Well its been simply ages since I last contributed to this blog. Its been a heavy year with lots going on, so I simply forgot about the blog.
Since my last entry, I have been to Sydney. I met with a bunch of the Sydney gals who are on the Weight watchers site and enjoyed taking in the sights of the city. Sydney really is a pretty city and the people are very nice.
Ok that was in May. Since then we redecorated a house, which took all over our time for a couple of months. We would get up at 5.30am three times a week and do a killer spin class, and every night after work off to scrape, sand, paint and quietly go mad. No weekends off, no breaks. Not surprisingly I crashed spectacularly. Adrenal fatigue is what happens when you do too much exercise, never rest, have large amounts of stress in your life and it is more of a reality when you have Hypothyroidism. Boy did I hit the wall. I had to have time off work and re evaluate my life.
My friend suggested I see a guy who is a Kinesiologist. I visited him and said...well Im here because I cant lose weight and my friend said you might be able to help. He laughed and told me its worse than that. Yea you not only can't lose weight, but I bet you sweat all night profusely, are having heart palpitations, twitching eyes and cant get a full nights sleep. Oh and I bet if I push you will tell me that you feel overwhelmed and on the verge of tears a lot. Boy I gasped!!! He advised me there are three levels of exhaustion, and I was at level 3...the one where your body fights against you and you are more susceptible to diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
I listened...boy did I listen. After he treated me, he put me on magnesium, and Withania, adrenal support and told me to stop EVERYTHING!!! No more exercise. Lots of sitting about, stop focussing on anything, and re consider the things in my life that cause me stress. I saw him monthly after this. I added Mega B complex, fish oil, flaxseed oil and eventually iron (doctor told me my iron was dangerously low). Im writing about this in case anyone else is going through the same thing not knowing what it is.
After three months of doing nothing, I added to my recovery a job change. I enjoyed my job, but it was causing a certain amount of stress, and I felt a change would be good. I had three weeks off work between jobs....I highly recommend it. So far so good.
So what about now? Boy do I feel alive. Unfortunately I gained 8kg during my rest faze but I decided that was temporary and probably par for the course, a wee setback.
I just started a Body for Life challenge and in two weeks, the weight is falling off again. The new job seems promising, and will be busy, but different type of stress.
From here on in, I will be following this 12 week programme and my next posts will follow progress. Watch this space!
