Health and Loving Yourself

Health and body positivity post from Tabitha


Hi everyone, so I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago that I'm working through some health issues. I wanted to share a little bit about that today. Please remember that this is my personal battle. I'm not looking for sympathy or pity. I'm not looking for criticism either. Being overweight and unhealthy sucks, but I've learned to accept my condition and I am taking action to improve my health.  I want to share more about my condition so that you can understand what's happening and why I am sensitive when it comes to people wondering about us having kids. I feel comfortable sharing this much with you all.
I've been overweight for a while. I had a problem with portion control, sugar addiction, and emotional eating. Since my weight gain was steady, for a long time, I didn't really notice it. Before I knew it, I was way over what my weight should be. I was constantly tired and cranky. Other health problems started to creep up.
Last year, I started making changes to eat healthier. Despite my efforts, I GAINED 30 pounds in a year! I was shocked and discouraged. I went to the doctor last month and learned that  I have PCOS-poly cystic ovarian syndrome. Basically I have insulin resistance and my hormones are all messed up. I have difficulty ovulating and having regular menstrual periods. I will need to get my insulin resistance and ovulation under control before I can think about getting pregnant. Even then, I may need some help.
I've started taking Metformin to help with my insulin resistance. Next month, I'll follow up with the doctor and go from there. I'm also reevaluating my eating and exercise habits. I will continue to tweak them as needed. I'm trying to eat more fruits and vegetables and drink more water. I've also been cutting back on my chocolate and candy intake. It's been hard, but I'm already seeing great results!
I still have a long way to go on my journey, but I'm learning to love myself and take care of myself better. I'm learning to love myself as I am right now, while still looking to the future and visualizing a healthier, smaller version of myself. I want to take care of myself NOW so that my health problems don't get worse.
I'm the happiest I've been in a while and I'm grateful for the support of friends and family. I'm excited for this next part of my life as I improve my health and sculpt a better version of me.

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My Future path?

February 21st 2016
My future path?
This week I have been thinking about what I want to do… With so many things and so much drama on a daily basis you can't help but to ask yourself “Is this for me?” And my answer at this time is unknown! I love what I do but physically how long will I be able to keep going with minimal pain, mentally are you willing to drop your standards to make everyone happy and eat your pride? Is the money worth it? Though the pay is great for now but in the end I feel it is going to cost me more than I can make especially with health issues getting worse and I believe what I do as a mechanic isn't helping with the amount of bad chemicals I am around on a daily basis to the exhaust, to the extreme exposure to the cold weather with playing on frozen metals and the high stress that comes with being a mechanic, I have been a mechanic since 2012 and no longer feel 100% that this is what I'm supposed to do! I have a doctors appointment on March 3 and they are going to do allergy testing to try and narrow my issues down. I've had they really important stuff tested for a month ago and they didn't find anything however just because they didn't find anything the first time around don't mean there's no problem it just means it's in a neutral state at the time of the blood draws. I have thought about going into business for myself as a mobile mechanic and thought about it for about 3 weeks and decided that isn't for me either (at this time) so recently it came to mind that we may eventually end up in Oregon but don't know why right now, I have never been there in my life! (That I can remember) as far as my career I am going to look into becoming a building/construction inspector I love doing construction but it's to seasonal so I can't do that here in Alaska and I'm not ready to move! Anyway that's my current thoughts and what's going on! I hope you all enjoy it!

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PSA: Our Future Pregnancy Announcement Will Be Super Obvious

The following is a public service announcement from Tabitha:

I'm not trying to be rude, but I feel the need to say something. I know that people mean well and that they are eager for us to expand our family. Nevertheless, I'm irritated that whenever I post anything about kids, people tend to think that it's an announcement. Nope, I'm just posting something that I thought was cute or interesting. It's come down to me having put a disclaimer on every child-related thing I post.
Allow me to let you in on a secret: when I'm really pregnant, I won't announce it by posting some random picture or article. What I post will include both Brandon and I with something baby-related and a caption that's extremely obvious about what's happening :-)
Of course, family members and close friends  will get a phone call or visit where we tell them the exciting news. We love you too much to tell you by some random Facebook post.
Just in case anyone is curious, I am currently working on improving my health. Once I can resolve health concerns and we improve our finances, we will be  in a better condition to welcome a little one. As for specifics of our health and finances, we prefer to only discuss this with family and close friends.
Again, please understand that I'm not trying to be rude. I just felt that it was important to share this information so you can better understand where we're at and not jump to conclusions based on what we post. :-)

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