My quiet journey to a glorious body
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Shinsplint
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lol Shin! Rant away! I like my bottled water too. I buy it by the gallons since the tap water in my city is so nasty.
I've started a c25k program too. I do each week twice just because I don't think I'm the stereotypical person they had in mind when making the program. It's going well so far and tomorrow is my last day of week 2, then I enter into week 3 which basically doubles my running time!
Shame we're on the opposite sides of the world. I'd love to participate in that marathon with you! Who knows, maybe I'll find another one in my area that is actually 5k instead of just 2.2 miles.
Anyway, you're doing fantastic. Great job at keeping in tune with your body and recognizing those patterns. That definitely helps a bit with the frustration levels.
Hey ymcachick, that's a great idea with the C25K! I didn't think of it but it sounds perfect! (I'm not that stereotypical person either, by a long shot!!). Thanks for visiting my diary; if you don't mind my asking, where do you live?
I'm assuming you mean the Bega... unless you're a Greek Australian and you were talking about the fetta! (They both have their charms for meNice choice of cheese for your lunch but i may be a little biasedas that is where i am originally from.
)Hopefully I will stick to my diet and exercise long enough to see a pattern with my body, too!
That would be interesting to see if our bodies are similar or if everyone's different... I think it's pretty cool that our bodies seem to have a sense of knowing what they're doing; makes me feel less like the driver of this crazy rollercoaster and more like a passenger.
Keep me posted!
Shinsplint
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Well, it's been 5 days since I last logged an entry with my food and exercise, it's late, I'm tired, so I will spare myself the bother of noting down everything exactly, and any readers the hassle of reading it.
A general run-down:
*In the last 5 days I have not eaten any biscuits
or sugar;
*Breakfast usually consisted of oats;
*2 days I skipped breakfast and lunch because of late starts and being absorbed in spring-cleaning old files and books;
*Lunch/dinner usually consisted of lentil soup or cauliflower and potato casserole (I have the recipe if anyone wants it! deeeelicious );
*Drank more water than I'm generally used to most days.
*Today: had some red wine for the first time in ages... and NO stomach problems! Yeah!!! I can rejoin civilisation again!!!
Exercise:
*Up to 35 upper ab crunches, 12 lower ab;
*Now doing 13 push-ups on knees without pain (but still including that damned elbow clicking);
*C25K low impact version now on week 4 day 1 - tonight I did a jog on the spot for 5 minutes and couldn't believe I wasn't dead at the end of it. It's been 4 hours and I still haven't had an aneurism so I MAY be in the clear!!!
*Last week was a very active week with walking and according to this pattern I've got going, this week should be easier, so I'm not going to walk that much. Done about 2 hours total for the week so far. Strange thing is I'm actually feeling more lethargic this week...
And finally, I have broken that bloody 85.5 kg plateau! It seemed cutting out bread and jam for a couple of days was the trick. I'll continue the restriction of refined carbs and see if the weight keeps coming off. I usually don't lose 1.5kg in 2 days so maybe I'm onto something!
Thank you to the people who've been encouraging me; I really needed it this week!
Well, I'm off to read some more diaries!
A general run-down:
*In the last 5 days I have not eaten any biscuits
or sugar;*Breakfast usually consisted of oats;
*2 days I skipped breakfast and lunch because of late starts and being absorbed in spring-cleaning old files and books;
*Lunch/dinner usually consisted of lentil soup or cauliflower and potato casserole (I have the recipe if anyone wants it! deeeelicious
);*Drank more water than I'm generally used to most days.
*Today: had some red wine for the first time in ages... and NO stomach problems! Yeah!!! I can rejoin civilisation again!!!
Exercise:
*Up to 35 upper ab crunches, 12 lower ab;
*Now doing 13 push-ups on knees without pain (but still including that damned elbow clicking);
*C25K low impact version now on week 4 day 1 - tonight I did a jog on the spot for 5 minutes and couldn't believe I wasn't dead at the end of it. It's been 4 hours and I still haven't had an aneurism so I MAY be in the clear!!!
*Last week was a very active week with walking and according to this pattern I've got going, this week should be easier, so I'm not going to walk that much. Done about 2 hours total for the week so far. Strange thing is I'm actually feeling more lethargic this week...
