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When I joined 3FC almost a year ago, I was in pretty bad shape.  Not just with respect to the weight, which was sitting at 213 lbs.  But, also with respect to my skin, which is why I named myself paperSkin.  Well, my skin is in pretty bad shape again, very similar to what it was a year ago.

As part of this new found enthusiasm to start losing weight, I have also been making an effort to take care of my health.  A few weeks back I decided to go to the doctor because I was feeling somewhat down energy wise.  I started exercising and eating better again too. While I was visiting the doctor, the nurse there really got on my case about taking time to take care of myself.  My skin was in really bad shape.  Sometimes it feels like such an endless battle with my psoriasis.  It does get better, and comes back months later.

When I’m better, I feel amazing, like as if I never had it, and then it comes back, and little by little it gets worse.  If I just took care of it when it was a little patch here and there, things wouldn’t get so out of control.  You could compare it to when we lose weight and then gain it all back again.  If we took control when we gained 2-5 lbs, we could get back to a good weight faster than if we let it go out of control, and gain back all that we lost.

So today I went to see my dermatologist, and I’m going on a drug to suppress my immune system so that this psoriasis can get back under control.  The last time I contemplated going back on this drug, I managed to get my psoriasis under control with diet, sprays and exercise, and didn’t take it.  Well, this time, I think I’m going to take it.  I start on Friday.  The winters are harsh on my skin. I couldn’t sleep last night because I was itching most of the night.  And we still have a long winter to go.

With this medication I can’t get pregnant, so I have to start another birth control, aAnd so this time I am taking Yaz.  It’s a far lower dosage, so I’m hoping it will be okay. Okay, enough of my medical details.  I weighed in at 169.4 lbs today, a loss, but a small one. So I’m hoping to get in the 168s by the end of the week.  And to get to 165 by the end of the month.

Hope all is well out there for you all.

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