Hi everyone,
I'm new here and thought I'd introduce myself. My weight has been up and down for years, I believe I'm at my all time heaviest, I weigh even more than I did when I was 9 months pregnant and I'm not proud of that at all. My youngest is 8 and right after he was born, I became determined to get healthy. I started walking 4 miles a day and eating healthier foods. It worked for me. I lost 70 lbs. and felt wonderful. I have been hypertensive since I was 17 years old. Losing the weight didn't help with my high blood pressure, I still had to take meds for that everyday.
About 3 years ago, I started having other medical problems. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I developed gout and started having kidney problems. I felt like I was falling apart. As the RA progressed and the gout attacks came, I slacked on walking. It wasn't because I was too lazy to do it, I enjoyed my walks, because it was truly "me" time.
Now, fast forward to today. I've gained all that weight back and then some. I feel tired and lethargic all the time. I've all but become a recluse. I'm out of shape and unhealthy; tonight when I was taking a bath and had trouble getting up out of the tub, I decided, "This is it, I've had it!"
I have to do something about this before I become immobile and even more unhealthy. It's very humbling to me to open up and admit to this. But I guess it's the first step to becoming a healthy and happy person again.
I have to get creative with my toning up and exercising, because I don't believe my joints will hold up to all the walking like I used to. I'm hoping to find some inspiration here (which I already have just reading through some of the threads) also hoping to find some tips, some recipes and some friends. :-)
I don't expect or even want to become some skinny super model type of person. At this point, a number is just a number to me on the scales, I just want to feel better. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Hi, I'm Pix.
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