hehehhe, ya know i think they might be!! must have been the angle in the other pic if i had the energy i just might put a bikini on & paint too!!!
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Oh I am glad I am not the only one with this issue. I am going through a weight gain just now, with CFS symptoms flaring up. I am trying to be so careful with what I eat, but it doesn't matter what I do. Sometimes I am ravenous hungry and other times I am so full for the whole day. The problem for me is when this flare-up happens the days when I am hungry I can never feel full. I've tried eating lots of protein, including having a pea based protein shakes, and it makes no difference at all. I've tried lots of combinations of foods to try and fill me up but I am still ravenously hungry. I probably eat anywhere between 1200-1600 calories a day now. When I am hungry it is so insatiable that I can't not eat, but still try and eat really healthily and eat foods that are supposed to fill me up.
Like I will have porridge in the morning and half an hour later I am starving.
I know it's not in my head, because when I am in remission. I can eat pretty much anything and don't put on any weight, but when the flare-up happens I can eat so strictly and I put on weight without breathing.
My stomach bloats like anything, and become more sensitive to foods at this time as well.
I have found it very hard to lose weight pretty much since my mid 20's when I think my IBS issues started. I suspect I had a bit of CF back then, but didn't realise it. Before my mid 20's I was always slim and never hungry.
When I was in remission, I had a personal trainer for 16 months, doing 45 min x 2 times a week and a pretty healthy diet, and the weight barely budged. I kept on saying to him, isn't it strange that the weight is moving?
The only thing that helps eventually is time to heal, and having a super strict diet, no processed foods and a few kg go back down. But I never having big losses that's for sure. Usually I can gain or lose 3-5 kg from illness to remission. I am currently up 5kg.
There was a point in time at my worst with CFS where I would have nausea every day and have days without eating and the scales didn't budge at all, in fact I popped on a lot of weight.
I think there is something going on in the body, that is blocking the signals at this time. The body goes into stress mode and everything goes out of whack.