Has anyone else gained weight after quitting analogs?

[markimar]

Or am I the only one that's blimped out since quoting? I weigh more than ever in my life! I don't know if it was because I was so weak from the low blood count for almost a year which turned me into a couch potato. Or if was from quitting analog. But I'm severely depressed over my weight. I feel like a rigging cripple! My lower back hurts so bad from all the extra weight. Sigh we need a diet juice!

 

[BanjoMan]

I've put on a few extra pounds since I quit smoking, but I blame it on all the months I've sat in front of the computer logged into ECF.

 

[scross1]

Well Markimar, you are not alone. I have put on a chunk of weight in the past 16 months. We live so close that we should get together and go for a walk.............to a restaurant................to get a cheeseburger...............and some fries.

 

[Tracker II]

Yah, I've gained quite a bit of weight since I started vaping on 1/14/11. Of course most (or all) of it has to do with the fact that I got in a head-on collision the last day of January and have been in a semi-crippled state ever since. The good news is that my busted kneecap was looking good in the latest x-ray and my range of motion is now to the point that I can just now start going for long walks and burn some calories. The bad news is that it's so freakin' hot out that I'm staying inside and hitting the fridge every hour or so, lol.

 

[Timedog]

I'm chaulking it up to the metabolism slowing down with age. When I was twenty I could drop some weight by giving up chips and beer for a week. At 60+ not so much.
I too might be up for an Orlando get toether. I live near Hunters Creek, south Orlando

 

[daniel5383]

it definitley happens with quitting as i had went through some serious diet and exercise and had lost 50lbs in 3 months and then managed to keep it off for 2 years even though i ate terribly and drank nothing but soda...the minute i start vaping, weight starts coming back and havent changed anything else...i dont understand lol

 

[Cari]

I've gained 15 pounds since I started vaping a year and a half go, but I also got lazy and really slowed down on my exercise habits. Started back into my workout routine about a month ago and it's slowly coming off, but not cooperatively. Geeze, jogging three miles a day, plus light weights, crunches, push-ups, squats ~ I just friggin hurt. This horrible heat wave isn't helping. When I jogged at 8:00 this morning it was already 87 degrees. I'm looking forward to winter!

 

[ames001]

between mid june and september 09 i was biking 20 k a day every day.... (this was soon after i started smoking) during that time i lost 40 pounds. by feb 2010 when i started vaping it was 45 pounds. it stayed off while i was vaping, but i was eating healthy... decent slice of homemade bread for breakfast, 2 protein bars for work.... stir fries for dinner and the weather was warmer, so one needed more energy to get around. enter smoking relapse, where i was never at home, never hungry and never really ate junk. bye bye another 10 pounds. switched back to vaping 2 weeks before moving in with my boyfriend. i dont know whether its the cooler weather, the fact that my boyfriend loves to sit down to watch a movie with drinks and goodies more than once a week, a change in meds 1.5 months ago or what. but i've regained another 10 ish pounds.... even with walking 3k a day at work. i dont think its the vaping, because i switched back mid january.

but the chemicals in smokes do significantly alter your metabolism. if you continue to eat the way you were when you were smoking, you'll have to work harder to maintain your weight.

i still dont see how anyone can gain weight on <1800 calories in a day with decent excercise at 20 though must be the meds. or the weight would have started coming back on 6 months ago.

 

[markimar]

Well I don't feel alone then. Why is it so easy to put it on. And twice as hard to get it off? This Florida heat just makes it unbearable to do anything outdoors. But this weight thing has GOT to change its killing my back and I'm sick of this!

 

[markimar]

Well Markimar, you are not alone. I have put on a chunk of weight in the past 16 months. We live so close that we should get together and go for a walk.............to a restaurant................to get a cheeseburger...............and some fries.

That's so funny! I say a double order of fries!

 

[cindycated]

Could it just be water retention? I read somewhere else on here that PG dehydrates the heck out of you, so maybe drink more water. I've actually lost a little bit, because I can work out longer (till my muscles fatigue, instead of when I run out of breath and feel like I'm about to die), don't have to eat dessert anymore (craazy sweet tooth - I can just vape it now and feel completely satisfied), and drink more water like I'm supposed to now (I never had before - maybe like 1 or 2 glasses/day when I remembered to).

But yeah, it's really easy to get lazy and just chain-vape and read through ECF all night!

 

[judybr]

I have gained a lot too since I started vaping last August, but the almost 20 lbs is a lot better than the 30 I gained on one month when I quit smoking cold turkey. During that month I kept tons of celery and carrots cut up to munch on and still gained that fast, even though I couldn't be still. Needless to say, I quit trying to quit smoking but never lost that 30 lbs. This new weight gain, OMG, I understand the back pain and am so ready to do something. But the heat has been unbearable and there certainly is no gym where I live. There are times I think about going back to analogs just for that reason but I really like this not coughing my guts up all the time. Oh the dilemma!!

 

[ames001]

i've been drinking tons of water... but in the last month and a half (out of the 7 months that i've been back on the vapewagon) its been a lot warmer at work.... and i've needed to drink more coffee to keep away the fatigue. so i'm thinking it could be a combination of the medication change and not keeping track of my water intake enough. going to start to track that more and do a cleanse and see if this weight disappears

 

[cherewine]

Well Markimar, you are not alone. I have put on a chunk of weight in the past 16 months. We live so close that we should get together and go for a walk.............to a restaurant................to get a cheeseburger...............and some fries.

OMG...now I've got to clean up all the food that was in my mouth while reading this...off of my keyboard!

But, yea....I keep telling myself it's because I'm now post-menopausal....but in reality I think its the typical weight gain that happens when someone quits smoking analogs....that sounded believable didn't it?

 

[ames001]

thats the one thing i know its not for me, or it would have chunked on the first time and started coming back right away after i switched mid jan. so i cant blame it on anything but my own fatigue and working in a 30 C environment without the time to refill my water bottle every 45 minutes

 

[Poeia]

When I tried Smoke Enders about 15 years ago (it worked… for several weeks), they said that when you are smoking your body expends a lot of calories just trying to expel all those nasty chemicals. Therefore when you quit you have to either exercise more or eat less to make up for the fact that those calories won't be burned any longer.

I have no idea if it's true but it has always sounded reasonable.

 

[ames001]

thats probably right on the money. cause smoking kills all the villi in your lungs, and suffocates everything else, so the body would have to use more energy to theoretically succeed. but the recommended daily intake for calories is 2000 for women, 2500 for men. women use 100 calories per hour just sitting in one spot.

 

[Poeia]

So, if I eat the 2,000 calories recommended for an average woman and sit in one spot for 24 hours, I will lose one pound every 8 1/2 days? That doesn't sound right to me.

 

[ames001]

i didnt say anything about loosing any weight at all. and assuming the average person is up for 16 hours, that leaves you with 400 calories to burn to break even.

 

[markimar]

I think i'd have to go on a 100 calorie diet to lose all the friggin weight I put on!