Ok so its been a while since I have been on the blog. Got it all set up here after the move and have totally fallen off the fitness wagon. My weight loss has stopped due to a new discovery and my mind has gotten very off track. I am on my way back to normal or at least normal for me. I was hitting major plateaus with my loss and doing way to much exercise and not eating enough and as a result my thyroid shut down. I was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism and that was a huge blow for me. I felt like getting the one thing I really wanted was going to be next to impossible to achieve. I felt like I was never going to lose weight and would be trapped in this obese unhealthy body forever. I have come to realize that is simply not true, once I get hormones regulated again (which I think I am really close now) then I should be able to get back on track with weight loss. I have finally hit a point where I have stopped gaining at least and the scales are slowly going back down which is a huge deal for me considering the past few months no matter how I eat, exercise etc the scales have steady been going back up! I am starting all over again, I have regained the 65 pounds I originally lost and everything is back to square one.
My goals for right now are to take things slow, not to shock my body and send my metabolism running for the hills. For the first couple months I am going to lower my calories only slightly so my body does not panic and add some walking and yoga and light strength training per week, nothing hard or excessive. I am going to ease into this and give my body new things slowly. I have so much weight to lose that I need to be able to have room to cut more calories and add in more exercise as weight comes off. My biggest goal for now, eat a little less, move a little more and focus on my water! I am soooooo bad with water. I honestly need to stop drinking diet coke, even diet is bad for you. I don’t even get water in every day much less a few times a day so that is a major goal to work on. I will be posting throughout all of this as I find that it helps me a great deal to get out my feelings, even if noone ever reads them. If you are reading this and following my blog or have any of the same struggles I would love to hear from you so feel free to comment.
Until next time…