My story...has some1 else experienced n has advice!!

ok sorry for the long story but no other way...

First off I do not have health insurance and am tapped out as far as the healthcare industry goes since they did nothing but cost me money and had no answers for me....

Close to two years ago I had a mini-stroke..after so many tests and no answers their answer was I am entering into early pre menopause since I had a hysterectomy about 7yrs ago..they had left in one of my ovaries to be able to still produce my own hormones but now have thot that its not producing anymore. So it has thrown me into early premenopause..

it started causing bad migraines and that was what in turn threw me into the stroke. But due now to the stroke diagnosis they will not help me with any hormone therapy but think this has knocked my endocrine system out of whack and that is what is causing most of the problems im having. The hormone test is over 200.00 to just find out what hormone I may need to try to get on some natural ones...

I started thinking at the end of the year with doctors that mayb I can just do it myself....so off to the gym I went and that was in June 2012...Cardio 6x a week for at least an hour..did this for 6 months and nothing....I switched from pof in blue springs to the one im at now and got with the trainer and with her interval training after two weeks I lost 10lbs and 2in...so she would change me up every 3wks..difffernt weights and workout but then after 3wks I gained the whole ten pounds back in a week and after 2 months I gained back the 2in with another inch to go with it...

so I made friends with a guy who had been a weight lifting competitor and he turned me on to the free weights which were amazing...I didn't lose any weight but lost 4 inches in my upper stomach right under my chest and 4 inches in my thighs and 2 in in my butt he also kept changing it up as he said the same as the trainer you cant do the same thing all the time...

so im excited and cardio 2x a week then weights 3x then alternate but then the same within a month the blouses I went down from 1x to xl were all to tight and so were the size 12 jeans I dropped to..I gained back all the inches I lost right to the same.....So my workout partner stopped coming to the gym and I kinda slacked a little was going for cardio and then started the p90x well after a week two of that and my body hurting so badly I had gained an inch in my arms and 2 in the thighs and an all time high of now a 42in in my waist( now I was only ever a 38in waist and never ever over that) so I'm kind of at a loss as this goes except my boss says she thinks my muscles are retaining water...

I was leg pressing 150lbs...bench pressing 70lbs...doing assisted chin ups...reverse sit ups 40 every other day then bench leg lifts 40 every other day...75lb pull downs I wasn't being a sissy my partner had lost 30lbs and went from a size large to a small in 5months and me well this is what I got and Im bigger than I was to even begin with....

Now everyone says it has to be your diet...So when I started two years ago at the gym I also started doing the smoothies bought my nutria bullet as I had been diagnosed with a syndrome that is not allowing my food to digest..what took most ppl to digest in 45min took me 3hrs so their are a lot of things I cant eat as if I do they will make me sick...

I had gotten down to 800 calories a day and I couldn't eat and drink so it was one or the other and a give and take kind of thing...so the smoothies help with my digestion, giving me the calories I need and the things I wouldn't be able to eat all together and even some things I just don't like and wouldn't eat go in my smoothies....2handfuls of spinach...2mushrooms...half an avocado...half cup pineapple..a small orange...a small apple..a small banana..a quarter cup of berry mix...and half cup of greek yogurt...and half cup strawberries...

mind you it sounds like a lot and I agree it is but I have a small amount while im getting ready for work around 7-730am...then I have another small amount around 9am...then another amount around 12pm then the last little bit at 2pm when I actually break for lunch...I haven't drank pop in close to 2yrs...I gave up sweet tea(on occasion I have one) last year and drink only water...

I gave up most red meat and eat it mayb every 3months and eat chicken(don't like fish) at one point when working with the lifter guy he put me on a diet that follows...6 egg whites...cup of oatmeal and half a grapefruit for breakfast...then at 10 I had half can of green beans(no sodium) a small 4oz boneless chicken breast...and cup of brown rice...then I repeated the same at 12pm and then no carbs whatsoever after 1pm...then for dinner I would have another chicken breast and half green beans then right before bed I had a banana and a cup of unsweetened almond milk with a scoop of protein powder...

I did this diet for 12days... I slimmed a little down in the waist mayb two inches but as soon as I was off of it it came right back like within a week..

I don't usually eat dairy as I am lactose intolerant so milk is unsweetened almond...and I basically don't have butter or cheese or bread either...its my smoothie and then a piece of chicken for dinner and that's it...I could live off my smoothies as they fill me up without making me feel like im gonna explode and be happy as I don't even care for food anymore. I am kind of at a loss...

I take 2000mg of fish oil a day as recommended by the doctors and have kept that up...I have to take something for energy as I feel exhausted a lot or I would never get out of bed...I take a raspberry ketone..green tea..acai fruit...and afican mango and apple cider vinegar that was recommended by the health food store and it works very well for me but I have to have it or I was almost falling asleep at work...

I have tried CLS..the garcinica Cambodia stuff....green coffee bean...but now im just taking the energy pill the fish oil and a coconut supplement. A friend of mine has recommended I try the tracy Anderson workout since it triggers the small muscles and keeps you from bulking up which I am doing that everyone says I wouldn't ??? No matter what whether water or the muscle building underneath my muscles are growning...

After not having exercised for two weeks I am losing a little in my arms and legs but my waist is still big and especially the bottom part. So I am at a loss on what to do or how to do it. I am hoping by putting it out there that someone has experienced the same as me and can advise me on what they did to help. I would love some honest open opinions...I don't lie to my friends and expect the same from them...and all I can say is thank you!!!

I skimmed the post as it is way long, but I noticed in the first line you mention you don't have insurance. I don't know much about Obama Care, but isn't that available to you? It seems you would benefit from medical intervention and this could be the key for you

I will mention that pretty much all those things you mentioned near the end (keytones, green tee, etc..) are worthless. You might feel like they are working due to the placebo effect, but you are wasting your money on it. Take that money you would normally spend on that junk and stuff it in a cookie jar. When you reach $200, you will have the money for your hormone test.

Weight loss isn't just a week long or month long process, and it isn't just about working out. If you lost 10 pounds, then gained it all back in less than a month's time, you didn't really lose 10 pounds. You lost water weight, then gained back water weight.

You don't need to switch your workouts every two weeks to 'confuse' muscles. Progressive overloading is all you need until you plateau in your training. Log your weight lifted, sets, and reps, and improve on one or more of those numbers each time you execute the same lift.