Tired, tired, tired

I really hope this thyroid medicine starts working soon because I am getting really sick of being this tired. It is such a huge effort to do anything active because I am so tired. We had spring break this week. I tried to keep active with the girls. I made sure we did something every day and limited the TV watching. We did pretty good. I had an allergy attack this week which I am sure subtracted from my energy level. We went to the rodeo on Friday and walked around all day. On Saturday, I was exhausted. I am so ready for this to be over. This week I am going to keep walking the girls to gymnastics and do yoga on Tuesday. I am also going to add some work on the exercise ball. I ordered Dance Revolution for the TV (we don't have a gaming console). I am excited because that will be a fun way to add some exercise. Hopefully it will be here by the weekend. As far as eating, I am going to try to eat 6 small, healthy meals a day. My grocery list supports that but we will see how I do.

So far so good

I've been doing a good job of re-distributing how I eat. I've been eating 6 times a day. The funny thing is that I am hungry all the time now. I hope that is a sign of increasing my metabolism. I've kept going to yoga and walking Becca to gymnastics. This week, I added walking Jessie to gymnastics. She was hesitant at first until I told her that it was helping the earth. After the walk, she said we should do it every week. I may get ambitious and do some work on the exercise ball this week too. We'll see. I haven't felt a difference with the thyroid medicine yet. I only took a half dose this week. Tomorrow I start on the full dose. They say it takes a few weeks to feel a difference. From what I understand, they have to play around with the dose sometimes too. I seem to do well until about 4 in the afternoon. After that, my energy level is shot. I feel in a really good place with all of this and I am enjoying making little changes at a time.

Thyroid medication

The doctor seemed more concerned with my thyroid than my sugars yesterday. I have to say I was a bit surprised. I had diabetes with my pregnancies and haven't felt that great lately and really thought that my time to lose weight had run out. The doctor put me on a low dose of thyroid medication and said that it should help me to lose weight with diet and exercise. If I lose the weight, my sugars should stablize. In addition to doing yoga once a week, I have started walking Becca to gymnastics once a week. It is a start at least. I think that I am going to add another activity next week and just slowly build up. For me the activities have to be sustainable. I also think that I should start off slow. I have a tendency to jump straight to over-doing it. In addition, I am going to rearrange how I eat. As of now, I can go through the morning and part of the afternoon with barely eating anything and the majority of my calories are at dinner. I am going to try to balance that out a little more.

Thyroid and sugars off

I am going to the doctor today. I had some blood taken last week and they phoned that my sugar was high and my thyroid was abnormal. I am wondering if it could partly be in response to the nasty virus I had a couple of weeks ago that I am still coughing from. I was in bed for a week and felt crappy longer than that. I have felt off this week, tired and weird with certain foods. I was diabetic with my pregnancies so the feeling is familiar. Hopefully I will have some answers today instead of more tests. Maybe this is why I can't lose the weight.

Other than that, I successfully completed the 30 day program I was doing with Karen Knowler. It far exceeded my expectations. I didn't become more "raw" with my diet but I absolutely was able (with help) to identify my food sabotaging and became more at peace with my food. I am learning to make choices that appeal to my child and adult selves instead of having a constant battle between the two.