Good morning... we're up for a bright, sunshiny day and it looks like it's going to be another hot one. I'm back home again and I was right - I did put on some weight, but I hope it's not going to last very long. I began having trouble with my stomach and by the time we got home, I was so bloated, it was unreal... I can't believe how I used to eat when we lived up north - every time I go up there, I get the reminders... but then that was back in the day when my thyroid still worked and I had normal a metabolism so I could handle it - or at least I thought I could. I see now, though, why I had so much trouble with my stomach all the time, even though I was very thin and never had trouble with my weight until I did develop Hashimoto's that went undiagnosed for many years.
I also see why so many of my family members are overweight and 3 of my older siblings have type II diabetes and all 5 of them have heart issues. There was, at least, one type of bread and sometimes 2 or more at each meal, along with pasta salads, mashed potatoes, and of course, this is the time for sweet corn to be getting ready... starch, starch, and more starch... lol I won't even talk about the amount of salt that's put on everything... I'm telling them "no salt on my eggs please" and they're saying "okay, I won't put any on yours", as they're shaking the salt shaker as hard as they can... Whoa - I've had my own heart issues and my cardiologist just gave me a clean bill of health in May - I didn't do that by emptying the salt shaker every time I eat...Anyway, it was no wonder we all went to bed at night with ankles swollen twice their normal size, toes and fingers looking like sausages, etc...
Oddly enough, with all that, I did actually only gain 3.5 pounds, which is certainly more than I wanted/planned to gain, but not as much as I'd thought I had gained. Yesterday when I stepped on the scale, it said I'd already dropped 2.5 pounds, but this morning, I'm back up again by 2 lbs, so I guess that loss must have been fluid...
I'd run out of probiotics just before we left to go on vacation, so I have to go get some more ordered; in the meantime, I'm struggling to get my stomach back on track and get rid of all the extra fluid, which may take as much as a week or more. It's much easier for me to gain weight than it is to lose it, these days, so this isn't going to be an easy task.
Right now, I'm pretty much back where I started when we first began the challenge - who would ever think one could gain 3.5 lbs in a single week??
So - enough about me. What's up with y'all? I'm sure you've done a lot better than I did and I'm anxious to hear about it. I know school is getting started so everyone is busy getting supplies, new clothes, going through the enrollment process, meeting teachers, and doing all sorts of different things as we watch summer come to an end.
I'm looking forward to hearing about your week...
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~