Oh my goodness, enough with the fat and skinny sayings! Yea right, I'm going to milk that for all it's worth. Ha ha!
Ok, so I thought I'd start with a break down of my stats and what-not, so that I can follow my progress as I go, and so that everyone else can be in awe at how much I've let myself go and be surprised that I haven't had a heart attack yet....well one that hasn't killed me anyway...get to my health problems later.
Current Weight: 207 lbs
BMI: 40 percent
Fat content in my body (aka.adipose): 86 lbs!
Wow, that's so bad isn't it. Let me tell you, I did pack that all on overnight too! It does happen people! Thanks to a combination of horrid medications and lots of overnight raiding with my World of Warcraft buddies, well...shame on me. Once I got over 200 lbs, the realization hit me...I was fat, really fat, and life really sucked. Not that my actual life sucked, just the whole..being huge, not fitting into clothes, not being able to play with my kids, or walk without pain, or work without pain...well that part sucked. Soon, my knees jurt, my back hurt, my feet hurt, everything hurt. That on top of some health problems, well..being overweight does not help at all.
That brings me to the next part: My Health Problems!
Boy howdy this might be a long read..
Back problems, since 1999: I have L3, L4, and L5 herniated in my back. I have degenerative disc disease. And nothing helps and I won't get surgery, so don't even say anything about it! I hate needles near my back after 3 unsuccessful epidurals for steroids. Last time I had an epidural was 3 seconds before I had my son, and the guy was so impatient he jabbed me eight times before giving up, and ended up bruising my spine, and I had a spinal headache for 2 weeks. Ever had one of those? No? Then you have no idea the pain, felt like a stroke...a stroke? that seems extreme you think to compare the pain to that.....oh yea?..
Stroke, March 25th, 2006: When my daughter was about 6 months old, I was having a rough night sleeping. My head hurt sooooo bad and my back hurt and the pain wouldn't stop. It was the worst pain ever! And I can actually say that now, since I had my son naturally. I woke my husband, Robert, up after 6 hours of this, and told him I needed something, anything... At that point, I couldn't see well anymore, and the pain was so intolerable, I could barely move or function. He says that I wasn't talking to him or making sense, I was talking in numbers...that does not sound good. So off to the ER we go. I was breastfeeding my daughter exclusively so she came with us, and I attempted to feed her and suffer this intolerable pain at the same time, which didn't really work because she was so freaked out. Long story short, I had a small stroke. My vision and speech aren't completely 100 percent, my vision is blurry and I stutter at times, but thank goodness that was all I have long term. It could've been much worse. Only a year ago, I found out I have Protein S Deficiency, a condition that can cause blod clots with certain drugs and medications. Turns out I can't take estrogen with this condition, and I was on birth control at the time, so that explains it.
Fibromyalgia, since 1999: I have fibromyalgia, it's a long and complicated explanation so..
.What Is Fibromyalgia?
I have had this condition since my car accident in 1999, which is how I hurt my back, so the doctors assume it's onset from that. And when I say the "doctors" I mean the doctors I have seen over the last 15 years, I'm not going to specify lol. The fibro makes me feel like crap, all the bloody time. I am tired beyond all reason, and I feel like I have the flu, and I just hurt, all the time. But do not pity me, because I'm used to it. Every once in a while, it progresses and gets worse, but then I acclimate to it again.
PCOS: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, it's a girly thing, makes it hard to have kids, have weird menses, etc.. I hate talking about girly things anyways, so if you wanna know more: PCOS
Hypothyroidism: I have a glandular problem lol. Still working on finding the right dose of meds for this.
Mystery Thing: I always have those mystery things going on...like why do I have migraines incessently, why am I so tired all the time, why do my kidneys hurt, why is this lymphatic growth getting bigger every month? etc..
So other than my health problems, why do I want to get healthy?
-I want to teach my kids about health, so they can live a healthy life and not have to deal with health problems, or be the "fat kid."
-I want to grow old with my husband and be as healthy and strong as my grandmother, who has taught me so much.
-Being overweight and unhealthy is making my existing health problems soooo much worse.
-As of a month ago, I am pre-diabetic, and have been advised that "if i don't get it together and lose the weight, I will die."
Ok enough depressing talk already! On to the good, encouraging stuff....
My progress so far.
-I was 225 lbs a couple months ago, so I've lost a lot of weight so far, on my own, thank you ;)
-I have a gym membership to Gold's Gym. I love the gym, how it's family friendly, I love the classes, the weight machines, still hate cardio but I'm working on it, and I just love this place. It's our new home away from home. Both Robert and I have begun this lifestyle change together, and he has lost a lot of weight and is looking into bodybuilding next year.
-I have met with a trainer, mostly to pick his mind about nutritional stuff and how the fat burning process works. I mean you see all these people have lost all this weight, and where does it all go?! I'll tell you! It burns away, the body uses fat reserves as you gain more muscle, and you burn that adipose away, poof it's gone! But from this as well, I have learned I don't need a trainer, and I think I would be even more annoyed having one.
-I have completely changed my way of eating. I mean completely! No more fats, candy, cookies, pop, anything like that! That right, who would've thought that I, of all people, would ever be able to give all that up!? Crazy huh? Sunday is my cheat day though, but for the most part I don't even like that stuff anymore.
-I have a complete regimen of weight machines to use, and my exercise of choice is YOGA!!! I LOVE YOGA! Vinyasa, restorative, etc... Tomorrow I will be trying Bikram Yoga, or Hot yoga, where you stand in a 100 degree room while doing yoga, it's gonna be awesome! Or horrible...I don't know yet, I'll blog about it tomorrow night.
-I have completely weaned off of all unnecessary medications and am on supplements and vitamins now. I was taking medications, specifically Savella and Zoloft, for my fibromyalgia and my depression, but I hated how I felt if I forgot a dose, and felt like I wanted to deal with that on my own. I really believe in all natural and homeopathic medicines, so the only prescription I'm on now is Armor Thyroid, for my thyroid, but that's necessary. But even then, it's an all natural thyroid pill made from the thyroid gland of porcine animals. Smells funky too, bleh.
I want to go on and on, but I'm sure this blog is long enough already, plus I'm getting really sleepy, so nighters :D I'll continue tomorrow.
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