I guess I never blogged my results from the last WLC.
I took second place! I don't remember the final lbs or inches lost but I was pleased with my results. I even won $40 and lots of "ooh"s and "ahhh"s from colleagues.
I should remember that feeling more often. Maybe I need another challenge to get me motivated this time!
Friday, June 22, 2012
Here's the Skinny
Here's the skinny on me lately. Shortly after that last post, I got really busy with life and then started feeling really crummy physically. I thought I was coming down with the flu, but I never got sick. I just got really tired. At my worst, I was taking 3-4 hour naps in the middle of the day and going to bed as early as 8pm and sleeping in until 9, sometimes even 10am when I was lucky.
I thought it was stress. (I live a busy life, and was at my busiest when the BBF hosted our third annual race at the end of April.)
Then I thought maybe it was a little bit of depression. (My cousin recently passed away from cancer after a fight of only 7 months.)
Then, I thought maybe it was just allergies. (So I started messing with my allergy regimen.)
Then I started documenting everything and noticed how well I've been eating and how active I was before I started feeling like crap. I went back through my prayer journal and remembered a lot about the last few months. And I started to think that maybe there was just something legitimately wrong so I went to the doctor.
At first, the doc didn't do anything, really. They drew some routine lab work since it'd been a year or more since my previous physical. That showed that I have low vitamin D but that doc didn't seem to mind so he didn't suggest I do anything but go out into the sun a bit more.
So we made it a point to go for more walks and play outside more often and my symptoms just started getting worse. On top of the fatigue, my shoulder was hurting again - like it did before I started a 10 weeks of physical therapy on it for what was (mis?)diagnosed as bicep tendonitis. My shoulder pain, back pain, and fatigue talked me into getting a second opinion.
The next doc I saw lacked some serious bed side manners, and I felt like I was shoo'd away faster than I could get annoyed about it - but there was more blood drawn, to check for ANA (to rule out an auto-immune deficiency, just in case). I also got a script for some mega sumo Vitamin D pills to take. Maybe that will help?
The other bloodwork test showed borderline positive results, meaning that I had some ANA in my blood - which apparently means that my body is fighting itself for some reason or another. So I was referred to a rheumatologist. (This started making sense! I did some research and decided that I must have arthritis! Maybe my shoulder hurts because the tissues are decomposing in the joints and my body can't keep up with it so I'm exhausted from it all!)
Nope - the doc said my shoulder is completely unrelated. The rheumatologist ordered more extensive (specific?) blood tests to investiage the fatigue and soreness, and those tests came back with only slight abnormalities (whatever that means?) and only borderline positive for signs of lupus. She said that I really should not worry about any of this, that there certainly is no diagnosis, especially not one of lupus.
The plan is to visit one more time with my allergist and then possibly start a medication that is supposed to help with the fatigue. (No answers still on the shoulder pain, I guess it's just residual from an injury I got when I worked it so hard to lose that first 40ish lbs. Whatever.)
All of this was bothering me greatly so I haven't been working out (to be honest, I haven't even been eating as well as I was used to, either)... I've been using my fatigue and joint paint, and my unknown blood "abnormalities" as an excuses to just be in a waiting phase.... waiting on blood results... waiting on appointments ... waiting on reasons.
I'm done waiting.
So I'm still tired. But I'm done waiting for answers... I'm just going to make the commitment to find my healthy me again one small step at a time. I'll listen to my body but I'll stop making excuses. I'm just going to assume that nothing major is wrong.
My stupid mouth always gets me in trouble. This time it's for being over-cautious. Just suck it up and push through allergy season. Gonna keep pushing myself to get over these mental blocks.
I thought it was stress. (I live a busy life, and was at my busiest when the BBF hosted our third annual race at the end of April.)
Then I thought maybe it was a little bit of depression. (My cousin recently passed away from cancer after a fight of only 7 months.)
Then, I thought maybe it was just allergies. (So I started messing with my allergy regimen.)
Then I started documenting everything and noticed how well I've been eating and how active I was before I started feeling like crap. I went back through my prayer journal and remembered a lot about the last few months. And I started to think that maybe there was just something legitimately wrong so I went to the doctor.
At first, the doc didn't do anything, really. They drew some routine lab work since it'd been a year or more since my previous physical. That showed that I have low vitamin D but that doc didn't seem to mind so he didn't suggest I do anything but go out into the sun a bit more.
So we made it a point to go for more walks and play outside more often and my symptoms just started getting worse. On top of the fatigue, my shoulder was hurting again - like it did before I started a 10 weeks of physical therapy on it for what was (mis?)diagnosed as bicep tendonitis. My shoulder pain, back pain, and fatigue talked me into getting a second opinion.
The next doc I saw lacked some serious bed side manners, and I felt like I was shoo'd away faster than I could get annoyed about it - but there was more blood drawn, to check for ANA (to rule out an auto-immune deficiency, just in case). I also got a script for some mega sumo Vitamin D pills to take. Maybe that will help?
The other bloodwork test showed borderline positive results, meaning that I had some ANA in my blood - which apparently means that my body is fighting itself for some reason or another. So I was referred to a rheumatologist. (This started making sense! I did some research and decided that I must have arthritis! Maybe my shoulder hurts because the tissues are decomposing in the joints and my body can't keep up with it so I'm exhausted from it all!)
Nope - the doc said my shoulder is completely unrelated. The rheumatologist ordered more extensive (specific?) blood tests to investiage the fatigue and soreness, and those tests came back with only slight abnormalities (whatever that means?) and only borderline positive for signs of lupus. She said that I really should not worry about any of this, that there certainly is no diagnosis, especially not one of lupus.
The plan is to visit one more time with my allergist and then possibly start a medication that is supposed to help with the fatigue. (No answers still on the shoulder pain, I guess it's just residual from an injury I got when I worked it so hard to lose that first 40ish lbs. Whatever.)
All of this was bothering me greatly so I haven't been working out (to be honest, I haven't even been eating as well as I was used to, either)... I've been using my fatigue and joint paint, and my unknown blood "abnormalities" as an excuses to just be in a waiting phase.... waiting on blood results... waiting on appointments ... waiting on reasons.
I'm done waiting.
So I'm still tired. But I'm done waiting for answers... I'm just going to make the commitment to find my healthy me again one small step at a time. I'll listen to my body but I'll stop making excuses. I'm just going to assume that nothing major is wrong.
My stupid mouth always gets me in trouble. This time it's for being over-cautious. Just suck it up and push through allergy season. Gonna keep pushing myself to get over these mental blocks.
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