weight gain

[Guest guest]

Greg wrote:

> after

> seeing my weight begin to creep in the wrong direction I am going to start

> tracking me diet better.

It's probably a good idea to track your food intake periodically, for the

calories as well as nutrition. But like Fran. said, if you focus on the

basics -- nutritionally-rich calories, and fewer of them -- you're on the

right track.

Watch out for mindless snacking -- those in-between-meal bites can really

add up. If I'm not careful I find myself finishing my kid's plates for them

(scripts from childhood -- The Clean Plate Club). So while my official diet

is sensible CR stuff, I'm eating spare peanutbutter n jelly sandwich parts

and such in between. In the restaurant biz, that's called " garbage

mouthing. " On this list it's called Not CR. ;-)

Sears says to think of food as a drug and treat it with due respect. That

helps me stop before ingesting random foodstuffs.

Dixie

[Guest guest]

> Hi, i'm new to board but have been taking xolair for a year. i was

not

> previously on predisone. i noticed a lot of people lost weight

coming

> off the predisone. i eat very healthy and work out almost daily and

> drinks tons of water daily and those habits haven't changed in the

past

> year. i gained 15 lbs the first month after the shot and another

10lbs

> the second month. i also get the hot flashes and sinus headaches

> almost daily. i was wondering if anyone else had these symptons

and

> if/when the symptons went away if they quit taking the xolair?

Welcome I have been on Xolair for exactly 2 years now. I have

lost 35 pounds in the past year since a diagnosis of diabetes and

high cholesterol. This is the first time I have heard of xolair and

weight gain. Interesting! Thanks for sharing

Doug

Group founder/co-moderator

[Guest guest]

The way the Xolair molecule is set up, it can NOT cause you to gain weight,

It's only purpose id to attach to the IgE and render it useless to absorb the

allergen. I wo7uld check with your family physician or internal medicine

physician. They need to run some lab work to make sure you have not developed

diabetes, a thyroid problem, a hormone abnormality etc.. The weight gain and

those things coincidentally happened when you started Xolair, I am sure of it.

Pat RN CCRN AE-C

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[Guest guest]

At one point in time I was on pred and losing weight

but I was going through a hypo-manic episode, not

sleepig and exercising like a nut. Now I am decidedly

not hypo-manic and I look at food at it attaches

itself to me in the form of flab. Sad

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[Guest guest]

Hi:

I've been on Xolair for 7 months. I have gained weight but, I'm not sure it's

the medicaton, also hot flashes are my middle name and that I can't blame on the

medication either for I've had them for years. Please keep us informed.

Thanks, Kathy

smithz93 <eksmith@...> wrote:

Hi, i'm new to board but have been taking xolair for a year. i was not

previously on predisone. i noticed a lot of people lost weight coming

off the predisone. i eat very healthy and work out almost daily and

drinks tons of water daily and those habits haven't changed in the past

year. i gained 15 lbs the first month after the shot and another 10lbs

the second month. i also get the hot flashes and sinus headaches

almost daily. i was wondering if anyone else had these symptons and

if/when the symptons went away if they quit taking the xolair?