Anyone ready to ring in the new year...and lose weight/get fit?

[Renie'sPeeps]

Glad to hear from you guys

It's been rather quiet.

I watch Dr Oz when I get a chance to and just so happen to see his show yesterday. It was on tips to help you loose weight at different ages. I recorded it

I was amazed to find out that the button mushrooms I eat alot off actually are a weightloss stimulant

Dr Oz has helped me alot to understand the importances of high fiber. I have had to fight weight all my life and have lost many lbs by starving myself only to gain it back. The key here is starve<<< Now I eat lots of fiberous foods so hunger isn't an issue anymore and the weight is coming off.

I went for a check up back in Feb of this yr. I weighed 272lbs.. and my sugar level was 122 with BP of 127/80. Those numbers are awful I have never weighed this much...my sugar has always been 90 and my BP has always been in the range of 130-140/70. I am now down to 198 and my last sugar check a few mornings ago was 104. I have not had my BP checked since... soo don't know. My Cholesteral<sp was with in the safe range when averaged out between the good and bad... BUT the bad was higher than it was suppose to be.

I am hoping to see a big change for the better when I go back for my next check up.

Dr Oz explained WHY as women age their belly fat is harder to keep off. It all has to do with estrogen. Over time the ovaries stop making it but the body can find it in stored belly fat... thus your body makes you crave foods that will make the fat for the estrogen your ovaries lack. How do you like them apple....

Women also produce Testosterone . It too slowly decreases as we age...Soo if we want to keep those extra lbs from sneaking up on us... we either have to increase activities.... or eat 100 to 200 calories a day less.

Dr Oz had truly changed my life. I eat better, feel better, and look better.

 

[3goodeggs]

oesdog,
I was waiting to see that cake! I am glad you told me were it was. I hope Jess had a great birthday. I know you must be exhausted. Sorry about the migraines. I was getting such bad ones I returned to the neurologist and he reminded me that peanut butter was really a dried pea. I ate a lot of peanut butter. It was my go to food for quick protein. Bean and peas when dried convert some of their proteins to a tyramine, and that is what triggers migraines in some people. Dried pumpkin seed is also high on the list. Chick peas were a nibble food and in every salad and soup... so they got removed from my diet also. I should be so thin. but I am not.

Renee-
I am glad that information is helping you! I think I just need to get more active and quit worrying about my numbers.
I exercised high aerobic activity for two months-everyday, and cut out all meat and fats... I cut out all white food and sugar... i lost ten pounds and my blood test had EVERTHING- EVERYTHING elevated. poo.
I got all the crappy genes. Even the long forgotten great-great-grand-whose-it genes all settled in me.

Makes me want to go eat bacon covered in sugar. and slap my parents.
two colliding cells and they picked those two.

*edit*because spell check is a snotty devious creature who tries to embarrass me all the time.

 

[oesdog]

Hay guys
I am sooooo stressed out !!!!! Thanks for the tip about Peas and beans. I was eating a bit of that this last while as we grew them in the garden and I thought wow lovely to have fresh peas and beans now i am not so sure????

I have posted pics of the cake on an other thread. Then I saw I promised to show you on this one and thought oh I better do that too.
It was good.

I am soooo Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh right now just burst into tears for something really stupid. It is just sometimes folk are stupid and don;t help but add to upset for us.
Danny has been really bad with more fits especially at night. His meds have been increased to try to control these fits. Danny has a history of Seizures in status with heart failure so its kind of important that this control process happens. He now has to have meds 4 times a day. One of these times now falls during his adult care centre time. So I wrote to them and got all the facts about how we go about them giving his meds at the centre. I got all the info and went to his GP and got the proper packaging requested and the dosage written and then I sent it in with instructions to hide the tablet in his dinner because Danny wont take it otherwise.

Then I got a frantic phone call from the centre. We cannot give Danny his tablets - Why? Apparently I needed a signed statment from the Dr to say that they could give it to him in food??? So seething at the stupidity of the situation I went back to the GP who actually laughed at the rediculasness of the situation and signed it off there and then to be put into his dinner.

You may thing that would be that and things would settle down but NO - I just got another phone call from the centre. We have been told by the board we cannot give Danny his medication unless it is in liquid form???????????????? His tablets are given in the format discribed the other three times in the day. However apparently they are not allowed to hide it in his food because it is against human rights as it is deceptive????? He is a vulnerable adult with the mental age of 18months and he is partially sighted so probably can;t see the darn pills anyhow. Is it more his "human right" to have his medication witheld by some stupid rule which then puts him at risk of seizures in status and heart failure???? Is that more his right than taking his darn pills????????????????? It is not as if I can sit him down and expaline "now this pill does this for you and are you in agreement to take the thing???" He has a mental age of a baby!!!!! He doesn;t have any "right" to make any decition because he is deemed by LAW incapable due to his brain damage that is why he has care workers to make the "RIGHT" choices for him!!!!!!!

Now we are in a situation were he wouldn;t take soluble tablets anyhow( To my mind they are even more deceptive int hat he can;t see them at all!!!). So were now in the situation of ending up buying yogerts crushing his tablets into the yogurt and labling it please give ALL this to danny at break!!!! Basically smuggling his meds in and running the risk of another kid lifting his yogurt and eating his pills???? How is that fair!!!!!!! And thay call it CARE!!!! its a joke!!!

Rant over!

Oesdog

 

[3goodeggs]

sorry about how difficult it is to help your son. Every politician on this planet has loop holes for their "special needs" one would think they could write in something reasonable to help those who can not help themselves.

