Unable to Gain Back Weight Regardless of Vitamin Supplements

[GBear]

Hello all!

I hope your holidays were well and that you’ve taken rest well. 
 

Over this holiday season my family has pointed out and continuously teased me about the “unhealthy” weight loss I’ve had. I’ve read lots of posts here about a major symptom being weight loss and after starting to take B-12 vitamin supplements, I have gained back my energy but no weight at all. And because if this, my family will not stop calling me as thin as a twig. 
 

I eat three meals a day with exercise every other day as well as snacks in between, however, I cannot gain back the 30lbs I had lost and I am now still losing weight. I’ve had to buy so many new clothes because my old ones don’t fit and I am especially frustrated because I was excited to wear a new dress that previously fit me this New Year’s Eve, but it very baggy now. 
 

Is there any advice out there on how to maintain a healthy weight or perhaps keep the negative thoughts away on my body image? 

[knitty kitty]

You need All Eight  B vitamins!!!

The B vitamins all work together.

Thiamine insufficiency will cause weight loss.

Try a B Complex vitamin and extra thiamine (benfotiamine) to correct your weight loss.  

When deficient in thiamine, the body switches from burning carbohydrates consumed in the diet to burning fat. 

You are burning off your fat stores faster than your body can replenish them.  

Thiamine insufficiency can occur in as little as a month because thiamine cannot be stored for long.  

Celiac Disease damages the small intestine where the B vitamins are usually absorbed.  Consider supplementing with extra B One Thiamine while you are healing.

 

Hiding in Plain Sight: Modern Thiamine Deficiency

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533683/

 

 

 

[Scott Adams]

You might also look into high protein shakes to help you put weight back on, but be sure they are labelled gluten-free. 

I'm not sure how long you've been gluten-free, but if you were recently diagnosed with celiac disease it can take months for your villi to heal, but the main thing is to be 100% gluten-free and eliminate all sources of contamination:

 

[celioops]

Hey GBear, 

Comments on weight--especially from family--are unhelpful, unnecessary, and often wholly unwelcome. I'm sorry that you're having to put up with that. 

You mentioned you gained back your energy. That's fantastic! Now you get to decide where to go from here. How do you feel about your current size? If you've got your energy back and are not dangerously underweight, there's no reason to gain weight just to appease those nagging family members. Using an app like MyFitnessPal to log calories and measure portions (using a food scale is the best way to do this accurately) can help to make sure you're not undereating. Alternatively, those tools can be used to put you in a caloric surplus if you'd like to gain the weight back.

Try calculating your TDEE and eating 500 calories above your calculated maintenance calories per day for a few weeks. That amount will put you on track to gain about 1lb/week. Here's a tool for that: https://tdeecalculator.net

If nothing is working, push your doctor for a full thyroid panel. Celiac and thyroid conditions can show up concurrently in some people (I am one of them)!

Best of luck, 

Celioops