Lollirot
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My name is Naomi. I am 22 years old, and live in a little Penthouse Apartment in Coral Gables, a popular area of Miami - Florida, with my boyfriend of a year Hamad. I am 5 ft 2 inches . . .and a half, that half is a big deal thank you . . . and I weight in currently at 175lbs.
I have never had weight issues. Up until I was just 20, I ranged between 108lbs and 115lbs depending on time of the year and stress levels. I was always thin, and as I was a dancer, I was always in great shape! . . . But it all changed in 2008.
I was born with severe Atopic Dermatitis. It's a chronic condition with multiple triggers, and is a sort of. . .auto-immune disorder. Some of the major reasons for flare ups relate to things like stress, depression, and allergens.
2007 - 2009 I was with the worst person for me. Skipping the long story, I will just say that the stress and heart ache was so insane - my condition had gone to a haywire level never before seen in me. . .I was throat to toe open wounds, rashes, becoming infected from the constant ripping at my own skin. . .
Doctors put me on Prednisone, a steroid. While it worked to clear me up back to a normal human. . .They did not warn me about the wight gain. Three months into taking it, I had gone over 140lbs. At my largest I was over 180lbs.
I am unsure how, but in 2009 after leaving my ex? I did manage to slowly downsize. By December I was 135lbs!!. . .But then, another side affect of the steroids hit. Poor Kidney function and lowered immunity, I came down with an infection of the Kidney that threatened to do worse.
Since then? I just kept rising back up. Even on diet, and working out. I feel I must be doing something wrong to, a year later, be 40lbs heavier. . .
I can obviously not happily live like this. The strain on me, as well as those around me from my deep depressions and anger. . .it's just too much. It has to stop it has to change.
I hope to use this community, as well as whatever medical aid I can gain here, to get myself back to being MYSELF.
My goal is to lose 50lbs.
I have no idea what I am doing so, this keeping a journal might help me see where I go wrong and what I do write. As well, give people a portal to chirp in helpful hints, tips, ideas. . .or even tell me when I am going astray.
Please, bare with me. :]
I have never had weight issues. Up until I was just 20, I ranged between 108lbs and 115lbs depending on time of the year and stress levels. I was always thin, and as I was a dancer, I was always in great shape! . . . But it all changed in 2008.
I was born with severe Atopic Dermatitis. It's a chronic condition with multiple triggers, and is a sort of. . .auto-immune disorder. Some of the major reasons for flare ups relate to things like stress, depression, and allergens.
2007 - 2009 I was with the worst person for me. Skipping the long story, I will just say that the stress and heart ache was so insane - my condition had gone to a haywire level never before seen in me. . .I was throat to toe open wounds, rashes, becoming infected from the constant ripping at my own skin. . .
Doctors put me on Prednisone, a steroid. While it worked to clear me up back to a normal human. . .They did not warn me about the wight gain. Three months into taking it, I had gone over 140lbs. At my largest I was over 180lbs.
I am unsure how, but in 2009 after leaving my ex? I did manage to slowly downsize. By December I was 135lbs!!. . .But then, another side affect of the steroids hit. Poor Kidney function and lowered immunity, I came down with an infection of the Kidney that threatened to do worse.
Since then? I just kept rising back up. Even on diet, and working out. I feel I must be doing something wrong to, a year later, be 40lbs heavier. . .
I can obviously not happily live like this. The strain on me, as well as those around me from my deep depressions and anger. . .it's just too much. It has to stop it has to change.
I hope to use this community, as well as whatever medical aid I can gain here, to get myself back to being MYSELF.
My goal is to lose 50lbs.
I have no idea what I am doing so, this keeping a journal might help me see where I go wrong and what I do write. As well, give people a portal to chirp in helpful hints, tips, ideas. . .or even tell me when I am going astray.
Please, bare with me. :]
