Week 3

Today is weigh in day.  I have to say I was a little disappointed which is so stupid!  I lost 2.4 lbs.  2.4 lbs is great!  Especially since I had only originally wanted to lose 2 lbs. a week.  I feel a little ridiculous for feeling this way, but after last week I thought holy cow I can DO THIS!  So I worked my butt off this week and lost 2.4 lbs.  As I'm writing this I am feeling much better about my results though, so I guess this online diary is a good thing.  I worked out every day last week and I made sure my calories were good most days.  I have heard that every other week can be an off week, so if next week I feel like my calories in and out don't match up to my results I will know that something needs to be changes.  Also, I upped my thyroid meds this week because I'm still freezing all the time, so hopefully that will help too.  There were some days where I just didn't want to get out from under my warm blankie to exercise, but I did it anyway and that in and of itself is awesome!  GO ME!

Week 2

Week two I lost 3.4 lbs.  THAT IS AWESOME!  I wish I could lose that every week.  At this point I was feeling pretty good about myself.  I am moving more and feeling a little better physically.  I am AWESOME!

Week 1

Week one was my first week on the thyroid meds and my first week trying to lose weight.  I eat about 1450 calories or less a day and try to net 1500 calories a day.  With that in mind I should lose 3 lbs a week.  Week 1 I lost 2.8.  That's not bad.  I was pretty happy with that.  If I lost that much a week I would be to my goal weight in a little over a year.  I love Math!

Calorie Count

I use this awesome calorie tracking website that helps me keep track of calories in and out.  I'm a super logical person so this makes sense to me.  I like to know why things are the way they are, so I LOVE this website.  It's awesome.  Use it and we can be friends.  You can click here and sign up for FREE!  I love free stuff.  Don't you?

Hormones, who needs them? Oh yeah, I do.

Before I had Baby #1 I got super sick with Mono and needed to take a steroid called prednisone to reduce swelling of my tonsils in order to breath.  Ever since then I have had CRAZY woman stuff going on.  This stuff has been going on for over 7 years.  I've seen multiple OBs about it and they all said as long as I was able to get pregnant it wasn't an issue.  Well, it wasn't an issue until I started having a period every two weeks.  Then it became a big issue for me and I found a doctor that was willing to do a whole panel of blood tests to see what was going on.  Turns out I have a whole boat load of Hormonal crap wrong with me.  I found out just before Christmas 2012 that I have low progesterone which is what was causing my period's to be super crazy as well as the rest of me.  (Zoloft was my friend during pregnancy #4)  After taking the progesterone for a few days my body decided it didn't need to hold onto the water it thought it so desperately needed and I lost 7+ lbs overnight.  I also have high testosterone which means I probably have PCOS, but since I can have children there isn't anything to be done about that.  Here's the kicker.  I have been tested time and time again for thyroid issues because I have a lot of the symptoms of hypothyroidism and they all came back that my thyroid is fine.  This time the doctor did a more comprehensive test and found that I do in fact have hypothyroidism, so now I am on a million and one drugs that should regulate my body and help me to be successful with weight loss.  The symptoms that I have that should be resolved by me going on medication are being cold all the time, a decrease in mental sharpness, low energy and slow metabolism.  I already see a difference in my brain's ability to respond quicker which is great because that was the main reason I felt I needed to be tested again.  If you think you may have some of these symptoms contact your doctor immediately.  I wish I would have caught these problems sooner.  There's no reason to have to deal with these problems unnecessarily.

Introduction

I am Jessica.  I am 28 years old.  I have four kids and had those four kids in five years.  I never gave my body a break or a chance to recover and the pounds just kept packing on this poor body of mine.  Before I knew it there I was with 150 lbs to lose.  That's right 150.  You may be thinking what I am thinking.  How the heck does a person get to that point?  I don't have the answer for you, but I will say this.  Even at the my highest weight I still love myself.  I am freakin' awesome.  I am hilarious even if I am the only one who laughs at my jokes.  I am entertaining.  I am talented, but not really with anything important.  I can see the good in other people and I can do anything I put my mind to.  I struggle with my weight.  I'm not perfect and I never will be because I'm human. I don't want to be one of those people who lives and breaths all things fitness.  I want to be normal.  I want to not talk about my "relationship" with food.  I want to just be me and I want me to be healthy.  I think a lot of people can identify with that, so here I am documenting my journey.  Jess's journey, if you will.;)