Wednesday, July 27, 2011

122.

Hello friends! Sorry it's been a whole minute since I've posted last. My life has just been fully insane this last week and a half! So bad i haven't worked out the entire time. (So when I get home today I need to start for 4 days again!) I feel like as soon as I get to the every other day part of T-Tapp, so much stuff happens to the point where all I do when I get home is finally sleep. This is obviously not okay, so I'm going to attempt to wake up an hour early every day to get it done then. I know it's just an hour, but even the difference of half an hour seems like not enough sleep for me haha.

But good news, I ordered the Skin Tightening System from T-Tapp's website as well as the B-12 plus spray. (which really doesn't taste very good. If you get this stuff...be prepared to down it with water soon after) But I can already tell a major different from the spray and the fibrotox (I think that's it's name) I have more energy, and it's disgustingly obvious that I'm getting rid of all the toxins in my body. So once I start my T-Tapp again -which I seriously hope is tonight- I'm going to start the body brushing as well! I've met women whom have lost TONS of weight, and because of T-Tapp and the Skin Tightening System, don't have any loose skin! So I'll let you know how all of that goes!

Last thing, I came across a quote today from Audrey Hepburn. And when I first read it I laughed because it so sounded like everything I would say I decided I had to share it with y'all!


"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."

I hope everyone can live like this <3

Monday, July 18, 2011

121.

Hello everyone! Happy Monday I hope you are all doing well and enjoyed your weekends! Okay so as you all know I'm doing T-Tapp every other day, and I did it four days last week. I lost 2.5 inches last week but gained a pound. So that is now a total of 19.5 inches in 3 weeks! Love that!

Obviously it's been dropping almost in half every week but this week I think I know why. My hubby and I have been super stressed, we've had a lot of big things -not good things- that just keep popping up one right after another and we both have been so stressed out since last Monday. I know being stressed isn't good period, and it definitely doesn't help when you're trying to shed inches and weight but I've been finding it hard to not be stressed. It's so bad that I'm physically shaking even now as I type.

So anyway of course I'm not positive why it was much different but I would bet stress is a big factor!

Other than that T-Tapp is going great, it still kicks my butt absolutely every time but I can already tell a big difference in my knees and back! They really don't hurt nearly as bad and I feel like I can move more than I usually can!! So what's going on with you guys??

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

120.

I feel like I've been posting a lot, and then I realized I hadn't since Thursday! WOOPS! First of all how is everyone? Good I hope! I'm doing pretty well, but I was having some serious pain issues at the end of last week.

Thursday I felt like I was getting sick or something and then Friday evening my entire body was in so much pain. Absolutely everywhere from the neck down was killing me and it definitely hindered my T-Tapp because I could barely go up and down our stairs or stay standing very long at the grocery store. 95% of my weekend was in bed without moving. I was thinking it was somehow Thyroid related because I know bone soreness can come from Thyroid problems and I'm almost positive I have fibromyalgia as well. BUT it felt like an everything pain, bones and muscles.

Anyway, on Monday it turned from shooting pains to achy so I went back to T-Tapping, since I missed so many days in a row (Thursday was my day off, then we all know how the weekend went) I've decided I'm going to do 4 in a row again to give me a little boost! I worked out Monday when I got home and it kicked my butt, but then I woke up early this morning and decided to get my T-Tapp done for the day and I had the BEST work out. It felt awesome and I could feel each individual muscle working, I just felt so in tune with my body that I'm pretty sure it's the best form I've ever had while T-Tapping.

Monday was 2 weeks being back with T-Tapp so I did all my measurements and weighed in, I only lost .2 pounds, but at least it's a loss and not a gain! Buuuuuuuttttt I did lose 5 inches last week :) :) I was pretty excited about that. So in the last two weeks I've lost 2.4 pounds and 17 inches off my body! WOO HOO!

