Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:128.9kg
A loss of: - 4.9kg
A total loss of: -30.3kg
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Okay, it has been quite some time since my last post. I’m not going to feign having an extremely busy life or lack of happy news. That just isn’t true. As far as writing is concerned I’ve just been a little bit lazy of late.
Firstly I will tell you all my good news. I have lost 30.3kgs! That’s nearly half way to my goal weight! When that number popped up on the scales I swear that a Cheshire cat sized grin appeared on my face.
I was aware that I was approaching this major weight loss milestone but it caught me unaware by about a fortnight. I went to the doctors expecting to have lost 1-2kgs as per normal. I step on the scales and they say I have lost a whopping 4.9kgs in a fortnight. To say I was speechless (yet still grinning like aforementioned cat) would be an understatement. The Doctors comment was first ‘Wow’ and she also mentioned that this is the kind of weight people lose when ill.
The only thing that I can contribute to this massive amount of weight loss is the starting of a new medication. At the beginning of this blog I mentioned some issues I had in the past regarding anxiety and depression. Well despite the odd funk that I work myself into depression isn’t an issue anymore but anxiety sure has been. For the last 18 months my mental reaction to stress/anxiety has been to develop these obsessive compulsive type checking behaviours. Eg. Constantly flicking power-points and light-switches to make sure they’re ‘off’, checking doors and windows are locked, ‘Is this plastic bag empty before I throw it out? Lets check it again’, is this cup really scrubbed as clean as it could be, and checking that taps are turned of as tight as they could possibly go. Now these behaviours did not decrease my stress/anxiety, but increased it tenfold. Basically for the past 18 months I was trying to learn to control these behaviours with psychological assistance, but as soon as I master the control of one behaviour another pops up. So after thinking about it for quite some time (I’m not a fan of being medicated) I decided some prescription meds might be worth a try.
Now, back to why this would attribute to my 4.9kg weight-loss. The medication I have been prescribed comes with many side effects, two of which I am experiencing, a near constant trembling of the hands (and at times the rest of me) and loss of appetite. I had always thought that having no appetite while on a weight-loss mission would be a fantastic thing. It’s not. I still become hungry, but the sight and smell of food occasionally makes me near physically ill. Now though the trembling does not seem to be calming down, thankfully my appetite is slowly coming back. It is no fun at all being hungry after a gym session and then having the sight of your cheese sandwich make you ill!
Though I will admit to hoping for similar results at my next weigh in a weeks time, I will also admit to being more of realist. Due to circumstances, my normal routine will be disrupted. I’m spending a week doing the rounds of all the relatives (many of whom I haven’t seen for six years) and as such will have a week free of exercise and instead have a week filled with barbeques, cheesecake and way too much of Nan ’s yummy baked goods.
I apologise for the extremely long post, but I certainly enjoyed writing it. I guess I should probably keep things ‘short and sweet’ so perhaps you’ll here from me sooner next time.
