I went to the health department yesterday for a refill on b.c. and we had a discussion about my family's medical history. It is bad. My dad has a bad history or heart problems and is pre-diabetic and my grandmother on my mom's side is diabetic. I also have a condition called PCOS.
It causes me to be very over weight in the mid section of my body, higher levels of testosterone produced, and a few other issues. The main thing is that it causes my body to not process carbs right.
The nurse told me that I might have issues with my thyroid, have a chance of becoming diabetic, and having heart issues in my future. This scared me. One day William and I will be living on a farm and if I am way too over weight, diabetic I am not going to be very efficient. I may live a long time but the quality of life is going to suffer and who wants that? Not me.
I do not over eat, I eat the wrong things but that is because junk food (pasta) is the cheapest food and fastest food to make. I have an addiction to sweets. All of this has to go.
I have lost a lot of weight before. At my biggest I weighed 220 and now I am down to 182. I am 5'4 so that makes my BMI 32ish. That puts me at obese.
So enough with the facts now let's see how I am going to make this happen!
First and foremost, I have William to help me make the right decisions and cook healthy.
I am going to take my vitamins: Multi vitamins, cinnamon, chromium, B vitamins, and Co-Q10. Most of these will help my body process carbs easier.
I am going to cut out the bad carbs and bad fats. Basically change the food I eat. We are going to grow some of our veggies so we cannot use money as a factor for that.
I am going to work out. I almost put more but I don't work out at all. Starting tonight I am going out to the park and participate in Dagorhir http://www.dagorhir.com/ I plan on doing some arching!
I am going to blog about it and put it out there so I can get support!
Thanks for reading!
Good Luck Helen!!
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