Mental Illness and Physical Health

[stormdog]

Content warning: body weight, weight gain, weight loss

Mental illness and physical health: they are connected. Here's my weight tracking from Fitbit.



July of 2012 is when I started tracking food, eating more healthy stuff, and doing a lot of cycling. Physically, I felt great during the span of time up through January of 2016. It was good for my state of mind too.

Grad school started in fall of 2015, and things got gradually worse for me. I finally decided, in January of 2016 to leave grad school and go back to where I had a support network. I spent the immediately following span of months doing a lot of crying and recovering, and just didn't have the will to keep doing the fitness stuff I'd been doing. I'm still working on that recovery.

The occasional sharp points after around January of 2018 are times that I briefly started trying to track food again, but quickly gave up due to lack of metaphorical spoons.

I'm starting again, in a hesitant kind of way.

Comments

[cmcmck]

It's important not to force yourself to do these things.

Btw, I meant to ask- what name are we to know you by? As you know, Chiara is a blog name and I'm not sure if I've ever shared my big bad world name with you.