peeperjj's Journal, 09 February 2021

4 1/2# increase over the last month... yet I haven’t eaten 15,000 kcal over burn. Drinking coffee all day to see how much of this is water and how much I can get rid of. It’s messing with my mind lol. Eat lower calorie meals, gain weight. Up calories out and gain weight. Sleep 8 hours gain weight. Sleep 4 hours, gain weight. Eat snickers, gain weight. Eat soup instead of a snickers, gain weight!! My body has become a traitor!! 😝 Toke to do some research to see if this pinched nerve could be a culprit. I wouldn’t think it or the meds (gabapentin and Advil) would make this much of a difference. Who knows but I’m drinking so much coffee I feel like I’m living on the bathroom today! And I’ve only had like 3 coffee cups so far and some water. Gotta have some water as I know 100% coffee isn’t good for me. 

I know how you feel. Sometimes it seems no matter what we do we gain . I'm in the same boat lately too 😕  

Aww 😔 hope you start losing soon or at least stop the gain! I don’t mine the scale going up as much as not knowing why! I need to know why! Lol.  

SpeakiNg of water, have you had labs drawn recently. Shoes too tight. Feet, hands swollen. What is your salt intake looking like 

Are you having keto coffee? 

No keto anything here 😉. As for sodium I just checked and my intake this week and last is low, the two weeks before that was 3,000 higher than I like and the week before that was low. I do tend to hold water when I consume 3,000 a day or more so I have my weekly goal at 21,000. I need to get in for labs but it was hectic and now we have ice. I could get to town but they say the roads in town are horrible and nobody is salting or sanding side roads or parking lots, just the big main roads. We slid through a stop sign when we went to town Monday and we’ve gotten more sleet and ice since then.  

Kenna, also nothing seems swollen. Have a pinched nerve and it’s acting up again for the last week. Taking gabapentin and Advil 3-4x a day. Need to look that up and see if that could be a cause. But I had my coffee a lot yesterday and I dropped 2# this morning. Still had 3 bottles of propel too. So I only cut one bottle of propel in exchange for the coffee.  

Hope it comes off soon! Hang in there! 

i am answering from my tribe (so low carb ketoers etc LOL) but I am guessing they would say that the pinched nerve is related to inflammation (which is what you are trying to alieviate with the advil) and inflammation can make it hard to lose weight.  

I will suggest that you dont take advil for your pinched nerve. your body is a beautiful machine and has a natural response to inflammation, if you hide the inflammation by taking an NSAID then the macrophages may not properly do their job to send for help to repair inflammation and other issues. if you want to take it though keep taking it! just want to give yoh some more info 

Liv that’s what I was thinking based on what I’ve read on posts here. (That inflammation makes weight loss hard/slow). Thanks for confirming that!  

Lexi I dislike taking any meds and seem to have a high pain tolerance. I took 1/2 a narcotic pill the night after surgery and usually 1/2 of one the next day then Advil or even just Advil for all except my hysterectomy and mastectomy (those were the 1/2 pill surgeries). If my dr wouldn’t have prescribed 800mg ibuprofen 3x a day I wouldn’t be taking it. I take 600 2-3x a day right now. It’s not bad as long as I don’t love and have something to take my mind off of it. Otherwise it’s a constant sharp pain from the base of my skull clear down to my wrist ALL DAY long! Trust me I’d rather not take anything lol. But I can’t stand much more of this. Last time it was two weeks before I saw my dr and mother two weeks to get it cleared up. It’s been two weeks now but everything is icy so I’m not sure if my dr is open or not. Drove to town today to see about the roads and they aren’t bad by my drs office so if she has an appointment soon I’ll go in. Maybe she can give me another shot or something! Chiropractor made it worse and massage only helped for a few hours. Can’t afford a massage 2x a day lol. But yeah the Advil is probably masking it 😞.  

Hopefully things start to go back to normal for you. Thats very unfortunate but I will send good vibes your way.