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Today, August 19th, 2025, I celebrate not only my 61st birthday but also three full years since I started tirzepatide on August 19th, 2022. Birthdays always bring a moment of reflection, but this one feels especially powerful. Three years ago, I was weighed down by more than just age and numbers on a scale. I was living with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, PCOS, insulin resistance, and hypoglycemia. My inflammation was sky high, my thyroid and blood pressure medications kept piling up, and I felt like my body was working against me no matter how hard I tried. Now, at 61, I’m standing in a completely different place. My thyroid medication has been cut down to a quarter of what it once was, my blood pressure meds reduced by half, and my Hashimoto’s antibodies slashed in half. The chronic inflammation that once ruled my days has eased in ways I never thought possible. My body feels resilient, my systems are calmer, and the fireflies of inflammation that once swarmed me, 116 of them, are gone. Ye...

 Today was one of those “my face looks like it’s storing acorns” kind of mornings. I woke up visibly swollen—my rings didn’t fit, and my face was rounder than usual. This is a familiar sign of a Hashimoto’s flare for me, and paired with some autonomic imbalance and lower energy, it pretty much confirmed what my body was already whispering. 📉  Glucose & Metabolic Data (Libre 3 CGM) Midday Glucose:  106 mg/dL → Stable No overnight lows or post-meal spikes ✅ Glucose remained in the green zone all day—even with elevated sugar intake. 🧠  Welltory + Apple Watch Vitals Stress / Energy / Health ⏰  12:42 PM:  60% / 41% / 100% ⏰  9:19 PM:  82% / 27% / 100% ⚠️  Evening stress surged to 82% while energy dropped to 27%  — definitely evidence of a system that stayed in overdrive all day. But health resilience held at 100%, showing my body is compensating well, just working hard to do it. 🔁  Nervous System Balance AM:  SNS 31 / PSNS 28...