My Hair Is Falling Out?! Day In The Life, A Full Body Workout & A Big Hair Cut!

Good morning, good morning it is: can you see that 5 55 a.m? I am gon na do my morning, workout i'm gon na do full body weight because i'm only doing three workouts this week. So i'm doing a hip class yesterday, full body weight today and then i'll do a run tomorrow and i feel like that's a good balance of workouts for the week and then i'm busy for the rest of the week and can't train so yeah makeup on. I'M ready to rumble i've got my cardigan, i'm just about to go and meet some friends for breakfast. It'S very rare nowadays that you get like multiple friends together at the same time, because you know we're all adulting. All of our lives are very busy, but today got four friends meeting up for breakfast on a tuesday. What a luxury woman love that so we're gon na go meet up. Have some coffee have some breakfast there's gon na? Be me, there's gon na be stuff, there's gon na be tessa and her baby, orlando and there's gon na be ree rhiannon from retricion. So really looking forward to us all getting together and yes later on this video as you've seen in the title, i will be talking about my hair and my hair loss and that whole journey i'm in a little bit of a rush right now. But i will fill you in on it later so stay tuned. We had a lot to talk about so i've just put my hair back in a little clip and i've gone super casual with today's outfit. It'S quite warm outside, so i've just gone for a little cami from adenola, an old cardigan. This is a little under the stories bag and then some jeans from height of fashion and some fluffy birkenstocks, so yeah very chill very comfy, just heading out to meet some friends for breakfast, and i'm also going to take this house of cb dress to the dry. Cleaner because i wore it for bbq at the weekend, and it is dirty - and this is where i'm eating all right - there, g smith vegan cafe and if i'm not wrong, i spot a cheeky stuff elsewhere. On the right hand, side hey, we are at a spot called the g smith which, as i said, is vegan they've, got an amazing breakfast menu and look at all these juices, smoothies drinks, so much health blanket goodness to choose from you know. I love that it's gon na be a hard green with like no fruit. Isn'T it yeah you. She knows me oat milk, lattes to start us off, cheers babes, happy tuesday, love that, oh hello, oh my god, he just looks so much like clara right now. Tessa'S here are you babes? I think he needs some behind the scenes he's holding the jerk everybody's holding glasses, making the shot nice and clean thanks girls. So us people that hung out today we're a bit of a mix in terms of where we're at in our lives. So it's really interesting for steph and i who don't have kids to spend time with people like riya and tessa, who tessa's just had her second baby and ree, is just about to pop with her second baby and just hear about their experiences of motherhood and, like That phase of their lives - i don't know i just find it really interesting to kind of pick their brains so really really really lovely to catch up. Today and just yeah we were sat in the sunshine skies were blue food was delicious company was great conversation. Just absolutely flowed had the best time absolutely loved it. So now i'm just going to finish off this melty ooey gooey cookie. Oh my god. Okay, wait: wait, wait finish the vlog section first um and then i will go upstairs and i will talk to you guys about my hair, my hair situation. Oh my goodness, it's so hot that i've got on my shorts first time wearing denim shorts in the uk. This year, so summer is coming anyway, i thought i would just talk to you by the way, i'm just drinking a juice from juice smith. I asked her to bring me a green juice and i said surprise me: she just bought me plain celery juice, i'm like plain celery juice, smells like a badger's, so yum. Let'S have a chat about my hair because there's a lot going on guys. There'S a lot going on, so i don't wan na. I don't wan na tell you too much today, because i'm still waiting for confirmation on exactly what has caused what's happening. But let me just tell you a brief overview. Basically, my hair has been falling out falling out since maybe february january february this year and it's been falling out from the root, so it hasn't been in my specific patches like alopecia, it's been more thinning of just like my hair falling out evenly all over my Head and therefore my hair is much thinner and also my hair in general has become weaker and it's just snapping and breaking, and i have like whole patches at the back back of my head, where my hair is just snapped off halfway down. So my hair is basically a hot mess and i've been to see a trichologist. Who is a hair doctor about this and her hypothesis that we're doing tests to confirm is that it is due to my periods so as you've. Seen in my previous video about my heavy periods, i have a condition called menarager, which leads to excessively heavy periods and i've been anemic in the past before my periods went crazy. My periods went mental last november, but before that i've had heavy periods. Like my whole adult life, so i am used to having heavy periods and i've been on and off anemic quite a few times since then. But then my periods obviously went crazy in november and i've actually not had my iron levels tested since