Lexi is Thriving

So I left you when my friend had suggested that I try sugar-free/lowGI to help lose weight with my PCOS symptoms…

It seemed like a daunting task to begin with…as someone who used to carry sweets with me everywhere incase my blood sugars dropped and I got dizzy…I was really worried…plus I REALLY liked chocolate!

But I had to find the motivation from somewhere.

January 2017…
This was it…I promised myself…3 months…if I didn’t notice a difference then I could go back to sweets, cake and white carbs. I almost wanted to feel nothing.
3 weeks in…
I started to notice a change in my energy levels. I was less tired and I didnt shake if I hadn’t eaten for 3 hours…something was changing…but I still didn’t know if it would make a difference to my hormones.

A week later my husband was dying for fish and chips…so I figured as a one off I’d give it a shot…within 4 hours of eating I felt rough…stomach was cramping and other issues.

After a few more mishaps during my 3 month “trial” I soon realised that there was no going back for me.

• I had more energy
• I was losing weight for the first time in years
• For some reason my skin was improving (probably because I wasn’t replacing  healthy snacks with a sugar hit)

But it wasn’t plain sailing from there…I’ll get into that in my next post.

So…I’d planned on posting about how I went sugar free and how I found it in my post this week, but today, something else has been on my mind all day, and I can’t focus on anything else.

Today I’ve been super aware of my PCOS with one of my most visual symptoms.

I woke up late, and didn’t have time to shave before work…meaning that today I’ve had to rock a bit of a beard.

Now I KNOW that it looks worse to me than it does to other people…but that doesn’t stop me spending all day trying to hide my chin whenever talking to people.

So in an attempt to try and remove some of its power over me…I’m going to accept it as much as I can and post it here…on the internet…where I can’t hide it.

What do you struggle with for your self image?

What springs to your mind when you hear the term self-care?

Face masks?
Massage?
Hair cut?
Duvet day?
Showering?
Have a bath?
Cutting your nails?
…
OR something more unusual

…
Doing the dishes?
Hanging up the laundry that you’ve had to wash 3 times this week cause you keep forgetting to hang it up?
Cleaning the bathroom?
Taking your medication?


Self-care will be personal to you.

Don’t ever let anyone else define what your sef care should be!



Helpful link… https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/what-is-self-care/