Post Partum Depression Sucks the Big One

Damn, this hormone stuff after having Tara 10 months ago is still causing huge problems with my head! June 1st saw me back at work, which was a good thing I thought. By June 23rd, I had a “nervous breakdown” and took myself to the psyche department at my local hospital. The good news is [...]

Underactive Thyroid – Borderline Test Results

In a past post – Cheat Days Don’t Work, I was talking about being recently tested for an underactive thyroid and the test came back within the normal range – meaning I apparently don’t have an underactive thyroid. I was confused though. All these strange symptoms I have seem to be very indicative of an [...]

Cheat Days Don’t Work

After 15 days of staying on track with low carb eating, I decided to have a cheat day. This desire for a cheat day came from my thorough frustration at losing a big whopping 1.5 lbs in total for the 2 weeks and 1 day I was so good. That was the end result – [...]

How to Handle your Sweet Tooth on a Low Carb Eating Plan – Part One

I have a major sweet tooth – that is part of the reason why I got up to my highest weight of 272 lbs on my 5’4″ frame in 2006. With a low carb way of eating, I have dropped 40 lbs from that highest weight and I am still losing. There have been ups [...]

I “Stink” According to my Husband LOL

One symptom that can occur with low carb eating is that it can release or burn “ketones” from the body. Ketones can make a person smell like nail polish remover. I love it when my hubby tells me I stink! cause I know that my body is burning ketones, which means that my low carb [...]

Day 8 on Low Carb Eating

I was thinking that I should write every day about my low carb eating and how its going but I thought that may be too much. Once a week works though and if I feel the urge, I can always write more – if I have recipes to share perhaps or a day that went [...]

Returning to a Low Carb Lifestyle

So I am back on the wagon, so to speak – the low carbohydrate wagon.  A low carb way of eating works best for me personally and I need to get this weight off once and for all. Losing and gaining weight over the years, the yo-yo’ing up and down, the stress and pain of [...]

The 6 F’s

Well, it’s official. I did not escape the 6 F’s like I thought I would – fat, forty, fertile, flatulent, fair and female. All the precursors to gallbladder disease according to many articles I have read lately. I was doing fine until my third trimester of pregnancy in September last year. But then – I [...]

My Weight and Post Partum Depression

Now that Tara is 4 months old, I have been having some issues with postpartum depression. Actually, the PPD started about 1 month after she was born – its been hard on the whole family! My husband is amazing – he knows that this bitchy person that is living with him is not his real [...]