I guess my goal for the month will be to feel healthier.
My weight, which had been steady within a range for a very long time has inched upwards over Covid.
Since my concussion, I've ranged between 173 and 180 with the majority of the time around 174. After Christmas I was 176, went away and my weight was up to 181 when I got back. It ranged up to 184 (which sets off warning bells) was down to 181 and then I started my new pills 9 days ago. Now the med is the same (Vyvanse), the dosage is the same except instead of 2 x 10 mg, I'm taking 1 x 20 mg. My weight has gone up 6 pounds in those 9 days. Nothing else has changed. Same pretty bad diet, same not moving. Same amount of sleep. Note, Vyvanse is known for weight loss not gain.
Also in that time, I've notice pressure behind my eyes and trouble focusing them. I'm now thinking that I'm about to get an eye inflammation and that I didn't recognize that because it has been so long since I had one (basically since my periods stopped.)
My blood pressure is unchanged (I've been tracking that per doctor's instructions.)
I can't ever remember gaining so much, so fast, without an explanation (a cruise or Christmas, or something else that changed eating/movement.)
Anyway, it was a shock. Dh is up too, so we may be able to blame the scale except it weighs my 8lb weight accurately. And the delta between getting on the scale with the weight and not accurately.
My movement is pathetic lately. Most days under 3K steps. Looking back at last year at this time I was averaging between 6 and 8K steps a day. The difference, of course, is Covid. Going out for a walk requires masking up and then when we are outside there are no errands to run since we are to not go to the store daily which was our practice, nor can we walk to the pub on Saturdays. Those daily shopping runs were another 3000 steps a day, pretty well exactly what I'm missing. We have been brainwashed to fear leaving our homes.
My intake of fresh veggies is down (they are expensive, hard to get and, either I buy too many and they go bad, or I buy some and eat them up and am left without fresh veggies.) Fruit is going better because of frozen and tinned fruit.
I'm having way more leg cramps at times, my toe cramps or 'burns' more often, and my right lower body is weak so I can't stand only on my right foot for more that 10 seconds (and am wobbly the whole time) compared to standing on my left foot easily for 30 - 60 seconds before getting wobbly. My back is twingy, having spasm'd out completely at least twice during the shut-in time.
So, basically, I'm a mess.
My goal for the month is to become less of a mess.