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Throwing Away the Crutches

Hello all.  This is a vulnerable one. In case you're wondering about the title, it's not referencing my newly pulled back that occurred while dumping out a bag of mulch Sunday night.  Not lifting it... dumping it.  It's been a week full of back braces and squishy ice packs .  Yay. Saturday I forced a weigh in, at least for myself.  We basically haven't weighed in since January.  From that point on it was dealing with holiday weight gain and all of our projects (bathroom reno, finishing that reno, carpet installation on the stairs, work instability (still going on) then the never-ending saga with the water coming in on the subfloor/roof hole, etc) so our lives were just fitting in walks where we could when it was cooler.  We actually did that quite a bit until the weather got unbearable.  When I had to go in for my vulvoscopy June 3rd, I accidentally caught a glimpse at my weight and it leveled me.  I was 10 lbs higher than when we came bac...
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Slight freak out

I was having a minor freak out session last night.  I could feel that my legs were bloating up.  My sodium has been slightly higher the past 2 days but only by a little.  See those magical bc pills that made me less of a bee-otch also decided to break me out like a 12 year old.  I had bumps all over my face for 2 months and while I didn't really consider myself vain, that ain't cool!  So I switched to a low estrogen bc pill this month and I made it very clear I needed something as weight neutral as possible.  In just the few days I've been on them I can see the bumps going away (whew) but the bloating was disconcerting.

So then I was like "omg, you've sacrificed a clear face for weight gain!  IDIOT!" or "what is the scale going to say?"  "you have a goal, what if you don't meet it now because of these pills!?"  "How much is getting your innards cleaned out?  No wait, then that throws you into menopause and that brings it's own set of problems."  So today will be spent trying to breathe and keeping a hawk eye on the sodium the rest of the week and drowning myself in water.  I'm trying to remember this is the first few days on the pill and my body does need to adjust a bit.  I will control the things I have control over and leave the rest up to the universe.  I don't need to add stress and then that makes you hold on to fat.  Boo!  So be gone stress.  (Moons the stress)
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  1. UnknownMay 25, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    Telling stress that it's "Number One" or giving stress the "one-fingered peace sign"...or just going old fashioned and flipping stress the classic bird. :-) I'm with ya girl!

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  2. MellyMay 25, 2011 at 5:22 PM

    I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't just your body adjusting. Try to hold the freak-out at bay, you're doing all the right things. Potassium releases water, so K-rich foods are good. Your menu for yesterday looked good!
    NICE arrangements and photos...

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  3. MaryMay 25, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    Thanks for mooning the stress. Love the visual. :)

    I, too, need to start downing the
    H20. I used to be golden about it. Now, I am a desert rock. Blah.

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  4. another layerMay 26, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    Mooning the stress. I wish I could do the same. No, wait, I want to moon the people that are stressing me out, that's a whole different and socially unacceptable thing.

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  5. dalbador1May 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM

    I know just where you are coming from. Yesterday I went to my ob/gyn to have the iud taken out (2 months of consecutive bleeding... no joke). She's put me on a low-dose bc pill to see if that regulates my estrogen. I noticed with all the bleeding that my lower legs were ridiculously swollen and hard as rocks. Here's hoping this pill works much better. Give your body about 2 weeks to adjust...and keep drinking that water! I'll be doing the same thing.

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  6. vannasmomMay 26, 2011 at 1:28 PM

    Had the tubes removed BC pills suck!!

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  7. BrandNewBuffyMay 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM

    This sounds oddly familar to me. Remember when I first got that IUD and was flipping a god damn lid about it. So I'm here to tell you that I hope everything turns out ok, give it some time, don't think too much into it. It is all going to be ok.

    I like that you are trying to switch your thinking from all the things that *could be* and focus on the stuff you can control. Hugs!

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