BlueSkyNomad
Monday
SW: 216 (BMI 34.9)
PW: 209
CW: 208 (BMI 33.8)

Yo! yo! yo! I'm back from my holidays which weren't holidays, more like taking my laptop to a different part of the country and carry one but there you go. How is everyone getting on?

I will have a look through the recent posts and have a good browse at the activities.

Hope you have all been having fun!

Yay @chublet25 you have earned every bit of it! Your consistency is amazing!

Welcome to the new team members ☺️

Another new member will be joining you soon ... Please welcome @Stefbomb2020

This has been the wildest week of my life. Last Wednesday I gave birth to our perfect healthy baby girl we stayed in the hospital until Saturday and have been getting used to life with a baby for a few days now.

It’s amazing how much better I felt physically immediately after giving birth. I’m so much more agile, less in pain and everything is just easier. Even sitting is easier, despite having some stitches. Of course we’re still taking things slow, but we’ve been taking a little daily walk every day since Sunday. Today our walk was already a full mile! I’m definitely struggling mentally due to lack of sleep, problems with the baby’s eating and getting used to our new life in general, but at least I’m slowly getting my body back and things should start turning around soon. My husband is on paternity leave for 2 weeks, and his transformation into a doting daddy is amazing, he takes really good care of both our daughter and me.

I haven’t properly weighed myself yet. I tried my old scale but there’s definitely some issues with that one. It sounds like an excuse, but even with all this bloating I find it hard to believe I only lost 3lbs in childbirth when I gave birth to an 8.2lb baby plus placenta, lost all that amniotic fluid and was registered with 1lb blood loss. Baby’s first post-hospital checkup is on Monday so I’ll try the scale there - it’s at my maternity clinic so that’s the scale they’ve been weighing me on for the past 9 months.

Wtbarunner
Wednesday
PW 243.5
CW 237.5

I was put on a diuretic on Saturday so that’s why my loss is so big. I have been watching what I eat and exercising so I am hoping at least a pound of that is weight loss!!😊

I am new here, thank you for the welcome! I am 5'3 and 48 years old. I started MFP in June 2013 at 277, and for two years attempted to learn something about nutrition. I was able to add random walks and stop the buffets, which had me lose 30 lbs but then I was just stalled. I was on heavy doses of prednisone due to hives, I have been hypothyroid since I was 21, and honestly I was thrilled I wasn't gaining weight!! I could not figure out no matter how much logging I did what was really driving the hives (and when the hives are in full swing I don't really care that I am fat, and I don't care about nutrition either - it is hard to think of anything other than the hives).

Lent this year, I dug deep and went for some full mortification. I ate nothing I liked, and drank nothing I liked. My keyword was, "If it doesn't make me puke I am eating or drinking it" let me just say yerba mate is pond scum swill! But, I started losing again, and while it wasn't my goal the changes in my diet lessened my hives significantly! Enough to get off the prednisone!! I had been taking prednisone since 2003. I have been losing weight ever since.

May 15, I found out I had melanoma. So appointments, surgeries done. I am all clear for now. However, I was very grateful for the loose skin on my back! And I hadn't really picked up my daily walk yet at that point, I was losing all from nutrition. Being the super lucky duck that I am, my oncologist gave me IV iron! THAT was the point I was able to start walking and exercising again. I have fibroids, and they are trying to kill me. They waste any iron I have every single month. So that iron, has been a life changer!

In August my PCP wanted to start investigating why I have dementia. That has been just an awful revelation, so while I have a tiny bit of snap I was able to investigate little helps for the fog, and helps for the brain. The good news is I was tracking EVERYTHING I was eating, so I have full control over what is going on nutritionally. Added 260 calories of MCT oil daily to help, and taking some herbs and helpful vitamins for the brain, lowering carbs and sugar a lot (odd note: dementia is actually aggravated due to the brains lessened ability to use sugar, that is why the MCT oil works), and voila! I can think sometimes! Way better than before. I also can tell now when I eat or drink something that creates fog.

The daily walks that I picked up after the IV iron were a true lifesaver, one step in front of the other for what is now a 3.14 miles (yeah so I like pi). I am toying with the idea of lifting: definite maybe. And I am watching my nutrition like a hawk, with a mindset that it is about health only - brain first. I would like to keep my brain healthy as long as possible. I have read that exercise also helps with that, but I think it is more like "really active" aka "athletic" and I am not there yet. But give me time, I think I can do this. Memento Mori!!

When the stress gets to me I have prayer, and I love to say the rosary on my morning walks. I also have found that when things get overwhelming, keeping the logging and habits that I have acquired so far have just really mitigated the stress. I still have hives sometimes, but NOTHING like it was. So I am very grateful to be here, and I am grateful to be on this journey with all of you!! I am excited for my first time with fat to fit!