I need help with some exercises for an overweight female with nuerothapy in her feet???????

I could really use some excercises to help strengthen my legs without over doing it,my legs tend to spasm on me when i just walk,im on medication,my legs were alot worse to the point that i could barely feel my toes..walking is getting alot better with me getting up more and walking,but i have bad knees as well and my left knee tends to give out at times making it hard to do anything,it gets really frustrating ! I was a very athletic little girl,chunky but very athletic,i loved playing football,baseball,soccer,and so on and now i just want to ride a bike again,i miss riding it was my favorite thing to do growing up,i had very strong legs,and im asking to please help me get them back....!!

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Overweight While Younger Ups Kidney Risk Later

Title: Overweight While Younger Ups Kidney Risk Later
Category: Health News
Created: 4/4/2013 6:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/5/2013 12:00:00 AM

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ED to, suddenly, Overweight

Hey all,

New here, but I love the feeling of support everyone seems to give off so I thought I'd give it a try.

In late March, I realized I'd fallen back into bad habits of restricting terribly (got down to maybe 115 or 120 lb at 5'6); after that realization I sort of took off on the weight regain, getting up to my all time high of 163 today. I've been staying away from scales because I know they trigger me, so I hadn't weighed myself since I started regaining, but we had mandatory screenings at school today and I learned of my weight. That puts me at a BMI of 26.3, which is, for the first time ever in my life, overweight.

Finding out my weight today coincided with the first ever time I've been subject to a fat joke, and it stung so much; if I were to be honest with myself, I'd admit that I've been thinking too much about weight loss recently. The thing is, I'm terribly frightened of weight loss and restriction and exercise and don't know how to separate the healthy from the unhealthy there. 

My question is: will this weight gain come off just as quickly as it came on (40ish pounds in about a month and a half?!) or should I work to get it off and get to a normal weight (pre-ED, my highest ever weight was around 150, so I'd be happy there). I'm just so uncomfortable here, but also uncomfortable with the idea of weight loss. I just want to be normal as quickly as possible and don't know how I got here.

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Allergy 'Rescue' Shots May Work Better in Lower Thigh of Overweight Kids

Title: Allergy 'Rescue' Shots May Work Better in Lower Thigh of Overweight Kids
Category: Health News
Created: 2/25/2013 2:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/26/2013 12:00:00 AM

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Poll: Many Americans Don't See Their Kids as Overweight

Title: Poll: Many Americans Don't See Their Kids as Overweight
Category: Health News
Created: 2/25/2013 12:36:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 2/26/2013 12:00:00 AM

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Low Vitamin D More Common in Overweight Kids

By Rita Rubin
WebMD Health News

Dec. 24, 2012 -- Overweight and obese children and teens are more likely to have low vitamin D levels than kids with healthy weights, a new study suggests.

The study is published in Pediatrics.

Vitamin D is essential for bone health. Bone growth is high during childhood and adolescence. So it may be especially important to identify and treat vitamin D deficiency during that time, the researchers write.

Vitamin D deficiency is also linked to a variety of chronic conditions, such as:

High blood pressureType 1 diabetesMultiple sclerosis

 Previous research suggests that obesity may put you at risk for vitamin D deficiency.

Researchers in the study analyzed data from more than 12,000 U.S. children and teens aged 6 to 18. The children were enrolled in the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

About 21% of the healthy-weight youngsters were deficient in vitamin D. That was also true for 29% of those who were overweight, 34% of those who were obese, and 49% of those who were severely obese.

Even after accounting for such factors as vitamin D supplementation and intake of milk, which is typically fortified with vitamin D, the rates of vitamin D deficiency were higher in Latinos and African-Americans. Among the severely obese youngsters, 27% of whites, 52% of Latinos, and 87% of African-Americans were deficient in vitamin D.

"The particularly high prevalence in severely obese and minority children suggests that targeted screening and treatment guidance is needed," the researchers conclude.

Researcher Christy Turer, MD, a pediatrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center in Dallas, says she and her colleagues already were routinely checking vitamin D levels in children at specialty clinics, such as weight management clinics. Those found to be deficient are prescribed high-dose vitamin D supplements, a pill taken weekly. After eight weeks of treatment, their levels are rechecked, and if they're near normal, she'll cut them back to monthly doses of vitamin D supplements.

Turer also recommends that vitamin-D-deficient patients drink low-fat milk. If they don't like to drink plain milk, she says they can add artificially sweetened flavors that add only 15 calories a serving.

"The reason that milk is important is it has not just vitamin D, but it has calcium," she says. Unsweetened soy milk and almond milk are also good sources of vitamin D and calcium, Turer says.

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The Treatment of Overweight and Obesity as Chronic Medical Conditions

To begin our discussion, let’s discuss the current thinking about overweight and obesity. Physicians and scientists now believe that overweight should be considered a chronic medical condition. Practically, this means that we should consider treating our weight like we would consider treating ourselves if we had high blood pressure.

For example, if you found out you have high blood pressure, most people would first go to see their primary care physician. The primary care physician would check your blood pressure and likely start out by asking you to do a few things on your own to help the blood pressure like cut out salt and decrease alcohol use. At your next visit, if the blood pressure was still high, your physician would likely prescribe medical therapy for your blood pressure in the form of a high blood pressure pill. At your follow up visit , if your blood pressure is well controlled, your physician would refill your medicine and arrange the for future monitoring. If after several adjustments in medication your blood pressure is not within normal limits or if your blood pressure is severely elevated which can lead to organ damage, your physician would then refer you to another physician, likely a nephrologist, a specialist in blood pressure control. Your blood pressure specialist will use tools and medications that your primary care does not use everyday as the nephrologist has more experience with hard to treat blood pressure. If at any time, you were decide to stop treatment with your blood pressure medicine or to have a really salty meal, it is no doubt that your blood pressure would go up again.

Let’s use weight in the same example as blood pressure. When you first seek treatment for overweight or obesity, the first person to visit is your primary physician. Your physician may recommend a particular diet and exercise regimen. Like easily controlled blood pressure, this may be all you need. If your weight does not respond adequately (your loss is not enough) or if the diet is too hard to follow or you have been on it prior and had weight regain or you have multiple medical conditions that your current weight is worsening like diabetes, high blood pressure or sleep apnea your physician should send you to a specialist in weight loss called a medical obesity specialist (see www.ASBP.org or www.ABOM.com). This physician is well trained in comprehensive medical weight loss and will use techniques not well studied or known to your primary care physician.

To treat our weight any other way than as a chronic disease (like blood pressure) would be to go against current medical and scientific thinking. Aggressive low calorie diets, exercise, behavioral modification and medical oversight including various weight loss medications are the current best known way to lose weight, and give you the best known way to keep it off. When you are successful in using dietary change, weight loss medicines, exercise and behavioral methods to lose weight, if you stop dieting, taking your weight loss medication or exercising, it is likely that you will regain your weight.

It is unfortunate that at this time we do not have a true cure for obesity. Medical science is continuing the pursuit for a cure. Until a cure is found, we will have to use comprehensive approaches to lose weight and continue these treatments for long periods of time to prevent regain.

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