It's been awhile....

So, it's been so long since I posted that I actually had to go back and read my last couple posts to see what they were even about! They were about being under 230....(not anymore, I'm back around 234, i don't know what it is, but I just can not stay below 230, i have to really struggle to get there, and then if I even smell pizza it all comes flying back on) ....and going to the doctor.

Well I went to the doctor. She was an endocrinologist and a specialist in metabolism and diabetes. She looked me over, asked me about a bunch of symptoms....
Are you cold alot? All the time! Freezing!
Do you have dry skin? She looked at my forearms and shins and wrote down "Very Very Dry"
Have you been losing hair? Yes! I didn't even know that was a symptom!
Do you have trouble swallowing or feel like you are choking? Yes!! What does that have to do
with it? I thought I was getting a hernia like my mom has but I guess it can happen if your
thyroid gland is swelled up.
Are you constipated? No. This is the only symptom I didn't have, lets attribute that to all
the oatmeal and salad I eat!
And last and most important. Have you been gaining weight? No! (she was shocked!) I explained that I work out every morning and eat my oatmeal, yogurt, salad with tuna, cottage cheese and fruit, and then dinner, diet and I actually lost over 20 pounds in the last 6 months, but it's been hard. And I can't seem to loose anymore!

So she showed me my blood test results and explained that a normal reading is between 1 and 2.5 ...... I was a 5.04, only over double what a high reading would be!

She wrote me a prescription, sent me home with samples and told me to start the medication right away. I will go get my blood checked in another month and see if my results are good, or if we need to change my dosage. She said that I should see my symptoms start to improve and that I should actually start losing some real weight from the work I'm putting in.

It's been about 3 weeks. My skin is noticeably softer and smoother and not so itchy and flaky! I'm cold sometimes and warm sometimes, and I get under all my blankies at night, and I wake up in the night hot and take blankets off! (That has never happened except when I was pregnant!) I'm still loosing hair, but i have only choked on my food once in the last 3 weeks, so that is a big improvement.

So you would think with so many symptoms leveling out I've probably been dropping pounds too?? Nope! But, i did kinda think, "Now I have skinny pills!" And i have not been eating well. I did not eat salad once for lunch last week! I did go out for burgers once though, and a sub and chips on Friday....and a gyro and spinach pie another day!! And I realized that eating salad every day, is healthy for my body and my wallet!!

So starting today I'm going to eat really good all week. I'm eating salad right now, and I'm cooking chicken with peppers for dinner, and salad for lunch tomorrow....etc! But this weekend I have a birthday party & a big BBQ at B (you know, the ex-nemesis)'s house. And me and B are having a cheese cake cook-off! (We just can't put the rivalry aside completely huh?) And my baby sis's baby shower is on Sunday. So I'm going to be busy, and I'm going to be around a ton of NOT healthy food. So i will do great during the week, and try to do my best this weekend, without feeling like i am totally denying myself. And hopefully this will help the skinny pills do their job!