I can't facepalm hard enough.
Jan. 27th, 2013 09:42 amI just checked this morning. I've lost 14 pounds. While normally this may be cause for celebration (I can't say I'm entire unhappy about it, because I do want to lose weight and did recently join Weight Watchers to help me do so), I didn't lose this weight because I made an effort to eat better or exercise more.
I lost it from being sick.
For the past 3 weeks, I've been sick, in one form or another. If it's not pain, it's nausea, or flu symptoms, just generally feeling like ass, and along with it all I've had no appetite. I've been eating, but not much. Usually mugs of tea, and I've probably been averaging a bowl of soup or stew a day for the past few weeks.
I knew this was taking a toll on me. I knew I was feeling tired more, sleeping more, had less energy. I didn't know how bad I'd gotten until I tried to walk up a flight of stairs yesterday and nearly blacked out at the top. I had to sit for five minutes in the middle of City Market, waiting for the lightheaded feeling and the overheated nauseous feeling to go away before I could keep walking to the bus stop and go to work.
I weighed myself this morning. I'm down 14 pounds. 14 pounds in less than a month is not a healthy rate at which to lose weight.
I posted about this on Facebook. I mean, I'm happy that it's weight that I don't have to lose later on, but I'm not happy about the way I lost it, and I even said in the post that I lost the weight due to illness.
So what does my mother do? Post: "I think I've lost about the same amount since coming back. WTG to us both." And make a comment about wearing bikinis soon.
If she was here, I'd smack her for that. Don't congratulate me for being sick, moron! Don't congratulate me on being unable to eat, for being so sick that I can't take care of myself properly, for reaching a point where walking too quickly and climbing a flight of stairs is too much for my body to handle.
I tried eating a normal-sized meal the other day. My body was so unused to that much food that it gave me gut pain for a day following, even waking me up at night. I need to be really careful for the next little while, to reintroduce food slowly into my diet, and to make sure I still get proper nutrition. I bought some bottles of Ensure that were on sale at the pharmacy, and I'm making a point of drinking them now to help my body get back what it's lost, but I know that solid food will be slow going for a bit, and I'm not looking forward to trying to sort out that balance.
But ugh, that woman's insensitive comments just pissed me off! I'm not proud of getting this sick! I'm not proud of losing that much weight not due to a better diet but due to being unable to eat anything! It's not something an intelligent person says, "way to go," to!
But then again, I never did accuse my mother of being intelligent...
I lost it from being sick.
For the past 3 weeks, I've been sick, in one form or another. If it's not pain, it's nausea, or flu symptoms, just generally feeling like ass, and along with it all I've had no appetite. I've been eating, but not much. Usually mugs of tea, and I've probably been averaging a bowl of soup or stew a day for the past few weeks.
I knew this was taking a toll on me. I knew I was feeling tired more, sleeping more, had less energy. I didn't know how bad I'd gotten until I tried to walk up a flight of stairs yesterday and nearly blacked out at the top. I had to sit for five minutes in the middle of City Market, waiting for the lightheaded feeling and the overheated nauseous feeling to go away before I could keep walking to the bus stop and go to work.
I weighed myself this morning. I'm down 14 pounds. 14 pounds in less than a month is not a healthy rate at which to lose weight.
I posted about this on Facebook. I mean, I'm happy that it's weight that I don't have to lose later on, but I'm not happy about the way I lost it, and I even said in the post that I lost the weight due to illness.
So what does my mother do? Post: "I think I've lost about the same amount since coming back. WTG to us both." And make a comment about wearing bikinis soon.
If she was here, I'd smack her for that. Don't congratulate me for being sick, moron! Don't congratulate me on being unable to eat, for being so sick that I can't take care of myself properly, for reaching a point where walking too quickly and climbing a flight of stairs is too much for my body to handle.
I tried eating a normal-sized meal the other day. My body was so unused to that much food that it gave me gut pain for a day following, even waking me up at night. I need to be really careful for the next little while, to reintroduce food slowly into my diet, and to make sure I still get proper nutrition. I bought some bottles of Ensure that were on sale at the pharmacy, and I'm making a point of drinking them now to help my body get back what it's lost, but I know that solid food will be slow going for a bit, and I'm not looking forward to trying to sort out that balance.
But ugh, that woman's insensitive comments just pissed me off! I'm not proud of getting this sick! I'm not proud of losing that much weight not due to a better diet but due to being unable to eat anything! It's not something an intelligent person says, "way to go," to!
But then again, I never did accuse my mother of being intelligent...