Major gripe session
So after a week of dedicated logging, healthy eating, AND daily exercising, based on my years of history losing and maintaining weight, and the fact that I'm far over my comfortable maintenance range, I should have dropped a couple of pounds easily. Nope. Weighed myself at the end of the week and I was UP a pound.
Point 1: back in the spring, I started a new medication for my high blood pressure. The doctor mentioned that one possible side effect was weight gain. I researched, discovered that it was a very small (5 - 6%) chance, and that it seemed to be mainly centered not on something physiological, but increased appetite, so I figured that it probably would not be an issue for me.
Point 2: Within a month after I started taking the medication, my weight had jumped up 10 pounds, and no matter WHAT I have done since then, it has not gone down more than 2 pounds and usually comes right back up. Most of the jeans and pants I have bought over the last 2 years are tight now. I feel fat and unmotivated and I'm f'in miserable.
Point 3: I have an appointment with my doctor next week in which I am going to tell him in no uncertain terms that I want to change medications. Being stressed out about my weight is definitely counterproductive to the effects of the medication - my blood pressure is probably higher on it than off. Stay tuned.