HAS ANYONE TRIED NUTRI SYSTEM? NOTHING WORKS THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

Lee, what's the cause of your edema?

Before WLS I had heart disease and it cause me to have really bad edema for many years and after losing weight it just stuck around.  

  How to say this...

You're not fat.

Lee, baby, stop doing this to yourself.  You have a medical condition that causes your body to hold onto water.  It's not fat.  It's water.  If the doctors are unable to control your edema with meds, even if you managed to work/diet yourself down to a smaller size you would still have the fluctuations like you do now.  

I've looked at your photos and you are so pretty.  Everybody sees it but you.

(((((((Lee)))))))))))   Trust me, I KNOW.  I took a trip recently and when I took off my shoes, my feet looked like balloons.   I can go from the 160s to the 180s OVERNIGHT.  So, I feel you, my sister.  People don't understand our struggle.

We have to find that "contented place" where we know we are doing all the right things and our health is improved because of it.  ~sigh~    Skinny, we will probably never be ~another sigh~  unless God heals us.  Hey, it could happen.

" I can go from the 160s to the 180s OVERNIGHT"    (that is my daily struggle, one day fat one day thin)

It really does suck,   I remember I use to post years ago about putting on jeans in the morning and a hour or two later they were so tight I couldn't breath.    You were the only one who understood what I was going through.   

When I travel I have to take at least 3 different size clothes because one day it's falling off the next it's tight as hell.  

I, too, suffer from edema...due to Meneire's Disease....and I sometimes have to take predinosine or whatever....and it holds water....I am also on a scripted diuretic.....

I am not the one to be on a eating rule....my eating rule is MODERATION is key...

I started that Acai Berry/Colon Cleanse thingy on Monday....I want to drop 20lbs by the end of the month.....all I can say is that **** is working overtime already!!!!!!!

My advice to you? I know you are a workout fanatic....I would strictly try a aerobics (such as kickboxing or a boxing style workout or dance workout---zumba or belly dancing)....coupled with yoga or pilate....

and if you let your hair down before you get on a scale, you will weigh less LOL...that damn ball weighs 10lbs!

I woke Phil up around 2:00 AM...I could not feel my feet....we looked down and my toes and ankles looked like sausages and ground beef rolls!....he propped them up on pillows while I cried....I hate that ****!

I am sitting here with my compression hose on and my feet propped up right now.    LOL. 

I've never tried Nutri System, but I did do Jenny Craig a few yrs ago.  Be careful with that stuff its very high in sodium content and I remember you posting about edema a few times.

Last week I trialed Seattle Sutton's meals and I don't think prepackaged is the way to go-the food tasted like crap to me and no amount of trying to fix it up with seasonings was working.

I'm just curious, how much weight have you lost from your highest?  How far from your goal are you?  Have you discussed with your Dr, nutritionist your goal?  If so what did they have to say?

Nutrisystem is no longer really high in sodium,  it is one of the things I checked out and they have less than 1800 for the entire day which is less than one meal in other frozen food entres.

Yeah I do have pretty bad edema and it sucks.   

I have talked to my doctor and had test done last week everything came back fine.  He wants me to see a nutritionist but they are a waste of time to me.   But I may consider going just to get the feedback I guess.