Weight loss story... Wait loose WHAT???? I reached to get a toy that had fallen under the pew in front of me and had trouble breathing, reaching, bending…..asked my son to get it. Not until a few years ago, did I really get the struggle of weight. I think I still don’t grasp the agony many feel because of their weight. When I got married, I didn’t try to loose weight to look good, I was happy at 140 pounds. When I had my first babies, twins, I only gained 30 pounds and then weighed 145 after delivery. When I began breast feeding and “was eating for 3” I started to gain a little weight. When I started to feel overwhelmed and “baby blues” and my husband traveled for work I entered the realm of “comfort eating.” Then I got pregnant with my third. By that time I was nursing 2, incubating one, and barely could feed myself because of the nausea. I weaned the boys and began gaining weight. I have a double estrogen theory, when you are pregnant with girls you get fat, especially around the waist. I figure, I have estrogen, which stores fat, and she has estrogen, so I must have a double dose of fat storers and chocolate need-ers. When my third was born I didn’t bounce back from the baby blues. My progesterone had dropped (which we all know, when you are pregnant your progesterone should be around 400 and when you are not you run around 10). I think my progesterone dropped well below 10 and I went through a year of denial and struggle with post pardon issues. I also found out that I had adrenal issues going on – no fight or flight, no energy, etc and an over abundance of estrogen – crazy, rage, fat! By the time I heard a pituitary endocrinologist speak, I had begun using some herbs and homeopathics to support my adrenals and flush estrogen, but I was nearing 200 pounds and feeling hopeless. I started on progesterone serum as well as gave myself a job that I would enjoy, get me outside and relieve some stress – renovating our cabin. Who wouldn’t benefit from demolition and swinging a hammer right! I was back down to 160ish. I felt pretty good about this number and the fact that I felt good again. However, on the horizon brew a load of stress, my son had a seizure, my husband’s job ended and I became the primary bread winner. I went through a very stressful and confusing time and resorted once again to my friend, the cookie aisle. Sometimes I would make myself feel better about it by eating a box of organic chocolates instead, but the waistline never lies! By October 2012, we discovered my son had a difficult case of chronic Lymes. Besides other major stress and confusion in my life, the headlines, “Incurable” and “Harder to Treat that Cancer” put me over the edge and the chip and soda aisle joined my cookies and me in our survival party. I wouldn’t call it a pity party, it was more of a “I have to run to town and have a moment of pause and solace before resuming the “spinning of plates” my world had become. Then they all came crashing down. And I didn’t care. I also didn’t care that I weighed 200 pounds again. And felt terrible. If my son was miserable I would spend the day trying to aid his Lymes arthritic symptoms, extreme emotions and feed myself each night as I tried to recover. The first 26years of my life, I didn’t struggle with weight. I was sitting in a church meeting where a lady was giving information about a new weight management idea/Bible study and the men in the room began joking about portion control. It dawned on me – that’s really what people think. If she just ate less, she wouldn’t be so fat. BUT I knew that wasn’t true. Sure, I ate a little more when I was pregnant, but my students will attest, it was whole carrots, gallons of water, nuts, cucumbers….Yeah, I did eat more when I was nursing, I was so hungry and trying to feed two tiny babies. Yes, it is true, when I struggled with postpardon stuff and Brady’s Lymes I found comfort in food. BUT if I just changed my amount would it really magically go away and I would be back to old Tracy? I know I wasn’t exercising as much as I was while I played sports and didn’t have kids, but cutting food could surely bring me close right? No. My hormones were way out of whack. I was lathering up my self with estrogen, I mean lotion, with each dry winter night. My stress levels through the roof. My emotions and faith at an all time low. My iodine levels – questionable. The cleaning products in my home, where they disrupting the endocrine functions of my body? Were my cravings caused by candida? The food I was eating – was it real, could my body break it down and use it? Was my liver overwhelmed and my digestion sluggish because it was full of gunk and out of enzymes? Had I experienced head trauma and damaged my pituitary and now my thyroid wasn’t working correctly? Loosing weight was a lot more complicated than I thought, but I was determined to put myself under the microscope and write about it. Hoping that if anyone else feels