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Underweight/Overweight?

Mballerina

By Mballerina
in Related Issues & Disorders

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Mballerina Explorer
Mballerina
Posted

This is a poll to get an idea for psychological research that is badly needed on the psychological issues and workings of celiac disease and further make clear that it is not simply a gastrological disease.

Thank you for your help!

Sorry, if you stayed the same just reply and right "stayed the same"

Otherwise for your body shape and size you either went up or down. Just use your best judgement. This is not scientific, it is just the first poll to get and idea of which direction to go in.

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Mydnyt Newbie
Mydnyt
Posted

Hmm. how about another response...

I was anywhere between a size 10 and 12, healthy weight for my height etc, but with an extra inch or two just from bloating. Having gone gluten-free, dropped the bloating, and now a size 9/10 (smallest I've been in my life), but hell of alot healthier.

Essentially, I wasn't over or underweight, just carrying alot of 'bloat'.

burdee Enthusiast
burdee
Posted

I think celiac disease is a gastrointestinal disease affecting the whole body with psychological ramifications. Long undiagnosed, even painful symptoms can make anybody confused, desperate, anxious and depressed. I believe lack of knowledge by medical 'experts', years of misdiagnoses from doctors who discount celiac disease symptoms, and needless suffering for undiagnosed celiacs influence many extreme but very logical emotional responses to unfair, terrible treatment by doctors. Furthermore having a bloated belly in a society that esteems small waists and flat tummies and embarrassing bowel symptoms like gas and diarrhea in a society that considers bathroom habits shameful makes understanding or even describing those symptoms difficult to say the least.

However, studies about opiate peptides from gluten digests which affect brain chemistry as well as 'brain fog' symptoms from gluten ingestion do suggest some psychological as well as physiological symptoms from celiac disease. Nevertheless, I believe the psychological is directly related to, rather than independent of, physiological symptoms of celiac disease.

BURDEE

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
Posted

Doh! You don't have a category for being neither under- nor over-weight! That would be me.

strack2004 Rookie
strack2004
Posted

I, too, do not fit the given categories. I put myself down as overweight and losing weight after going gluten-free. However, I weighed 140 on the clinic scales when I went gluten-free. I am 6'61/2" tall. The dietician felt I should not lose anymore. I had alread lost some 20 lbs. pretty much eating gluten-free except for eating bread and macaroni, noodles, etc. while still planning to get the biopsies. Last week I weighed 134labs. on clinic scales. Don't know what category that really puts me in. I don't really feel I am underweight, but am not sure 140 lbs. was overweight either. Ruth

P.S. I gained a couple lbs. when I went off the wagon a couple of times while I had company two weeks ago, but promptly lost them again. So I know I can gain weight if I want to.

Carriefaith Enthusiast
Carriefaith
Posted

When I was really sick last November I was 112 pounds (I'm 5'6.5). After my diagnosis in March I was told that I was underweight. Now after 6 months of being gluten free I am 120 pounds give or take 2 pounds. So I've gained almost 10 pounds and I am a "normal" weight again.

-Carrie

celiac3270 Collaborator
celiac3270
Posted

January of this year (pre-gluten-free): 5' and 70 pounds (around my 13th b-day)

Summer of this year (gluten-free): 5'1" and 80 pounds

Good that I gained 10 pounds......not good cause I'm supposed to be really growing around age 13-14........and I'm in the same percentile for weight

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sallyb Newbie
sallyb
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I had been working out and lost 20 pounds and then after diagnosis I have gained 8 pounds back from diet and lack of exercise. I am currentley working out 5 days a week again and am starting to lose the weight again. Either way life has dramaticallly improved in so many ways that weight is not really to much of a priority. Just staying healthy.

This is a poll to get an idea for psychological research that is badly needed on the psychological issues and workings of celiac disease and further make clear that it is not simply a gastrological disease.

Thank you for your help!

Sorry, if you stayed the same just reply and right "stayed the same"

Otherwise for your body shape and size you either went up or down. Just use your best judgement. This is not scientific, it is just the first poll to get and idea of which direction to go in.

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