Rising After Relapse

It is that time again! I have had quite a bit of late breaking news in regards to my health and other things moving forward but first...the progression pics along with my current hair as of October 1, 2025.  Roll it!!!! Okay soooo a few things! 1.) I trimmed my hair. My ends were dry and damaged so I snipped about 1/4 to 1/2 inch. So if it doesn't look like much growth, that is why. I won't cut it again for another 2 or 3 months.  2.) Had a change in supplements. I ran out of my Vital Proteins Collagen in the 1st week of September and I didn't have enough money to buy more. I also ran out of my iron supplement and went without it for a few days before getting Olly brand chewable iron. I started off taking 1 but due to health reasons, I upped it to 2 tablets. I now take prenatal vitamins. No, not pregnant but I read prenatals helps with hair growth. I also now take my night time magnesium right before bed because I ...

Yay for September! You know, I was feeling pretty crappy in all of August because I was thinking my hair was never going to bounce back. That is...until I took my monthly picture and I actually see growth!!! You're going to be seeing a lot of these same progression pics lol I see real growth!!! I am pretty happy! There is no July pic because the one pic i took was in the bathroom mirror and realized too late that my bedroom is the perfect place to take the same progression pic every month. The things I have been consistently doing that i am confident that helped was continuing in taking my iron supplements, massaging my scalp, water consumption and watching what I eat...protein intake in particular. And of course, waiting it out. I feel slightly better. I can even tell i have hair growth when I am in the shower. When I wring my hair out, I can feel slightly more fullness. I still have a way to go though. Other things I have planned is...

This is what I keep telling myself. I wish so bad my hair can grow overnight and go back to the once voluminous and curly head of hair i once had. I look in the mirror daily and realize how i took my prime hair days for granted. Now, I can't even run my fingers through my hair. I'm practically just pulling at individual strands at this point. I hate it. My hair loss is at an all time low at this current phase. I trimmed my hair 2 months ago hoping it will help but...I just wish I can recover already. I read it can take 3-6 months until I can see noticeable growth after taking supplements. I started the process in July. I know I have to trust the process but even doing everything right like managing stress, massaging my scalp and getting enough vitamins and minerals it is still a struggle. I feel it it worse for a woman to go through hair loss this bad. I don't want to cut my hair pixie cut short but yeah. Women have an unnatural set of standards and hair is everything. It h...

One thing I was glad I did was taking pictures before and after I lost weight. Right when I thought I wasn't making any improvements, I just looked at my old pictures. I want to do the same with my hair. I am quite stressed as my once semi full head of hair a few months ago is at critical levels of thinning. That's when I decided to take some pictures on the first day every month. So here are the past 3 months. Glad there is at least some growth in the past 2 months. I got to hang in there and continue eating right.  All I am doing is taking an iron gummy in the morning. After breakfast is take 1 omega 3 pill and 1 biotin pill. I am supposed to take 2 of each but I am financially struggling so I am trying to stretch the product until I can buy more. In the afternoon I take 2 tsp of magnesium powder and 1 tbsp of collagen dissolved in a bottle of water and drink it and maybe take a nap. All of those are supposed to help with hair growth. I...

Sooo my health has been taking quite the tumble the past few months. If you followed me from my OG blog where I did daily entries about my weight loss journey where I ended up losing over 50 pounds in about 6 months, you saw that it was a tremendous success but it obviously wasn't perfect. It is not a mandatory read that old blog at all so feel free to skip it but the TL;DR of it all was that I lost that weight by eating keto in combination of some form of exercise 5 days a week and drinking 100 of ounces of water daily. I made a lot of hiccups along the way and I remember at times being so stressed about keeping up with not only with my routine to lose the actual weight but to keep up the daily posts in a timely manner in which I somehow was able to keep up about 90% of the time. Not that many people have read my blog. I did it mainly for me. Admittedly, it did cause a lot of stress. However, I am very glad I did all that diligent tracking of everything I did. It made...

After I lost over 50 pounds in 6 months, I noticed my haid rapidly shedding at an alarming rate. I've read about this and figured I was going through telogen effluvium which basically means when the body goes into shock or stress, it can cause an influx of hair loss. In my case, the shock to my system was said rapid weight loss. Not the most rapid change but still rapid, nonetheless. I tried to trust the process and continue on my merry way and wait it out for it to grow back. I was also going through actual stress towards the end of 2025 when I left an abusive relationship while also dealing with the rapid health decline of my mother. At the beginning of 2025, I did notice my hair shedding more than normal and once again, I figured it was the stress and shock to my system. Over 7 months later, my hair is at an all time critical level. I trimmed my hair twice hoping to speed up the growth. You know what I mean. But yeah.  However, there was a breakthrough.  Early July 2025 I w...