Day Starts out Fun, I Just Hope It Stays that Way

Today's aerobics class was a lot of fun. It was a mix of zumba and step. I really enjoyed it, and it was a nice break from the hardcore "training-for-the-Olympics" stuff we have been doing. The regular instructor must have the week off. She gets a break and so do we. Ahhhh.

I feel better today without the prednisone. No leg cramps. No overly bloated feeling. I really should've lost weight. I have been tracking everything I ate for more than seven days now. I should have lost a pound or two. And on Monday I weighed five less than I do right now. WTF. So I hope stopping the prednisone helps. I'd really like to get back to my old self. 

I also stopped taking the soy isoflavones on the outside chance it could be affecting my thyroid. I'm still taking the resveratrol. I'm continuing the bio-identical hormones because they are really helping a lot of my menopausal symptoms. So we'll see what happens. 

I Gained Weight

Well, over the past two weeks I have gained four pounds. WTF. So the soy and resveratrol are a joke. I have been counting calories everyday. I should have lost weight. However, I did injure my knee and it is swollen, but I don't think it's four-pounds-worth-of-fluid swollen. That would be a heck of a knee. My legs do feel swollen. And I have been taking prednisone for allergies. So the weight gain is most likely due to the steroids. I did some reading and they not only cause fat gain, they cause fluid retention. Damn. I'm going to stop them and see what happens.