I like to think of Metformin as the Ugh Drug, because when I know it's that time to take it, I think ugh and I imagine this... I first learned I needed Metformin in January. I was having problems losing weight, and since thyroid disorder runs in my family, tests were ran. Thyroid issues were ruled out, however, the tests showed I was insulin resistant. This explained a lot of things, I also think I may have PCOS because of how my female cycles are, sometimes I have them sometimes I don't. When I have them they last for weeks. The doctor started me out with 500mg XR once a week at bedtime. I did as suggested took it with food. I would wake up the following morning and be running back and forth to the bathroom for several hours... Once I upped my dose to 1000mg XR, the stomach pains got worse and I was in the bathroom for a good 6 hours after waking. If I had plans the following day I had to skip the meds. Life for me SUCKED! I told my doctor what was going on she … [Read more...]
Weight Loss “Bucket” List
I was reading an article online that suggested making a list of the reasons why you want to lose weight. The article refereed to this as a "Why" list or a bucket list for weight loss. I decided this might just be a good idea, so I have a way to look back at all the reasons I want to or need to lose weight. I think this will help me when I am getting discouraged. Why I Want To Lose Weight To have more confidence about myself To be healthier To get off metformin To reduce my anxiety To feel better To be able to fit in smaller and cuter clothes To have more sex with my husband To get pregnant My overall reason to lose the weight is to become not only healthier on the outside, but also to become healthier on the inside. My weight causes me severe anxiety and bad self esteem. I want to walk in a store with confidence and not walk in the store and think everyone is watching me and making fun because of my weight. With having struggled a large part of my life with … [Read more...]
Back To The Daily Struggles
Today, I started back with the workouts. Weight loss and working out is such a struggle for me, I know I need to lose weight, I want to lose weight, but getting motivated to workout has become a challenge. It is a struggle because I am on the computer most the day trying to make money to pay bills. I know I cannot lose weight if I don't try, I know I feel like shit lately because I have not been working out, and all the weight I lost before has found its way back. So I am starting back at square one. I am not going to push myself like before, I am going to take this one day at a time, and pray for results. I go back to the doctor next month, hopefully they will be able to give me more help with my struggles, and help guide me. I need guidance, I need someone cheering me on and in my corner working out with me. One day at a time is all I can do, I pray the metformin will help me see the results I work so hard to find. … [Read more...]
Feeling Better Everyday
Not long ago I went into the doctor to have blood work done, it seemed as though everything I was doing to lose weight was not getting me far. I was working our daily anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour a day, I was watching what I ate, yet the scale was having a hard time moving, and I really wasn't seeing results with measurements either. This made me depressed however, giving up wasn't an option. I did cut back on working out, because it's so depressing to bust your ass, and see very little results. Well, I now know why I was seeing little results, and that is because I am Insulin Resistance, so my body was changing the insulin into fat, and making more insulin and turning it into more fat, and so forth. The doctor put me on Metformin, to help with the insulin issue. I knew nothing about this drug, all I knew is it was to help people with diabetes, after researching, I have now learned it is used for many things, including weight loss, those suffering with PCOS, and those … [Read more...]
The Results Are In
As I sat in the bath last night relaxing, and email from Walgreens came through that I had a prescription ready for pick-up. I never called one in, so I had a feeling the results to my blood work were in, and this only met one thing. That there was indeed something wrong. I quickly rushed to the computer, so that I could log into my Walgreens account and see what meds I needed to pick up. As soon as I got on, I noticed there were two waiting for me. One was a Vitamin D pill, the other was Metformin. As soon as I seen Metformin, my heart sank. I am no dummy I know Metformin is known to treat those with type 2 diabetes. This scared the crap out of me, because diabetes runs in the family. The thing I couldn't understand was how did I have it, we tend to eat on the healthier sides, and when I took my blood sugar with my mother in laws stuff, I was about 80, and we had just had birthday food, which meant cake and ice cream as well. So this made very little since to me, with it being … [Read more...]
