General Medical issues thread

[Hvr]

So now onto diet v29.3 and struggling.

The obesity clinic is offering 12 month program for free. First 12 weeks is 3 x VLCD shakes per day plus 2 cups vegetables. The goal is to lose 2.5kg/week which I think is unrealistic and difficult.

I've obviously decided against it. I've purchased the Fat Blaster weight loss shakes to slowly incorporate into my own version of the diet. So counting calories again and try to limit to around 1500 calories per day.

I've been taking either OptiFast or OptiSlim since April. Two shakes a day. I'm under medical and dietitian supervision and support. For dinner I make a vegetable soup with a small amount of chicken. A big pot lasts 2-3 days.

Lots of beans/barley to fill it out. And snacks are small tomatoes or fruit. It means more farts, but I live alone so only one person is complaining. And of course all the water you can drink.

So far, I've lost 20 kilos. And am walking more to see local sights.

Doctor is happy and I'm feeling better.
Please always discuss weight loss strategies with your doctor. They know what needs to be taken into account for you.

 

[Pushka]

I am due for my year two "inspection"… fit as a Mallee bull and would be very disappointed to need any maintenance..
Why do stents block ?
docs ….hello… coooeeeeee…….

Guessing because they don't fix the actual issue causing blockages but just manage it?

 

[Pushka]

And a good story for a change. Many may have read about my problems with mobility and pain since May last year. Just with persistence with walking I can gradually walk further.
In May this year we stayed at the IC Singapore and met a couple our age. He had very similar symptoms to me and told me a walking stick made an incredible difference to his walking ability. So on this trip I decided to take a walking stick and it really does help. I can walk several thousand steps now without absolutely needing to stop.

In May I was walking an average of 4000 steps a day. June it was 8000 steps a day. In the last few days I am up to 12500 steps a day. So any one else having difficulty walking due to pain in legs/back give a walking stick a try.

There was a news clip last night and thought of you. The 10,000 step thing came from the name of a Japanese I think, device and not as a medical standard. The research suggested that at 7000 steps there is great improvement of all the age indicators including alzheimers. Although to be honest we aren't convinced it was a case of correlation rather than causation.

 

[drron]

There was a news clip last night and thought of you. The 10,000 step thing came from the name of a Japanese I think, device and not as a medical standard. The research suggested that at 7000 steps there is great improvement of all the age indicators including alzheimers. Although to be honest we aren't convinced it was a case of correlation rather than causation.

I can certainly say the more happy you are and the more weight you lose is caused by the increasing step numbers not just a correlation.

 

[Seat0B]

Finally getting somewhere with this urology thing. Booked in for a procedure at RPA next week. Don't find out when until the afternoon before (which makes sorting out travel arrangements from Canberra to Sydney a bit annoying).
Still waiting for them to work out if the follow up stuff a few days later can be done in Canberra instead of Sydney.

Hopefully nothing happens at RPA at day to cause the procedure to get bumped. This should sort out the main problem, stop the repeated UTIs over the past 9 months and end having to get the SPC changed every 6 weeks.

Oh My Goodness @Himeno, that has been such a long road for you. Good luck and I hope the procedure goes ahead smoothly.

 

[prozac]

I've been taking either OptiFast or OptiSlim since April. Two shakes a day. I'm under medical and dietitian supervision and support. For dinner I make a vegetable soup with a small amount of chicken. A big pot lasts 2-3 days.

Lots of beans/barley to fill it out. And snacks are small tomatoes or fruit. It means more farts, but I live alone so only one person is complaining. And of course all the water you can drink.

So far, I've lost 20 kilos. And am walking more to see local sights.

Doctor is happy and I'm feeling better.
Please always discuss weight loss strategies with your doctor. They know what needs to be taken into account for you.

Very impressive weight loss.

 

[prozac]

I am due for my year two "inspection"… fit as a Mallee bull and would be very disappointed to need any maintenance..
Why do stents block ?
docs ….hello… coooeeeeee…….

