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How’s everyone doing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pandemic update: Oregon has been slowly opening. My county is in Phase 1. The county I work in, recently applied for phase 1 but we’ve been seeing upticks in coronavirus cases as things open up, as predicted. Less and less people are wearing masks. I still wear my mask when I go to stores and stuff. {shrug<\/strong>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am still working from home. We are not sure yet how it will look returning to work, or when it will happen. As I said, we aren’t in Phase 1 yet for work. My employer is talking about plans: staggered schedules, still working from home, doing shifts, 25-50% of staff in the office only, etc etc. Time will tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for me, this year has been hard. Even pre-pandemic. There was some life drama (that I don’t really want to get into here) right after we got back from Hawaii. Which SUCKED and was super stressful. It was about a month and a half of major life stress. It’s been resolved but it screwed up a lot of our life plans going forward. Then covid-19. Then Michael lost his job. Then then then…it feels like it’s been one thing after another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last fall I tried to go off my medication to lose some weight<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Prozac works well for me, but it’s very much dose dependent. I gained about 15 or so pounds on it at 20mg. It was really frustrating. I went back down to 10mg and tried and struggled and slowly lost some weight. But I was still struggling. Going off the meds turned out to be a bad idea. I went back. My doctor suggested we try 15mg. It worked well for me mentally. In the middle of the pandemic, Michael asked me why I wasn’t freaking out. I said “I’m medicated.” And it was the truth. It was really helping my anxiety a lot. BUT…you guessed it. The weight started ticking up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my doctor suggested a try a new drug. He suggested two, the one I ended up trying was Viibryd<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. I’d never heard of it before. I gave it a try and immediately started having negative side effects. First was the insomnia. I was taking I think 10mg to start. It was like I had shots of espresso. I was amped up during the day–which was NICE because I wasn’t feeling fatigued. But at night? I couldn’t physically close my eyes. I laid in bed like I did shots of coffee right before I laid down. It was brutal. I was also having some mania\/hyper focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we cut the dose to 5mg for a few days and I felt better and then went back up to 10mg and the insomnia issues went away. Good, right? Yes. But…then I started having insane hunger. My doctor told me that weight gain was not a side effect of Viibryd. So why was I suddenly so famished?! And it was CARBS and SUGAR. That’s all I wanted. And I felt like the thing in my brain that says YOU ARE FULL was broken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started doing googling and found some chat groups talking about it and a lot of people seemed to have a similar side effect: hunger, weight gain. Huh. Ok. I wonder why the claim is no weight gain but so many people are having hunger issues<\/span><\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So since the beginning of February (I did not gain any weight in Hawaii! MIRACULOUS!) I’ve gained about 10 pounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t necessarily blame that all on pandemic. Some was stress eating and drinking at the beginning of the pandemic. But that was just 2 weeks and I then I pulled my shit together. Some of it is not going to the gym. BUT I am still working out 5 days a week the best I can. It’s not the same workout I can do at the gym, but I am doing my best. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It sucks when medication causes your body to just go haywire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What am I doing?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doing Low Carb\/Keto (not strict keto, but low carb for sure)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stopped Drinking completely (it’s something I can control calorie wise)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying to drink more water (not very good at this yet)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drinking tea on a regular basis (every night I have some chamomile tea<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, which is nice)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working out 5 days a week (it’s a lot of cardio right now, but doing the best I can)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switched my medication<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not having sweets in the house (Other than atkins brand<\/span><\/strong><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve lost about 3 or 4 pounds in two weeks so far. The new medication I’m trying is Lamictal<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. A friend took it for years and liked it a lot and said it was “weight neutral” so that is promising. We will see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My new favorite drink: fake mojito! The previous owner of our house planted mint in the garden and it’s gone nuts (in case you didn’t know, mint is better in a pot or it will take over!). So I am trying to use it up! I do 1 packet of stevia, fresh lime juice, sparkling lime water, mint and ice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I will do another post in a week or two about the weight and stuff but I wanted to give a quick update on all of this stuff to start out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How’s everyone doing? Pandemic update: Oregon has been slowly opening. My county is in Phase 1. The county I work in, recently applied for phase 1 but we’ve been seeing upticks in coronavirus cases as things open up, as predicted. Less and less people are wearing masks. I still wear my mask when I go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,2663,9969,154,9458,155,297,298,3372],"tags":[8617,9938,10137,10138,10130,9837,8757],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58681"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58702,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58681\/revisions\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}