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Feeling a tiny bit less stressed, but I have my sport psychology tutorial tomorrow which is the subject I need the text book for. I cooked up some mutton chops (visible fat trimmed off) which is better for me than angry snacking.
Roast beef is in the air fryer and should be cooked shortly.
Despite the crap day my macros and calories are ok and no allergens consumed
I put my comfrey seeds in the fridge this arvo and have taken my antibiotics and pain killers for this evening, which will hopefully make me not really care that D has smoke throughout the kitchen after attempting to make honey popcorn his way. At least he used an old pot to burn the monstrosity it became. He had the hide to call the burnt honey popcorn sludge an "Acquired Taste"
Roast beef is in the air fryer and should be cooked shortly.
Despite the crap day my macros and calories are ok and no allergens consumed
I put my comfrey seeds in the fridge this arvo and have taken my antibiotics and pain killers for this evening, which will hopefully make me not really care that D has smoke throughout the kitchen after attempting to make honey popcorn his way. At least he used an old pot to burn the monstrosity it became. He had the hide to call the burnt honey popcorn sludge an "Acquired Taste"
alligatorob
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Good that you are feeling better, is the tick bite thing better?
I looked at the link to QTT, hope that is not what you have! The exact tick fever I had was never determined, it was not lyme disease, I went to a tick fever expert, he told me that about 35 different tick fevers had been identified in Florida but that mine was not one of those. He said that was not unusual, there are many different and as yet unidentified bacteria that can cause the thing. He said they all had similarities to malaria. A bacteria takes up residence in your blood stream and sometimes different organs. In the end they just had to try different antibiotics on mine until something worked, it was a long and painful trial and error thing. I was a couple of months before feeling better. It is important to be sure you are cured, longer term problems are possible if you are not. The tick expert kept me on the antibiotic for over a month after it appeared cured, he said that was necessary to be sure. I hope yours goes easier.
I looked at the link to QTT, hope that is not what you have! The exact tick fever I had was never determined, it was not lyme disease, I went to a tick fever expert, he told me that about 35 different tick fevers had been identified in Florida but that mine was not one of those. He said that was not unusual, there are many different and as yet unidentified bacteria that can cause the thing. He said they all had similarities to malaria. A bacteria takes up residence in your blood stream and sometimes different organs. In the end they just had to try different antibiotics on mine until something worked, it was a long and painful trial and error thing. I was a couple of months before feeling better. It is important to be sure you are cured, longer term problems are possible if you are not. The tick expert kept me on the antibiotic for over a month after it appeared cured, he said that was necessary to be sure. I hope yours goes easier.
The antibiotic I am on is targeted for QTT and a couple of others, a friends son recently spent 12 months fighting QTT as it is common in this area apparently so it is common practice to start treatment for it immediately, my friends son did not start treatment until later on, doing what I would normally do for ticks and ignore it. This is the first time I have ever reacted badly to a tick bite and therefore the only time I have needed medical treatment for one.
The bite area is still very swollen and painful but my neck overall is less swollen than it was and at least my breathing was unaffected, the Doctor at the hospital commented that it was the most impressive amount of swelling he had ever seen from a tick bite.
The doc described the swelling as significant in the report to my GP who will keep a close eye on how I am doing and I can call my GP on his personal mobile phone if needed.
The bite area is still very swollen and painful but my neck overall is less swollen than it was and at least my breathing was unaffected, the Doctor at the hospital commented that it was the most impressive amount of swelling he had ever seen from a tick bite.
The doc described the swelling as significant in the report to my GP who will keep a close eye on how I am doing and I can call my GP on his personal mobile phone if needed.
alligatorob
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Sounds like you are getting the best medical treatment possible. Hopefully starting it so quickly will keep it short and not too sever. Just be sure you stay on the antibiotics long enough to be sure it is really cured. You can find a lot of stories on the internet about folks who did not, and it comes back.
Feeling a lot better this morning, I will continue with the antibiotics for as long as the Doc wants me to, I have not needed the strong pain killers this morning and will only take as needed, I should be able to control the pain with Nurofen now rather than opioids which I prefer to keep to a minimum.
It has been a busy morning doing activities with little miss (watering plants in pots, reading books and monster dress-ups) finally got breakfast on for myself (it is now lunch time) I have a wood smoked breakfast bacon chop in the pan cooking, it is over 1 cm thick and something D thought I would enjoy considering my diet options are very limited.
I have been flat out with study, so not posting much.
I just completed my first sports psychology assessment with an 80% mark
as far as this relates to diet, part of what we looked at is how rewards can erode motivation to achieve diet success.
If you have intrinsic motivation to succeed in your diet, external rewards reduce intrinsic motivation as can following a diet which strictly controls what you eat rather than providing information and guidelines to allow you to maintain autonomy.
External rewards are of benefit only to those who have no intrinsic motivation to succeed.
The social aspect of motivation to succeed is also part of the equation and where this forum fits into helping members achieve their goals.
I just completed my first sports psychology assessment with an 80% mark
as far as this relates to diet, part of what we looked at is how rewards can erode motivation to achieve diet success.
If you have intrinsic motivation to succeed in your diet, external rewards reduce intrinsic motivation as can following a diet which strictly controls what you eat rather than providing information and guidelines to allow you to maintain autonomy.
External rewards are of benefit only to those who have no intrinsic motivation to succeed.
The social aspect of motivation to succeed is also part of the equation and where this forum fits into helping members achieve their goals.
Jenniquest
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So intrinsic motivation would be something like: "I want to improve my health" or "I want to run faster," "I want to get stronger"
whereas external rewards would be "I want to fit in a size 5 jeans," "I want to look good at the reunion," "I want to make my ex regret he was ever born."
sound right?
whereas external rewards would be "I want to fit in a size 5 jeans," "I want to look good at the reunion," "I want to make my ex regret he was ever born."
sound right?
yep that is about right for the internal but the external reward might be "my partner will buy me a pair of size 5 jeans" or "I can have 5 cookies if I do X workout".
Internal motivation is doing something that will bring pleasure or satisfaction from doing or completing the activity eg. I am loosing weight for the satisfaction of being healthier. External motivation is when there is an external reward eg. I am loosing weight because somebody will give me a reward.
If you have no intrinsic motivation then extrinsic is what you are left with.
If you have intrinsic motivation and somebody offer an extrinsic reward the intrinsic will erode so that when the external reward is stopped you will have less motivation to continue than what you had before you began receiving rewards.
Over justification theory Why Does the Overjustification Effect Reduce Intrinsic Motivation?