28 months, 2018 did bring health issues...and regain..oh well...still alive!
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, 05-30-2018 at 09:30 PM (1890 Views)
Hello dear friends!!
Long time no see! I hope you are all doing great!! I must say I do miss many of you, but had so little time to do things for myself...hopefully Summer will bring more "me time"...with real time off!
Anyway a little health update : I finished the year 2017 at the ER for New Year's eve dinner. I was so exhausted for cleaning and cooking non stop for one full week with so many house guests, I didn't rest and the flu symptoms I got at the office like all my colleagues got out of control, did trigger my asthma which went even more out of control...and here we were, starting the year under a mask in an hospital room...yeah!
So I started 2018 with lots of antibiotics, and here we go... very heavy on cortisone too (saving my life but again making me gain weight like crazy)..gained 8 pounds in two days. My lungs took almost two months to clear...
Until April I had "floating pounds", 3 up and down but not loosing those 8 for sure...and going away for one week in April, I was a little "relaxed" about my diet, had three drinks (I usually don't drink alcohol) dessert three times and gained an other 2 pounds. Argh!
So here we are at the end of May, with a steady 10 pounds gain, I'm seriously thinking about going a little more low carbs and watch more my food intake (I'm packing my lunch and avoid the cafeteria since January but that doesn't even help) but...I'm eating the same "diet" since September so it's hard to understand how I lost so much from September to December, then the medication just messed up everything and I lost my "balance"..(except during the vacations in April, I know for sure I was eating more sweets than usual but the trigger was really the wine for that gain) and I'm starting to think that I need to get my body composition checked (last time was in July) because....I'm wearing the same suits! and it's a little tight around the belly area but not that much...weird right?
Also I have been stressed a lot for the past months, my work load is huge, commuting with weeks of non stop strike in Paris is driving me crazy.....and the real bad part: my 16 years old got rejected from the very one University she really wanted to enter so we had to find a B plan...it's Stress everyday from everywhere...and we all know stress is not good for weight loss..
I'm waiting to hear from HR if I will get the posting I want, it is taking for ever to get an answer and it seems I'm not on the right part of the list (because I'm just back from overseas, colleagues who are in Paris for 2 years and more are ahead of me..).
Anyway, June is right here at the corner, I can't wait to get warmer weather, see more of that that sun I missed so much, and I know I will be able to rest more in July (and the three months strike should also be finished in July) and have an easier commute.
BUT I will also try to sleep more, I'm really sleepless those past weeks, and I'm finishing that message at 4 AM! bad bad bad...
Please send me some good news and tell me how you are all doing!
Take care!