August 10, 2015

Visanne Day 1

sylvia Uncategorized awareness, emotions, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, fertility, fitness, goals, healthy eating, hormones, kayla itsines, motivation, pain, the pill, treatment, Visanne 1 Comment

Side note: I wrote this post on July 3rd but it mysteriously got deleted. I started again. Now it finally makes it’s way back onto my blog. However I am back-dating it so it is clear which date I started taking Visanne.

3.7.15

So today is Day 1 on Visanne. I’ve had my box of Visanne sitting in my bathroom draw since it was released on March the 3rd this year. Since our wildly successful campaign on change.org to have it released here in Australia, so many people have asked me how I’m going on it – assuming that I’d be taking it as soon as was made available. However, the campaign to have Visanne released in Australia & NZ (unfortunately it was not released in NZ sorry Kiwis!) was not just about me, nor was it ever designed to only benefit me. It was based on the principle of equal opportunity and that if there was a treatment option for Endo available overseas, we all deserve the opportunity to try it if we want. All of us. And that is what we achieved.

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April 28, 2015

Breaking bad habits. It’s my 1 year post-op anniversary. This is what I’ve learned.

sylvia Mind Body Spirit awareness, behaviour, CBT, emotions, endo, endo relapse, endoactive, endometriosis, goals, happiness, meaningful work, mind body spirit, mood, motivation, pain, positive psychology, purpose, self-awareness, training, work 2 Comments

This time a year ago I was lying in a hospital bed up to my ears in painkillers recovering from my second laparoscopy while all my friends were sinking beers and playing two up. I was looking forward to reaching this ANZAC weekend and my 1 year post-op anniversary fighting fit – the way I’ve felt for months. But unfortunately I’ve had a relapse and lately my health has not been great. Getting the flu coincided with an Endo flare up, both of which have stuck with me off and on for the past 4 weeks. (To me this is a real indicator of the link between Endo and the Immune System.)

15 days of antibiotics has trashed my gut and my liver. 5 weeks without training has had a major impact on my energy. My muscles feel like they’ve been stitched together with a rope of crunchy glass. My body has been knocked around and its protective layer which I’ve spent months building up has been chipped away at. But unlike the last time I had an Endo relapse, this time I have backup. I have tools in my belt to help my rebuild. Everything I’ve been taught, everything I’ve learned, read, diarised and practiced over the past 8 months is going to help me gradually get back to where I was before. But getting to that point wasn’t easy. It meant growing up, being real and breaking some bad habits.

Happy one year anniversary Me.

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October 17, 2014

Week 4 training

sylvia Mind Body Spirit egg freezing, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, fitness, goals, healthy eating, hormones, kayla itsines, mind body spirit, motivation, the pill, training 0 Comments

Sooo I’m up to Week 4 of @kayla_itsines training guide. Hard to tell if I look that different and no idea if I’ve lost weight because I don’t weigh myself. Chucked my scales out 2 years ago. Don’t really care about a number on a screen (anymore. I did when I was younger and it was dangerously addictive, damaging and incredibly consuming). But I feel so much stronger, healthier, energised and most amazingly – I seem to be in Endo pain remission.

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October 1, 2014

Syl chats with Julia Gillard

sylvia Uncategorized activism, advocacy, awareness, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, feminism, goals, julia gillard, mamamia, media, motivation 0 Comments

Today, Mum and I attended a special event at the Mamamia office. (Doing our best to rep EndoActive and our cause wherever we can) The Hon. Julia Gillard came in for a Q and A session about her recently released autobiography, ‘My Story’ and to answer questions from Mamamia readers. She was interviewed by Mamamia’s Editor in Chief – Jamila Rizvi, while a select few (about 40 staff and us) got to sit very close and watch. What a privilege. She spoke so candidly and honestly about a whole range of topics; her life before, during and after being Prime Minister, gender issues, education, policies & politics, that WONDERFUL misogyny speech (which I remember watching live during Question Time while I was interning at Mamamia, on the telly with a room full of women standing, cheering and applauding – it was beyond amazing) and a whole bunch of other stuff.

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September 26, 2014

Interview with Cosmo

sylvia Uncategorized activism, advocacy, awareness, change.org, cosmo, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, fitness, goals, hormones, media, training 0 Comments

HOLLER!! Today is a new day and it’s hard to believe I was a depressed cave woman unable to pry my white-knuckled fists from the corners of my doona for the past 2 days because today I feel fantastic! I was up bright and early, back on track with Kayla Itsine’s workout plan, hit the gym, read over my Endo fact notes, dressed up like I was Hittin’ da cleerb and at my meeting with the gorgeous Lauren from Cosmo by 11am.

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September 19, 2014

Workin’ On Ma Fitness

sylvia Uncategorized egg freezing, emotions, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, fitness, goals, healthy eating, hormones, mind body spirit, motivation, pain, the pill, training 0 Comments

Today I’m feeling amazing! It IS only 10am and I AM writing this in the bath tub drinking tea and listening to Eminem so how could I not feel good but still…

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September 18, 2014

Re-training My Body & Brain

sylvia Mind Body Spirit egg freezing, emotions, endo, endoactive, endometriosis, fertility, fitness, goals, healthy eating, hormones, mind body spirit, motivation, Tags: training, the pill 0 Comments

This week I’ve begun rigorous training of strengthening myself physically, mentally & emotionally. If I have to learn to live with a chronic disease, I cannot let Endo rule my life, otherwise I’ll spend the rest of my days in bed or on the couch. I want to toughen up (by no means be a martyr) and break the cycle I’ve fallen into where I do nothing even when my pain is at a 3 or 4 out of 10. I’m trying this new thing where I add more structure to my life and force myself to do things even when I’m in pain, rather than surrendering to it and crashing on the couch all the time.

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