Health changes

WickedWitchy13

I wanna hear some great things that happened to you after weight loss ! How much have you lose and what health changes have you seen. Cholesterol, heart rate, other health conditions:-) sometimes hearing great things helps keep others motivated :-)

springlering62

Sayonara, GERD.

cdudley628

springlering62 wrote: »

Sayonara, GERD.

This is what I'm hoping for! I actually hadn't been too affected by GERD the past couple of weeks, but today it's been pretty bad.

Terytha

Yep! Haven't dealt with GERD in months. It's amazing. Also triglycerides have dropped over half and my total cholesterol is down 25%.

My blood pressure is down a little. I haven't thrown out my back in months. I sleep better. I'm more flexible and have better stamina.

I've lost a little over 70 pounds.

aries68mc

Lowered cholesterol, glucose, triglycerides. More energy, can walk long distances and do stairs without getting out of breath.

LouVee186000

Way better sleep, normal glucose, normal blood pressure (been on the high side for years), normal cholesterol. Started lifting weights a few months ago and now recurring back pain is gone. As of today i am down about 99 lbs from starting weight.

cosmichvoyager

I lost 13% of my body weight and so far my knees almost never hurt anymore, my skin is looking amazing, blood sugar is no longer in prediabetic range, cholesterol down 20 points overall and my LDL/HDL ratio is much better. My next goal is to get cholesterol down further via eating more plant-based proteins but it’s tough because I like meat much more than beans but I will keep trying.

I have a fatty liver so I want to see if lowering my cholesterol further can help that.

I try to do a full metabolic panel every 3 months to encourage myself even if the scale barely seems to move.

WickedWitchy13

That’s all amazing great job

durhammfp

GERD went away, which meant I began to sleep better...HDL went up, LDL went down, blood sugar went from 103 to 77, and has stayed there. Pretty much everything improved when I went from 202 pounds to 167 pounds. My BP did not improve, however, even when I got down to my current weight of 157-160. My BP was pretty normal anyway (120/70) before weight loss and remained the same after weight loss... that is, it did not change until I started running. Then my BP went down to 89/58 and has been that low ever since. Also my skin has improved a lot. It is more glow-y and less acne-prone.

AnnPT77

Blood pressure down from borderline to high (140/80 or more), now solidly normally, usually 1-teens to 120 over 70-something. Triglycerides hit over 400 at one point, now solidly in the normal range (under 100). Chol/HDL ratio went from bad-news 5.9 to perfectly reasonable 3.1.

Bad knees hurt way less routinely, and less painfully when they do hurt. And there's just a general higher feeling of physical well-being: Lower systemic inflammation, maybe? I dunno.

And I just lost weight, about 50 pounds, from just over the line into class 1 obese, to BMI 22-point-something now. I didn't radically overhaul what I ate, mostly changed portions and relative proportions of foods. I didn't dramatically increase exercise; I was already quite active while obese.