Weight: 165.0
Ok, so I’m up over half a pound from yesterday. My calories: 880. I exercised. My calories in previous days were not low, but in the 1200 to 1600 range. This doesn’t make sense. Yes, TOM is still here, but this isn’t normal for that. My sodium is low, I’ve been watching it carefully. I drank at least a gallon of water yesterday.
I have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday to get my medical certificate signed for the marathon (they require it.) I’m going to request thyroid testing. My mom has hypothyroid, she was diagnosed with it in her 30s. I looked up the symptoms and it could explain A LOT!! Unexplained weight gain or trouble losing weight, depression, fatigue… this could be the missing key. Since I cut out the gluten, my mood has been MUCH better. I’ve noticed that the negative self-talk has quieted way down. But I am tired ALL the time. I get 8-10 hours of sleep a night. And I spend a couple of hours in bed vegging before that. I come home from work, give the kids instructions for dinner (I feel cooking dinner is an important life skill and my three oldest ages 18, 17 and 13 are more than capable) and I change into jammies and climb into bed. My 8 year old sits at the desk in my room right by my bed and he works on his homework while I blog and do whatever. This is where I read to my two little ones their bedtime stories or we snuggle and watch tv. I eat dinner here. I am just too tired to sit at the table.
This means I’m usually in bed by 7 pm, 6 if I get home early enough. I’m usually asleep by 9, sometimes I can stay up til 10 if Biggest Loser or Desperate Housewives is on. Often I fall asleep during a commercial break and miss the end of the show.
I wake up between 5:30 and 6 am.
I’m late for my morning run. 3 miles today. I’ll check back in later.
Posted on January 5th, 2010 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering
definitely sounds like something is amiss if you are in bed by 7 pm every night and still dead tired.
That said, ANY time I go below 950 calories in a day, my body holds on for dear life, and rewards me with a gain or staying exactly the same. I can ONLY lose weight in the 1,000-1,200 calorie per day range. Our body’s chemistry is a weird, but wonderful thing. It won’t easily let us starve, even for a day.
Also you might want to get a sleep study done to make sure you ARE sleeping- I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP- before that I was super exhausted and would sleep ALL the time- but found out I would stop breathing 10 times an hour- so I never went into REM sleep. Even now I’ve been having issues with my sleeping and will get another sleep study done soon to figure out the problem.
Good luck on your marathon!
I hope your doctor can help with your exhaustion
880 calories seem low for someone so active though! Hope you are getting enough energy from your food!
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