Hello again Mrs. Jenny!

I LOVE reading blogs, so here is my attempt at one. The title of my blog, "Dysfunctional Metabolism" has to do with my Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom, or PCOS. If you want to know all the big medical words for this condition, google it, because I can honestly say I still can't explain the damn thing after being diagnosed with it for the past year and a half. Basically PCOS causes me to easily gain weight, and makes it almost impossible for me to lose weight. (It also makes me lose my hair on top of my head, and gain hair under my chin. Doesn't that sound wonderful!)

In January 2009 I was diagnosed with PCOS and put on medicatins to see if they would help me lose weight. Without changing my lifestyle drastically I shed 30 pounds in 3 months! After that I made a shrine for my meds and worshipped them everyday.

One year later, still on the godlike meds, I hadn't lost a single pound. I would go up 2 pounds, down 2 pounds, down 2 more pounds, then up again. I always stayed around the same number. (I can't believe I'm about to actually say it!) Drumroll please.........................194. (I can't believe my weight is on the internet!)

Two months ago I started to workout at a gym. Because it was summer and I'm a teacher I was able to go 6 days a week. I cut down my food and was determined to get rid of that number once and for all. But that 194 was relentless and refused to budge! I was so upset. Here I was busting my butt and losing body fat (my percentage went down 5 percent) but that 194 would not go away.

Enter Mrs. Jenny....... I finally decided to go back to the place I lost the most weight at in my life, Jenny Craig. You see in 8th grade I was pretty much a round basket ball and lost a lot of weight there. In fact, I lost 50 pounds! This week, Thursday, Septembe 2 ot be exact I started Jenny Craig again. When I went to Jenny Craig and weighed in I wasn't surprised to see 194 as my starting weight. (Just you and me 194....you and me. )

So this blog will be updated with pictures of me every week documenting my weight loss, my workouts, and my mistakes. I'm really doing this for me and no one else. It's time I finally get these pounds off and kept them off. If it takes telling the world about it for me to do it, that's ok with me.


Tami