And finally, I have broken that bloody 85.5 kg plateau! It seemed cutting out bread and jam for a couple of days was the trick. I'll continue the restriction of refined carbs and see if the weight keeps coming off. I usually don't lose 1.5kg in 2 days so maybe I'm onto something!
Thank you to the people who've been encouraging me; I really needed it this week!
Well, I'm off to read some more diaries!
Shinsplint
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Thanks Tru! It's a real encouragement to read things like that!
It's a real encouragement to read things like that!
Shinsplint
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Well, Melbourne seems to be warming up and we're in for a clear, crisp and shiny day tomorrow... so no more weather excuses and time to get our booty out of bed for a good long walk, hrrr! 
Today's food:
*Breakfast: skipped (slept in - still unemployed );
*Lunch: 2 ham, cheese and tomato brevilles on dark rye bread;
*Snack: mandarine;
*Dinner: 2 fried pieces of Rockling fish, broccoli, some fried spuds.
Exercise:
*20 mins low impact C25K Week 4 Day 2 (much easier);
*35 upper and 13 lower ab crunches;
*14 push-ups.
The upper ab crunches I do by just lying on my back with bent knees and with hands behind my head rising up about halfway to my knees. The lower abs I work out by lifting my legs (bent) until my knees are pointing to the wall behind my head and slowly extending them outward toward the opposite wall until my soles are almost facing the floor (still bent at same angle). I hold for a fraction of a second and then lift back up. I can really feel the lower abs working with this technique. I used to use a cushioned gym bench which had one side slightly higher than the other, and I would position my legs over the higher end and just rise up and down off the cushion... I found with just a few reps, this worked out ALL my ab groups, upper, lower, side and even inside my abs, if that makes sense. It was a fantastic piece of equipment but someone took it to the tip one day when I wasn't home. *sniff* Sad day.
I'm thinking of visiting a sports shop one day soon, now that I have a car, and buying a mat to do my sit-ups and push-ups on... and maybe I'll try and find a bench while I'm at it! I miss that great ab workout!!!
I'm so happy this site exists now. I never would have chronicled my food and exercise otherwise, or had such great encouragement from people. I hope I can give back as much as people have given me!!
Today's food:
*Breakfast: skipped (slept in - still unemployed
);*Lunch: 2 ham, cheese and tomato brevilles on dark rye bread;
*Snack: mandarine;
*Dinner: 2 fried pieces of Rockling fish, broccoli, some fried spuds.
Exercise:
*20 mins low impact C25K Week 4 Day 2 (much easier);
*35 upper and 13 lower ab crunches;
*14 push-ups.
The upper ab crunches I do by just lying on my back with bent knees and with hands behind my head rising up about halfway to my knees. The lower abs I work out by lifting my legs (bent) until my knees are pointing to the wall behind my head and slowly extending them outward toward the opposite wall until my soles are almost facing the floor (still bent at same angle). I hold for a fraction of a second and then lift back up. I can really feel the lower abs working with this technique. I used to use a cushioned gym bench which had one side slightly higher than the other, and I would position my legs over the higher end and just rise up and down off the cushion... I found with just a few reps, this worked out ALL my ab groups, upper, lower, side and even inside my abs, if that makes sense. It was a fantastic piece of equipment but someone took it to the tip one day when I wasn't home. *sniff* Sad day.
I'm thinking of visiting a sports shop one day soon, now that I have a car, and buying a mat to do my sit-ups and push-ups on... and maybe I'll try and find a bench while I'm at it! I miss that great ab workout!!! I'm so happy this site exists now. I never would have chronicled my food and exercise otherwise, or had such great encouragement from people. I hope I can give back as much as people have given me!!
ymcachick
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Hey shin, you definitely give back the support and I for one really appreciate it. I'm american, so yeah, very far from melbourne lol.
I'm on day 2 of week 3 on the c25k, and it's much easier than last week! I do each week twice, because im so fat lol. I did really surprise myself though that I was able to run for 3 consecutive minutes. it floors me. A year ago, it wouldnt have been possible.
Keep up the great work, shin. And nice job cutting out the bread and jam for a couple of days. lol. that one is sooooooo hard!
