My glasses have shipped! Hopefully I'll get them sometime in the next
few days (Monday or Tuesday, since Sunday delivery isn't a thing). I'll
be sure to post pictures on Mastodon when I get them (maybe heheh).
I need to work, badly, on losing weight. I'm 205 pounds now. It's
insane. I was like 175 or 180 whenever I started college, and I dipped
as low as 185 in the past year. I hate it. I hate being fat. It royally
sucks, and I was so satisfied when I finally lost 50 pounds in 10th
grade and went from 220 to 170. I tried to keep going but never could
get below 163, and I couldn't keep it stable below 170 ever. Either way,
medium shirts fit on me well, I could fit into 34x32 (or 34x30, which I
should have been wearing) pants, and I felt good about myself. The thing
that sucked was that *finally* after losing weight and trying to feel
better about how I looked, my dang hair started falling out. At 15/16.
It was butts. So now I'm still trying to gain my hair back, which seems
to be working, and lose weight (which I'm obviously not making much
progress on). I'll be happy in a month when I'm back in school and I
live thirty seconds away from the HAC (Millsaps' student gym,
basically). Although, as far as I'm concerned, I'd rather stay out of
school for as long as possible.
I've actually gotten pretty close to having my hair grow back completely
before, in twelfth grade. I was using minoxidil, pumpkin seed oil, and
vitamin B5 (plus Tio Nacho shampoo), and I made enormous progress on
growing my hair back. It also helped tremendously that I only had
classes half the day, and the rest of the day I was free to do whatever
I wanted in Polymer. I wasn't stressed, and my hair showed that. But
after the turn of the year, my grandpa started going down hill,
graduation was approaching, and every bit of stress I had was coming
back to me. By that summer, more had fallen out than it ever had. It
sucked.
Currently I've changed my regimine a little bit (I can post this
eventually if someone wants to know), and it seems to be improving. I
have high hopes for the next few months, both in terms of my weight loss
and my hair growth. The only real concern I have is that when you lose
weight or eat less, your leptin levels go down. And leptin is important
in regulating hair growth and appetite (meaning the more weight you
lose, the hungrier you get. And the more difficult it is for your hair
to grow). I'm fairly positive this is why my hair had the dramatic
fallout it did when I lost weight to begin with. I need to know how to
keep my leptin levels up to help me lose weight and retain my hair, so
that's on my research agenda. Hopefully I can find something to help.
