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silliest · 07-06-2006, 04:52 AM

Tiara,

I'm not Dana, but you asked about gaining weight.

I didn't realize until my most recent Dr. visit (no scale at home) that I have actually gained a few pounds lately.
Last time I talked to the doc about this, he recommended that I find one good "comfort food" that I could make into a habit. Something that I'd enjoy and have pleasant associations with instead of choking down a carb-shake every day or something awful.

I picked two ;-p Lasagna and Tapioca.
I make a lasagna on monday, and eat some of that whenever I want a snack, in addition to regular meals, throughout the week (and oh, baby, is that a lasagna! I skimp on nothing!) and I have a full batch (like 4 servings) of tapoica pudding as a bedtime snack every night.

This is on top of a regular dietician-approved sort of "healthy diet".

It adds approximately one buttload of extra calories, and I didn't think it was doing a bit of good, but according to the scale, *something* is helping.

And I'm not feeling like I'm having to force feed myself anything horrible.
I had to use a powdered supplement to halt weight loss during my second pregnancy, and it was *vile*. I really wanted to stick with real food somehow, but getting enough of it in me was proving to be a challenge. And I eat large portions "for a girl" anyway ;-> It just gets burned up somehow.

So your own personal "favorite foods" might be way different, but I have found that making it the same routine food really helps because I'm not always trying to *figure out* what I'm going to eat this time. And picking foods that I love helps because I don't just "forget" to eat something because it's so nasty ;-p

My doc has another patient (he just told me about her today! There's two of us in this town! Wow!) who is gaining by chowing down on apple cinnamon muffins whenever she wants to (she works at a muffin shop, which helps ;-p).

Just thoughts...

What have you tried?