I'm on day 2 of week 3 on the c25k, and it's much easier than last week! I do each week twice, because im so fat lol. I did really surprise myself though that I was able to run for 3 consecutive minutes. it floors me. A year ago, it wouldnt have been possible.
Keep up the great work, shin. And nice job cutting out the bread and jam for a couple of days. lol. that one is sooooooo hard!
Shinsplint
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Thanks ymcachick! Way to go on that 3 minutes! It's great isn't it? 
I would love to live in America. You guys seem to have a proper winter, for one. And winter is during Christmas, another - I think it would be lovely to have a cold Christmas one year; seems to fit better, I don't know... (Must be the idea of some poor dude wearing a Santa suit in 104 degree heat that drives home the incongruousness of it for me).
Hope you have a great week!
I would love to live in America. You guys seem to have a proper winter, for one. And winter is during Christmas, another - I think it would be lovely to have a cold Christmas one year; seems to fit better, I don't know... (Must be the idea of some poor dude wearing a Santa suit in 104 degree heat that drives home the incongruousness of it for me).
Hope you have a great week!
Shinsplint
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I've been a bad girl the last 5 days. Eating too much carb/sugar/choc and not exercising enough. Also went and made fruit muffins and thought I could get away with only using honey and filling them with bran/oats... but it seems I can't fool my body, which appears to have a high-tech refined wheat sensor hidden away somewhere that clocks up the most minute amounts of flour I eat and balloons the ol' stomach out proportionately.
Things I am not proud of this month:
*Being jobless and with no prospects for changing this situation soon;
*Putting on 1.5 kg in 2 days (and once it's here, it pretty much stays, like an old unpopular aunt that you can't just throw out when she comes to visit);
*Forgetting to pay off my credit card and racking up interest on a bill that I still don't have enough money to pay off this month;
*Having no life.
Things I am proud of this month:
*Getting back on track with my eating when I fell off the wagon (wheel);
*Having a spotless house and clean, mended clothes (good ol' boredom);
*Getting up to Week 5 Day 2 of C25K program;
*Getting through a week without a single sibling argument;
*(Oh come on, one more to outdo the cons...!).... hmmmm......
I know! Finally booking an ultrasound to see what's wrong with this stomach of mine... urrgghhhhh.....
Fingers crossed it won't be gallstones!
Things I am not proud of this month:
*Being jobless and with no prospects for changing this situation soon;
*Putting on 1.5 kg in 2 days (and once it's here, it pretty much stays, like an old unpopular aunt that you can't just throw out when she comes to visit);
*Forgetting to pay off my credit card and racking up interest on a bill that I still don't have enough money to pay off this month;
*Having no life.
Things I am proud of this month:
*Getting back on track with my eating when I fell off the wagon (wheel);
*Having a spotless house and clean, mended clothes (good ol' boredom);
*Getting up to Week 5 Day 2 of C25K program;
*Getting through a week without a single sibling argument;
*(Oh come on, one more to outdo the cons...!).... hmmmm......
I know! Finally booking an ultrasound to see what's wrong with this stomach of mine... urrgghhhhh.....
Fingers crossed it won't be gallstones!
Hey just passing through, but if you've put on 1.5 kg in 2 days you would have had to to have eaten around 8000 extra calories to store that much fat. Are you sure it isn't just water retention? I had the same thing happen to me after eating some popcorn and weighing in about 18 hours later.
Shinsplint
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Hey 7th (great name by the way! you must be a lucky one )
I think it was water weight because I weighed myself again yesterday and was down a kilo in 24 hours. I don't think my guts like flour, it takes a really long walk for the bloating to go down!!
A quick update:
Food-wise:
Eating 3 square (or round) meals a day, much too much toast, NO chocolate (take THAT fat!
), 2 muffins each day and a cooked dinner consisting of vegie casseroles, fried steak/fish, lentil soup or just more toast.
Exercise-wise:
Still doing the C25K (gay version - aka low impact jogging on the spot in room while watching the Tour de France), and now up to 2nd day of Week 6. I NEVER thought I could get this far so I'm stoked!
Still walking in mornings, although this week I've only walked one day, that was Wednesday, for 123 minutes, and I was totally alien legs at the end of it.
Up to 17 push-ups on knees (elbow still crunching away), 44 upper ab crunches and 14 lower ab crunches.