My cardio would suggest you need to watch what you eat as this still deposits plaque. As for artery soft cell wall coming through the holes in the stents and gaps where stents don't match up, I think that is some predisposition.

 

[VPS]

I wonder if I could substitute the white wine for red wine

 

[MelMel]

So now onto diet v29.3 and struggling.

The obesity clinic is offering 12 month program for free. First 12 weeks is 3 x VLCD shakes per day plus 2 cups vegetables. The goal is to lose 2.5kg/week which I think is unrealistic and difficult.

I've obviously decided against it. I've purchased the Fat Blaster weight loss shakes to slowly incorporate into my own version of the diet. So counting calories again and try to limit to around 1500 calories per day.

One problem is trying work out calories of meat before and after cooking. I'm searching on Google and the general consensus is the calories of meat cooked will be the same before and after? How? Meat contains fat and if there's 22gm fat before cooking there'll more than likely be 15gm fat after cooking. That's a significant loss of fat which has to equate to loss of calories adds fat is factored in raw meat calorie count before cooking.

Note I do not use oil to cook. Lamb in frypan starts to lose fat and is cooked in fat and there's a lot left over in frypan so there has to be loss of calories? Beef/pork is cooked in frypan without oil until all water is released then let it cook that way or add some lamb fat. Surely beef/pork losing fat has to equate to calories loss? Chicken us usually boiled so again there will be loss of calories.

Anyway have consumed between 1500-1700 calories this week. Have to try and reduce that intake. Goal is 1kg/week for 8 weeks before going to Thailand.

Australian Food Composition Database

afcd.foodstandards.gov.au

This may help you. Search alphabetically for the food then click the item number most appropriate .

 

[JohnK]

Good to see you still working at the diet , how is the walking coming along ?

Walking is a struggle. I am ok walking holding a shopping trolley but struggling without shopping trolley.

Severe right knee pain not going away. And now the bone to the right of belly has severe pain. It's the pelvis or hip but I've never had pain there. It's always been further right and down the leg. My body struggling to carry this weight.

 

[JohnK]

Interesting question! I googled… which seems to suggest that for raw meat, the calorie count is not the raw state, it’s the ‘ready to eat’ state… which includes cooking. So if you have a pack of raw sausages and they’re 200 calories each,that would assume you’ve cooked them. Could be slightly less than 200 cal if you were to air fry, no oil, or could be slightly more if you use an oil or fat to cook them..l but the calorie count for the oil or fat will be listed on that product?

I hardly eat sausages and when we do that's an easy one.

Calorie King is confusing with lamb. It only mentions lean. I don't buy lean. What we buy has fat, boil and you see the fat come off but some remains. We either make lamb rice soup or curry.

Every other Google search gives a different number.

I've decided to use 100g = 227 calories for beef, pork and lamb. As we don't use any oil that should be mostly accurate. With chicken it's roughly 100g = 140 calories. Again only ever boil or slow cook.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I hardly eat sausages and when we do that's an easy one.

Calorie King is confusing with lamb. It only mentions lean. I don't buy lean. What we buy has fat, boil and you see the fat come off but some remains. We either make lamb rice soup or curry.

Every other Google search gives a different number.

I've decided to use 100g = 227 calories for beef, pork and lamb. As we don't use any oil that should be mostly accurate. With chicken it's roughly 100g = 140 calories. Again only ever boil or slow cook.

Ohhh.. sorry… for some reason I had packaged meat from the supermarket in my mind! The ones with the calorie count on the outside

 

[Gladstone Tim]

And a good story for a change. Many may have read about my problems with mobility and pain since May last year. Just with persistence with walking I can gradually walk further.
In May this year we stayed at the IC Singapore and met a couple our age. He had very similar symptoms to me and told me a walking stick made an incredible difference to his walking ability. So on this trip I decided to take a walking stick and it really does help. I can walk several thousand steps now without absolutely needing to stop.

