Hi everyone,
After years of wanting to write something meaningful, to share and help others, I have come to this point in my life. Blog about it. Now a little bit about what this will be about, it's about me and my life with health problems. Mental, physical and emotional. Recently I had to leave my daytime job because I was sick for 5 weeks with a virus and with that gone, there is still the problem of my head pain. I am having to change my health insurance, just so then I can figure out what is exactly wrong and be able to afford more testing. What I hope to be tested along with my head, is my immune system. Since I was very young, I have been sick. Every time someone was sick around me, I would get it for longer and way worse.
Now I know what you are thinking...there are ways to improve immune systems with vitamins and such. I can tell you that I have tried everything there is to try growing up. Yes, I am also overweight, but I haven't always been this way. I gained a lot of weight when I tore my tendon in my knee and had MPFL surgery back in 2013. I love to dance and have been getting back into that. I have tried every diet/exercise program you can think of and nothing seemed to work. Why? I would get sick after one week of being on it. It wasn't until I moved to Minnesota, that I found out part of my being sick in the form of always vomiting. I have what is called Gastroparesis.
Gastroparesis is where my stomach cannot digest food like normal. It takes longer than the 2-4 hours a normal person does and I can't digest a lot of food types. Anything with a skin, seeds, fat, etc. I also am Lactosintolerant and allergic to all nuts, with Peanut being the one that will kill me. When I found this out, I was getting sick less and less. At least with the way vomiting was concerned. This time around being sick, my mom has also been sick with me. She has pneumonia. While I was sick, my friend mentioned a weight loss vitamin supplement. I was curious, I mean...I hadn't tried it before and I could see that it was working. Now I might not have had an AMAZING reveal a week ago with how much I lost. I lost 5lbs in one month on the supplement and being sick. You know what though? I was noticing a difference.
My cravings were non-existent and when I do have cravings now, I don't have to have it. It isn't such a huge craving that you have to fight. I could easily say, "You know, I want it, but I don't need it. I can go without. No big deal." Move on. I also noticed that I was hungry in the morning. I normally would eat 1-2 meals a day, because I was never hungry. Weird for someone who is overweight right? But once my Gastroparesis was figured out, I was plateaued at the same weight for two years. 243. I also noticed with eating 3 meals now, that when I am hungry I don't over eat in my meals. I eat less and get full faster.
Of course with being out of work for 5 weeks, I have been living off of eggs, cereal, noodles with some sauce, and sandwiches. I was noticing my arms were smaller and the skin was looking like extra, rather than fat flab. My stomach was going in and my measurements were going down. I have a scale that tells me my fat percentage, how much is water, my muscle and bone information as well as my weight. It watched that fat percentage go from 50 to 40. Here is my first month:
My Measurements:
(Which I screwed up the very first day. Sick brain is real and doing it by myself while trying to not fall over and with sinusitis...not going to be accurate.)
While I was down, I started to paint again. Not kidding, all of my paint supplies and my table easel are in a laundry basket by the couch so then I can be upright for an hour and then die again. I am currently painting a commission for my friend that introduced me to the vitamin supplement. She even sent me samples of another product from the same company, that helped me with my physical energy and my mental energy to get through the sick fog. She even introduced me to the company itself, learning how it helps with mental illness, physical health and wellness, and such an amazing support group of people there to help you that know what I am going through. Yesterday I attended my first ever meeting online.
Now, I have never been able to hold a normal daytime job with being constantly sick and a bad immune system. The longest I have worked somewhere was 3-4 years and that was at a racetrack as an Oval Scorekeeper. It isn't that I am lazy and not a hard worker, I am. Everywhere I work, people love me and how hard I work. I put in 110%. My parents and my grandparents instilled that into my brother and myself. I have always wanted to find a work from home job, that was fun, not stressful, utilized my many interests and organizational skills, and painting came as that way for me. My painting business is starting slow, but then my friend with the company came up and I was interested. A way to help my health with natural holistic products, a support group and maybe help others as well with the same problems.
I am in the beginning stages of it all. I just got into this last week and had my first meeting yesterday. I intend on telling my story and journey to get better, lose weight, get out of my shell and get out into the world with who I am. We are all here on this planet for a reason and helping raise each other up, help give a helping hand to each other when struggling, and I want to do that. This is my platform to help others, share my journey, promote something I believe in as I go and maybe make new friends who might be interested in joining me on my journey. I have said a lot in my first post, but if you want to follow me from here on out, subscribe with your email. Also follow me:
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Any questions you have for me--please nothing rude or gross--feel free to do so. Curious about the vitamin supplements I am taking or the energy boost? You know what to do. :)
Tori M.
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