I'm still getting used to T-Tapp and how it changes my appetite (i'm much more hungry, and I've been craving sweets, which I normally don't eat a lot of -I'm more of a salt and carb person-) but I feel like I'm beginning to get a hang on it so hopefully very soon I'll be ready to go back to the Thyroid Diet! Lose some pounds with those inches!!!! :)

Love you all, until next time!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

119. (also post #5)

This is the second and last "old" post that I'll be reposting. I am going to change some of the pictures...I have found some since I last posted this in April of 2010 that show my body a little bit better. So here we go:

Okay so I was thinking I might have a little post to see how I was gaining weight over the years. Now please keep in mind, some of these pictures are probably funny or whatever but I don't take a ton of serious pictures. Also not all of these you can see my whole body, but you can tell in my chest and face how much weight I'm gaining.



Picture 1: I was 140 pounds, and this shirt was two sizes too large. I am on the left of the picture this is my Sophomore year of High School

Picture 2: This was my Junior year of High School after my thyroid had been removed this was one of my proms and I am on the right, I weigh about 160 here.


Picture 3: The end of my Senior year I was 180 here, this is before one of my voice recitals


Picture 4: This is during my Freshman year of college, I'm the girl in the polka dot dress I weigh 200 lbs here, there was some dinner going on this night


Picture 5: Nearing the end of my Freshman year, I weighed right around 215-220, I guess we were doing a see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil thing?? Roommates Birthday dinner.


Picture 6: This is right after my Freshman year of college ended. We were getting ready to leave for Russia. I'm in the i <3 Clyde shirt, I weighed 230.


Picture 7: This is near the end of my Sophomore year of College. Back to 230, I went down to about 210 for a bit but I went back up. This is so you can see a close up of my face. This picture is funny we didn't take any serious pics this night, but it was the last night I remember feeling like I actually looked pretty.


Picture 8: This is three weeks later the day after I moved to Texas, with my hubbs I weigh 250 lbs.


Picture 9: This is my wedding day a couple months after the previous picture in August 2008 I weigh 280 lbs


Picture 10: This is a few months after the wedding, my family came to visit us in Texas, I am in the very middle, I weigh 300 lbs.


Picture 11: I'm in the middle, this is me at 323 pounds in March of 2010 during a Girls Weekend with my Mom and sisters.



So I hope these pictures help you see everything a little bit differently also. You can see, even in just my face, how much I have gained. My eyes aren't so big, now they look squinty. My dimples are disappearing :( And I just look flat out huge. I seriously can't wait to get back to somewhere between the second and third picture, and one day I WILL GET THERE

119. (also post #1)

Okay this was actually my first post done April 11, 2010. Keep that in mind since some of these things have now changed in the little over a year since I wrote it. But I thought it needed to come up again for the newer people here! After this I would suggest you read # 116 since it was written just two weeks ago!

This blog is not meant to make people sad, have them feel sorry for me and it is not for attention. It is simply to let people understand what I am going through, and what has been happening throughout the last 10 years of my life. Also, I am reading a couple new books by Mary J. Shomon and through these books I am going to attempt (once again) to lose the weight that this disease has caused me. So this blog will also be my weekly (possibly daily) journey with this last resort diet; the "Thyroid Diet".

When I was in 7th grade I was diagnosed with Graves' Disease, and hyperthyroidism. (In case you were wondering you can have hyperthyroidism without Graves' Disease) That is when your thyroid (butterfly shaped gland that wraps around your trachea) is over active. Your thyroid controls almost everything that happens inside your body, like:

Heart Rate

Metabolism

Moods

Immune System

Menstrual Cycles

Sex drive

Brain Activity

Ability to get pregnant

Body Temp

Cholesterol

etc. etc. etc. (I think you get the point)

I'm not certain, since I have never done speed, but I'm guessing that's what your body feels like at all times; like you're on speed (sitting down relaxing my heart rate was going 150 bpm...yea...) So I was taking medication and during my Freshman year of High School I went into remission from the disease and all seemed great for a while. During my Sophomore year however I started feeling not so great again. We called the Doctor he said I was fine... so we just went along with it. At the end of the year we went back to the Doctor and I had relapsed. It was the worst I have ever been and we were told if we didn't do something soon I would slip into a vegetable like state and eventually die from that. We had my thyroid removed with radio active iodine and were told that with thyroid replacement medication I would be fine. Ha...Ha...Ha.... ;)



