A New Beginning

[NikkiNicole]

On October 4th, I will be starting the Kaiser Medical Weight Management Program/Optifast. It is a medically monitored liquid/bar, strict limited calorie diet. It seems incredibly drastic and some people balk but ... I do need to do something and I want my doctor involved. I am incredibly motivated and excited for this. I've started a new blog about it, so that I can document my journey and hopefully be an inspiration to other people.
The blog can be found here ...

My Life: A ReBoot.

Come on over and check it out! I am excited because I feel some of the ol' symptoms trickling back in. They are small at this point but I am fearful if I don't get ahold of this, I'll be headed down another prednisone road trip and it will only get worse from here.

I hope everyone is doing well!!!

[vdub]

Good luck! Losing weight is such a pita....

[mishb]

I'm looking forward to following your journey.

My daughter was using optifast for a few weeks when she had her wisdom teeth out. They made her quite sick, the shakes not the wisdom teeth.
We have so many shakes here that if you lived closer I would give them all to do.

I hope they work for you and I also look forward to offering you any encouragement you need.
You can do this

[blu4runner]

Best wishes with the program I am on Nutrisystem myself and was doing really well until I had a flare and started 60mg prednisone again. On the prednisone taper now and still working on the weight loss.

[Jaha]

Wishing you all the best with your weight loss journey!

[gilders]

Good luck with the weight loss. I'm also trying (correction I'm not just trying, I am succeeding) to lose weight. Although I'm under the allowed BMI for kidney transplant, I'm just above the upper limits of ideal range. I'm aiming for close to ideal as possible. I'm not trying anything fancy, just recording everything I eat and doing the old fashioned method of calorie counting. I've only lost 5 pounds in 2 weeks, but my diet and exercise regime is fairly easy and I know I can stick to it.
My dietitian agreed that my diet was exceptionally healthy, but even healthy food will put on weight with my generous portion size. That's why it's been fairly easy for me - no changes in diet except portion size and all in between snacks are healthy.