Getting Started =]

Hi everyone! I'm just getting started, trying to lose weight for (hopefully) the last time. I've been overweight for pretty much my whole life. I had swine flu in 2011 and that caused a lot of complications and even more weight gain, so its been pretty hard to bounce back from that. Now I have a lot of health issues that make it harder to lose weight, but not completely impossible. I'm notorious for starting weight loss things like this and then just...getting sidetracked and not keeping up with it. Maybe being here and logging everything will force me to stay accountable. Hopefully.

I have hypothyroid, PCOS, insulin resistance/pre-diabetes, and I take bloodthinners. I take bloodthinners because of some blood clots I got when I was on life support for the swine flu and, although the clots have dissolved, my doctor is wary of taking me off them. Last year we did a ct scan to make sure the clots were gone and immediately after that, bloodwork showed my kidney function going down (guessing because of the dyes - it had really damaged them in the past too), so I also take meds for decreased kidney function. Most days I feel like a walking pharmacy and the bloodthinner seriously inhibits my attempts at healthy eating.

I'm a huuuuge animal person. I work at a vet hospital and a groomer, and I'm halfway done with school to become a RVT. Huskies are my critter of choice, although I'm jealous of their energy most of the time! I'm really interested in natural/alternative healing, for people and animals, and I'm also a big fan of just about anything supernatural. Surely there will be a few people here that I'll click with =]