Fitness stats:
HR is 156 after 20 minutes of non-stop light jogging (was 180-190 in Week 1 of the program 3 weeks ago).
Weight Loss stats:
Lost 7.5kg (16.5 lbs) since 28 April.
Waist measurement has gone from 96cm at the end of April to 86cm this morning.
Measurements on 17/6/09:
*Bust: 105cm
*Waist: 90cm
*Hips: 122cm
Measurements this morning (24/7/09):
*Bust: 102cm
*Waist: 86cm
*Hips: 116.5cm
Most of the difference in clothing has been in the pants (thighs/butt) which I have not recorded, sadly. The most stubborn fat appears to be on the upper torso and upper back. (Flaps still flapping away...)
So far, I'm okay with my progress but I have a goal of 82kg for the end of this month and I really want to reach it.
On this line of thought, I've been penniless from no work and wondered if I should sell my bike which I never ride, to get some more cash and buy an iPod for doing the C25K etc. So I cleaned the bike up, took some photos and prepared to advertise it online but then everyone commented on how brand new and nice and unused it looked (with drink bottle, chain, helmet, everything) and I felt sorry for it and decided to give it another go on learning to ride this high, precarious monster which is so unlike the bikes I used to have in the past. I'm just a chicken and I told myself to snap out of it...! Because if I can start riding in the evenings I will start losing fat big-time and toning up the legs like nothing else! So I've decided to leave off the selling biz for another month, lose some more weight so I don't feel so heavy and off-balance, and then see if I can go out riding. There are some great bike tracks around here and walking only exposes me to 1/10th of them... not so with riding!! (Ah Le Tour de France, I love you! You inspire me monsieurs!!)
So all good and today is cold so naturally, I am over the moon!
May everybody have a smashing weekend! 
)I think it was water weight because I weighed myself again yesterday and was down a kilo in 24 hours. I don't think my guts like flour, it takes a really long walk for the bloating to go down!!
A quick update:
Food-wise:
Eating 3 square (or round) meals a day, much too much toast, NO chocolate (take THAT fat!
), 2 muffins each day and a cooked dinner consisting of vegie casseroles, fried steak/fish, lentil soup or just more toast.Exercise-wise:
Still doing the C25K (gay version - aka low impact jogging on the spot in room while watching the Tour de France), and now up to 2nd day of Week 6. I NEVER thought I could get this far so I'm stoked!
Still walking in mornings, although this week I've only walked one day, that was Wednesday, for 123 minutes, and I was totally alien legs at the end of it.
Up to 17 push-ups on knees (elbow still crunching away), 44 upper ab crunches and 14 lower ab crunches.
Fitness stats:
HR is 156 after 20 minutes of non-stop light jogging (was 180-190 in Week 1 of the program 3 weeks ago).
Weight Loss stats:
Lost 7.5kg (16.5 lbs) since 28 April.
Waist measurement has gone from 96cm at the end of April to 86cm this morning.
Measurements on 17/6/09:
*Bust: 105cm
*Waist: 90cm
*Hips: 122cm
Measurements this morning (24/7/09):
*Bust: 102cm
*Waist: 86cm
*Hips: 116.5cm
Most of the difference in clothing has been in the pants (thighs/butt) which I have not recorded, sadly. The most stubborn fat appears to be on the upper torso and upper back. (Flaps still flapping away...)
So far, I'm okay with my progress but I have a goal of 82kg for the end of this month and I really want to reach it.
On this line of thought, I've been penniless from no work and wondered if I should sell my bike which I never ride, to get some more cash and buy an iPod for doing the C25K etc. So I cleaned the bike up, took some photos and prepared to advertise it online but then everyone commented on how brand new and nice and unused it looked (with drink bottle, chain, helmet, everything) and I felt sorry for it and decided to give it another go on learning to ride this high, precarious monster which is so unlike the bikes I used to have in the past. I'm just a chicken and I told myself to snap out of it...! Because if I can start riding in the evenings I will start losing fat big-time and toning up the legs like nothing else! So I've decided to leave off the selling biz for another month, lose some more weight so I don't feel so heavy and off-balance, and then see if I can go out riding. There are some great bike tracks around here and walking only exposes me to 1/10th of them... not so with riding!! (Ah Le Tour de France, I love you! You inspire me monsieurs!!)