Up until that point I had always been rather thin, I was 5'8'' and weighed in around 140-145 lbs. I was very athletic, on soccer teams, club swimming and recreational swimming teams, volleyball, basketball...basically I was always busy with sports. It wasn't long after I had my thyroid removed that I started gaining weight. I got up to somewhere between 180 and 190 lbs by the end of my Senior year of High School. At the time we thought it might have something to do with my thyroid problems but we really just blamed it on me eating the same and not working out anymore. (I have hyper-elasticity in my joints...and because of that I blew all the ligaments out of my right shoulder, some in my left shoulder; and it was starting in my knees.) I was on thyroid replacement hormone but they couldn't find the right dose, I wasn't able to get to a "normal" level. It was very frustrating, but besides being a little overweight it wasn't interfering with my life so I didn't really care.



In the fall of 2006 I left home to go to Biola University La Mirada, CA. College was great but man...that Freshman 15...turned into a Freshman 50. I was gaining weight like crazy and I couldn't stop. In December of that year we did some more testing and found out I went to the complete opposite side of the thyroid problem; I was now Hypothyroid with Hashimoto's Disease. (Once again you can have the first without the other) I didn't just go to the under active side of things...I was WAY under active, which explained the weight gain. After we found this out my mom took me to a specialist in Beverly Hills to try to fix what was going on. Because he is pretty well known I won't mention his name...but he was the worst Doctor I have seen since this started. He accused me of not taking my medication, he said I was probably scarfing down soy products. (soy is incredibly bad for people with thyroid problems) I wasn't doing any of these things, this guy just thought he was so awesome, that me getting worse HAD to be my fault, not his. Needless to say I continued to get worse and worse over the next year and a half. I started doing horrible with my school work, mainly tests, because everything was so slowed down I couldn't concentrate, I couldn't remember things I had studied and one day I even forgot my name. It was terrifying I cried for hours. Soon enough all I wanted to do was sleep, and I was getting sick a lot. I didn't feel happy all the time like I usually did and just walking exhausted me. I didn't gain a lot more weight but when I finished my Sophomore year of College I weighed in at 250 lbs. ugh...



After that year I moved to Texas with my -then soon to be- husband Cory. I found another Doctor here, her name is Dr. Espinoza and she has been great so far...but I haven't been helped. I have continued to get worse and I have gained more and more weight. I moved to Texas in May of 2008 and by August 2008 I weighed 280 lbs for our wedding. I was disgusted with myself when I got our wedding pictures back I cried forever. Our wedding was beautiful and so much fun and the pictures were amazing...but who was this disgustingly overweight girl in the wedding dress?! That isn't what I look like, that's not what I feel like how can that possibly be me? But it was...and unfortunately that wasn't my top weight. We've had some scares in the last year and a half, they thought I had tumors...I've miscarried and the Doc said I would never be able to have children...and recently they said there was no more they could do for me. They would just keep trying to give me higher doses but that's all that could be done. A normal person with hypothyroidism takes their meds with a dose around 100mcg. I take 275mcg...and yet I'm still worse. But I'm not giving up hope, I refuse to believe that I will never carry a baby the full 9 months and have a normal baby, and although my Doctor has asked me over and over again to stop trying to diet and to just let the disease do what it will...I refuse to continue to be this overweight. Actually I'm not even overweight, I'm morbidly obese.



