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Weight Loss	Over 200 club	Jan 17 2007 20:07 (UTC)	780

Weight Loss	Over 200 club	Jan 17 2007 20:07 (UTC)	781
I'll dive in here. I'm 42, 5'-11" and weigh 290. It's been a strange road to get here. I was very little in college (about 165) and was diagnosed with what was supposedly Crohn's disease at age 18. Was treated with what the doctor considered an "aggressive" steroid protocol. Today, doctors would consider the amount of prednisone I was given, over the length of time I was given it, to be insane. I was on pretty regular, heavy, prednisone cycles for nearly 8 years. During that time, I went from 170 to 235. After that, beer drinking and stress have taken me the rest of the way. I do know that when I quit drinking and take care of myself, just a little bit, the weight falls off. Here's hoping.
Weight Loss	feeling woozy	Jan 17 2007 19:49 (UTC)	5
Wow, that's pretty low calorie...and nearly impossible to stick with.
Health & Support	Quitting Drinking	Jan 17 2007 15:08 (UTC)	6
Every time I have quit drinking, the weight has just fallen off. My routine was basically to slam anywhere from 5 to 10 beers in the evening, with most of them before eating. I have quit twice, for a month at each time, in the last five years. Each time, I lost more than 20 pounds, without making any other signficant changes. Even more than the calories, drinking alcohol disrupts your liver's ability to burn fat. You burn the alcohol for energy. If you do like I was, and eating fatty foods right after drinking, you might as well apply the food fat directly to your stomach.

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