Getting it in gear
So I went to the doctor yesterday to get results from my routing thyroid check. I'm supposed to go every 6 to 8 weeks to get blood work done to make sure my thyroid levels are where they are supposed to be. I'm not sure if I mentioned it on a previous post, but in case you haven't figured it out lol I have hypothyroid. I also have PCOS so gaining weight is as easy for me as a horse taking a smelly shit. Sorry for the bad analogy but you get the idea.
For the past few months I've stayed within a 4lb loss/gain. I'll just float up and down those same four pounds never going lower or higher.
So at the doctor yesterday the lab results showed that my thyroid levels were low again, which means my meds get upped again. This will be the 4th time since I was diagnosed that the dosage of synthroid I take has been raised. That also means it is the 4th time my body has stopped responding to the meds and I've gotten to experience all the wonderful symptoms of hypothyroid. Fatigue, weight gain, depression etc. and so aon. Hopefully this time it will stick for a while and I can get back to feeling normal.
I've missed the gym both days this week and I hate it. I've just been so exhausted in the morning that even with the extra 45 minutes of sleep I get not going to the gym, it's all I can do to drag myself out of bed.
I'm going walking today after work though and I always feel better after. My cousin and I had started walking 3 miles every day after work a few weeks ago. We didn't set out to walk 3 miles, we just sort of wandered all over downtown Mobile and then mapped it when we got home. She had pneumonia though last week so we didnt' walk all week. I know, I know, I could have walked by myself but it's just not as fun alone.
So I met with my nutritionist again after my regular doctor appointment yesterday and learned a little more about what PCOS does to my body in relation to what I eat and where it ends up (on my waist!). In order to lose weight, and we're talking 1/2 a pound a week if I'm lucky, I have to take in absolutely no more than 150 grams of carbs a day. That sounds like a lot until you actually start reading labels and measuring portions. Carbs turn to sugar and PCOS makes my body insulin resistant so it goes straight to fat.
The whole concept of being "like" a diebetic but not "being" diabetic is strange to me, but I'm serious about getting this extra weight back off once and for all so I just have to suck it up, buckle down, get out my handy measuring cup and scale and get serious!
Here's hoping this week was better than last!
