If You Really Want To Feel Healthy, You Have To Work At It
As some of you have read in this post, the grave's dis-ease I have is active again. I'm one of the lucky ones (I'm being very sarcastic here) that gains weight when it's active. The majority of people who have grave's lose weight. I was at my yearly gyno appointment not too long ago and I weighed more than I ever have in my life! That was a big wake up call for me. I don't weigh a lot, but having an extra 5-6 pounds on me, being a shorter person, does not feel great.....mentally or physically.....at all! At first I was frustrated because I thought my eating habits really didn't change much since I was told the grave's was active again back in December, but I still blamed everything else except the real cause -
it's the beta blockers, it's the grave's, it's that I can't work out hard or long anymore, it's so and so...........and on and on the thoughts went in my head. Then I really looked at what I was eating on a daily basis with a hawk eye. And I thought back to December and the holidays and the extra gluten and sugar I ate that snowballed into the next couple of months. That totally debunked the thought that I was eating the same stuff I usually ate so where did the extra weight come from? I also thought that I should have known better.......I went through this once before.......but I quickly regrouped as I know that beating myself up doesn't help either.......it only exasperates the problem.......so I put my boxing gloves down and did what I truly know is the only way to freedom:
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