then. But i am assuming that i probably am more anemic than ever before, because my periods are crazier than ever before and heavier than ever before, so we're doing some tests tomorrow to confirm that i am anemic, and that is her hypothesis as to what has caused my Hair to fall out and damage and break and become as weak and thin as it currently is. So that's the hypothesis until now not yet confirmed, but that is my trichologist's current hypothesis we're going to be testing tomorrow with some blood tests. There probably is also some contribution from the way i've been treating my hair. I have to say that i'm treating it better than i did like two years ago. I used to use this metal. Have i still got it down here, a metal curling tong like this, that i would use to curl my hair, and i would do that like two three days a week. Whereas recently all i've been doing is heatless curls like two days a week and then maybe once a week once every 10 days using my dyson air wrap. So i kind of feel like i'm not using as much intense heat on my hair as i used to. But still hair, that's being put under tension, hair that's been put under heat and styling. That does damage it, so i've definitely contributed to the damage to my hair myself, but the psychologist says that she thinks that the vast majority of it is probably due to some sort of deficiency. So tomorrow i have a full spectrum blood test, including like a full anemia profile, also getting my thyroid checked, which i did have checked recently, but i'm just gon na get it double checked and then i'm also getting a full nutrient profile as well to hopefully confirm. What'S going on and yeah, it's been a bit of a struggle guys emotionally. I have probably cried more about my hair falling out than i ever cried about my bowel surgery and almost dying. I swear - and i know that sounds silly, but when it came to that massive health crisis of my bowel and having to recover from that, i just was like i'm just going to be strong and resilient. I'M just going to get through this, but for some reason my hair falling out is much more emotional for me and i think that's just because it's like a big part of my identity. I have cried every day for like the past six days, so i've been crying a lot about it at the moment, but i feel like the good thing is that i have my psychologist, i'm having a plan of action, and i don't want to tell you too Much more until, like she's, given me a full diagnosis and we have a full treatment plan, but there's some basic steps that i've taken already and those are getting a big haircut today. Getting like an inch and a half cut off my hair, which i'm going to do after i've spoken to you now, just to kind of get off the dead ends and replenish my hair make it feel thicker, which psychologically would be good for me and yes, give Me some general health care tips like the fact that i'm always wearing my hair and these little clips at the moment. I'M not styling it in any way, whether that's like heatless curls or heat curls, i'm just not really using any heat on my hair right now. I'M aiming to just use heatless curls when i have photo shoots, so i need to get like imagery and video shot, but the rest of the time i'm trying to just leave my hair natural but yeah. I just wanted to let you guys know my hair is falling out and i think it's stopped now, because because when i went to the trichologist, she was saying that there's loads of new growth coming up underneath my hair, which she thinks, means that my shedding probably Happened like in january february march time and now the shedding's most likely coming to an end and it's all the regrowth starting to come through, which is positive. I do have lots of new hairs growing through underneath, which is really exciting, and i really just hope that they continue growing come on little hairs. You can make it through. You can survive so i am still in the early phases of this hair journey, but i wanted to take you guys along from the very beginning. Just so you can. I don't know if you're having something similar, you can join me on this journey, because i know how challenging it is. When your hair starts to fall out because yeah your hair's, a big part of your identity, it can be really upsetting as a woman or a man to have your hair fall out and to have your hair thin and to feel like a piece of you is Just disappearing before your eyes, that's really hard and it can really affect your confidence. So i just need to know that you're not alone, so many women and so many men and so many human beings experience the same thing and if you can please go and seek professional help. I feel so much better since having my initial consultation with the trichologist, because at least i just feel like i'm doing something i feel like i'm doing something about it. It'S happening, i'm working on it. It'S just frustrating that my periods, i feel like have just come into my life and gone crazy and caused all of these issues so obviously causing the menager and then most likely being the cause of all these hair issues. I'M just like damn as menstruating humans. We just have a lot of sh to deal with and it's not always fun. You know anyway. Let me take my hair down and i'll show you what my hair looks like before i get my hair cut, so i've just got a mirror here, so i'm just gon na brush through my hair, i mean, like