Could just be a side effect of being over 40 man. Over 30 has similar side effects as well.
Putting on weight - help!
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Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a hundred times. Losing weight is easy too, I've lost 25 pounds lots of times. I wish there were as effective a weight loss technique as vaping seems to be for tobacco cessation. Permanent dietary, lifestyle and exercise changes really are necessary for effective and long term weight loss, there's no magic bullet. Congratulations on your weight loss and exemplary exercise regimen; unfortunately I am a couch potato with a bad leg, not to mention that it's hard to teach an old dog......
Best wishes and when you regain employment make sure the location is far away so you can ride to work and keep burning tons of calories.
LOL. I solved that one with an Eroll. I'm rural and the oval drive in front is about 150 X 90. I used to walk it as I smoked even in rain and snow but didn't have a reason to walk it when I started vaping. Sooo, I got an Eroll which simulates smoking more for me. Now I walk that drive with my Eroll and come back in the my drip-tip Egos. Funny how we have to trick the brain like that... but, whatever works.
Yeah. "Food tastes better so now you're eating more" is the stock answer but I don't buy it, at least in my case.
Earlier, someone mentioned dehydration. I hadn't thought of that as being a factor in weight gain, but I am definitely dehydrated since I started vaping despite a deliberate effort to drink more water.
Same problem with weight here too.
I was born fat and it was 1973 before I found a diet that would become my lifestyle.
I've smoked for 56 years, and after I had learned to control my weight for all those years ,, smoking was my last battle.
But over the years... everytime I quit (using all the different methods), I would start gaining weight, and the diet would not work anymore.
So, no matter how I tried to stop it, it was back to smoking at the 10 pound gain point, (my panic point) and then a long fight to get the extra weigh back off.
I heard about "blu" on the TV one night and it got my attention, as I was having lots of medical problems.
The next morning during my usual 24/7 hacking, I noticed blood in the phlem I was coughing up.
From the doctors office, i went straight to the store for a pack of blu.
I ordered GreenSmoke to start, found ECF and have advanced big time from there.
I had it in my head that as long as I could keep getting my nicotine, my diet would work.
And it has .... until this month.
I've racked my brain for ANY small change that may have caused it..
After living with my diet since 1973, it's pretty simple to know when you've blown it, and that is definatly not the case.
I'm always on the cutting edge with my weight, and very self aware of my actions.
The only thing I can think of, is that after being off cigs for a year, all of a sudden my metabolism has now decided to change, along with all the other changes that took place.
I keep asking myself, why now .. why didn't it change when I origanally went to vaping.
I don't have the answers.....yet !
But, yes, ...to answer your question ... some of us are having problems with weigh, and not because we altered
our eating habits, or exercise.
I was born fat and it was 1973 before I found a diet that would become my lifestyle.
I've smoked for 56 years, and after I had learned to control my weight for all those years ,, smoking was my last battle.
But over the years... everytime I quit (using all the different methods), I would start gaining weight, and the diet would not work anymore.
So, no matter how I tried to stop it, it was back to smoking at the 10 pound gain point, (my panic point) and then a long fight to get the extra weigh back off.
I heard about "blu" on the TV one night and it got my attention, as I was having lots of medical problems.
The next morning during my usual 24/7 hacking, I noticed blood in the phlem I was coughing up.
From the doctors office, i went straight to the store for a pack of blu.
I ordered GreenSmoke to start, found ECF and have advanced big time from there.
I had it in my head that as long as I could keep getting my nicotine, my diet would work.
And it has .... until this month.
I've racked my brain for ANY small change that may have caused it..
After living with my diet since 1973, it's pretty simple to know when you've blown it, and that is definatly not the case.
I'm always on the cutting edge with my weight, and very self aware of my actions.
The only thing I can think of, is that after being off cigs for a year, all of a sudden my metabolism has now decided to change, along with all the other changes that took place.
I keep asking myself, why now .. why didn't it change when I origanally went to vaping.
I don't have the answers.....yet !
But, yes, ...to answer your question ... some of us are having problems with weigh, and not because we altered
our eating habits, or exercise.
Unless you have a metabolic disorder, in which case you need to see an endocrinologist, weight gain is always related to caloric intake.
It's a simple scientific thing, if you take in more calories than you burn, then you gain weight.
It is not always how much you eat but more about WHAT you eat.
Weight gain is not a side effect from quitting smoking unless we are eating more calories OR the wrong kinds of calories that are hard to burn off
I went thru this w/my mom who quit smoking, and she gained, and couldn't figure it out, then my brother "outed" her and said she was snacking more and eating a lot of grains and carbohydrates.
She is elderly and ill and cannot exercize much due to COPD and having just had stents placed in her leg arteries. So on top of snacking more, she is not burning anything off like she used to.
I would just concentrate on quitting smoking, then maybe when comfrotable w/that embark on a better eating and lifestyle goals.
Myself, I lost over 30 pounds since I started vaping but I was very careful not to replace smoking with eating. I also cut back drastically on carbs, grains and high fat dairy. That seems to have done the trick. I don't eat bread or anything like that. ...at my age, I can't get away with that, and having read Wheat Belly, I really don't WANT to eat bread anymore anyway.
It's a simple scientific thing, if you take in more calories than you burn, then you gain weight.
It is not always how much you eat but more about WHAT you eat.
Weight gain is not a side effect from quitting smoking unless we are eating more calories OR the wrong kinds of calories that are hard to burn off
I went thru this w/my mom who quit smoking, and she gained, and couldn't figure it out, then my brother "outed" her and said she was snacking more and eating a lot of grains and carbohydrates.
She is elderly and ill and cannot exercize much due to COPD and having just had stents placed in her leg arteries. So on top of snacking more, she is not burning anything off like she used to.
I would just concentrate on quitting smoking, then maybe when comfrotable w/that embark on a better eating and lifestyle goals.
Myself, I lost over 30 pounds since I started vaping but I was very careful not to replace smoking with eating. I also cut back drastically on carbs, grains and high fat dairy. That seems to have done the trick. I don't eat bread or anything like that. ...at my age, I can't get away with that, and having read Wheat Belly, I really don't WANT to eat bread anymore anyway.
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There are also ways to "kick start" your metabolism. Trick it a bit.
I jsut finished reading a bunch of books by Dr Mark Hyman, he's a functional medicine M.D. and so is Joel Furhman and Alexandro Junger. I kinda combined their advice, but the blood sugar solution was a fantastic book.
I jsut finished reading a bunch of books by Dr Mark Hyman, he's a functional medicine M.D. and so is Joel Furhman and Alexandro Junger. I kinda combined their advice, but the blood sugar solution was a fantastic book.
What provoked my question is that I have always used the Atkins diet to lose weight. It is easy and fast (for me). But with vaping I cannot get into ketosis which made me think there must be carbs (sugar?) in the juice. I have no idea how it all works and whether the juice gets into the body as a "food" but Hopefully someone knows something about whether there are carbs in it. It is only an issue with Atkins because traditionally it depends on stopping all carbs to work to 100% effectiveness in the induction stage. It is a small price to pay for giving up cigarettes but hopefully m y experience will help someone else
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