So .... as most of you know by now .... I am on Grand Bahama Island.
This is my sanctuary .... the only place where I can finally remove a very ill-fitting and itchy mask that I typically feel the need to wear in Louisville. Grand Bahama is also one of the few places where I'm not the craziest person in the room .... which .... in turn .... gives me the very unusual feeling of being normal! So ... when I got the diagnosis that I have hypothyroidism and only trace levels of the necessary vitamins and minerals in my body needed to stay alive .... I decided to run away from home .... or should I say .... runaway to another home .... in order to work on getting healthy.
My endocrinologist, who I still think looks like a pedophile, told me he was willing to give me the summer to 'reboot' my thyroid before he put me on some nasty looking synthetic hormones to raise the thyroxine levels in my thyroid. I honestly don't want to rehash all the insanity that comes from having a struggling thyroid because it is entirely depressing. Suffice it to say that it makes you feel like you are constantly carrying a load of bricks on your back and that you have attempted to run a marathon when in fact you are doing everything in your power just to get up to change the channel on the TV. (that was probably a bad example ... who the hell gets up to turn the channel anymore???)
Of course, I attributed all these symptoms to a slightly stressful lifestyle .... culinary school, three kids and an entrepreneur husband. Turns out ... I'm not dying or anything ... but I have what I lovingly like to call "Fat Old Lady Disease". So ... I consulted some super smarty-pants experts ... trainers, chefs, nutritionists, etc.... and am in a self imposed 'boot camp'.
This 'booth camp' is 6 weeks in duration. I am currently starting week 4 as of today. I have lost about 8 pounds in the last three weeks. I wake up early every day and go to the gym for about 2 hours. At about 11:30am and 6pm precisely .... my lunch & dinner are delivered by a world class chef (Tim Tibbitts and his beautiful & clever wife Rebecca to be exact) which typically consists of thyroxine boosting foods that contain high levels of zinc, selenium, iodine, etc... These foods are mostly seafood ... which I absolutely LOVE. Let me just say ... that without these beautiful dishes of food that are both incredibly delicious and visually stunning .... I would be struggling to figure out a positive food path for myself.
Okay .... I know .... I know .... I am incredibly spoiled rotten. I really get that ... but who said there's something wrong with being spoiled if it is well earned??? It's one thing to be spoiled and quite another to be a spoiled brat ..... I am positively NOT the latter.
There is one thing that I truly know for certain about myself .... I undoubtedly have ZERO will power when it comes to food. It is absolutely my 'crack'!! Long gone are the days that I can eat a whole tube of Pillsbury cookie dough and only gain a zit. Now ... I gain a zit AND 10 pounds! So .... I have put together a team of people that are going to help me do the things that I simply can't do myself ... cause ... you know .... I'm a lazy ass when it comes to 'me' .... pure and simple!
Hopefully, I'll get healthy enough that I don't have to take any synthetic drugs ... lose some much needed weight so that my body isn't overworking itself and shutting down much needed organs and have a good time doing it in a place where I know there is no stress and a lot of good environmental triggers. (Cause those bad environmental triggers back in Louisville are what got me here in the first place, damnit!)
Wish me luck and hopefully I'll be 'losin' it in paradise'!
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