AndriaD
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I couldn't get a 'thigh gap' even if I starved myself! So I just gotta deal with chunky thighs. I'm built like my birth mother, short and thick. I'm 5'1" and pushing 200. Yes, I know! I didn't even realize until I stepped on the scale when fiance's father was in the hospital. I was like . My normal weight is 135. So now I definitely gotta get off my ass (don't even wanna look back there! ) and get busy. Thankfully its almost summer so I can go swimming.
Diabetes, in a roundabout way, killed my grandmother. The meds she was taking to manage her diabetes killed her liver and severely damaged her kidneys. She had to take Lactulose to flush her system out. And finally she got really sick with her congestive heart failure and was put in a "Tranquility" hospital (I think its in Cobb County) for her final days. She passed last January. I miss that cantankerous Yankee.
Until I was in my 40s, I was one of those women that most other women hate -- tall, and a metabolism FROM HELL; I spent most of my adolescence and 20s assuring anyone rude enough to ask that I did NOT have anorexia! I got up to 153 when I was pregnant with my son, but thx to breastfeeding, I was back down to 125 inside 2 wks, and the pediatrician had a cow and assured me I was starving my son! But it's not like I TRIED to lose weight, it was just my metabolism and LITERALLY feeding 2!
But mid-40s, peri-menopause, and treating depression with blueberrry muffins and oatmeal-raisin cookies pretty much put an end to that metabolism. I did lose 25 of those 30 extra lbs, but since then, I've had to be very conscious of what I eat and how much, and still at times have gotten back to 150+ -- now, at 146, I do not want to go any higher; I want to lose 10 so it's back in my control. Because I know between Halloween and New Years, goodies will abound... and so will my weight!
Andria