hopeless, not because they want to strut around in a bikini, but because they cant reach under the pew to reach that toy, I want encourage you! I watched Fat Sick and Nearly Dead (fatsickandnearlydead) awhile back, time to try it out in a manageable way to see if others would benefit too. I didnt juice totally, but tried to stick to mostly juicing and small portions of healthy foods. Take a look into the microscope: Day 1, Weight 197 lbs Exercise: Trampoline Supplements: DIM, True Source, Celtic Sea Salt, Lemon EO in water, VitB, Probiotic, 2oz Ningxia with Spearmint Breakfast: 1.5 cups juice (kale, 4 carrots, 2 apples, ginger, 2 celery) Headache, leaves after eating lunch Lunch: 2 flax crackers, 2 small pieces of org chz, Juice (5 stalks celery, 4 carrots, 1/2 cucumber, 1 stalk broccoli) Headache - eat 1inx1in pc of chx and 2inx2in banana bread w/sunflower seed butter Dinner 1/2 corn tortilla with shredded chx, chz and cauliflower Headache Day 2, Weight 194 lbs Lost my meal paper..... Day 3, Weight 192 lbs Weight 197 lbs Exercise: none Feel great! Supplements: DIM, VitB, TrueSource, FishOil, Probiotics, 2ozNingxiaRed Breakfast: Juice (stalk broccoli, 2 stalk celery, 2 apples, 1 cucumber), small pc banana bread with sunflower seed butter Lunch: 3 flax crackers w/chz, juice (3 stalks celery, 4 carrots, gr. bell pepper, ginger 3:00pm Hungry - 5 pecans, GoGreen in 1 cup raw apple juice Dinner: 3 small pieces of fish 11:00pm Hungry - GoGreen in 1 cup raw apple juice, enzymes Day 4, Weight 189 Exercise: Trampoline Supplements: Fish oil, True Source, DIM, probiotics Breakfast: 5 pecans, 1 tsp yogurt, juice (3 carrots, 4 celery, 1 apple, 1 stalk broccoli) Feel great! Lunch: 5 cherry tomatoes, 2 pc fish, 2 tortilla, 1/2 cup rice & cilantro Dinner: Juice (2 apples, 1 gr pepper, broccoli, 3 carrots) 11:30pm lots of energy Day 5, Weight 188 lbs Exercise: none Supplements: DIM, probiotic, fish oil, True Source, water with tangerine EO, 2 oz Ningxia Red Breakfast: Juice (apple, 3 celery, 3 carrots, 16 grape tomatoes) Feel: Tired, not hungry Lunch: salad, 1 chx sausage, 2Tb dressing Dinner: Out of veggies :-( 1 cup homemade chow mein, 1 in piece of homemade bread Feel sick, take enzymes Drank 8 oz kombucha tea 0 feel great! Went to MOPS and didnt desire any of the treats! Ate 5 pc of carmel corn and felt like an addict....I WANTED MORE! Water with tangerine EO and enzymes Day 6, Weight 190 Exercise: none Supplements: 4 oz Ningxia Red, DIM, True Source, fish oil, probiotics Breakfast: Protein shake with rice milk Feel: Tired Lunch: Salad, 1/2 cup lobstertails, 2Tb feta, 1Tb dressing, almonds, shredded veggies Dinner: Juice (5 carrots, 4 celery, 1/8 cabbage, 2 apples, 1/4 cup chlorophyll), 1 blueberry pancake with butter, kombucha tea Day 7, Weight 189 Exercise: Walk 1/2 mile in snow Supplements: Fish oil Feel sick to stomach, not hungry Breakfast: Juice (1 stalk celery, parsley, 3 carrots, 1/8 cabbage) Lunch: string chz, 3 mini eclairs with chx salad Feel - stomach ache, take enzymes Snack sm bowl granola Dinner: Juice (beet, celery, apple), clemintine Exercise: Shovel snow 8:00 1/2 scoop GoGreen in 1 cup apple juice, enzymes, TrueSource vitamins Chamomile Tea 11:30 really hungry Day 8 189 lbs Exercise: Supplements: DIM, probiotic, fish oil, True Source, water with tangerine EO, 2 oz Ningxia Red Breakfast: Juice (beet, celery, cabbage, carrot) Lunch: salad, chz, chx sausages Snack: 6 pc chocolate Dinner: veggies sautéed in olive oil, sm chx, homemade birthday strawberry short cake Feel awful! Pain (like a bursting bubble) in shoulders, queasy, take enzymes Day 9, 190 lbs I feel terrible and quit. How could I feel so good for days and then feel so cruddy? I pondered this as I lay on the couch and watch my kids play. My eyes felt so heavy I wanted to sleep. I felt nauseous, maybe I am pregnant? I got up to help the kids, I felt so dizzy I had to lay back down.... Rewind in brain over the past 9 months.....had to pull off the road many times because I was too dizzy to drive, took many pregnancy tests because I was so nauseous, felt so tired that I kept eating thinking it would help and resorted to caffeine and sugar....... GLUTEN?? This was in March of 2013. I cut gluten from my diet after this realization. I started to feel really good! I continued lemon essential oil in my water and DIM which are both detoxers. I also juiced raw organic veggies 1-2x per week. By Summer, my husband had been gone working in another state for 4 months, but I was feeling REALLY GOOD! I had also dropped down to 160 pounds! In my quest to drop a few pounds and try to remedy my yucky feeling, I lost something I didnt bargain for - gluten! I cant believe how good I feel! I am not dizzy anymore! No more queasiness! I am not ridiculously tired! The journey of life is sure unpredictable!!
Posted on: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:35:51 +0000
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