Appreciate your own journey · Butterworth Health

Appreciate your own journey

A great affirmation today. I have always loved the HH community and now this group as we share our journeys. We listen to other stories and some information we take into our journey, others we share but appreciating our own journey we sometimes need a reminder.

Those who are struggling with Adrenal bodies, it was a hard lesson last year when I was in a life death situation and my healing afterwards. My history to date of 5 years, my life and body living on Adrenal where I would just keep going then I would go into 10 years of healing the state my body was in the last 5 years and usually something drastic in my life to turn it around because my body doesn't signal like a normal person and my brain does not recognise pain and not taking in the suttle signs from the body.

It has been hard to change my thinking I have to this, I have to do that even my recovery as I my body is a quick healer which shocked my Surgical team but they said my positive attitude was signals to them also how my body works. That did not stop me pushing myself even though I was seriously sick. At 6 months from my surgery I started this program and my affirmation has always been this is the last time I am healing my body. So that has to mean what do I need to do also for this time in my life to make it a normal routine and part of my life and enjoyment.

There has been a lot of changes for the last nearly 3 months and I had to take my exercise back and start again as like normal I said I had to do this and I had to do that which again I was going in to Adrenal mode. So starting from scratch, for me was the scales went away, no have to with exercise, (the brain still was thinking this is not the way) slowly build up which this week I made Friday's my rest day and 30 to 40 mins workouts in the morning 6 days and walks with my husband at night. I also got Kitchen Scales to log my food & calories. I am not going on protein, carbs, fat % but using them more to retrain my brain what my body needs at the moment after 5 years of underactive thyroid it did my head in what I could eat and couldn't to heal it. So these scales I am using as a tool to understand my body more on this journey not to measure anything as the scales can't determine between good and bad fats, good & bad foods etc. I have Jeff's Food Lists saved in a album on my phone. I also have Body scales so got my husband to get the scales down this morning and I did not look at the scales or the reading and only got him to tell me the body fat % which I have lost 4% body fat in 4 weeks since the last time I weighed myself. Yesterday again my clothes I noticed I put something on I hadn't worn for ages to work out in including a sports bra I had not worn for a year or so, so means cm's around that area I have lost.

I changed to having my Klow from night (I decided to initially have a night because my inflammation is only at night and I do a procedure with my stoma at night ) to morning. I get up to my workout, grab my Klow and stoma preparation for after I get out of shower, remove my stoma bag, inject my Klow and then shower. By doing this, because my body is still warm from my workout I am not bruising as much. My freedom in my body I feel is gone to a new level that I walk around feeling so good. The only difference in my inflammation that I am back to where when I started having Klow (after the light anesthetic) and the recommended products where it still there but not as much. My deep sleep has definitely changed to 3 hours or more. I am even getting 5 & 6 hour blocks. Weekends if nothing on and can go with the flow, sleep in from my week day alarm. Sundays is always my preparation day and now not a chore that I getting stressed out by the end of the day with what I have to do. Better planning and my way of preparation.

Reta I am only taking once a week only because it affects my Stoma Output. Been back on 2 weeks but going to leave again this week to see what happens so when I do my update to Jeff next weekend to review my 3 months and what my journey will be until we go overseas for 5 weeks last week in June.

Tomorrow appointment with SCUH team that did my Surgery to check me and sign me off from the public system as going private for Stoma Reversal so have appointment first week in May to hopefully have before I go overseas. So this has also been part of my journey as well.

Embracing more changes in many ways on my Journey in life. Have a great week everyone. 💜

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