A Little Bit About Me

Hello everyone my name is Alyssa Upton and I am making this blogging page to hopefully inspire you. I want to help my readers to become more body positive and accept that losing weight and maintaining a health lifestyle isn’t so easy. I will try to give you tips and exercises to stay fit. For me though, losing weight wasn’t so easy because, at the age of sixteen, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which is something a person has their whole life. PCOS is a hormonal disorder which makes it rather difficult to get pregnant, but for losing weight, most of us are insulin resistant which causes glucose to build up in the blood. Having PCOS means I have to take a special pill that will “help” me lose weight. The thing that would confuse the doctors was that working out and being a year round athlete did not help me lose weight or be as fit as most athletes. Along with that I would eat rather healthy, and most times less than my friends (even those who were very skinny). After going to many doctors, I went to one who put me on a very strict diet. Over the summer of 2018, I took on the challenge, I would go to the gym four to five days a week and eat less than on thousand calories a day. This amount of exercise and lack of eating caused me to get gallstones and I had to get my gallbladder removed immediately. Last summer, in the course of six weeks I was able to lose twenty pounds. Now, I try to eat more than 1,000 calories and not workout as intensely, and thankfully I am getting the same results. Along with that, I am still on my weight loss and healthy lifestyle journey and I am hoping you can come along with!