I relate SO much, GrimDaeva!
Thank you very much for sharing
I started feeling like crap a year later my son was born.
Extremely exhausted and gaining weight rapidly.
At the time I was on hormonal contraceptives, which I thought that was the reason of the weight gain. And I thought having a toddler and being fat explained being so tired.
He was three when there was a mayor change in our lives, moved closer to the family and I got an steady job. Life was great.
But I was feeling worse and worse. More and more tired, more and more fat. It made no sense.
I got on a diet (Whole30) and I lost weight, felt good. As I reintroduced food into my diet I started to feel tired again - but I had not gained weight back yet!
So obviously the weight was not the CAUSE of the tiredness...
I decided to run some blood test. My doctors had never found anything in mine, so I thought maybe it was something that they usually did not look into?
I decided to pay for some, and get checked in as many items as I could.
Hypothyroidsm. Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.
That was two days before lockdown, took me a year to get to a doctor who would prescribe me some meds.
Now I'm feeling much better, only tired when I should be tired - but not all the time anymore!
But weight, no, I haven't lost any weight. I keep gaining it - just slower. Right now I'm at 93kg (205lbs).
My doctors say that food has nothing to do with thyroiditis, I just don't believe them - or I don't want to believe them.
My previous (and only) experience with a diet shows that removing certain foods made me feel better, so there is something (or a combination of things) that does not work well with me.
I would like to find out more about that, but since I don't get any support from my doctors it's very hard to get started.
I confess I don't make any exercise. And I should.
I used to feel so tired I could not even dream of it, but it's no longer the case. I just lack the motivation to be consistent.
Oh, well, I have a long way to go, but I'm a bit lost right now about which path I should follow.