss.

chunkyfrog wrote:Both doctors and the general public are as dangerously misinformed now as they were 5 years ago.
This forum is a light in an abyss.

And the Poll Lock lives on! Jim

In order for the light to be seen, the viewer needs to be open to enlighting!