la_tinkerbelle
Full Member
Hi guys...
Ok, so I've been here before (and before and before lol)...
Had the whole roller-coaster of diets over the years, slimming world, rosemary conleys, atkins...
I got started with Cambridge a few years ago and was doing well on it, only to have to stop it due to other health concerns (I have a brain tumour illness that had to come first)...
In November last year I was put on Xenical by a doc and again had a good month until my illness had bad timing again and I had to stop for that reason...
Well, the reason I'm back now is that due to my illness deteriorating I had major brain surgery about 4 weeks ago... Cutting it brief, it all went wrong, and I had a stroke. The result was I had no speech, paralysis down one side and damage to my neck. Now most has come back 90% and I'm making a good recovery... phew!...
The only thing that hasn't come back yet is my control over my neck paralysis... and becuase of this I can no longer eat or drink...
For the past month I've had to have a feeding tube in and fed through a syringe... this fortunately came out this Thursday... and I'm now living on a diet of shakes that's very similar to the Cambridge diet, as prescribed by the hospital, as I can manage small sips through a straw now.
The hospital were pretty much 'your tube's out now, you can live off the shakes all your life... cya'!! which pretty much sucks... so I've found myself all alone facing this mammoth uncertain future, perhaps with no food ever again...
and to say I'm scared and unsure and down would be an understatement...
I wanted to come on here and see if it would be ok for me to come on and share and join in, even tho not really doing the diet - tho I am losing weight now at a rate of 2.5 kgs a week... as I really need some support from people who are in the same boat and not eating just having shakes, even tho I know you guys do it voluntarily and mine isn't my choice...
The only thing keeping me sane about this whole not eating thing at the moment is the fact that it is helping me to lose weight and as I'm getting married in 2012, maybe I'll eventually get into that size 10 wedding dress of my dreams lol
So... that's my tale, and I hope to talk to you all soon...
Clair x
Ok, so I've been here before (and before and before lol)...
Had the whole roller-coaster of diets over the years, slimming world, rosemary conleys, atkins...
I got started with Cambridge a few years ago and was doing well on it, only to have to stop it due to other health concerns (I have a brain tumour illness that had to come first)...
In November last year I was put on Xenical by a doc and again had a good month until my illness had bad timing again and I had to stop for that reason...
Well, the reason I'm back now is that due to my illness deteriorating I had major brain surgery about 4 weeks ago... Cutting it brief, it all went wrong, and I had a stroke. The result was I had no speech, paralysis down one side and damage to my neck. Now most has come back 90% and I'm making a good recovery... phew!...
The only thing that hasn't come back yet is my control over my neck paralysis... and becuase of this I can no longer eat or drink...
For the past month I've had to have a feeding tube in and fed through a syringe... this fortunately came out this Thursday... and I'm now living on a diet of shakes that's very similar to the Cambridge diet, as prescribed by the hospital, as I can manage small sips through a straw now.
The hospital were pretty much 'your tube's out now, you can live off the shakes all your life... cya'!! which pretty much sucks... so I've found myself all alone facing this mammoth uncertain future, perhaps with no food ever again...
and to say I'm scared and unsure and down would be an understatement...
I wanted to come on here and see if it would be ok for me to come on and share and join in, even tho not really doing the diet - tho I am losing weight now at a rate of 2.5 kgs a week... as I really need some support from people who are in the same boat and not eating just having shakes, even tho I know you guys do it voluntarily and mine isn't my choice...
The only thing keeping me sane about this whole not eating thing at the moment is the fact that it is helping me to lose weight and as I'm getting married in 2012, maybe I'll eventually get into that size 10 wedding dress of my dreams lol
So... that's my tale, and I hope to talk to you all soon...
Clair x