So my hair has started falling out. Not in clumps (thank God) but every time I run my fingers through it strands fall out. I have exceptionally long hair in the first place and so am used to it to some extent but this is making me crazy. To touch it, it feels like nothing is there. I don't think it looks too bad but I cringe every time I have to feel it. I am used to thick, crazy, messy hair and now I feel like I have lanky streaks of nothingness hanging limply from my head. This has only been going on for about a week but I am paraoid already. I've read loads of 'oh you won't go bald' and 'it stops after a while' messages on lighterlife forums but it doesn't really make me feel any better. I know two other women in my group are losing their hair too. Losing, thinning, whatever.
Never one to hang around, I have bought some 'Perfectil' from Boots. I don't know if you are allowed to take them while on lighterlife but I read on some forums that people were taking 'skin, hair and nails' tablets and these say that on them! (Oh my days, isn't it worrying what you'll believe on the internet?) I have taken one a day for two days so far. Obviously not seen any results yet. I will let you know.
It's not awful but it's not great either. I am seriously considering getting my hair cut. That's a big thing for me by the way, I have had very, very long hair for ages. I always thought of it as 'my thing' - like, I wasn't just 'the fat girl', I was 'the fat girl with really long hair'. I guess I don't need it any more the way I used to but I still liked my hair.
Come to think of it, how many lighterlife 'poster girls' have you seen with long hair? I can't think of any. Coincidence? Nah, I'm just scaremongering.
Like I say, I have the perfectil, I will keep you posted.
My mum is complaining about hair loss too. What a fucking joke. She isn't even on the programme!
So anyway, group on Tuesday. Here's how things stand:
Week 1 18st 11lb (start weight)
Week 2 5lb (18st 6lb)
Week 3 3lb (18st 3lb)
Week 4 3lb (18st)
Week 5 3lb (17st 11lb)
Week 6 5lb (17st 6lb)
Week 7 4lb (17st 2lb)
Week 8 5lb (16st 11lb)
Week 9 3lb (16st 8lb)
Week 10 4lb (16st 4lb)
Week 11 3lb (16st 1lb)
Week 12 5lb (15st 10lb)
Week 13 4lb (15st 6lb)
Week 14 2lb (15st 4lb)
Week 15 5lb (14st 13lb)
Week 16 2lb (14st 11lb)
Week 17 2lb (14st 9lb)
Week 18 4lb (14st 5lb)
Week 19 3lb (14st 2lb)
Week 20 4lb (13st 12lb) ONE POUND OFF 5ST!! W00T!
Remember when I was so happy that I had lost 4st? 5st is incredible! Still. Want. To. Be. Thinner.
Urgh, I just can't stop worrying about my hair. Don't people say worrying makes you lose hair anyway or something? Vicious circle.
I guess the things I need to bear in mind are:
1. It will not last.
2. I hung in there with the irregular periods and they went anyway. (Now that was rather alarming seeing as I hadn't had one for two years)
Update on the mum situation:
Yesterday she said she was going to start back on food packs today.
Today she ate a curry from the Chinese takeaway. Apparently she is going to start tomorrow. 'That's what you said yesterday' I told her 'you are full of hot air'.
