Although to the outside world I seem to have good hair, in my family I got the short stick.  My mom was Greek and Norwegian, so she had thick, wavy auburn hair.  My grandfather had a head of hair a young man would envy and my grandmother had a bright red thick mane.  SonBo got ALL the good hair genes and has to have his hair thinned.  Enter me with fine, dark, partially wavy/partially straight hair...can't use anything 'cause it can't take the weight.  

Before I started NS I had some pretty drastic emotional tragedies and a physical illness that caused me to lose my hair in handfuls.  At one point you could actually see my entire scalp through my hair when I stood in the sun.  Kind of a bad look for me, I must say.  I weathered it by not being too vain and wearing my strands in a pony tail for most of a year.  Somewhere in there I started NS.  My hair started it's regrowth phase and got really kinky curly at the ends causing what I like to call a mushroom cloud effect on my head.  No amount of product or brushing would tame it.  But I did notice that most of it grew in dark instead of grey and the best part was having darkness at the scalp again.

So, now, down 55 pounds, I have decent hair which was cut perfectly by my AWESOME hairdresser last night, but the texture is very different now.  I don't know if that is due to the change in diet or just the process of regrowing hair from scratch.  Hus-Bo has noticed that his hair is thinner and I think that is due to his extremely rapid weight loss (104.5 pounds in 6.5 months)...hopefully, it will thicken once he stabilizes.  Apparently, rapid weight loss can have an effect on hair growth because your body views it as traumatic.  Weird.

So, has anyone else noticed the hair thing?  Quite frankly, with our new hot bods, who's looking?  LOL!

Peace and joy ~ Shannon