Dieting and disabilities

[OhHolyFuck]

Hello! After my moany thread about the diet nurse yesterday, someone suggested a more specific weight loss group where we can chat about how to juggle losing weight with disabilities that might hinder exercise or eating well, so here it is please join in so I'm not a Billy no mates

I'm OhHolyFuck, Im a single parent to two boys (5 and 3) and a puppy
I'd like to lose around 5 stone ideally
Currently being investigated for cfs/me so exercise is often difficult as I'm either too tired to do it or can do it on a good day but then feel terrible for a few days after

Thankyou

I'm emibbo on myfitnesspal if anyone wants to nosy at my food diary

Hiya, can I join you please? I am visually impaired. The posture I have been adopting to look at stuff for the last 40 years has caused premature wear to my neck and back and I am in daily pain and on strong meds. And I'm tired ALL the time. My exercise choices are limited because of my vision and mobility. I love to swim but can't often get to a pool. I have a 9yo DD who is also visually impaired and has autism, who I love to bits but she is hard work. I'm about 3 stone overweight but would settle for loans 2! However I have been the same weight for 5 years now....

Losing 2 not loans! (Unless I can loan out my spare tyre that is)

Loaning out my fat bits permanently sounds like a good idea

I would happily donate, never mind loaning. Unfortunately, I let DS talk me into making some gluten-free fish fingers for lunch. Which I fried because they taste rank grilled or baked. So I made a pile of green salad to go with them but still.

Just the thread I need! Just restarted my Stop Eating Constantly diet. I was on it two years ago and lost 2 stone fairly quickly. But then stopped doing it and I think I'm probably fatter than ever now. Too scared to weight myself.

I have Spina Bifida and use a walker or wheelchair depending on pain levels. I'm also asthmatic and have type 2 diabetes.

I'm a bloody wreck tbh.

I know how to eat healthily it's just the between meals stuff I need to get in control of, plus somehow get some exercise done.

Ah hello! Yes it was my suggestion, but then I promptly forgot about it

Marking my place, I will come back and say hello properly when I feel better

I have a mild muscular dystrophy type thing. I use a wheelchair or a walker or a stick depending on....well you know.

I have always been fairly slim, but my weight has crept up and I feel I need to lose about a stone now. My muscles are so rubbish that carrying just a bit more weight makes a big difference to me.

I think I'm in the right mindset now though; I've done a big healthy shop and dusted down my exercise bike. Also been out gardening, I definitely need to move more. I've lost half a stone with MFP before, so I know that works.

My biggest problem is having a very active sporty family who eat masses. They are all scoffing away and I am eating like a bird, and they are the slim ones.

hi everyone. I'm bonnie (not RN obvs), 35, size 18, several disabilities. trying to lose weight through nutracheck and will try to walk more. going to the gym isn't easy.

Hi to all the new guys!
I've walked 15k steps again today. This pokemon go is really getting me moving. I may have to either cut down or try and get the Dr to prescribe stronger pain killers though as I am really hurting. Or maybe I will get used to it and it won't hurt as much?
I have an appointment with a new physio on Wednesday. Hoping that will help some too.

I feel a bit of a fraud being here. I've been told my spd won't go away, but hopefully it will massively improve and the pain will be bearable.

HRF my SPD after DS took almost 2 years to finally go, and they'd given up on it ever doing so. I worked really hard at Pilates for my core strength which I'm sure helped it along. And that was before arthritis and prolapsed discs etc. You sound like you're doing really well with all the walking, though.

Do butrans patches work for you? Maybe something that delivers a constant level of pain relief might help? I found they triggered migraines for me, but they were great for the rest of the pain and I regained a bit of mobility for a while.

My doctor doesn't seem to believe I'm in as much pain as I say. I'm on cocodamol 15/500 and diclofenac. He refuses to give me anything stronger at the minute. I'm hoping physio will help me with what I need to say to him to get him to listen when I tell him it hurts. He keeps telling me to use my crutches but I can't because I'm pushing DS2 in the pram with one hand and holding DDs hand with the other.

Was worried I would fall off the diet eating out over weekend but managed to stick to relatively healthy choices ignoring the 2 glasses of wine

I am keen to add more exercise in but sure how, think I am going to focus on walking to begin with. I use mapmywalk app to see how far I've walked.

I keep reminding myself of my new mantra "I can do this" ...3 years ago I lost 4 stone, it's all back but I can and will lose it again!

My new diet plan is to, umm, not diet?
I think I'm focussing on it too much which makes me obsess about what I can't have, then fall face first into crap.

So, I will be making healthy choices around lchf ideas (as it helps my ibs) but not dieting.

Alongside, I am upping my daily steps on my Fitbit by 100 a week. I'm up from 1500 to 2300 so far :) my only walking is hobbling around the house, so daily steps are made up of lots of small amounts.

Oh and my life story...

I'm 30 and have psoriatic arthritis, EDS, dysautonomia, prolapses, TN and ASD. And I currently have a bollicle too :( DH is my full time carer and I use a wheelchair.
I am about a size 16/18 and weigh just shy of 16 stone (I'm tall). I was thin (ish) until the arthritis hit me, and then the weight just piled on.

I saw a new physio today. She hurt me. she said I'm probably going to hurt more until I get used to it. She also said it's going to be a while before I'm OK.

She had to push my hip back into place. It really hurt. She's hoping it stays there and doesn't come loose again. If it stays there until next week I can start some new exercises. If not she will have to try again.

Going to take the kids to the park now, want to cry, every bit of me hurts

Every night I feel bad about what I've eaten and resolve to change my habits. I know I would be in less pain if I was thinner.

But most days by 10am I am so fed up I tell myself I need a treat and hit the chocolate. Then when the pain really builds in the evening I eat anything that isn't nailed down.

I've never been on a diet. I just don't care enough about how I look to deny myself tasty food. Before the pain I was active and young enough to be a curvy 12 with this attitude, but now I look like an older and wrinklier Mr Blobby. But I'm still not vain enough to lay off the sugar...

Hello, I just thought I'd say hi because I saw OP's link to this on another thread and I have ME too . I'm like you stressed every day I think I really need to start a diet tomorrow or try some exercise (or both). But every day I'm sooooo fucking ridiculously tired, I just can't. I just grab whatever crap to eat that needs no prep, and get as much rest and naps as I can. Yesterday (since it's the holidays so I didn't have school run to do) I did some housework, and I'm really feeling it today - so tired and achey.

H had an affair that ended a year ago. I saw her out jogging yesterday. I'm trying not to compare but it's hard. It's a difficult time at the moment.

So, I'm going to draw a line in the sand and go no junk/sugar for 21 days. healthy eating and exercising a little every day. Anyone want to hold my hand?

Hello. I am DMEF (in an attempt to be free of the DM lifting any of my posts!

I am 48. 19.10st (125Kg).
I had lots of IVF to have my children and the weight piled on.
My ligaments loosened and I had Severe SPD (which I still have)
I have compressed nerves in both legs and feet so walking is painful.
I have been on crutches for a decade but I am now sore and short of breath a lot.
I have 2 prolapsed discs from a fall in hospital earlier this year.

The hospital sent me on a weight loss course but it didn't help.
They wont offer surgery as 'I am not trying' (I am!)
Physio tells me 'not to be lazy'.

I saw some pics of me with my children this summer and it made me cry.

I want to be around to see them grow up.

Bumping this up again :)

Looking forward to the kids going back to school so my eating can get a bit more back to 'normal'. Long days (naturally I'm a 9-9er) mean I'm eating at least an extra meal atm, and a lot of extra crap