Body weight on Dialysis!

[CatonTheRoof]

Hey there again my friends

Did anyone of you lose weight when you got renal failure?       I'm a 22 year old young man,  my height is 5,11  and I used to weight between 145 pounds before getting sick a year ago.  I was always a slim person!   Even though I believe that in the months previously to getting sick I got some 4 extra pounds (not of liquid, just that i was eating more)   However, when I was reaching 150 pounds my face started to seem a bit more fat which of course is not what I want lol.

After getting sick I got to the critical point of having a weight of 130 pounds.  Since then, the most I was able to recover was up to the point of being 141 pounds last December.  The problem is, that I managed to earn those extra pounds by eating too much protein and I was actually quite tired of eating so many things during a same day.  Additionally,  I' have been jogging 2 km since January (and I dont eat red meat)   So now my weight is again 136.5  pounds. 

Do you think such weight is ok?   I know it might sound dumb, but I'm seeing my "almost gf" in some weeks, I havent seen her in person since I left Prague (I had not lost such weight back then)     and I don't want her to think I'm critically ill, because afterall my results show that everything is ok within me. 
What should I eat to gain some weight but not increasing cholesterol or tryglicerids?

Thanks in advance!

[Joe]

I lost an additional 5 or so pounds when my kidneys finally failed, but that took me down to around 175 Lbs. I'm still right in that neighborhood, and at 6'0" it's just about right. If you're in the 135-140 range, and feel good with it, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[Marsh]

I lost 40 pounds, the last couple of months before I started dialysis.

[Restorer]

Weight loss on dialysis is pretty common. I've always been skinny. I got up to 115 lbs (I'm 5'6"), and after my kidneys failed I got as low as 95 lbs. I'm staying around 108 lbs now, and I can't manage to gain anything. I know I don't eat enough.

[Gandalf]

Yes indeed, I lost about 10kgs and have yet to find them again - am horribly skinny - but then I know that I make a really poor effort at eating properly...  My life is pretty much dialysis-work-sleep, with nop time for other matters domestic

[Rerun]

You are on hemodialysis-- correct?  Then you need your protein to build muscle that is lost while on the machine.  So, keep eating protein.  You can add some calories to your diet.  Cake, pie, cookies..... if you are not diabetic.

Corn chips w/o salt seem to add the pounds to me.

I understand being vain, but it is hard to be pretty and on hemodialysis.  Sorry.                   

[Whamo]

I like to boil a big pot of eggs, put them in a bowl, and in the refrigerator.  I take one out for snacks during the day.  It's the best quality protein you can get.  I throw away the yolks because they have too much phosphorous.  The egg whites have 50 mg. of potassium.   

[Cordelia]

Once I started D almost 2 yrs ago, since summer of 2010 I have lost a total of 73 pounds since renal failure.   I used to wear a size 2X clothing in shirt and pant and now I wear a medium for both shirt and pant.

I cut out ALL dairy.....milk.....cheese, breads, cereals and potato and all sodas and boom it happened. Before D, I could never lose weight. I think I retained fluids that badly that no matter what I did, what diet I tried, nothing worked until D.       So, in reality, D was the best thing for me.