So all good and today is cold so naturally, I am over the moon!
May everybody have a smashing weekend!
I think you should get to a doctor and be tested for coeliac disease, I am a coeliac and anything with gluten in it, but paticularly wheat causes all sorts of problems including bloating and gut upsets among other problems and it is a disease more common than most people think with a lot of people going un diagnosed.
Shinsplint
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Thanks Tru - yeah, Coeliac's has crossed my mind and I got tested for it a year ago with a negative result. However, I suspect I have IBS (which is getting worse over time, unfortunately) from years of eating bad foods, and now my guts have thrown in the towel! 
I can no longer enjoy things like ice-cream, fast foods, capsicum, soft drinks, coffee ( ) and spicy food without getting symptoms ranging from stomach aches and gas to vomiting and diarrhoea. The way I see it, we either limit ourselves to healthy foods in the first half of our life by choice, or we limit ourselves to them in the second half by necessity. I'm doing the latter! Sometimes I really wish I had my present brain 15 years ago!
About the bloating though, I've noticed the same effect with chocolate, salty foods and refined carbs... I retain a lot of water, my belly goes all round and puffy and it takes half a day of eating very little and exercising to make the bloating go away. I can get away with eating moderate amounts of that very dark rye bread they sell for diabetics, but normal bread just wreaks havoc on my menstrual cycles (I have pcos symptoms and insulin intolerance).
Thanks for dropping by to check up on me; you're keeping me on my toes and accountable and I need that in these days of sitting at home not working!!!
I can no longer enjoy things like ice-cream, fast foods, capsicum, soft drinks, coffee ( ) and spicy food without getting symptoms ranging from stomach aches and gas to vomiting and diarrhoea. The way I see it, we either limit ourselves to healthy foods in the first half of our life by choice, or we limit ourselves to them in the second half by necessity. I'm doing the latter! Sometimes I really wish I had my present brain 15 years ago!About the bloating though, I've noticed the same effect with chocolate, salty foods and refined carbs... I retain a lot of water, my belly goes all round and puffy and it takes half a day of eating very little and exercising to make the bloating go away. I can get away with eating moderate amounts of that very dark rye bread they sell for diabetics, but normal bread just wreaks havoc on my menstrual cycles (I have pcos symptoms and insulin intolerance).
Thanks for dropping by to check up on me; you're keeping me on my toes and accountable and I need that in these days of sitting at home not working!!!
Shinsplint
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Another quick update:
*The Tour de France is over (as if I wouldn't mention that first!);
*Results of my ultrasound this Wednesday. If I don't have gall stones like my poor late grandfather, I will go in for a gastroscopy to check for ulcers.
*Been eating dark chocolate for 2 days (smack me please!);
*Today, I did a 25 minute jog non-stop (C25K Week 6 done!);
*Can now do an hour of aerobics without palpitating, haemorrhaging, infarcting or just bloody fainting;
*Up to 18 push-ups and 44 sit-ups;
*Yesterday.... I had one of those awful days at work where everyone seems to be trying to get on your nerves and treat you like crap. I came home clinging to my diet by a hair... I was so ready to give it all up. All I could do was pray to God to help me because I had no strength left, I felt like the most pathetic, helpless person on earth..... And frankly, now I know somebody up there is looking out for me. I was going to buy the same sort of junky food I used to live on while fat (Cadbury Breakaway chocolate wafer blocks and Cheddar Shapes were my staple)... I was going into the shop and I had almost let go of all restraint (MISSED that feeling of being utterly FREE to do as I liked!). I was thinking, 'I've had it! Nobody cares for me, the world's f****d, what am I fighting for? I can't see myself reaching any sort of goal, LOOK at me!' And in I went, a hound on the scent.... but in the back of my mind a little voice was saying, 'Maybe just let me find something halfway healthy and not totally junky, that I can still enjoy...?' And rather than scooping up a half dozen boxes of sugar-laden chocolates while breezing to the biscuit and ice-cream aisles, I found myself instead settling for a chocolate croissant from the bakery, deli style natural potato chips (only 3 ingredients so not as bad as the crackers) and 2 blocks of dark, bitter-type chocolate. And after eating most of these, I felt such a surge of energy that I couldn't sit still and got up and worked out for over 90 minutes... This was the best workout ever, it had me on a high for a good 3 hours afterwards and I couldn't get to bed from hyperactivity! And this morning, my weight was stable at 84.5 kg after the excess water was gone. So I felt a lot better that it wasn't a completely wasted day because things could have been so much worse, and I know that from my past. The point is, I don't feel I've given up. I feel like I'm still on my wagon heading for my goal. Whatever the hell happened to me yesterday, it didn't defeat me, though the bastard tried. Yay!
