methotrexate

[Dexter1414]

does it make you put on weight with these tablets and can anyone give me any tips to loose weight please and meal ideas

[Haz58]

Don't know about methotrexate making you out on weight but I started using an app called My Net Diary. I log everything I eat and drink. You can scan the barcodes on food packages and riu can see what carbs, protein, fat and minerals you are getting or but getting. I've lost 2 stone since doing this.

You put in how much weight you want to loose and it works out how many calories a day are good for you.

There are recipe ideas too if you pay for full access which i do.

I was told by my lipid consultant the lowest calories I could go to was 1400 a day. 40 to 50% carbs, 30 to 40% protein and 20 to 30% fat.

It's worked for me. It sounds a pain logging everything but I'm used to it now and it's habit.

[BoneyC]

MTX has not made me put on weight. Have a look online at some of the late Dr. Michael Mosley's advice and recipes with regards to losing weight.

[Gaz227]

I’ve been using intermittent fasting , I haven’t got much weight to lose I do it more for my general health I eat between 8 am and 4pm , water black tea or coffee outside those hours . Lost 3.5kg since Christmas and I eat anything I want , but I have a healthy diet anyway 👍 try it you soon get used to it , good luck 🤞

[Summet32]

Are you taking steroids as well as methotrexate?These can cause weight gain

[Dexter1414 in reply to Summet32]

I’m only on methotrexate

[cyberbarn]

Just a thought with those apps that let you scan the barcode, if there is a barcode on your food then it might be that you are eating too much processed food.

I cook everything from scratch. Well, except for our special treat of crisps on a Sunday evening. I can cook crisps and have done so, but I am lazy these days. I have tried to find the barcodes on the apples, green peppers, meat from the butcher, home made pasta, eggs from our own chickens, veggies from the garden, but they don't seem to have barcodes! Until the farm next door closed down I was also making my own cheese, drinking milk straight from the cow and so on. Although we now buy dairy products like milk and cheese, we still make our own ice cream.

So other than the crisps, if I can't make it from scratch it doesn't get made. So maybe aim to make those apps useless by eating more fresh home made food without barcodes.

[bienassis in reply to cyberbarn]

My goodness! You can invite me for supper! What a wonderful way to live. All that home-made, home produced food. Not many of us could claim to be so lucky - although luck is only part of it, hard work contributes most.

Barcodes are only part of the problem when relying on supermarkets; the produce itself, in order to be sold by supermarkets, will hardly have the freshness of home-produced food. All ready prepared food will have some kind of preservative included however much it is claimed to be “just like you cook at home”.

A large dose of scepticism is needed when shopping! Barcodes indeed!

[GordonEdin]

Unlikely, in my experience, that methotrexate itself will make you put on weight. If anything, it might give you a somewhat queasy stomach which will make you less likely to want to eat.

However, active Rheumatoid Arthritis can certainly make you lose weight. I regained some 5kg of weight after the methotrexate brought my RA under control.

If you are on steroids as well then I would think that these might possibly lead to weight gain.

[Neonkittie17]

I never gained any weight on Mtx. Maybe if you are in pain you’re not moving atm as you normally do?