Hmmmm

[angelak]

Livejournal updates, yeay!!!

Oh man.
New stuff happening. Not sure.

Here's the gig. In the last 4-6 weeks, without much change in my fitness or my diet really - I've gained about 17 lbs. While I have whined about my general weight fluctuating up slowly after my injury and rehabbing - I have stabilized between 145-150 for about 2 years, without drastic change.

Yes. I'm serious. The change IS on my scale, and the doctor's office scale.
No, I doubt it's all muscle mass, seeing as how it *feels*.

I've been working out daily - I've done Yoga almost every day, and choose to run and lift weights the rest of the time, in the last month doubling up on the days. Sometimes I skip a day of working out and do yoga twice in one day to make up for it (I was doing my 30 day challenge).

At first I thought I was imagining my body image becoming more and more blah. I got upset about it initially. And then I realized my clothes were starting to suck. So I went and got some temporary shirts as to not showcase my new lower mid section. STILL, I don't look as big as a house - but when did I ever look as big as a house? It's still notable that while I've had a few slip ups, weird binges in the last 2 months - I really do not believe it was in excess of my BASE caloric intake, (so, on top of what must be 1700-2000 calories daily to maintain) an excess of 11,000 calories per week. That's staggering, especially considering the work out schedule. I would think I burn between 400-600 extra from working out alone. I just did the math, and eating an excess of 11,000 calories a day is like, me eating 3000 calories a day, or double what I *know* I stick around.

I'm utterly confused. Truly, wholly.
I was nervous that if I went to the doc's they'd say, "oh you're fat and eating too much," but in leui of my paranoia - I scheduled a visit yesterday afternoon. Now - we ran a blood test for hypothyroidism, but if it isn't that, my doc seemed baffled.

I'm not a happy camper. For spending anywhere between 1-3 hours a day working out - and WATCHING almost everything that goes in my mouth, I don't expect an ultra-gain. Sure, if I fuck up - I'm happy to accept the funky 5lbs here and there. BUt this, this was wild.

166lbs, when my last weigh in was 149 in mid April, and I know I didn't REALLY start to get fucked up until at worst, 3-4 weeks ago. Blarg.
So, tomorrow my doctor calls me back with the test results.

A little anxious for the phone call tomorrow - not sure exactly what I'm hoping to hear really.

Do I want it to be normal? Not sure.
Does anyone really *want* to have hypothyroid?
More or less I don't want to continue to be baffled by the past few weeks. Naturally. Anyhow. Tomorrow it is.

-Angela

Comments

[jenk]

I'm glad you're noticing and acting on it.

Some other things that can cause weight gain without changing diet/exercise patterns are: insulin resistance; PCOS; Cushing's disease; edema; growths, like fibroid tumors. That's off the top of my head, and I offer this in the spirit of "there's plenty more possible reasons" not "you must now panic over these other diseases".

*hugs*

So true!

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the list. Fortunately I was able to research (this is my instant-reaction to stuff that confuses me) and came up with a few of them.

So no matter what - it's good to go in, for sure. And talk to a doc.

*hugs*

-Angela

[herongrrrl.livejournal.com]

At least if it's hypothyroid, that's fairly straightforward to deal with. Another thing that could cause this would be if you use hormonal birth control and have recently changed anything about it.

Here's hoping you get some answers soon and the answers aren't scary!

Thanks!

[ithisia.livejournal.com]

In one sense, it would almost be easier than if it *was* hypothyroidism. And then I would not have to deal with my GP being like, "hmmm, that's awfully weird," with no other ideas... although maybe he is just waiting on the results to even consider other ideas.

:)

-Angela

[nobodyberry.livejournal.com]

Erp. Sending lots of love and positive energy your way!