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Author: joan
Date: 02-16-04 13:49
OK, I have not mentioned this because I was afraid it would offend someone but here goes; I started taking iron tablets in the beginning of November (I was anemic) and stopped taking them the first week in February. For the months of November, December and January I ate about the same amount of food and stayed between 225 -223 pounds. I couldn't lose any weight but then again I was eating the same things I have for months and thought I would just have to take my diet "to another level". A three month plateau or something.
So...........I stopped taking the iron, and then started to lose weight again. Now, we all know that iron "blocks you up" so to speak, and I have this crazy idea that maybe this had something to do with me not being able to lose weight.
Any thoughts? No, not those thoughts ---- thoughts about weight loss and iron.
Joan
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Author: miranda
Date: 02-16-04 15:39
You can't be so "blocked up" for 3 months that you would stop losing weight (things clear out on their own eventually)--something else must have been at work, and it has to have something to do with calories in, calories out. Plateaus that last 3 months have to be caused by eating the number of calories necessary to maintain one's weight. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you recently begun counting calories more carefully and changed your diet? If so, that is a much more likely explanation. Also, is it possible that all this had something to do with anemia (which I don't know much about)? Finally, I have read that iron stimulates your appetite, and if that is true (and I can't confirm that it is), it is possible that you were eating more than you thought. Basically the same thing happened to me when I took an appetite-stimulating medication--you don't realize that you're eating more. Those are my thoughts, for what they're worth (carefully confined to thoughts about weight loss and iron, and not anything more, er, delicate!).
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miranda
230/169.5/145
"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: joan
Date: 02-17-04 09:22
Thanks for the reply. Weight loss is such a struggle when things are not going so well. I am still trying to find the solution that will work for the rest of my life and trying to come to terms with exactly what that will mean.
Joan
255/220/140
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