Well, I guess it's those peri-menopausal hormones acting up again. I keep waking at 4 am and
fall back asleep usually minutes before the alarm goes off. Then I wake feeling like I've been hit
by a truck. A few years ago, I began gaining weight everytime I had sleep issues crop up. I then
found out that this is a common thing. Your seratonin levels get messed up from the sleep loss
and you gain lbs. mainly due to reaching for sweets and carbs in an effort to raise your
energy and seratonin levels. In about 3 years time, I gained 9 or 10 pounds. Now I have gained another 10 just since the fall and I am NOT a happy camper. To most people, I am still
slender but I am no fanatic and I don't like this change at all and can't fit in my clothes. I bought
some new pants last year and now am barely in them. I have never had a lot of will power or been good at taking time out for me. I'm actually thinking of joining weight watchers. I'm always afraid that I'll be in a room full of women that hate me though. At my weight, I can still dress to hide the problem areas pretty well. I started walking more but am having neuroma problems in my foot. I want to go to Philadelphia at the
end of April and do the MMRF 5K but don't know if I can make it. I would be walking, not running, but at this point, I feel so out of shape and my foot hurts after a half mile. It might
be a 3k walk, 2k crawl for me. I don't know how to solve this sleep issue. My mom says take a sleeping pill but I am pretty phobic about meds having had some pretty bad reactions to nearly
everything plus I feel that I have to be able to drive and function at all times with Tim's situation. Our first trip to the ER was at 2:30 am and it's a 9 mile drive to his hospital. I am a picker but not a huge eater and there are lots of fattening foods that I have no desire for. But it
just seems that everything I eat stays with me and I'm not burning off a thing. I have never had this problem and I weigh now what I weighed when I was 7 months pregnant. I know I have to do something now while it's not too much that I have to lose. 10-12 lbs would have me back in most of my clothes. I have several folks in my family who have tried for years and can't get the weight off and have so much to lose, I just don't know how one keeps up the will power for as long as that can take. I never took very good care of myself but it's gotten worse since Tim's dx.
I am so focused on him and Olivia that I've outright neglected myself and it's been catching up with me for a long time. You just don't get away with the things you did in your 20's when you're
in your 40's. I guess it's time to fit me in on the priority list somewhere. Now where the heck did I put my list?
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You can always join the online Weight Watchers if you are worried about the other women "hating you" if you went to meetings. I have been off and on Weight Watchers all my life and I'll tell you what REALLY goes through someone's mind when someone with only 15 or 20 pounds to lose is at a meeting... "Wow, this program works, she looks great! I'd love to get where she is..."
I am going to go with a renewed effort to track online starting today (I have been paying since Lent started, only tracked the first week or so before I fell off). It just helps me make healthier choices and not sit around eating candy and carbs while on these damn steroids. I would love to get some of this weight off before the stupid wedding. And just to get back into all the size 10 stuff I was so happy to be wearing after my stem cell transplant!!
I have lost weight by avoiding all "diet" soft drinks, all items labeled "diet" foods and going to all natural fruits and vegetables. Stop eating foods with ASPERTAME in them since this product turns to formaldehyde in your liver slowing it down. It has a sweet taste to it, but it is deadly! Also, try to avoid eating 'heavy' proteins like chicken or beef after 3 p.m. Eat a huge breakfast and a medium lunch and make your evening meal lightest of all. A cup of herbal tea with no-fat milk added and STEVIA for sweetener (it comes from the root of the STEVIA tree and has no known negative effects) is a great little treat at bedtime. Also drink more water, but make sure it doesn't have flouride in it.... it's a battle to find good food and water these days.
Thanks for the tips Sandy. I knew about a few. I NEVER eat or let my family eat artificial sweeteners.
They are awful for the body and I had a 2 stage filter system put on our whole house so we are not drinking flouride or chlorine for that matter. And KT, I never thought of WW from
that view. My sis agreed and said there are people who are at goal weight or near it that still go to meetings and no one would know if I just started or have been doing the program for some time. No matter what one weighs, it's never fun to go through a closet full of clothes unable to button anything.
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