what I look like now

[rm]

The fellow who I comissioned the art from took several snaps of me. For those of you who don't know me in person, you haven't seen what I look like since my celiac diagnosis or since I started fencing. You can't really see my amazing arms and thighs here, but I'm still thrilled to have these pretty casual random snaps. Everything is different now and it means a lot to be able to show you so:



wordsofastory joins me in the pic below. She's smiling. Does that make this more or less twisted if she's supposed to be dead or not?

Comments

[don-negro.livejournal.com]

Damn. You once referred to yourself as having a body that could stop traffic, and indeed you do. That said, the third one is my favorite. So precocious.

Did you find that you lost or gained weight after your ciliac diagnosis? My father and sister both gained weight as the amount of nutrition making it into their systems increased, but lost the bloating and so appeared slimmer and healthier.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

While I was really sick and waiting to be diagnosed, I lost of a lot of weight, probabyl about 20 lbs. And I've onyl gained about 15 of it back, somewhat to my surprise. As I assumed my inability to absorb nutrition properly would mean I would gain weight now. But everythign I've been putting on is muscle, since I started the intense physical activity about three months after going gluten-free.

That's really the big difference now -- I build muscle and no matter how much activity I did before, I never did.