Weight Gain on Gluten, Weight Loss on GF

NoahsWife · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 172 Location: Missouri

Has anyone gone from being overweight before GF and them had success getting excess pounds off after going GF? I'm really careful about eating GF and have lost a few pound over 3 months of GF, but hoping that I will get back to my ideal weight the longer I'm GF. Any ideas would be welcome! Cool

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aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 7791 Location: WI, USA

Hi NW,

I was 262 lbs at the height of my obeseness. Whilst I was sick, that dropped to 205/209. I'm 6'5" and I was looking pretty skinny then. Because we have found GF replacements for all my baked goodies [TG for Peg and her baking skills!!], I have put some of that back on.

I would say being sick is what dropped the weight and being GF has helped me maintain it.

Currently I'm around 217-220 and stable. I haven't weight myself after my trip to CO, so it could be more. I eat to keep myself awake when driving Wink

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The Edifying Conscience · Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 2250

Not that this will help you. Like Al, I was severely underweight when I started the GF diet. I was 5'6" and weighed under 100#s. I've since gained close to 25 pounds but somehow I still look thin unless I'm in a bathing suit. :\ Needless to say I haven't spent too much time in the water this year.

I don't know of anyone who has was overweight and then lost a lot of weight after starting the GF diet. Sorry.
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jayhawkmom · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 851 Location: Midwest, USA

I've been having trouble losing pregnancy pounds. But, now that I'm GF, the scale is starting to move, downward, again!! =)

WestWalker · Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 305 Location: West Coast

I definitely was not overweight.

I was always very thin and able to eat anything I wanted (I thought). I ate alot all the time and never gained any weight. Great for the taste buds but bad otherwise. I never really was hungry and could go with out food with no problem. Everyone always made comments on how skinny I was and that I looked like death (I thought the comments were kinda cruel myself Sad

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Since dx I have gained 40 lbs and now I feel really over weight. Plus I never really felt hungry before but since last Feb I am starving all the time!! All I want to do is eat and that is all new to me. It seems nothing satisfies this need for food. Once I find something that tastes good and is GF I will eat the whole package or the whole CHICKEN! I found this GF salsa I liked at Safeway (no less) www.greenmountaingringo.com and couldn't stop eating the stuff. I'm trying not to eat processed foods right now but I give in now and then to make life bearable.

Anybody up for a snack? Laughing

StaceyMac · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 31 Location: Burkburnet, TX

After I started the GF diet, I actually gained weight, but it took several months for my diagnosis and I couldn't keep much down during that time, and therefore lost a lot of weight. In the four years I have been on the diet, I have gained 20 pounds, but I was also a freshman in college last year, so that may have contributed. I will say though that when I was diagnosed, I was very swollen around the middle and now I really am not so that was definately a nice thing. Very Happy

SoIhaveAdisease · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 174 Location: Central Alabama

I lost.

I was almost in a size 16 and now I'm in 8. I'm 5'7".
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Is ferret meat gluten-free? Wink

NoahsWife · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 172 Location: Missouri

Did the weight lose happen quickly, or was it over a long period of time?
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SoIhaveAdisease · Joined: 30 May 2006 Posts: 174 Location: Central Alabama

it was over a period of time while I was detoxing.
I didn't excercise or anything special. I just started to be able to get out of bed. I was on bedrest and almost died when we found out about my allergy and now I just try to live my life normally. I still don't excercise. (you should see the extra skin around my middle from losing all that toixc size!)
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Is ferret meat gluten-free? Wink

sarahceliac · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 189 Location: MA

When I got diognosed and started to follow the GF lifestyle I lost a lot of weight. I did not find this site until fairly recent, so I was eating a very.... plain variety of food. Now with all the great tips, I eat fairly close to before.

I lost the weight slowly as I was becoming GF, and naturally eating healthier things before I started to find the GF sweets Very Happy

I have lost about 40 lbs. since my heaviest pre GF weight. 15 of that was probably from the time I went GF till now. It was such a sudden change that it seems that changing ones eating so drastically would help to lose the weight, but that's not the case for all.
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cultureslayer · Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Posts: 657 Location: NC

I gained some when I was trying to make GF bread and still eat the same as before. Didn't help that I was too tired to exercise, but used to eating enough to keep my weight stable with 30 to 100+ miles of bicycling a week. I've switched to fruits, veggies, rice, beans, meat, and some processed snacks but I am slowly cutting those down in hopes it will make a difference.
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HadassahSukkot · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject:

Thus far, keeping the GF and Corn Free (mostly corn free I should say: except when I do go out occasionally) diet - I have lost 10, count 'em 10 lbs in three weeks... and one or two dress sizes (i'm fitting in some of my size 14s and was in 16/18s before).

A few people have noticed too. Good thing; I have myself. I didn't actually weigh myself until yesterday (honestly didn't have the guts until someone asked me if i lost lbs or just size)..

I can feel it too when I walk. Smile

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tdavis11 · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 12

I gained weight and was extremely bloated and fatigued with joint pain before diagnosis. After going gluten free, I am losing slowly I think due to an extreme difference in my activity level. I finally feel good.

ostrich · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 3718 Location: Nebraska

I think I'm still slowly losing weight, mostly because I don't eat as many carbs as before.

Pay no attention to that chocolate chip ice cream in the freezer! Laughing

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Gene · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Northwest Ohio

I was diagnosed one year ago. I lost 27 pounds. After diagnoses I couldn't eat enough. I now weigh 194. I was 148 at the worst. I started at 175. I just went in for my one year check up. Doctor told me to get off the carbohydrates and eat protein. Hope this helps. Don't get hardly any exercise.