After a year away from MFP I'm back :)

Hi all, I've been gone for right about a year. A lot has happened in my life in this last year but I'm here now to get healthy and turn my life around. The first half of my year has been horrid but I"m looking to make the last half the year as a winner

I"ll post my story here but would love people to talk to and get motivated with me I plan on doing Body Beast weight workout along with working up to 3 days of HIIT cardio again.

Here's my story. I was diagnosed as hypothyroid about 5 years ago. I had for many years before this been a weight lifter, exercise cpl times a week person. I stopped working out with weights right around the time I was diagnosed with thyroid issues because it just didn't feel like i was getting anywhere I honestly wish I could go back and never stop.

Last summer of 2015 I started working out with weights again using Body Beast dvd's, I would also do 25 min HIIT workouts on my inclinder bike 3 days a week and take walks around our farm when the weather permitted. For the first time in years I started noticing a weight loss, actually lost 12 lbs which was amazing. Giving my two dogs baths ones day and my 85 lb golden retriever decided he was just going to be dead weight while lifting him into the tub and I pulled my back out Spasms for a couple of weeks and unfort I got out of my workout habits During this time I had also gone in for my yearly thyroid blood work to be told by a new doctor that my medicine was way off and she cut it in half. I was on 60 mg armour, she cut it to 30 but wanted 45 unfort they don't make it in 45 .

Fast forward to February of this year when I go in for my yearly mammogram. I went in on a tuesday and got the dreaded call the very next day telling me there was a 'concern' on my mammogram. Scary thoughts go through your head when you get that call let me tell you. I went back the next day for another mammogram, they couldn't 'squish' the area to make the concerns areas disappear so next I underwent an ultrasound. They couldn't determine exactly what the 'spot' area was on the ultrasound so the Dr advised me to either get a breast MRI or a biopsy done. His recommendation was the MRI since it's less instrusive. Hmph- I beg to differ let me tell you.

I had to wait 2 months for my MRI appt which turned out to be probably the most traumatic experience of my entire life. During this entire time starting in February I was suffering from severe depression, no sleep, Anxiety attacks like you wouldn't believe thinking I had breast cancer and the waiting for months on end was driving me nuts. I stopped eating almost all together. I would only eat maybe twice a day when I got hungry and even then I was just a bundle of nerves that I was throwing up half my food.

The MRI appt turned out to be a failure because after 20 minutes of laying face down in a crunched up toilet tissue tube I was informed the computers went down on the machine and I would have to reschedule. Umm no thank you. I called my doc and we scheduled an appt for the next week to see a surgeon to just get the biopsy done. Went in to the surgeon and was informed that the area was so small he couldn't 'find' it to do the surgery and sent me to a specialist at the hospital in the city. Alrighty, feeling terrified I finally get in June to get this biopsy done, to be told that they didn't send all my mammogram photos so they didn't know where to do this biopsy AT. Ok, it's a women's center so no problem, they will just do the mammogram there. I get that done only to find out that the original mammogram was never done properly. They NEVER took alternate views of this 'problem' area of concern. IF they had I would NEVER have had to go through these months since february like I had been.

Dr came in and informed me that there was NOTHING to see on the side views, he did see a small spot on the top view and they will keep an eye on it, I need to go back earlier to get another mammogram just to be safe but other than that they sent me home with no biopsy needed. Can you say I was a little bit upset with the original hospital team from back in February?

I followed up with my Dr. a couple of weeks after that, got yearly blood work done for thyroid etc again. During this last year I had not only gained back the 12 lbs I had lost but I had also put on another 10. I have NEVER in my life been this heavy Was a very depressing appt. What became even more depressing afterwards was when she called me for a follow up appt to let me know that not only had I gained this weight back, but I was also anemic and even worse (more than likely she feels from the anxiety and stress since february) I now had sudden onset diabetes. My thyroid was also off again and she is trying to figure out a way to get me on 45 mg instead of the 30 that the last dr had me on.

So here I am now with a new diagnoses of anemia and diabetes added to the mix along with my thyroid I have until november when I go in for more blood work to see if I can possibly reverse this diabetes Oh and in the middle of this I also tore my MCL about two months ago and am recovering from that No squats for me for quite some time ugh.

To say that I"m ready to put the first half of this year behind me is probably an understatement. My Dr asked me a cpl weeks ago if I just wanted a do-over and i"m like are you nuts? I want this year over with.

If you've read through all this saga ty lol. I am so ready to get healthy now that I more than likely don't have breast cancer (it's not 100% but I'm determined to not dwell on it at this point). My goals now are to continue losing and getting healthy so I can have good blood work results come November and beyond. My highest was 270 when I went to my docs a month ago, when I went back last week I was down to 260 so I've lost 10 lbs now between getting back to exercise and being put on new thyroid meds. Also forcing myself to actually eat again more meals per day I'm sure has helped a ton.

My long term goal is to get down to about 140ish. I have a long way to go but I"m going to do it in 12 week challenge increments I am starting a 12 week challenge for myself on Aug 1st.

Anyone else starting up a new challenge for themselves in the near future?