That's where this book by Mary J. Shoman comes in and the majority of the reason for this blog. I've tried tons of diets, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Insulin Resistant diets, cutting calories...you name it. On Average I eat 1500-1600 calories. Way less than most people eat in a day. I walk for 40-60 minutes every day...and when I'm able to I work out on the elliptical machine. Most days it's too hard though, I'm still so tired and exhausted and really all I want to do is never leave my bed. I don't though, I work, I spend time with my husband and puppy and friends. I don't want people to think I'm a depressed person who doesn't do anything with my life so I don't live that way. And I no longer want strangers to look at me and think I'm a couch potato that just sits there stuffing my face. It is incredibly difficult for someone with hypothyroidism to lose weight, the majority of us gain a lot of weight while we're trying to diet. So I'm going to try this one last diet and I will keep a blog on my journey during it. If you guys have any questions about anything please post it on my blogs I'll answer it. And now for the most embarrassing thing about all of this that most people do not know because they haven't seen me since I moved away....

My name is Molly, I'm 21 years old, I have had thyroid diseases for 10 years of my life and I have gained 183 lbs because of it. I am currently 323 lbs and I will, somehow, lose this weight.

118.

Well hello there, so soon I know! But here I ammmmm :) If you couldn't tell I've truly missed you all! I want this blog to get back to where it started. Where people commented letting me know about what was going on in their lives and asked questions. Obviously it will still be about my journey with thyroid diseases in general, as well as the Thyroid Diet and T-Tapp

So what's going on? Hit me with what's going on!

I just got a beautiful message, actually from a family member, saying how much she loved reading my blog and how it helped her with what's going on with her even though our diseases are drastically different. And I realize I've been quite selfish to just leave you all. I did need time to heal from my third miscarriage and I thank you all for giving it to me but I shouldn't have just disappeared, I see that now. I want to be there for people. Up until a year ago, I never knew anyone else who had Thyroid problems like I did and I wish I had growing up. It would have been wonderful to know that other people were going through this as well and thought a lot like I did! I know how hard this disease can be, and it kills me to know there could be someone else who was in the same position I was my first 10 years of this disease. Alone.

I'm going to post a few more times right now. A couple of them are already on here, I believe they are #1 and 5 but since they were obviously so long ago and there are new people here I want them to be able to see the start of this blog. So forgive me for the oldies!

Monday, July 4, 2011

117.

Happy Independence Day everyone! Today was day 8 of T-Tapping and it hurtttt. I accidently missed day 5 but have been going strong every day since. Day 6 was the easiest day by far, yesterday I had issues with keeping my form and today was just killer haha. But I'm glad I did it and it's done til tomorrow!

I had some hard times this last week, I could feel Satan just trying to get me to stop working out and go back into my dark place. This little kid I've seen almost every day for the last three months decides this was his week he was going to tell me I don't look good, I need to exercise and stop eating. I know he's 6, but it still hurts because I know he's right BUT I am doing something about it for the first time in a LONG time. As if to make it worse I broke a chair in front of 3 people the next day when I sat down. A few hours later the main diamond in my wedding ring fell out and I spent 2 hours looking for it! I did thankfully find it, but when my hubby and I went to the store they said they stopped trying to sell those types of rings because the diamonds don't stay in very well....(uhh...you think? This is the 3rd diamond that's fallen out in a little over a years time!) So they said they could fix it but I would need to know it would continue to happen. So they let us trade it in and I got a beautiful ring, but am still sad about my old one. :( By the time we finished that, got home and ate it was already 9pm and I was so mentally exhausted we went to bed then -that was the day I missed-.

But I told Satan he couldn't bother me and the next morning I was T-Tapping away! YAY! SOOOO before I worked out this morning I weighed myself and did all my measurments and I can't wait to tell you! I lost 2.2 pounds this week, which I'm actually pretty excited about because I'm not really dieting, and doing T-Tapp religiously has made me SO hungry. So I'm trying to get a perfect balance of eating a little more without stuffing my face at dinner haha. So any loss was really nice. But my measurements were THRILLING! In the last week I have lost a total of 12'' !!!!!! Quite proud of myself! Even when I'm tired I still T-Tapp, and I don't get discouraged when I have days where I need to stop a little more than usual; because it makes those days that I don't need to stop extra awesome.

Anyway I hope you guys have a wonderful day! I'll talk to you soon :)  

P.S. is this okay? This once a week? It's very helpful for me but I was wondering if y'all think it's too little?