Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Starting AGAIN

As most of you have guessed, I never ran that 1/2 marathon.  After running the 9.5 miles my body completely shut down.  I tried running shortly after and it felt like I had a 40lb kid strapped to both my legs.  I could barely walk around the block.  After that I knew there was something wrong with my body.  I haven't been feeling right for about 2 years now.  I made an appointment with a Dr. who specializes in the thyroid.  I had to wait 2 months to get into him.  I didn't really want there to be anything wrong with me, but it would be nice to have an answer to how I was feeling, and a solution.  Lab results showed that all 3 of my thyroid levels were off.  So I started thyroid medicine last Tuesday.  I don't feel much different right now, so I think I'm going to up the dose per Dr.'s instruction. 

While waiting to see this Dr. and to find out the results, we're talking a total of 3 months, I gave up on everything.  I gave up on trying to be nutritious, I gave up on exercise, I pretty much gave up on hope.  I had worked so hard over the summer to shed some lbs and nothing was working.  I am hoping and praying that I will be granted a small miracle in these thyroid pills.  Not that I want to be super thin, I just want to be able to get my life back.  I want to be able to exercise and have more energy, not be drained of it.  I want to be able to get my hair back, I want to be able to lose a few lbs.  Is that so much to ask? 

This week I started up with exercise again.  I am dedicating myself in the morning to exercising at 30-60 minutes.  In addition to this I am eliminating candy from my weekly intake and restricting it to the weekends.  From past experience I know that if I eliminate it completely that I'm setting myself up for failure.  No good.  There are a lot of other things that I am trying to eliminate as well.  But I am taking it slow.  Candy is the most detrimental to my health right now.  

The other thing that I am trying to focus my efforts on is adding a lot of vegetables to my life.  I know that vegetables are the food of life.  In addition to that I wont be eliminating fruits.  I feel that if the Earth grows it, it's good for me.  I don't care if the body can't tell the difference between the sugar in fruit or the sugar in a twinkie.  Fruit HAS to be a far superior choice of sweet treat!  I have been buying more vegetable then I ever have before and I am making my family eat them as well.  Just the other day for breakfast I had roasted butternut squash and roasted beet for breakfast.  Crazy, but it was crazy good. 

I am certain that incorporating more vegetables and eliminating candy to and from my life, that my quality of life will improve.  It has to.  I also know that I need to give it time.  Giving it time is a necessary strategy for this to work.  Patience is something that I have always struggled with. 

And really in the end, if I don't lose any weight at least I'll be a healthier person.  And healthier is the goal. 

I am hoping to post healthy veggie recipes here on this blog.  I ate a kick butt juevos rancheros for both lunch and dinner today.  I wish i would have taken a picture of it.  But man it was so good I ate it twice.  The best thing about it, was the oinions, bell peppers and mushrooms that I sauteed up and cooked with lawry's fajita seasoning.  All I could think about was my sister and how she would LOVE this.  I am going to have to share it with her the next time I get to fix something for her. 

Life is good.  My life is only going to get better from here.