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Fear and Stress are horrible things.  Especially if you are trying to lose weight.  I know there is such a thing as good stress but my stress lately has not been good.  It’s bad stress and too much of it.  About two weeks ago I had to go to the emergency room.  I had been taking some medicine to prevent migraines and I started having problems with my vision and pain around my eyes- listed as serious side effects, that if experienced seek emergency medical attention.  …..  So since my little trip to the ER I have had 2 appointments with my general practitioner, 2 appointments with my eye doctor and lots of bloodwork.  I was taken off the medication and since then have had migraines almost daily.  The last two days I was sound asleep and woke up because my migraines were hurting so bad.  It sucks waking up and starting your day with a headache that bad!  The problem has been the doctor’s are not really sure what’s causing all of the headaches, apparently the medicine I was on did help to prevent the migraines but after the scare that sent me to the ER I am not willing to take the medicine anymore.  So here is where the fear comes in.  My doctor has ordered a CT for me, to see if there is anything going on to cause the migraines.  And while I want answers, after some research I have done- the things that could be found by a CT are definately nothing I want anything to do with.  So I’m hoping that everything comes out okay and hopefully I can find a new way to reduce the migraines.

I have been looking into migraine diets.  Have any of you tried this?  I bought a book and have done some research online.  It is very similar to the diet restrictions for people on MAOIs.  The thing about the recommended diet is that most of the foods that I am eating will now be off limits.  There are lists and lists of migraine trigger foods, and although they may be healthy and diet friendly they may still trigger the headaches.  Examples: aged cheeses, cured meats (lunch meats), citrus fruits, nuts, yogurt/sour cream, meat and veggie extracts, broad beans, tomatoes, caffeine, and the big one artificial sweeteners.  So, needless to say its time for a complete diet overhaul.  I had gotten so used to eating my “diet foods” which contain those artificial sweeteners and now I will have to teach myself how to diet without them.  And I so love my diet cokes, and I used to choose yogurt for a healthy low cal snack but no more.  Since all of this has started I have noticed the scale is not so nice to me.  I just really need to focus and find my footing.  I will have to track everything that goes into my mouth to find what foods are ‘my’ triggers for migraines but hopefully just writing it all down will help me not overdo it.  I am nervous because it is recommended to eat every 3-4 hours to maintain blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia can be a trigger also) and with “my diet foods” restricted I am afraid.  I am afraid of gaining back what took me so long to lose.   It’s going to be hard.

I finally got there.  Yay!  After weeks and weeks of inching my towards a very small 5 pound mini goal, I finally did it.  I weighed in this morning and I made it!  It’s been taking me a really long time to lose but I’m making progress and I am really excited.  The scale read 164.2 this morning.  I think I’m going to set my next mini goal for the 150’s.  It’s been so long.  Even back when I did WW several years back my lowest weight was 163 (a 40 pound loss at the time) then I started gaining back.  But there is no turning back this time.  It certainly does help that I have been getting lots of compliments lately.  Don’t you just love those.  Some of them are from people that I have not seen in a long time so the last time they saw me was 30 pounds ago or so.  But I’ll still take them.  Compliments make you feel good and want to keep going.  I’m going to work hard to keep my motivation strong.  I recently got some smaller clothes and that helps and even some of the jeans I bought a few months back are starting to get a little loose :).  Thank you all for the support, I appreciate it in helping me with my motivation.  Hope everyone has a great weekend!