So it's all good and now excuse me while I go and play Vangelis' Titans really loud! We can do it! We will CONQUER!!!
*The Tour de France is over
(as if I wouldn't mention that first!);*Results of my ultrasound this Wednesday. If I don't have gall stones like my poor late grandfather, I will go in for a gastroscopy to check for ulcers.
*Been eating dark chocolate for 2 days (smack me please!);
*Today, I did a 25 minute jog non-stop (C25K Week 6 done!);
*Can now do an hour of aerobics without palpitating, haemorrhaging, infarcting or just bloody fainting;
*Up to 18 push-ups and 44 sit-ups;
*Yesterday.... I had one of those awful days at work where everyone seems to be trying to get on your nerves and treat you like crap. I came home clinging to my diet by a hair... I was so ready to give it all up. All I could do was pray to God to help me because I had no strength left, I felt like the most pathetic, helpless person on earth..... And frankly, now I know somebody up there is looking out for me. I was going to buy the same sort of junky food I used to live on while fat (Cadbury Breakaway chocolate wafer blocks and Cheddar Shapes were my staple)... I was going into the shop and I had almost let go of all restraint (MISSED that feeling of being utterly FREE to do as I liked!). I was thinking, 'I've had it! Nobody cares for me, the world's f****d, what am I fighting for? I can't see myself reaching any sort of goal, LOOK at me!' And in I went, a hound on the scent.... but in the back of my mind a little voice was saying, 'Maybe just let me find something halfway healthy and not totally junky, that I can still enjoy...?' And rather than scooping up a half dozen boxes of sugar-laden chocolates while breezing to the biscuit and ice-cream aisles, I found myself instead settling for a chocolate croissant from the bakery, deli style natural potato chips (only 3 ingredients so not as bad as the crackers) and 2 blocks of dark, bitter-type chocolate. And after eating most of these, I felt such a surge of energy that I couldn't sit still and got up and worked out for over 90 minutes... This was the best workout ever, it had me on a high for a good 3 hours afterwards and I couldn't get to bed from hyperactivity!
And this morning, my weight was stable at 84.5 kg after the excess water was gone. So I felt a lot better that it wasn't a completely wasted day because things could have been so much worse, and I know that from my past. The point is, I don't feel I've given up. I feel like I'm still on my wagon heading for my goal. Whatever the hell happened to me yesterday, it didn't defeat me, though the bastard tried. Yay! So it's all good and now excuse me while I go and play Vangelis' Titans really loud! We can do it! We will CONQUER!!!
Alta818
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Thanks Tru - yeah, Coeliac's has crossed my mind and I got tested for it a year ago with a negative result. However, I suspect I have IBS (which is getting worse over time, unfortunately) from years of eating bad foods, and now my guts have thrown in the towel!
About the bloating though, I've noticed the same effect with chocolate, salty foods and refined carbs... I retain a lot of water, my belly goes all round and puffy and it takes half a day of eating very little and exercising to make the bloating go away. I can get away with eating moderate amounts of that very dark rye bread they sell for diabetics, but normal bread just wreaks havoc on my menstrual cycles (I have pcos symptoms and insulin intolerance).
Thanks for dropping by to check up on me; you're keeping me on my toes and accountable and I need that in these days of sitting at home not working!!!
OMG
!!!......THAT IS ME!!!...everything you have just described is ME!!!!...I have been having all those same issues this past week as well, cause of all the crap I allowed. My IBS is the main reason for my lifestyle changes as well...and the main reason I try and prepare Raw Food Meals alot because the aftermath of horrible foods HURTS LIKE HELL!!!....
