Hi Hobie,

Morgellons is one of those conditions that throws the whole endocrine system out of whack and sometimes it doesn't matter what you eat or if you do eat.

In the beginning of the illness there was a point where I couldn't eat enough to keep my body from burning off to much weight. Looked like a skeleton and it wasn't very pretty; try as I might I couldn't gain or keep the weight on. The ticket to that fix was of all things, not eating. It was at that point that my body went into starvation mode and I was able to retain what little I had left. Waited about a week and returned to eating normally and I was able to gain and keep weight on.

Later on in the condition I discovered it was difficult to loose weight and like you I found that the all natural, organic, non gmo, gluten free foods (recently added this) allowed me to maintain a normal weight.

Added nutrition in vitamins and supplements has been a must this year to get back to my normal weight that hadn't fluxed for years until 2008. Never did weigh an excess of an amount just added and lost weight for what seemed not a good reason. More like my body taking a trip down freak show lane and while there it decided to loose or gain weight depending on what chemicals were in high gear due to my condition. Sometimes it is in the chemistry of the body and not the total calorie intake.

Do think they set folks up to be fat in America with the high carb and aerobics craze. Remember the football players that had to keep up their weight and when you followed them through their life it often caught up to them.

Raising the amount of protein versus just lowering calories seems to be very important in the overall battle of the bulge:)

Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver