I was wondering if anyone is around here any more. I stop by periodically and dont seem to see many posts. I am having the same old eating problems. I am considered aneroxic and was mal nourished. I have to drink 3-5 ensures per day now. My blood work was really bad until I got on the ensures....I am also on prescription A and vitamin b12 shots weekly again....My weight is around 120 which isnt a real bad weight for me as I am 5 ft 6 but they say that I actually weigh around 95-100 if you take away the excess skin that I have on my legs. I had carried most of my weight in my thighs and calves and was the last to go but it left them very horendous looking but in jeans, they are fine. ...I have seen 2 different surgeons about skin removal but they wont/cant do it as it would put me to low of a weight, they estimate that 10 lbs per leg could be removed and then I would be way underweight for my heighth so I will just live with it the way it is. My main reason for posting is to see if anyone else is still losing or if they are underweight. I had got down to 114 for a while but my doc insisted I gain so I did but she would like me to get up to 150.....Hope everyone is doing well

Lynn, I'm right in there with you I can't stop eating. Yes it is carbs, mostly crackers and nuts. My surgeon wants me to lose another 50 lbs before he'll fix my hernia and get the tummy tuck done. Some of that is my mind that yes I want the surgery, and yes I need it. On the other hand my stomach is so protruded from the hernia that I look 6 or 7 months pregnant. Jeanne

If you are eating too many carbs, like bread, potatos, rice, crackers, chips, and sugary foods, Stop! They only make you want more. Go back to basics, protien, protien, protien. If you eat enough dense protien it will make you full and stay full longer. If you need more support, go to the grads message board and join the accountability thread. You may get some advice there as well. Good Luck, you need to fix things before you start to regain weight. Sher

Glad to hear everything went well for you Sher, I wish more people from 4/06 would pop on and let us know how their doing.

How many grams of protien are you getting each day? That might be the reason, but it could be something else/ You said your labs were ok, what exactly have you had checked and what were the results? I know my labs were ok per surgeons office but when I looked at the results over the past two years I saw that my ferritan levels have been steadily dropping, while still "normal" they had gotten to the low end of normal, I have been tired myself so I have changed the form of iron I am taking and will get rechecked, also my thyroid level was off, had elevated FSH, which means I am not getting enough thyroid homones, found out I need to take it on an empty stomach and then will have levels checked again. Low thyroid can cause fatique too. Hope you get things figured out. Sher