The Renaissance Woman

So, I haven’t posted here in a while, which is obviously something I need to improve upon.

I have, however, started a new blog. So I thought I would take an opportunity to quickly summarize the three blogs I now post to – some more frequently than others. “blush*

First, this blog. This is my personal blog. I’ll post life updates, interesting stories or events I have participated in. Sometimes I just might spend time thinking out loud about issues that make my gears spin.

Then, there’s Pinheaded. This is a funny blog I started after noticing that the “Popular” tab on Pinterest is filled with quite a bit of crap that needed to be mocked. (Thanks to my husband for pushing me to start this blog.)

Finally, I just started Shapely Thoughts. This is going to be closer to a personal journal as I feel like I have a lot of thinking to process in the realm of health, weight, and diet. I am making it a public blog to hopefully attract a support community and/or offer support to others who might be dealing with similar issues.

I hope you all might find at least one of these blogs interesting and worth following on a regular basis.

Happy Reading!

(Look at the board name this was repinned from)

Yes – an adorable idea to give your kids a bowl of dead wasps.

Up until my sophomore year of college, I was always skinny. My BMI was 18.5 during my last year of high school and first year of college – on the border or “underweight” and “normal”.

Starting my sophomore year, I slowly started gaining weight. So far, the most I’ve weighted puts me about 15 pounds in the “obese – category 1” BMI range.

Five years ago, right after our wedding, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. It took 3 years before I was able to manage it through proper treatment.

A year and a half ago, my husband was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. We changed our diet and I lost 35 pounds. As of this morning, I am 6 pounds away from having gained all that weight back – back into the “obese – category 1” BMI range by 10 pounds.

I have read books, studies, articles and blogs with a wide range of theories on the relationship between food, exercise, weight, lifespan and health. I have done this to try to find a way back to the “18.5” me (or at least the “24” me), to attempt to solve the riddle of what triggered my Hashimoto’s, or to try and figure out if all the things people scream will kill you actually will.

In any given day, I alternate between a staunch defender of “Health at Every Size” and seriously considering various weight-loss advice despite knowing that much of it is wrong or downright unhealthy and that BMI is a crock of shit.

I am starting this blog more as a journal: to sort through my thoughts and try to work my way through body/health/diet/exercise issues. I am doing a blog instead of a journal so that I might be able to both receive support from the online community I know is out there and also to offer that support as well – even if all I do is show others that they aren’t alone. Some days, I might do more organized, thoughtful posts, and other days, I might just vent the thoughts in my brain is a very slapdash fashion.

For anyone reading this and going through this journey with me, I thank you and hope that you find this to be enlightening, informative, maybe even inspiring at times. I’m hoping I do, too!

These placenta recipes are getting out of hand…

Cat: *sniff* “Didn’t I throw this up yesterday?”

Well, at least these sweets make more sense for the Easter story than chocolate bunnies and candy eggs.

Great advice for shin splints.Oh, wait…

Either Mother Nature is getting fresh, or someone needs to trim the hedge a bit more frequently.

When life sucks, prepare to become an instrument of death.