Friday, June 27, 2008

Sugar Alcohols And The Scale

Yup I'm up a pound this week. I know that I now suffer from Post MS instead of PMS, I managed to make it through the whole TOM without a sugar free chocolate in hand but one day later while out on one of my now tri-weekly trips to Carrefour( Europe's Walmart in UAE) there was this king size sugar free white chocolate bar and I had to have it, never mind the 56 grams of sugar alcohols for each 4 pieces, there were about 24 pieces in all. I will have self control I told myself, only eat 4 pieces a day till its done. Well that was enough to get me to put it my cart and off we went. Day one , ate four pieces and put the rest away, day 2 ate 4 pieces and put the rest away, day three the chocolate told me that if I just ate it all that day it would no longer be there anymore to tempt me, so down the hatch it went, yeah I know, not much self control there . Any way gone went the candy bar and it took my ketosis with it. I finally got the darn stick to turn purple today so I am back in ketosis again so that's a plus. Now just waiting for my Scale to catch on that yeah I really want to lose weight and its not fair to punish me for one small indiscretion. Well lesson learned unless I want to gain a pound leave the king size sugar alcohol laden deliciously creamy white chocolate bar in the store, cause no matter how good it tastes I will be sorry after. This week I learned that sugar alcohols don't like me very much and my scale can be very two-faced as well.
On a much brighter note, I have ordered the medication that I need, just praying now that they allow the delivery to go smoothly. I cant wait to feel better because I have been sleeping like a bear in hibernation this week, and still haven't started back exercising but I will try hard to get there this week.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Let the summer vacation begin.

Its official, everyone in the house including dh are now on summer vacation. It was a smooth transition so far, with a few bumps. My little one got burned with hot tea, so I am nursing her wound, and the baby had an allergic reaction to some teething meds and had to be rushed to the ER. Thank God they are both fine. I'm still dealing with the inability to get hold of my thyroid medications right now, which is very frustrating. For some reason T3 isn't on the market for sale in the UAE, go figure. So I may have to try and get the Ministry of Health here to give me permisson to have some sent here, I wont be holding my breath on that too long though.
My weight is back on the decline and I am thankful for that , I know most thyroid patients have trouble losing and that is not my issue. I suffer with the fatigue, muscle aches(all over body aches), feelings of not wanting to move, excessive sleep patterns, and now hair loss, aspects of hypothyroidism, and according to my lab work I have the antibodies that indicate that I have Hashimotos disease,haven't really figured out what all that means just yet I will post my lab work later on. So needless to say this week I have alot of research cut out for me with the addition of a dh and 10 kids to now tend to ALL DAY LONG,lol. Hold on to your hats ladies, its going to be quite a ride.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Sort of a pattern!!

Sorry I am late again this week. Busy day on Thursday , and now another busy weekend. I wont dare bore anyone with another post about my "feminine issues", but you can probably pretty much figure out why my weight it up a little this week. At least I see the pattern and its not bothering me. I have been doing a really good job of staying on plan and I know as long as I stick with it, I will see results, and I know its going to take alot of patience with myself. The patience part gets very hard sometimes, but the more I begin to accept that this is a change for life , the less it feels like I am on a diet, and the easier its becoming to stay on plan without a second thought. I have been having what feels like some thyroid related issues and I found these articles :
http://thyroid.about.com/b/2008/06/11/whats-happening-to-thyroid-patients-taking-eltroxin-brand-levothyroxine-in-new-zealand.htm?nl=1#gB3
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4575143a6568.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4579569a6568.html

I don't live in New Zealand but the medication that we get here comes from Glaxo Smith Cline in Germany, and since I changed to this new bottle I have been suffering from hair loss, fatigue as if I am not treating my thyroid at all, and my eyes are always sore and painful. I'm not sure what to do with this info but I may start by writing the local newspapers here and see if someone can do some more research. The bigger problem is if they pull it off the shelves, there are no other medicines on the market here so how would all the hypothyroid patients treat their conditions, scary thought. Well I went to the doctor and had my lab tests repeated and I will post my results as soon as I have them.
Until next time.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Rolling in a new month!!

Turbo Jam is cool but I cant see myself doing it everyday, the treadmill gets so boring. Callanetics is my magic ticket. I love it and I look foward to the hour I spend doing it, and best of all I have managed to be consistent with it as well. When doing it you should give your body time to recover so I do it every other day. The days I dont do it I want to, thats how much I enjoy it. Today the scale it teetering between 289 and 290 , but I am writing 289 because thats where its been going down to a few days now, just waiting for it to stick there and go lower. I feel great and I am finally starting to really notice that my body is changing and its really nice that dh notices as well. Im still doing my shakes for 1 oe 2 meals a day, it works well and keeps me from having to plan out meals all day. I want to try and start back on my treadmill. I just need some motivation. I have been really good about driking my water and keeping up with my food journal , this week I ate no processed foods, just meat, salad, veggies, nuts, and cheese maybe once or twice. I expected the loss to be more but Im not sweating it as long as I dont gain, I know TOM will be here again I would like to be down to 280 by the end of June but no pressure, as long as I am sticking to plan I will succeed. See you next week.