In May I was walking an average of 4000 steps a day. June it was 8000 steps a day. In the last few days I am up to 12500 steps a day. So any one else having difficulty walking due to pain in legs/back give a walking stick a try.

Hey drron, are you referring to the traditional curved-top walking stick or hiking poles?

 

[JohnK]

So far, I've lost 20 kilos. And am walking more to see local sights.

Doctor is happy and I'm feeling better.
Please always discuss weight loss strategies with your doctor. They know what needs to be taken into account for you.

Excellent news. So happy for you.

In my experience doctors are not very good at weight loss advice. Maybe you have a good one.

A leading NSW endocrinologist once told me I consumed 2700 calories per day. Bulldust. I proved with my documented diet plan, approved by 2 dieticians, that even 1800 calories a day for me does not equate to any weight loss.

Also whatever diet works one does not seem to work again.

Also your body tries to maintain highest ever weight. So if you lose 15kgs and you don't keep that up you'll put on 16kgs next time around.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Excellent news. So happy for you.

In my experience doctors are not very good at weight loss advice. Maybe you have a good one.

A leading NSW endocrinologist once told me I consumed 2700 calories per day. Bulldust. I proved with my documented diet plan, approved by 2 dieticians, that even 1800 calories a day for me does not equate to any weight loss.

Also whatever diet works one does not seem to work again.

Also your body tries to maintain highest ever weight. So if you lose 15kgs and you don't keep that up you'll put on 16kgs next time around.

Are you on CPAP?

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hey drron, are you referring to the traditional curved-top walking stick or hiking poles?

One with the inbuilt sword I thought.

Swordstick - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[prozac]

Excellent news. So happy for you.

In my experience doctors are not very good at weight loss advice. Maybe you have a good one.

A leading NSW endocrinologist once told me I consumed 2700 calories per day. Bulldust. I proved with my documented diet plan, approved by 2 dieticians, that even 1800 calories a day for me does not equate to any weight loss.

Also whatever diet works one does not seem to work again.

Also your body tries to maintain highest ever weight. So if you lose 15kgs and you don't keep that up you'll put on 16kgs next time around.

I have friends who order Light and Easy when they want to lose weight before travelling. They are paddlers and spend weeks on the Rhine / Danube or around the Greek Islands.

 

[drron]

Hey drron, are you referring to the traditional curved-top walking stick or hiking poles?

This trip I am using a traditional curved top walking stick. I do have hiking poles from my bushwalking days and will try them out one day.

And @JohnK there are many doctors that really do understand weight loss and get good results when their advice is followed. In found this with several patients and when I eventually followed my own advice it worked just fine with a 35KG weight loss over 18 months.
The real downside is you must continue on that same lifestyle to make sure you don't just put the weight on.

As well there are differences in each of us and that comes to our metabolism as well. For those that read this thread wvill be aware that there is no one else in this world put together just like you.

For what it is worth my plan is simple. Just eat less and forget the calories. Then exercise more. You eventually find the right combination for yourself.

 

[TheRealTMA]

This trip I am using a traditional curved top walking stick. I do have hiking poles from my bushwalking days and will try them out one day.

And @JohnK there are many doctors that really do understand weight loss and get good results when their advice is followed. In found this with several patients and when I eventually followed my own advice it worked just fine with a 35KG weight loss over 18 months.
The real downside is you must continue on that same lifestyle to make sure you don't just put the weight on.

As well there are differences in each of us and that comes to our metabolism as well. For those that read this thread wvill be aware that there is no one else in this world put together just like you.

For what it is worth my plan is simple. Just eat less and forget the calories. Then exercise more. You eventually find the right combination for yourself.

This assumes one can follow advice. Evidence suggests that’s difficult.

 

[drron]

One with the inbuilt sword I thought.

Swordstick - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Mine is hollow at the top but rather than a sword it has a little flask to keep one happy.
It did trigger a response at SYD. It was taken apart and inspected. The agent thought it was a good idea.