I gained an insane amount of weight when I had my baby almost four years ago. I could barely keep food down but still managed to gain 100 lbs while pregnant and none of it has come off. I developed a neurological condition shortly after birth that almost paralyzes me, and gives me extreme weakness and fatigue. I have not found a medication yet that helps combat my neurological problems. Very simple day to day things are now nearly impossible for me, including lifting a pan out of a cupboard or holding an above 8oz waterbottle. I have not yet found a workout I can do that has not sent me into an attack aggravating my symptoms. Walking, lifting 2lb weights, hulahooping, yoga, light cardio, biking all have hurt me badly.
When I had my first child I also gained a large amount of weight but I was able to workout and lose all of the baby weight within six months after birth. Since I can not work out this time I have tried doing whatever I can with foods to help me. Intermittent Fasting (with calories counting) hurt my head so I did not try that anymore after a month of no success losing weight. Keto (with counting calories) helps me a lot with my neurological problems but I never notice a difference in weightloss.
In the four years since gaining 100lbs the only thing that made me drop weight was a medication I tried for my head that had a known side effect of weightloss. I dropped 50lbs within a few months of being on it but it exacerbated all of my health issues dramatically so I stopped taking it (per doctors orders). The 50lbs crept back on after a year and I am back up to where I am now. I was counting calories and doing Keto the entire time and so it has been extremely frustrating and soul crushing for it all to come back on despite eating in a deficit!!!
I would normally question if I was counting my calories properly or not except I have been CICO for around twelve years now, I make almost all of my own foods and when I have dared to have a cheat meal I usually am the one cooking that too. I do not do fast foods or soda pops or sugary coffee or any carbs except rice occasionally. I have a kitchen scale to weigh all my foods. So I truly feel it is not the foods I am eating holding me back.
Around a week ago I decided to try and see if I could build up my strength at all and possibly get some sort of exercise. I wanted to give my kids an enjoyable Summer with me being able to play with them outside. Yesterday I shot some hoops and took them on a very slow twenty minute walk with our dog and I ended up in the hospital all night.
I truly feel like everything is working against me in losing weight and living my life. I will never give up eating healthy and counting calories in the hopes it works for me some day but I feel like I am stuck with this weight permanently and I just want it gone.
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