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My GI issues, cramps, bloating, etc. are definitely way better now that I'm on a paleo diet than they were when I was eating a conventionally "healthy" diet. I really don't understand the worry about calories...last time I checked, butter was way more caloric than bread. If you lose weight...

I've been thinking about this recently and it occurred to me...maybe dealing with malabsorption is stressing our bodies out, elevating cortisol. High cortisol is usually responsible for the accumulation of belly fat on normal folks. There may be other factors with CF patients, but it was a...

By "good," did your doctor just mean as low as possible? My mother was told something similar about m by my doc when I was young. I think way too often people forget about the fact that cholesterol is necessary and has a lot of functions in the body, and they just concentrate on getting a low...

Thanks Melissa and jaimers. If you don't mind my asking, Melissa, are you pancreatic insufficient?

Just curious... I (with little help from a close-minded OB/GYN) have been trying to figure out possible causes of my low estrogen levels, which have resulted in amenorrhea for a few years now. I haven't had cholesterol done in my blood work - at least that I've seen - for almost four years...

Just want to say that despite our collective lack of answers, I really appreciate this post. It's good to know I'm not alone! I also have low estrogen levels (cause unknown...anyone else experience this?), which doesn't help my body shape.

I see this is old post, but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway. I second motion's idea about cutting out gluten. I would also look at your diet carefully and see what other foods could be irritating to your gut. Personally I'm a big advocate of a paleo diet, but even within that you may have to...

I just browsed through the above website, and it looks like there's a lot of great information. I've been following a loose paleo diet (i.e. with dairy and occasional vegetable oils in prepared foods) for a couple of years, but the last few weeks I've gotten stricter in an effort to improve...

I'm 21 now, but when I was younger I used to have bad stomach aches fairly regularly. Those stopped when I was in about eighth grade and cleaned up my diet a lot. Before I was eating a lot of bad quality, highly-processed food--my parents were told it didn't matter what I ate as long as it was...

I looooove salt and put a ton of it on everything. It's to the point where it can be embarrassing eating with people who don't know I have CF. Sometimes I just give a brief disclaimer before I start--"I'm not killing myself, I'm actually supposed to eat this much salt."

Just based on my own experiences, it occurred to me that the problem might not be the amount of fat you're eating but the type of fat. I used to eat a lot of low quality, fatty food--really questionable sausage, other meats from questionable sources, "nutritional" supplement drinks, lots of...

I'm pancreatic insufficient, and my mother was also told to feed me as many calories and as much fat--of any kind--as possible. I was a HUGE meat eater and, while I also enjoyed vegetables, I ate tons of crap. For instance, I was addicted to Nutrament and would drink one (sometimes 2!) with...

I don't eat grains and try hard to limit sugars / sweeteners (i.e. not fruit) as hard as possible, but I do occasionally have grass-fed dairy. If you're looking for a good reference, try Mark's Daily Apple, a health/nutrition/food blog from the author of The Primal Blueprint. All the daily...

I don't eat grains and try hard to limit sugars / sweeteners (i.e. not fruit) as hard as possible, but I do occasionally have grass-fed dairy. If you're looking for a good reference, try Mark's Daily Apple, a health/nutrition/food blog from the author of The Primal Blueprint. All the daily...

Are you looking to talk to / interview different individuals? I'm a 19 year old female college student. My CF is relatively mild (I've actually never been hospitalized specifically for CF and have never had a problem keeping my weight up…in fact, at one point it was the opposite), but I do daily...

Are you looking to talk to / interview different individuals? I'm a 19 year old female college student. My CF is relatively mild (I've actually never been hospitalized specifically for CF and have never had a problem keeping my weight up…in fact, at one point it was the opposite), but I do daily...

I'm also a 19 year old college student (girl, FYI) and I actually had a very similar experience the past few weeks that just seems to be going away now. I started getting hungry ALL the time and was eating a ton more than usual, but the hunger was still there. I don't know if you have bloating...

I'm also a 19 year old college student (girl, FYI) and I actually had a very similar experience the past few weeks that just seems to be going away now. I started getting hungry ALL the time and was eating a ton more than usual, but the hunger was still there. I don't know if you have bloating...

To Cesco: I want to apologize; when I said I didn't think your diet was healthy "mentally," I didn't mean to imply that you somehow had psychological problems. I only meant that it must be pretty difficult and exhausting keeping up with such a strict diet. I know everyone's body is different, so...

To Cesco: I want to apologize; when I said I didn't think your diet was healthy "mentally," I didn't mean to imply that you somehow had psychological problems. I only meant that it must be pretty difficult and exhausting keeping up with such a strict diet. I know everyone's body is different, so...