Healthy clean eating...

Submitted by CMeLipoma on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 02:20

I am new to this whole Lipoma thing... I have had them since I was 21 years old. I am a female, now approaching 40. 

I have found that changing my diet by taking sugar out and never putting the fake sugars in, has helped alot.  I have also been going to a chiropractor and he has helped with alot of the pain that I have been dealing with along my spine (I have one very annoying one about the size of a large marble).  I have found a few on my arms but mostly I have them around my midsection.  I starting running and I noticed that there was less pain and it seemed that the ones that I had  were not bothersome or as large. 

I work out 4 days a week, run, walk, take boot camp, spin classes and I eat pretty healthy however I had not lost one pound for 6 months.  I could not understand why.  Well now after some of my own research and monitoring my life... I found out why. 

Some of the stress of working out has made conditions worse.  I do work out with a pretty strenuous trainer.  I would be so tired and so in pain that it was the lipomas that hurt not my muscles.  I would sit in a hot bath or shower for ever just to get relief.  

Here is what I suggest for anyone to try...I am not a doctor but these are pretty safe ideas... 

 

Swim

Run only 2-3 days a week

Do one harder workout where you push yourself

Take fish oil tablets and iron if needed

Eat clean foods.  Be careful with high processed foods

Drink alot of water and avoid anything with sugar

Caffeine seems to make things a bit more intolerable so stay away from that too

I do alot of Crock pot cooking which means that salt and spices, I can control.  

I eat as I would want my 2yr old to eat.  Sometimes we share a meal that I order so that I don't take in a big portion. 

Laugh alot and find less stress activities at least 3 times a week. 

Last but not least....pray. 

My mother has numerous lipomas but with exercise she has been able to keep them at bay.  She walks about 4 days a week and at 69 years old, 5'2 and a breast cancer survivor, she is only 100 pounds with very minimal lipomas showing.  

I hope that this helps someone as I continue on my journey and hope that one day there is a cure! 

 

CMe Lipoma 

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Comments

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by ofelia526 - 10/27/2011 - 12:48

Thanks for the aewsome  comments, your ideas is very nice.

Thanks for the great posting.

Healthy Diet

by Katiya - 12/23/2011 - 12:40

I have also noticed that when my diet was high in  baked yummy foods(lots of butter) I would start to get more Lipomas.  In order to stop the "seeding" as I like to call it (one day I'll feel a tiny pinch/prick and a new lipoma would start to growing), I went on a strick raw food/low sugar/low fat diet.  I was only able to be on that diet for about a week but I lost a pound a day and my lipomas stopped reproducing and growing.  I've also seemed to develope an intolerance to high saturated fat foods and as a vegetarian this means all Dairy is out.  But every time that I would eat anything fatty I would feel sick, plus my forearms (where most of my new lipomas have developed) would also feel wierd/wrong/tingly.  I've been mainly vegan now for 2.5 months and my forearms feel normal again (still with at least 15 lipomas on each arm).  But I do seem to feel wierd sensations in my arms if I eat processed sugars so I am going to reduce those as well. 

My history, I have genetic lipomas and liekly over a 100 of them.  I have one the size of golfball on my thigh but there are so many others around it that I no longer notice it.  I've had 11 removed on my arms once they became too big and very uncomfortable.  I 've now counted at least 15 on each arm, as for everywhere else there are to many to count.  I am 32, well fit and pregnant.  When I look back at the times where I've noticed "seeding" and growing was when I was eating high fatty baked foods on a weekly basis and working out a lot.  I've come to realize that these are fat and that if I gain any fat they may turn into lipomas so I'm okay with eating a low saturated fat diet.  But it does help me that if I do eat anything high in fat dairy I feel very ill for 10+ hours, so Its a lot easier for me to avoid cookie and cakes.  Also galbladder issues run in my family so that could be one reason why I can't tolerate Fatty foods.

I am 35 years old and I have

by Susanburns27 - 01/02/2012 - 12:24
I am 35 years old and I have three lipomas (that I'm aware of). The first appeared between my tricep and bicep over fifteen years ago. Aside from bugging me personally, it never became large enough for anyone else to notice and has varied slightly in size and feel over the years. Currently it is similar to a pea. My second one appeared on my opposite forearm about ten years ago. It's about the same size as the other but because of it's placement there is a noticeable rise in the skin. My third is the one that causes me the most grief. It appeared about 5 years ago on my head just inside my hairline (where bangs would be, if I had them). It has grown larger and faster than the others, it's often painful (varying from itching to burning sensations). Its location means that it is under pressure from hats or bike helmets, when I have to wear them, among other things. It has recently become so large that it pokes though my hair and I now have a thin-to-balding spot around it. I've sought help from my GP for two or three years now, but she just dismissed it as nothing important until this year when its size was more than she could ignore. I had a surgery to remove just the one, but now - a month later - it has still not completely healed, it hurts all the time and, while it is now smaller, the lump is still there. At the time of the surgery, I asked my doctor if there was any preventative steps I could take (I.e., diet/exercise) to deter future growth and she said no - that the condition is genetic and there's no preventative steps. That answer seems suspect to me as she also told me that it's a build-up of fatty tissue in and around oil glands that aren't excreting properly. My father has lipomas all over his body (some quite large). My mother has none. I have no idea about my brother. I've done alot of reading about lipomas and various treatments on the Internet and I've recently consulted a homeopathy pharmacy and this is the non-earth-shattering conclusion I've drawn: lipomas are not genetic - they are a symptom of another problem (your body's inability to process certain types of waste (what you're unable to process IS genetic). Successful treatment and prevention of lipomas vary so widely from person to person because what we cannot process isnt always the same from person to person. This is why surgery appears to be the only solution most agree on: it's immediate, it's easy and we're all able to be cut on. But my situation and that of countless others proves it isnt anymore effective in the long run than buying pills through the mail. So on the advice of the homeopathy pharmacist I spoke with (and encouraged by posts such as yours) I'm starting a 100% clean living regimen. I've already been (mostly) vegetarian for the past few months, but now I'm cutting alcohol, caffeine (except for green tea), dairy, gluten and excluding use of products containing glycerine and other forms of petroleum. I've also been advised to put chlorine filters on my kitchen sink AND shower head. I'm also stepping up my yoga practice to daily and will do something more physically strenuous at least once a week (hiking, jogging or biking). No doubt I will be all-over healthier living this way, but my biggest hope is that a side effect will be shrinkage of lipomas. The homeopathy pharmacist told me not to expect to see any difference in the lipomas right away - not for at least six months or more - because my body is going to be busy getting used to the new regimen and will be getting rid of all the other toxins stored in my body that haven't turned into lipomas. I'm going to post if/when I see any changes, good/bad.