...I had forgot about the feelings this past week, and I allowed cheese, pizza, beer, ice cream, milk, meat like 2 weeks ago, and I WAS BUSTED!!...still this whole past week...HORRIBLE!!!...
...makes me sooooo grateful when my stomach is feeling great again!!!...
...I HOPE THAT YOUR TUMMY IS DOING GOOD TODAY!!! & MOST DAYS~~!! I feel ya woman!!
...Great for you for being aware of your boundaries... Makes for an AMAZING day at the end with great choices...and the results are well worth it as well...internal and external.!!!!
Shinsplint
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Hey Alta, I didn't know you had IBS... You're so disciplined for going raw! I have actually noticed that if I go on a health kick, then if I go back to junky foods, the effects are worse than before the health kick... So with each health kick, my diet becomes more restricted, argghhhh!
I feel you too, it's like a circus in the guts sometimes!
I have actually noticed that if I go on a health kick, then if I go back to junky foods, the effects are worse than before the health kick... So with each health kick, my diet becomes more restricted, argghhhh!I feel you too, it's like a circus in the guts sometimes!
Shinsplint
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I am so depressed tonight. I weighed myself this morning and was a pound heavier, despite the fact that I've been killing myself with exercise lately and watching my diet... So I measured my waist and it was 3cm FATTER!
All day I've been trying to figure it out.... In between looking for jobs and reading the depressing experiences of people who are at suicide point from the whole economic crisis situation. I can see my life unravelling before me... no job, let alone a job I like... no house of my own, stuck on this noisy highway all my life, watching everyone else get ahead while on unemployment benefits regretting the 7 years of university I'm still paying for... Forget new clothes, forget a nice holiday, forget meeting new friends, forget new hobbies, forget the life I thought would start now after 30, since I had none as a teenager. Then I flip on the news and learn that Australia is in for the worst summer in recorded history... hot, windy and with probably lots of bushfires... Fuck, and I hate the heat! It feels like it's all too much to cope with. I so badly wanted to buy chocolate today, albeit dark, but was so depressed I just came home. I am just really depressed. I feel like I'll never be happy again.
All day I've been trying to figure it out.... In between looking for jobs and reading the depressing experiences of people who are at suicide point from the whole economic crisis situation. I can see my life unravelling before me... no job, let alone a job I like... no house of my own, stuck on this noisy highway all my life, watching everyone else get ahead while on unemployment benefits regretting the 7 years of university I'm still paying for... Forget new clothes, forget a nice holiday, forget meeting new friends, forget new hobbies, forget the life I thought would start now after 30, since I had none as a teenager. Then I flip on the news and learn that Australia is in for the worst summer in recorded history... hot, windy and with probably lots of bushfires... Fuck, and I hate the heat! It feels like it's all too much to cope with. I so badly wanted to buy chocolate today, albeit dark, but was so depressed I just came home. I am just really depressed. I feel like I'll never be happy again.
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you have made new friends here and there are a lot of us still paying off HECS
Take the weather forcast with a pinch of salt, they are often wrong
your muscles may be retaining fluid after exercise to help with recovery it is a good thing and does go away (I am up 3 kg in 2 days and suffering a very bad case of doms but it will come right in the end)
HANG IN THERE
and there are a lot of us still paying off HECSTake the weather forcast with a pinch of salt, they are often wrong
your muscles may be retaining fluid after exercise to help with recovery
it is a good thing and does go away (I am up 3 kg in 2 days and suffering a very bad case of doms but it will come right in the end)HANG IN THERE
Shinsplint
New member
Thanks Tru! 
I'm feeling a lot better tonight. When I weighed myself this morning I was down 2 kilos from yesterday, so it must be what you said. I think being inside on the computer all day looking for jobs and not getting enough sun is causing the depression. I plan to get out tomorrow and just screw being a jobseeker for one day!
Hope your doms is better soon! I had it on my shoulders last week for about 3 days, not fun!
I'm feeling a lot better tonight. When I weighed myself this morning I was down 2 kilos from yesterday, so it must be what you said. I think being inside on the computer all day looking for jobs and not getting enough sun is causing the depression. I plan to get out tomorrow and just screw being a jobseeker for one day!
Hope your doms is better soon! I had it on my shoulders last week for about 3 days, not fun!