Another Restart - with added health issues

It looks like I'm starting again, this time even heavier than before. Nth time, the charm?

107.5kg

It's not quite the heaviest I have ever been, but it's not far off. My heaviest was 110kg*

I am worried about my health.

Since quitting breastfeeding at nearly two years, no hormonal birth control, and no major changes to my diet, I have gained a significant amount of weight that I can't account for with calories in/out. In addition, it has ALL gone to my belly. I am not joking. I wear the same bra size; I wear the same trousers (the waist won't fasten if there's no elastic) but I have turned into a barrel.

Even at my heaviest, I maintained a consistent 1-2 dress-size disparity between hips & waist and 2-3 between bust & waist, i.e. my waist was always around two dress-sizes smaller than my bust and hips.

I have a sneaking suspicion (more than a suspicion, but not diagnosed) that I have either an underactive thyroid, PCOS, or both. However, as I AM overweight and in the obese category, if I go to a doctor for testing then they will just tell me to lose weight and there's nothing wrong with me that self-control won't fix.

I need to have a full food diary available and ready to refute every condescending word from their mouth.

I'm not stupid, and I have a long history of the doctor refusing to listen to me. I need evidence in my arsenal.

In the next few weeks (hopefully on the run-up to moving house) I'm attempting to eat "normally". Eating reasonable meals at sensible times, without snacking, two or three times per day. The number of meals depends mainly on whether I'm trying to 16:8 fast. I can't eat three meals in eight hours.

When we move house and change doctors and all the other stuff, I want to have the evidence in my hands. As well as that, I want to check my blood sugars too. Refute the idea that I might be diabetic because of my weight. I'm not, I sporadically check my fasting and after-meal blood sugars just to make sure I'm not sliding that way. I'm not. Sometimes my fasting is high, but 105 is only potentially pre-diabetic if anything. And post-meal sugars are usually within the 140 limits.

See, I have all the answers that doctors will demand before they will even LOOK at anything else.

Ready, Set, Go!

* If you don't use metric units, you can check the conversion here.

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