am always says, like no. Your hair doesn't look too bad babe but like to me when i look at it i'm like well, is it all gone? Basically, i had a photo shoot. Last thing that made me go and get help was maybe like two weeks ago i had a photo shoot and the photographer was showing me the images on the back of the camera. While we were shooting - and i just thought to myself - where is my hair? Where has my hair gone and i came home and i cried and that's when i thought i'd have to get help, i need to stop pretending that nothing's happening my hair's literally falling out. So here we are. This is my hair. Before i go and get my hair cut, i need to leave in 10 minutes, so i'm going to get myself ready. I'M gon na hit the road i'm gon na go, get my hair cut and yeah. Hopefully this just makes me feel so much better. Here we go clay, hair salon, alrighty, i am home, my hair is dried and i thought i could show you the finished product. It already feels psychologically so much better, just having the ends off and just having like a blunt cut at the end. I know it's technically the same thickness, but it just feels just feels thicker. You know so absolutely love it. I don't know how much i got cut off exactly, but i got yeah, maybe an inch and a half or so and as you can see, i also got these sort of wispy fungi bits on both sides. Can you see that so i got some sort of. I don't know if you would call these curtain bangs, but i got some sort of bangy bits added on either side, because i figured i'm gon na be wearing my hair in low buns. A lot so it'd be quite nice to have these sorts of things hanging down and foaming my face neither side, because i'm gon na be wearing my hair in sort of gentle low, minimal, minimal, tightness, hairstyles a lot. So these little curtainy bits should be nice and yeah. I'M just really really happy with how it turned out when i feel really good about it, and now it is 2 30 and it's 25 degrees outside. Ah, i really want to be outside right now, but i have so much work to do and i've achieved nothing so far today when it comes to work, so i am going to sit down with my laptop. I actually might see if i can work in the garden on my laptop. Let'S see, let's see if i can do that, if not i'll just sit in here and look at the sunshine but yeah the rest of today is just going to be work time. All right, i just looked at my watch and it told me that it's 26 degrees outside, so i cannot keep working indoors. I have to go outside and i have to take an ice cream with me. So i'm gon na take my laptop i'm gon na sit on the patio and do my emails in the sunshine, because it's just too warm for me to be inside this house right now. I tell you hello, hello. How are you doing good evening? My girl good evening she's, like no don't touch me, don't touch me mommy, i'm gon na run away from you don't touch me mother, come on just one stroke. No, no! No! Let'S see the real yeah nice. It might be a bit kinky now because it's been the clip been kicking a bit coco the kinky eye. What do you think i am my hair's kinky yeah? It'S good! You think it looks good. Doesn'T it it's really nice healthy, a bit of volume volume? How does one wear a hair clip like saying you've seen the haircut ansley's got in his hair now just bend over? That'S what she said. No i've come back here. Anthony show him your cat clip. Oh okay, there we go it's my cup clip! You see that it's got a little cafe on it. Little bella face on there, this one's better, that's bella, nice bella, you look beautiful, oh thank you. Dinner is served. We have got some richmond sausages. Four, each we've got loads of roasted sweet potato fries. Underneath here we also have some asparagus and some broccoli and i'm gon na slather, on top some ham and vegan mayo and some hand tomato ketchup, and that is a dreamy dinner right there. What do you think banging excuse me bella be beep. Thank you. I want to show you guys our irises, which have just come into bloom and, as you know, if you do have irises in your garden, they don't bloom for long. So, let's just take a moment. Look at these! Oh, my goodness. They literally just started blooming. Yesterday, literally yesterday, we're not gon na have them for long. They look absolutely stunning. I mean this flower guys this flower, what i've got to saturate that soil, i'm listening to core van dyke's advice, babe. Why are you lying on the garden table in the sky? You'Re? Just looking at the sky clouds can i come live next to you, yeah hi, that's actually moving quite fast. Aren'T they then you wonder like if you keep going keep going out yeah. What'S next yeah space, mars, saturn venus, uranus, yogurt, granola, raspberries, blueberries, goodness massive mug of tea and a bit of youtube aunt's, just showing bella his swing? Isn'T it impressive bella? Why are you, why are you stood there being creepy leave you're making me feel awkward, it's kind of much the time when i need to edit the vlog edit, the vlog edit, the vlog end the vlog. So let me just pull my hair back, because i'm gon na take makeup off. I'M gon na take off my slap and i'm gon na go to bed retainers in glasses on funky pajamas on it's time for bed. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. If you did, please give it a cheeky thumbs up. Please leave a comment. Please subscribe and i'll see you guys in the next one have an amazing day.