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Breakfast

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constance.de
constance.de

What do people eat for breakfast?  If you give up/are watching carbs, I find breakfast the most difficult to deal with.  No toast, porridge, cereals of any sort, bacon, sausages, etc etc.

I was one of the lucky ones and LOST weight with PMR (10kgs).  Now I am lowering my dose of Pred (at present 5mgs) I have put on 4kgs in 3 months!!  I've never been excessively overweight but before Pred I was 11 stone (and at 5'6" that's too much) and as my OA is a really aggressive sort I don't think that would be advisable.

I can manage other meals, but breakfast?!?

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  • tony09890
    tony09890 constance.de

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    I've had this always hungry disorder all my life, long before I was diagnosed with PMR so I haven't noticed getting any hungrier on Prednisone.   I got to tell you though, being hungry 24/7 for 65 years is not fun..   
    • constance.de
      constance.de tony09890

      Posted

      Poor Tony.  I had to laugh - 24/7 for 65 years!

      Not a laughing matter for you though.  Do you know, I really do not know what hunger feels like.  I have always eaten because it was 'time'.  I was a skinny kid, a skinny adult - until I had children - I put on weight after that because I didn't exercise to take it off.  I did reach 11 stone at one time, which is too much for a person only 5'6" tall, but usually I have a very reasonable BMI.  I lost weight on Pred (1 1/2 stone).  Now I am reducing Pred and have put on about 10 pounds.  We're a funny lot, aren't we?

      All the best. Keep smiling.

      Constance

    • artfingers
      artfingers tony09890

      Posted

      Especially hard when you actually have to eat so its not like you can swear off food.  Oh my, that is no fun at all Tony...Constance, I envy you, been fighting chubbiness all my life. Ugh.
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