Dear Body,
My friends over at Our Wicked Weighs have suggested that I write a letter to you and express how I feel.
Let’s start off with asking how am I supposed to like you if you don’t even like yourself. For some reason, you have decided to wage war on your own parts. You constantly send out white blood cells to attack and kill off the thyroid. Don’t you understand that this gland is extremely vital to your very existence?
I used to love my hair, but you have let my immune system get way out of hand and it has caused my hair to go gray really early in my life. Plus since you are attacking the thyroid, my hair falls out in great big clumps.
I do love my eyes though. They allow me to read and look at things. They are thankfully functioning awesomely.
I will take credit for not taking care of you as I should. I used to go to the gym numerous times a week. I used to eat really healthy. In fact, at one point I was even a vegetarian. However, even when I was treating you in a very loving manner, you still let me down.
I am very thankful that we are starting to get along much nicer. I just wish you would stop fighting with your own thyroid.
I am trying to eat healthy and exercise so that you may get down to a healthy weight. I have been eating foods to help prevent your arteries from getting clogged. I have lowered my salt intake so that your blood pressure is staying within normal limits.
We have to stick together for many more years to come. Lets call it a truce and help each other out.
As I lose more and more weight, I am getting concerned about all of the lose skin around my abdomen.
It just seems to hang there loose and lifeless. It is rather disgusting. So now I have to start looking at things that I can do to get rid of it. It isn’t going to go away on its own. In fact, you can even check out this post to see how bad my abdomen is hanging. Warning!! The pictures are not very nice looking.
One thing that I have been considering is going to a cosmetic surgeon. CS from work had suggested this one over in California. I was extremely impressed with his website. There was a lot of great information about tummy tucks on his site. At least after reading his site, I feel much more informed about the procedure.
It will be quite some time in the future when I will be able to even seriously consider this. I have a lot of weight that I still need to lose. Plus I would have to save up some money in order to do this.
However, I like to look into things before hand so that I can make the best decision ever.
Years are flying by without a thought. It seems like just yesterday I was in high school and having very few cares in the world.
However, my 20th high school reunion is looming in the near future. There are quite a few things that I want to take care of before it comes up.
First off, I want to lose this excess weight. I know I won’t be as skinny as I was in high school, but I don’t want to be this heavy.
Secondly, I have started getting lines and wrinkles on my face. I have never been an overly vain person, but there are really starting to get to me. This one has caused me great concern. There really isn’t anything you can do to get rid of them yourself. So of course, the little search queen that I am, I went on a hunt to see what my options were.
It looks like my best option is Boca botox injections. Dr. Schwarz isn’t that far from me and his site gives a great explanation of what they do and what to expect.
Heck, after going through his site, I am even considering an S-Lift since I have a little flab and loose skin around my jawline.
I know that my sister D has been considering getting a face lift. I think I will give her this doctor’s information as well.
As you all know, I have been attempting to lose weight. I have just started my second week on Nutrisystem. I have lost a total of 11 pounds so far. I am not sure if I mentioned this other great site that I read all the time. It’s called Our Wicked Weighs. They have tons of great articles on weight loss and health.
Anyway, they have a contest going on to win a gift certificate. Today’s post was on getting stronger abs. So they want us to post before pictures of our abs. Now, I really hate pictures. And I am warning you that you might suffer brain damage looking at them.
The first two were taken the night before I started Nutrisystem. I weighed 218 pounds. And being only 5′4″, that is a lot of weight. Those pictures were taken by my brother-in-law. He was shocked and scared that I asked him to take them.
These next two are the ones I just took today. These ones actually show my bare abdomen. I wore the same clothes as in the first one to see if they fit any different in the pictures. My brother-in-law wasn’t around to take these, so I had to manage with a mirror.
I love using StumbleUpon! I always find such interesting websites that I would normally not see otherwise.
I just came across a really interesting post on another site about how you can see some problems in your body by looking at your fingernails. I had already known about ridges in the nails meaning you are low in iron. However, this site also posted that the less moons you have on your fingernails, the worse off your thyroid is.
That got me to looking at my fingernails! I have no moons showing on my fingernails. None at all. Not even a slight one peeking out somewhere. I am curious to see if any other thyroid sufferers have the same thing. Could this be true? Could that actually indicate thyroid issues? If so, then why don’t doctors look at that as an indication and start watching the thyroid if a person is missing some?
