Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh is all I have to say for myself right now.
So I'm not happy for two reasons. The first is that I am in an island of pain. That's right. I want to go to bed and cry into my pillow and just stay like that in hibernation until all this shit goes away and the back of my throat stops looking and feeling like a battlefield. The second is that I HAVE GAINED SO MUCH WEIGHT AND AM NOW ACTUALLY LEGITIMATELY OBESE. I was 150.2 lbs on the scales this morning and 154.6 this evening - I mean, what the fricking frack? I haven't been this fat in months... I even weighed less than this when I started my mother effing blog back in 2011. The shame and disgust is just unreal.
I know why it is. It's because all these goddamn antibiotics and painkillers have meant I haven't gone to the bathroom properly in 3 days and so I have half a week's worth of food just crammed in my system. The meals must just be piled on top of each other... ugh. So I'm drinking a shit ton of water which is bloating me, on top of the soup, the soft bread, the juice, full fat coke, and every other starchy sugary fattening item of mush I've shovelled into my face since Monday. Ugh.
See, I know I'm not ACTUALLY 150 lbs. I know what my body looks like when I am genuinely tipping the 150s and this ain't it. I look, like, 145 lbs, at the most. But the scales don't lie and when I see that number glinting up at me, it feels like I'm in some kind of fucked nightmare. But this is the issue with me. It's so unreal that I can completely dissociate from the fact that I've ballooned 10 lbs over my comfort range and my mind genuinely just shuts it off. You'd think it would shock me... and on some level it does, that I've let my body get this fat again... but for the most part, I'm just swimming in a painkiller-aided fuzzy-minded haze of obese denial whereby anything I eat is totally justified because I'm ill and heck, I probably wouldn't even care if I was 160 lbs right now, because I'm literally that far gone.
The only good thing that could POSSIBLY come out of this would be not bleeding in days to come. If I don't bleed, the weight gain might be *minorly* worth it (pfft, says the ED. Weight gain is never worth it). But if I do... then just fuck everything.
Oh and it's results tomorrow. Happy times.
Could this post BE any more miserable? Apologies. Small piece of good news though: my dad's coming back from the states on Friday to visit me before he flies out of the country again over the weekend. He's lost so much weight it's ridiculous... (maybe America was my saving grace and the tonsillectomy a red herring? Who knows; life is weird.)
So as it stands,
1) I'm up 15 lbs since study leave
2) I feel like I'm being stabbed with knives down my throat every time I swallow
3) It's results day tomorrow and I can't even drink my sorrows away
4) My best friend has officially ex-communicated me
5) I'm not even the thinner one so I have nothing to make me feel better about it all
No, this is not a happy post.
PS. I'm joining a gym in September, it is decided.
Oh huni I hope you feel better, you need to get some laxatives in you - the painkillers concrete your stomach :\ When I hurt my back I was on pain killers for months and all the codeine meant I literally would not go - at all. My stomach ballooned like 4 times its size and I had to go to the docs.. and they gave me these effing strong laxatives because I was VERY compacted.. lol it was the biggest relief when I jumped on the scales after.
ReplyDeleteMy little cousin has celiac disease and is on codiene and iron every day and she told me once before going she was 9 pounds up! and after poop she went back to normal weight.. believe me it could all be poop.
Sorry for the super gross comment.
Yay your dads back - hope he brings you something <3 x
Aww that sounds so awful. I am so sorry you are having the worst time. But yeah, antibiotics tend to constipate patients and it could just be food/shit weight. I'm sure once you're back on your feet your weight will come back down in no time and you'll be ready to hit the gym in September!
ReplyDeleteOh god, I hate that. I hate when you can not use the bathroom like you want. It is amazing how much that crap puts weight on you. So ridiculous and crazy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you feel better soon so you can be back up and about. I know you are ready to get back to making things happen ;-)
Has any of your friends stopped by to see you? Maybe that would help cheer you up a bit.
*hugs* feel better lady.
Sweetheart. I love to read your writing (the phrase, "swimming in a painkiller-aided fuzzy-minded haze of obese denial," is particularly poetic - if in a somewhat distressing sense), but I don't so much love to read not-happy posts. If it's any consolation, you started this blog in December of 2011, so that's pretty much almost 2012. I know that doesn't help at all, and I apologise. Damn the weight.
ReplyDeleteBut love you,
<3.
The new study emphasized that particularly younger children gained weight after tonsillectomy they are not more likely to become overweight or obese after the tonsillectomy. Thus tonsillectomy is not a factor for obesity.
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Source:
Levi J, Leoniak S, Schmidt R. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2012 Oct 1;138(10):897-901. doi: 10.1001/2013.jamaoto.252.