I think I have finally worked this page out so I have decided to start a blog to not only keep track of how I am going but also how I am feeling so I have something I can refer back to.
A bit of backstory for if anyone decides to read this..
I am currently 24 years old (25 next month), 158cm tall and a mum to 3 happy, healthy, energetic children.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t overweight. The amount has differed over the years but I have always been overweight. I hovered around 70-75kg throughout my teenage years, then I had my first child when I was 16 and put on a massive 30+kg.
I started duromine for the first time in 2012 when I was 19 and lost around 10kg but had to stop taking it after a bit over a month because I fell pregnant again. During that pregnancy I lost 5kg at the start and by the end I had put on an extra 5.
I stayed around that weight for about 2 years and had a series of events happen that ended up with me not in a good way. I would go days at a time without eating and sleeping and ended up loosing about 10-15kg in a very short time. Later that year I found out I was pregnant with number 3 and had morning sickness the whole way through my pregnancy and ended up a couple of kgs lighter when I was full term to what I started at.
I hovered around 77-82kg for about a year and then my weight crept up and up and I was at 97.4kg. The heaviest I have ever been was after my first child when I was 99kg and I was almost there again which was a huge shock. I also had no motivation to do anything. I would sit around and binge watch tv shows all day and my house looked like a cyclone had been through it and circled back but I just didn’t have the energy to maintain it in a decent state. Making proper meals was not a priority, everything was so chaotic in my household that getting any food on the table was a huge mission so we started getting takeaway for dinner 3 times a week and the rest of the time it was prepackaged crap that I could just throw in the oven and be done with it.
I finally decided enough was enough after playing a game of soccer with my kids and my partner and after running a few metres for the ball I was completely exhausted and needed to sit down. So off to the doctors I went and straight away I was handed a script for a month supply of duromine 40mg.
My progress so far..
I started duromine and my goal to get back on track on the 14th April. The first week was all over place.
The first day I felt completely buzzed and once I started talking I couldn’t stop. I was pain free and felt very content and just all around good.
The second day I was very alert but the buzzed feeling was gone.
Day 3 & 4 I found I wasn’t feeling very energetic but once I got up and started doing something I would keep going until it was done and wasn’t making excuses to take breaks.
Days 5-7 I didn’t have much energy at all but forced myself to do some exercise but that pretty much ended my day of productivity. Day 8 I had no energy at all and was very sluggish.
Day 9-10 I forced myself to get in and tackle some stuff that needed to be done around the house, once I started I was back to not being able to stop and felt really good for it.
Day 11 I was back to feeling really sluggish again all day until about 11pm when I got hit with a wave of motivation so I started baking and cleaning my kitchen.
Day 12 I was feeling good again, really awake and motivated to get my tasks done for the day. When I would sit down for more then 5 minutes I found myself itching to get back up again despite the fact that I wasn’t too thrilled about the jobs I had to do but I got them all done (and then some) and felt great for it. I even managed to get all 3 kids fed, bathed and in bed by a decent hour which is usually a mission.
A bit of backstory for if anyone decides to read this..
I am currently 24 years old (25 next month), 158cm tall and a mum to 3 happy, healthy, energetic children.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t overweight. The amount has differed over the years but I have always been overweight. I hovered around 70-75kg throughout my teenage years, then I had my first child when I was 16 and put on a massive 30+kg.
I started duromine for the first time in 2012 when I was 19 and lost around 10kg but had to stop taking it after a bit over a month because I fell pregnant again. During that pregnancy I lost 5kg at the start and by the end I had put on an extra 5.
I stayed around that weight for about 2 years and had a series of events happen that ended up with me not in a good way. I would go days at a time without eating and sleeping and ended up loosing about 10-15kg in a very short time. Later that year I found out I was pregnant with number 3 and had morning sickness the whole way through my pregnancy and ended up a couple of kgs lighter when I was full term to what I started at.
I hovered around 77-82kg for about a year and then my weight crept up and up and I was at 97.4kg. The heaviest I have ever been was after my first child when I was 99kg and I was almost there again which was a huge shock. I also had no motivation to do anything. I would sit around and binge watch tv shows all day and my house looked like a cyclone had been through it and circled back but I just didn’t have the energy to maintain it in a decent state. Making proper meals was not a priority, everything was so chaotic in my household that getting any food on the table was a huge mission so we started getting takeaway for dinner 3 times a week and the rest of the time it was prepackaged crap that I could just throw in the oven and be done with it.
I finally decided enough was enough after playing a game of soccer with my kids and my partner and after running a few metres for the ball I was completely exhausted and needed to sit down. So off to the doctors I went and straight away I was handed a script for a month supply of duromine 40mg.
My progress so far..
I started duromine and my goal to get back on track on the 14th April. The first week was all over place.
The first day I felt completely buzzed and once I started talking I couldn’t stop. I was pain free and felt very content and just all around good.
The second day I was very alert but the buzzed feeling was gone.
Day 3 & 4 I found I wasn’t feeling very energetic but once I got up and started doing something I would keep going until it was done and wasn’t making excuses to take breaks.
Days 5-7 I didn’t have much energy at all but forced myself to do some exercise but that pretty much ended my day of productivity. Day 8 I had no energy at all and was very sluggish.
Day 9-10 I forced myself to get in and tackle some stuff that needed to be done around the house, once I started I was back to not being able to stop and felt really good for it.
Day 11 I was back to feeling really sluggish again all day until about 11pm when I got hit with a wave of motivation so I started baking and cleaning my kitchen.
Day 12 I was feeling good again, really awake and motivated to get my tasks done for the day. When I would sit down for more then 5 minutes I found myself itching to get back up again despite the fact that I wasn’t too thrilled about the jobs I had to do but I got them all done (and then some) and felt great for it. I even managed to get all 3 kids fed, bathed and in bed by a decent hour which is usually a mission.
