Week 1 - Day 1
Yesterday should really be day 1 - that’s when I was diagnosed with Hashimoto. To me it finally meant I wasn’t going crazy. There was finally a name to why I was always feeling fatigued, unmotivated and all round horribly depressed.
On 29th July 2013, I broke my ankle and it wasn’t just any break. In the medical profession it’s a Holy Triology of a break. I dislocated the ankle and when self correcting it I broke the bone and snapped the ligament. It was a long road to repair, one I was feeling never had a finish line.
After breaking my ankle, I never was quite the same person and over a short amount of time (3 months) I put on 10kgs. Then a total of 15kgs... now 5 years on I had acrued an additional 20kgs. I know for some that look at me - especially the first appointment with my doctor - people tell me I look fine and that I shouldn’t worry about my weight. But deep down in that little dark spot, I hated myself for allowing myself to creep up from 58kg to 80kg.
Putting the weight on was one of my concerns but what really was getting me down was my training. Cause training and eating right should mean weight loss, yes? No! It was July 2016, my younger sister inspired me to train for a Half Ironman. The race consisted of a 1.9km Swim, 90km Bike ride and finishing with a 21.1km Run. WTF! Yes I decided that all that training would definitely help with weight loss. How misinformed about my body I was. No not a single kilogram was lost. Actually, this is when I put on 5kgs.
The event was in June 2017. The day came and I finished it. “Wow, that’s amazing” “Congratulations, I’m so proud of you” were the echoes of family and friends who knew what I had been through. But I wasn’t proud of myself. You know the feeling when you get up early before work, put your active gear on after dragging yourself out of bed just to go for a walk? Well that was the level of “proud” I felt for myself.
So today, and I’ll flashback in time throughout my posts, is the first day of learning about Hashimoto. Let the journey begin ....