My Journey to Better Health......The Very Early Days 1980s Part One

Where do I start?

Back in the early to mid eighties, I was a skinny, healthy 20 something mum to two children. By the late eighties I was several stone overweight and exhausted, unable to keep up the fitness regime I had got used to before going down with the viral infection that was knocking about a year or so earlier in 1986. I don't know if this is significant but my son, who was 5 in 1986 had the same virus at the same time I did and went on to be diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in December that year.

By the spring of 1988 I was getting my children to school on foot, then walking well over a mile to the leisure centre to swim a mile before getting back for the lunchtime school break. The afternoons were taken up with keep fit sessions  and housework then a break while I walked to collect the children again.

Just prior to the viral episode I weighed 10st and by the spring of 1988 I was 17st and totally wiped out. I had given up the swimming and the keep fit sessions and could only manage the minimum of household chores a slept every afternoon, waking unrefreshed and brain fogged in time to make the slow stroll to the school.

To be continued.........

The Fast Lane....Who Needs It???

I thought  it was about time I started a new blog to mark the newest chapter in my life.

Having spent a VERY long time man free due to being busy getting my shit together and not wanting any distractions....I made the decision to move away from my home town to move to Eastbourne to start a new life chapter.

I left my old life behind and found myself travelling to Eastbourne with an overnight bag and two shopping bags....to a town I didn't know and with no idea how things would pan out.

Still have no idea how things will turn out but it has helped that the man who shares our new life has an awesome family who took to me straight away and welcomed me with open arms. That could mean that I am just totally awesome or they are all as mad as me...I like to think it is the former but I suspect it might be the latter.....whatever....I'm blissfully happy being here and plan to stay happy :)

I also want to include in this blog my M.E. journey....hence the title of this blog. I have my dad to thank for the title as he would regularly say to me that my 'get up and go has got up and gone' when the M.E.  got to me....so thanks dad for that :)

Edited Tuesday 2nd December to add that recent developments have made me question the M.E. diagnosis as in all probability the symptoms were due to long term use of wrongly prescribed synthetic Throxine supplements following the mis-diagnosis of hypothyroid back in 1988.