After being sick for so long, I finally have a name for my illness: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, otherwise known as P.O.T.S.

A cardiac condition that's stripped me of my health, weight (causing me to drop to anorexic weight), self confidence, friends, jobs and continuing my education.

My goals are simple: gain weight, be healthier, and get out more. Basically, get my life back!

I'm also hoping to spread some awareness on this little known condition, and to highlight the struggles of the underweight and people with "invisible illnesses."

Friday, May 7, 2010

day 18

Breakfast: Ensure Plus (350c)
Snack: pringles (150c)
Lunch: 1/2 ted's italian sausage with pickle, ketchup and mustard, fries, dr. pepper (an amazing 800 calories)
Dinner: steak and baked potato (which i could have had more :() small brownie (350c)
Snack: Ensure Plus (350 c)
Extra: dr pepper (100c)

Exercise: laundry and moving crap

Total Calorie Count: 2100. wow...no wonder i feel gross lol

Awesome Thing of the Day: thunderstorms. zack and i turned off the lights and just watched them, incredible. until, of course, the screen door ripped off and scared the hell out of us lol

2 comments:

  1. Great post, Erika!! Brad and I got caught in the beginning of the T-storm running to the car after Iron Man 2. But it was a great storm--lasted for hours.

    It's got to be hard for your body to go between such extremes on calorie count. You definitely needed the extra calories this day since moving is a lot of work.

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  2. thank you! how was the movie?

    i'm sure it is hard on my body, and i'm trying to be more consistent. this week's been rough though because i've had what we think is a concussion after being whacked really hard in the head...so when headaches are good, i can eat...and when they're bad it's impossible lol

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