A MUST READ for anyone who wants to lose weight - Enjoy!

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For anyone who is interested in losing weight and/or improving their quality of

life I strongly recommend you read and adopt this way of eating (link below).

I've been eating most (I just can't eat yogurt) of the foods in this book on a

daily basis. The book is geared toward disease prevention/control but you will

probably experience a wonderful side effect of losing weight. When I began

eating this way I couldn't do 2 min's on a treadmill because my asthma was so

bad but I still lost weight just by eating the right foods (I wasn't on pred.).

Once the weight began coming off I was able to do 15 or 20 min's on a treadmill

at 2mph. Then Xolair was introduced and I can now do 4 miles up and down hills

pushing two kids in a jogging stroller. There's no question that Xolair has

provided the most improvement but my diet has done wonders as well.

I remember back to when I first did the 4 miles in an hour.....I was timing

each lap and I was getting consistently faster as I completed each lap. I'm

sure you can imagine how great that felt.

If you adopt this way of eating it will do more than help you lose weight and

control your asthma -- it will help prevent cancer, diabetes, eye

diseases....etc...etc....I just can't say enough good things about this book.

The foods that you'll be eating are just delicious. Enjoy!

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Adah Voigt <asthmatic50@...> wrote:

I was approved for xolair and I haven't been to an emergency room in

20 years. My asthma is pretty well under control unless I develop a sinus

infections from what I call a bad case of hay fever.

I know what you mean about the weight gain. Five years straight on

prednisone--tapering down, being off for about two weeks and then having to go

back on it--led to weight gain which I have tried to get off--I have lost 15

pounds of it and have had trouble losing any more.

I also understand about exercise--but I found out that if I use my inhaler

before I even start I can do better. I do the treadmill and can walk for 30

minutes without having to use my inhaler, but at about 2.5-3.0 speed. The

important thing is to try to do something. When I first started on the

treadmill, I could hardly do five minutes, but I kept at it. Then I could do

fifteen--then 20--then I pushed and tried for 30--Once in a while I can only do

15 or 10 minutes, but most of the time I can do 30 with no problem.

But the weight still won't come off because I am not as consistent about walking

as I should be.

Don't know where you live, or the number of doctors available to you under your

insurance plan, but I was very fortunate to find a doctor twenty years ago who

was willing to work with me (and I with him) to find a combination of medicines

that really worked. That was how I was finally able to come off of prednisone

and use it only when I had severe attacks caused from an infection.

Hope you can find a doctor who is willing to work at helping you get better.

After all, that is really what you and the insurance companies pay them the big

bucks for!

Adah

instdesgn1 <instdesgn1@...> wrote:

I'm glad to see that some people w/really high IgEs are still able to

get Xolair. I'm sweating it because I have a high weight (a bit over

200 lbs.) and nearly 370 IgE.

This is really crazy because the years of cortizone to keep me

breathing contributed to the weight gain and blood sugar zig-zags.

It's hard to exercise much because my chest does " instant tight " on me

(it seems like)with much movement. This is absurd!!! The treatment

for the disease (a sham as far as I'm concerned because the old

treatments were right up there w/blood-letting with all the side

effects) caused the very problems that I'm afraid will stop me from

getting treatment. I'm wondering if I need to start showing up at the

hospital more rather than toughing it out at home. Albuterol doesn't

help that much any more w/emergencies and I have them every day. Sinus

scans show chronic inflammation and infection.

Sheesh, I wish I could find out something ... my patience is at an all-

time low right now! My heart is enlarged and other minor heart

problems - I think it's from asthma treatments as well as the disease

itself. Get thee out of here, oh, asthma!

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