2022 - Moving forward

beanielou

Nearly over £100 in pads this month 

savingholmes

Well done on the PADs.

jwil

EssexHebridean said:

jwil said:

It really woke me up to the prejudice we face though - I get put off going to the doctors because everything gets blamed on my weight, regardless of the issue.  There's some interesting reading about the negative outcomes from fat being partly because people are reluctant to seek treatment for issues because of their weight, rather than solely caused by their weight.

My anaemia partly ended up undiagnosed for so long because I was tremendously reluctant to go to the Dr after it ALWAYS turning into a stand-off about them insisting they needed to weigh me and me insisting they didn’t. That was around 2015 - 2016 - and even at that stage I knew that scales/weight was a massively problematic issue for me - although as I said I’ve always escaped an eating disorder my relationship with food and my body was horrific - I was a prime candidate for all the “sugar is as toxic as cocaine” type nonsense that does the rounds, but thankfully there was always a bit of me that remained rational enough to remember that trying to completely cut out a food like that without solid reason (and medical supervision) wasn’t a great idea - otherwise I suspect I’d have ended up with orthorexia. So the whole “just hop onto the scales” conversation regardless of what I’d gone in about lead to me simply avoiding going at all costs, and fast forward to autumn 2017 and I found myself as an emergency admission to hospital with iron levels so low I should technically have been unconscious. 😬 So yes - I’ll wholeheartedly back up the viewpoint that weight stigma in the medical world can make people’s health worse the pan them carrying a bit of extra weight! (It’s almost entirely women that suffer from this too - my other half has NEVER been lectured about his weight at the GP’s in spite of also appearing “overweight” !) 

Nice PADIng - I cashed out Prolific yesterday so added to my “Gym neutral fund” - it all helps! 

That's awful and just demonstrates how true it is.

Well done on adding to the gym neutral fund!  That's a great idea.

jwil

beanielou said:

Nearly over £100 in pads this month 

Passed it today, hurrah

savingholmes said:

Well done on the PADs.

Thank you

jwil

Today's PAD - £11

Jan - £126

Feb - £106

Mar - £136

Apr - £103

beanielou

HUrrah for being over £100 

jwil

beanielou said:

HUrrah for being over £100 

Thank you

jwil

Today's PAD - £7

Jan - £126

Feb - £106

Mar - £136

Apr - £110

jwil

Morning everyone.  I'm pleased with my PAD totals for the month

Feeling a bit grotty today, I woke at 4am with a splitting headache.  I'm pretty sure it's dehydration as I spent yesterday afternoon unexpectedly transporting people and vehicles around the county.  Hopefully it will clear with lots of water, but I will test just in case as little jwil's covid started with a headache.

Today is my Friday   I'm very excited about that, though because of yesterday's activities I have shedloads to catch up on.  I've rearranged my pre-diabetes courses to Fridays which means my next one is tomorrow rather than next week, but that's fine.

My folks are due to complete on their new house today, so they will be in 15 min walking distance from us, it's so exciting.

Have a good day everyone!

EssexHebridean

All good news apart from the headache then - and yes, we both had headaches with Covid too, in fact for me it was one of the last symptoms to go albeit it was just for a relatively short period when I first woke up each day. Still annoying though! Hopefully yours will just be the dehydration thing though and your test is clear. 

And Thursdays are usually my Fridays too - it’s a lovely feeling!