I have come to realize that all those fad diets don’t work. Yes, I had lost a little bit on the South Beach Diet when the doctor put me on it. However, I think a lot of that was water weight and also the fact that since I was gung ho about it, I was eating less. Not the fact that it was that specific diet. In fact, after being on it for awhile, I stopped losing weight.
Now, Nutrisystem is helping me. This isn’t a fad diet. It is actually a well balanced meal plan. I get all the nutrients that I need in a day. I am not forcing myself to avoid certain foods because they are bad. It is just helping me to eat healthier.
Besides, I am pretty lazy when it comes to food. So I won’t usually go out of my way to prepare a meal when fast food is way to easy. So these meals make is easy for me to keep healthy.
I have officially finished my first week of Nutrisystem!!
I can’t believe the amount of weight that I have been losing. My clothes seem to be getting baggier.
I really need to make an appointment with Dr. Abrams, but I want to wait until I get to 199. I want to be able to walk in there and show him that I broke the 200 mark!
I am so excited about all the weight I have lost. I just can’t believe that it has been this easy.
Heck, I haven’t even started exercising yet. I should add that into my routine so I can lose even more!!
So I have hit day 3. So far so good. I am actually surprised at how well the food tastes. I was a little worried since I can be pretty picky with my food.
The first day I ate an Apple Strudel Scone for breakfast with an orange. For lunch I had Pasta Parmesan with Broccoli and a salad with cheese on it. For my afternoon snack, I had an orange. And finally for dinner I had Wedged Potatoes with Sliced Beefsteak and 2 servings of green beans. For dessert I had the Chocolate Chocolate Chip Pudding. I was shocked how full I felt throughout the day.
The second day I ate the Apple Granola Bar for breakfast. For lunch I had Cheesy Cream of Broccoli Soup and a salad with cheese on it. For my afternoon snack, I had an orange. For dinner I had Beef Tacos with cheese, tomatoes and lettuce on them. For dessert I had the White Cheese Soy Chips.
I know I had seen people complaining on the board that they didn’t like the soy chips. I actually liked them.
So far this morning, I have had scrambled eggs and cheese.
I have been drinking tons of water and crystal light. I have really decided that I like the crystal light. I can have as much of it as I want. In fact, the days that I use crystal light, I tend to drink much more then just plain water. I have started carrying the little packets with me.
So after rummaging through all of my goodies last night, I decided that even though I normally hide from the camera, I needed some before pictures. So I asked my brother-in-law to take some of me. Of course he was shocked. He knows that he isn’t allowed to take any pictures of me or my sister without threat of death.
So I got a front shot and a side shot. Dang! I look pregnant even though I am not. I carry most of my weight in my abdomen and butt. In fact, its a joke around the office that I don’t have a white girl’s butt. Most of the women I work with are from the Dominican Republic.
Anyway, this morning I weighed myself so I knew exactly how much I weighed when starting the program. I will continue to weigh myself on Fridays like I normally have. Besides, that is our weigh in day over at Our Wicked Weighs.
I will put my before pictures up in my album on the Nutrisystem website before I leave for work.
Well, my shipment didn’t come in as early today as I had hoped. I figured that since it hit the local UPS place at 6am on Saturday, then it should be on the truck and ready to go for this morning.
However, it didn’t get here until this evening. So I can’t start until tomorrow. 
At least I get to start! I am way to excited about this. I already have the food all set up in the cabinet. All my breakfasts are in one area, my lunches in another, my dinners in yet another, and then finally my desserts off by themselves. They are close to each other, just separated. That way if I am really running late and am having a Libra moment of not being able to decide which one I want, I can just grab one.
I knew that the free week wasn’t going to be food that I got to pick. I figured that there would probably be quite a few things in there that I wouldn’t like. However, I was pleasantly surprised that there was only one thing in there that I wouldn’t eat and that was Split Pea Soup. First off, I am not that big of a soup fan. There are some soups that I absolutely love such as Broccoli and Cheese. Then there is the fact that I hate peas. The only thing that peas are good for is starting a food fight. LOL! So I will definitely be getting rid of that. One of my coworkers was asking about the food because she is thinking about going on NS too. So I might just see if she likes Split Pea Soup and give it to her to try. I don’t know.
