Dear Chris,
Congratulations!!!! 5 weeks and 24.2 pounds later! I could not be more proud of you. This is the best news. Made my day.
One thing I want to mention is that all your emails are important! So, don’t put ‘not important’ in the subject line or email, okay? Also, do you really think I could wait until Monday to read this? I look forward to your emails and want to be able to answer any questions you may have.
Continue doing what you are doing. I know this seems unreal, but you will actually be getting healthier and feeling better over the next 6 months than what you are now. Remember to read your “Christmas card” every day. Modify it and make it better. This is a new life for you. Make it your dream life. Think about it all the time. Get all negative thoughts out of your mind. They only suppress your goals.
Dr. Jack
Five weeks in to this program with Dr. Jack and I was down 24.2 pounds. I had a nasty little habit of always telling Dr. Jack in the subject line, “Not Important, read later.” Something to that effect. Later I realized that I was ALWAYS dismissing myself in other people’s lives, telling them that I was not important. And this was no exception. I had to learn that I am important. That took some time. But on this day, my eyes were on two things…. 25 pounds…. and why does my face look different?
The best part of this journey so far wasn’t just the weight. It was that so many of my thyroid symptoms were gone. And then something happened that I didn’t expect. I looked in the mirror one day and I thought, why does my face look different? I understood the 24 pounds but it was something else. I couldn’t figure it out. I typically wash my face, put on some moisturizer, try to fill in my sparse eyebrows a little, and two swipes of mascara and run for the door, but today when I went to do that, I saw it.
My eyebrows came back!! Can you do that?? Regrow them??? When you have Hashimoto’s disease, you lose the outer third of your eyebrows. It is really annoying because all my life I had beautiful full eyebrows and for the last twenty years, I was trying hard to fill in little spots until I just gave up. No amount of makeup fixes that. It just looks fake and all it was for was my own vanity anyway.
It took a minute for me to see it but when I went to swipe the mascara I looked and there they were!! Full, complete, and so dark brown just like they always were!!
That day, I couldn’t believe it. In the five weeks I had been with him, I felt better, lost more than twenty pounds and my eyebrows came back. How great a day is THAT???? And that was when I started noticing all kinds of changes. My face wasn’t that blotchy red you get. My eyes didn’t have the swollen look anymore. My skin tone had evened out. That nasty patch of eczema behind my ear was gone. My skin was softer and less dry. My hair was not brittle or dry but felt soft and less coarse. The thyroid checklist of symptoms was leaving me. I was actually starting to look healthier! I didn’t expect that.
It was such a good day….. and now that I knew twenty five pounds was doable…. all of a sudden I wanted fifty…. I realized that not only was weight loss possible but so was remission from this crazy disease. I could truly heal myself. All I had to do was keep following the path Dr. Jack laid out for me. The sky was the limit and his email? I could believe that was ALL possible!