jayne

Hi everyone, I’m back and ready to get back into losing weight and gettting fit! I needed a few weeks break to deal with a really stressful situation and now I’m ready to get back on track again.

I haven’t weighed myself yet, I’m going to weigh in on the weekend. I also want to get back onto the treadmill. It really helps me to sleep better and feel more in control somehow when I am exercising every day.

I have booked in to see a doctor who specialises in treating thyroid conditions. I was diagnosed with Hashimotos thyroiditis last year after a very stressful year of caring for my mum who has Alzheimers. She is in a nursing home now.

Even though I have improved a bit on the medication and my pathology results show the right thyroid levels I still feel unwell a lot of the time. And I still only sleep 4-6 hours a night which leaves me feeling pretty crappy.

 Anyway I found out about this dr on this website: Thyroid Disease Information and I am really looking forward to seeing her and getting myself checked out thoroughly. I know I have to reduce the stress levels and I am considering all my options regarding work. But I actually love my job and the nature of the work (counselling/ psych) is that it will be stressful.

So my life makeover begins again. I am so glad to be back here If there are any others out there with thyroid problems I’d love to hear from you.

Oh and I found out that Hot Rods are now Diamonds!  So i’m looking forward to getting back into the team challenges.

I lost another 2lbs!! I am SO excited!! and I am going to ring up and book to get my hair done ASAP as a reward.  I have even decidede that I will post a progress photo.

 Most of my weight has come off my stomach and it really has made quite a difference to my shape. Overall I have lost 6″ off my stomach since I started my new food plan ( I refuse to call it a diet).

thanks buddies you just make all the  difference !

I have requested a change in my working hours so that I work less days for slightly longer hours. Then I will have a 3 day weekend. I am really seeing how much the frantic schedule at work affects my eating. Yesterday I packed a healthy salad and my snack so I wouldn’t be tempted.

The day went haywire as soon as I got there ,with urgent/ crisis stuff sideswiping my plans completely. It was 3.45pm before I could even stop to think about lunch and I felt so flat, had only 15 mins till I had to attend a meeting and so I went for the packet of chips again. I will do better today I hope. Hopefully these changes of working less days will help me to get a bit more time to myself on the weekend. I really love my job , but I need to be realistic about the way it is affecting my health at the minute and change what I can.

 I know I need to reduce stress to be able to get healthy. And thanks to all you great buddies out there ! Your support and reading other stories really has helped me and  made it possible for me to stick to my plans. Maybe not perfectly, but for the first time in a long time I feel like I can really do this, and that I will see it through to my goal and to maintenance, however long that takes. Thanks

That has been  my mantra today. I don’t know why but it hit me like a tonne of bricks this morningthat I have a choice about the whole health, weight, looks thing.  I have a choice every time I tell myself that ‘just this once’ it won’t matter, or when I eat my feelings instead of trying to work them out. My body at the minute is just the sum total of all the choices I have made in the past.

It’s my decision to cope with my emotions in the past by eating. I can choose to do it differently now. And I am, one meal at a time. One exercise session at a time. One emotion at a time.

I have never shared my before pics before. However this forum is just so great and you all are so supportive I am going to be brave. Seeing my photos the other night just shocked me. I deleted the worst ones but here are a few before shots of me over the last couple of months. Look fast, because I will not be looking like this for much longer!

I lost 4lbs this week! I feel much more motivated and I am really determined to reach my goal. I watched a show on Oprah this week where she had the Dove over 50 ladies on and other older women. The women were just inspiring! I want to be fit and healthy and full of energy as I get older, not draggin around like I have been.

I have been reading up more on inflammation and how it relates to health. I have several auto-immune diseases, all inflammatory,  and lots of food and chemical allergies. I also have a strong family history of diabetes, heart disease and early onset Alzhiemers. With everything I am reading I can see that inflammation is a big part of that disease process. Also the stress that I have been under for the last couple of years causes inflammation. No wonder I’ve been feeling so miserable and that I just can’t lose the weight!

So I am going shopping this morning to buy up on some anti inflammatory foods and to get some fish oil supplements. If I don’t make all these health changes now it will get harder and harder. So this week I am focusing on ding daily exercise and relaxation, adding food supplements and preparing good healthy meals.

Here a few links to some of the articles I have been reading:

The Role of Stress

Inflamation Research Articles

Inflammation: Double Edged Sword  (very scientific but really good article)

5 Flat Belly Foods (MUFA’s)

Just before I was about to attend a  work meeting yesterday someone suggested we meet over lunch at the Italian restaurant. Arrgghhh!!!! Not Pasta!! I said I would prefer to eat at another place where I knew that I could get chicken and salad and  few others agreed. So it was a good start to a lunch meeting!

However then I got told that the other person who works with me will not be replaced immediately when he leaves at the end of the week.

To say I was not happy is putting it mildly! We have been complaining of the workload for some months now and this is only going to increase the pressure on everyone. I was really annoyed and ate most of my meal in silence. I didn’t have dessert, but I did have a skim coffee.

I thought about it a bit more and did work out what I was feeling. I was feeling like I was taken for granted! As if I didn’t matter to them. Once the lunch was over I went and had a talk to my boss. I explained that the workload is already brodering on unmanageble and I wasn’t willing to burned out while they saved some money!

As a result I am now trying to set it up so I the same hours but over less days. This will reduce some of the stress but not affect my income. I am going to review my work and stop accepting so many people and set a strict limit on how many appointments I take a day. I find this really hard to do when I have tried in the past but I am determined. If I burn out and get sick then they will just find someone else to do the work. If I don’t take care of myself then nobody else will.

I have declared 5-6 am My Time! This morning I got up and did 30 minutes on the treadmill and then 30 minutes of relaxation / meditation. I feel really good for doing it and I am sitting here now with my cup of green tea feeling pretty good about myself.

Have a good day everyone!

I feel so motivated by this forum! Yesterday I shopped for food, made sure I had everything I need to stay on my plan. I’m going to use Southbeach. I need to be low carb and I did southbeach once before and got a really good result. As soon as I added non-vegie carbs I just stacked the weight on.

So my plan for this week is:

• drink only water or herbal tea
• 3 meals & 2 snacks each day
• 20 minutes on treadmill daily
• NO eating in the car!
• keep a food diary
• work on my emotional eating diary

When I reach my mini goal of 190 lbs I am going to get my hair streaked. I have become such a frump!  How did it happen? I used to take a lot of care with my appearance, but gradually I have fallen into the habit of doing the minimum, looking OK but not really making a huge effort.

I am tired of my wardrobe of shirts that I can wear as jackets over t shirts, to try and hide my fat arms and my chubby belly! And I won’t even mention the structurally engineered style bras that I wear!

so I need a whole makeover really.

 It’s time to put myself, and my health first for a change.

Have a great day everyone!