Also, FRESH beans and peas are fine!
I can not eat fresh English peas though... or snow peas... maybe fresh isn't okay.

keep a food log and see if there are any correlations between what you eat and the headaches. I notice the body pain is worse after certain foods too. Once the pain loop gets started, it is difficult to stop.

 

[vfem]

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No not yet Kassaundra. We are a bit busy at the moment. It would seem all the hospital stuff is upon us at once. I have been running to Drs and all sorts. Had an epilepsy review yeaterday with Danny his meds have been doubled because the seizures are not controled

. Bens are fine and he seems to be coping with his seizures so not an issue for him at least. Tomorrow I am taking DH for his long waited heart test. So that will doubtless be a day and a half. Then reviews for Dans care at his day centre and after that Bens reviews for his care needs and then we have Dans surgery on his mouth to fix his teeth he knocked the ends off in a night seizure a few weeks back. THat will take a while for him to recover from. So I don;t quite know which way is up right now.

The good thing is that little jess is having her first Birthday party on 20th August. Her Birthday is 18th but the party is on the Saterday so everyone can come. We have 20 adults!! Only 5 kids so I have been told???? Its being held here so we are also running round sorting the house and gardens for the guests. DH is bakeing a princess castle cake? We will see what it looks like when its done - I will try to post pics!
Here is the castel cake folks!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/59801_castle_cake_for_jess.jpg

I guess we are practically in September then and everyone is thinking of autumn. We are going away in October. It is a while away yet but gives us chance to sort stuff here and get ourselves organised. The good thing is its all booked and paid for so no worries there.
Your right in that its a needed break for us. We are trying to get away from here at least every 6 months for sanity sake. We simply cannot sleep here as Danny is up every night and needs changed etc every night were hoping the meds will help a bit but he has always been up in the nights so we basically try to get away fro this house. Sadly some times were got him looked after and just run away to a hotel overnight! We are the ones "running away from home now" Anyhow the holiday is on the horizon and I am looking foward to that. Though I guess it wasn;t that long ago we went to Spain. DH was so ill there though it wasnt as good a break as we would have liked.

Anyhow that is about that I guess.

Renie's Peeps - I know excess skin isn;t the best looking but honestly it is far healthier to be thinner than carry a lot of weight. Your body is going to be different there isn;t anything you can do to change over stretched skin except surgery to remove it. Please don;t give up though. You are thinking of what is under your skin like your heart!!!! Keep healthy that is more important and being able to get out and enjoy yourself again and doing things you wouldn;t have done when you were carrying all that weight. Keep thinking positive and hang in there !!!!!!!! -

Oesdog

Girl you are KILLING me!!! That is AWESOME!!!!

Sorry to be gone so long all the time, I have no given up though. I am sadly ILL again!

Turns out, I have an autoimmune disease, we know for sure I have psoriosis and that it probably stems from another autoimmune issue. I'm seeing a specialist soon though. Right now I have to get over this double ear infection & bronchitis first. This was supposed to be my families' 1 week vacation for the year. Instead, I've spent yet another week in bed on drugs seeing doctors!

Sometimes, I feel if this doesn't end my husband will be sick of me and leave. Its like all I need to help all the time, and I'm dysfunctional!

I've been taking really good care of myself though. Still doing yoga, walking when I can, working in the garden, eating healthy... ALL OF IT! I even take vitamins and watch my water intake. I'm at 145lbs now... 5 lbs until goal from 1 year ago (9/27/2010 is when I started my goal to loss 40 lbs).

I figured I would be healthier then ever this year... and unfortunately I'm sicker then one could explain, and it turns out to be from genetics and not how well I take care of myself? Who knew!

 

[oesdog]

Hi - IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE!!!!!!!

I have been away and gotten back and still no one has posted????????? Have you all given up???????
We have had a great time in Mallorca for 10 days. It was lovely to have the sunshine and also to have maid service and food made and of course NO washing up!!!!!
I am still 10.2 lbs so am not doing great with the weight loss. DH and I did do a lot of walking while we were away which was very good. I can honestly say I now have muscles on the backs of my legs and my Bum no longer has to try to catch my up everytime I move!

Its been really quite hard to get back onto stuff here and Danny was very bad with Fits while we were gone. I can say I was not looking foward to taking on his care needs again. He has been up 2/3 times a night and now only 48 hrs back and DH is curled up exhausted in his bed. It is very hard but I think were getting to the stage of having to think longterm residential care placement for Danny.

It was lovely to be a normal couple while away and do things others take for granted like going out for a walk, a drink at the bar or out for a show without worrying about care for Danny.

Now I see how much being away from the stress was good for DH and he loved walking in the sun and exploring caves etc and taking loads of pics. We both felt very much more healthier there. Now here its cold and grey and DH is once again exhausted drained and in his bed. Hard work really trying to manage DHs needs and Danny.

Anyhow this is the second time I typed this out as when I went to post the other disapeared.

I will post pics if anyone is out there??????? - IS ANYONE OUT THERE?????

Oesdog

 

[annaraven]

I agree Oesdog. I think that, from your descriptions, longterm residential care might be best. I know that's hard, but the effect on your family and you is hard as well.

I'm still here, but recovering from bruised ribs. I am going to be going back to the gym next week for the first time in a month and trying to get back into working out. I'm going to get a trainer to help make sure I don't overdo it. I found a great woman (in her 60s) trainer who take clients who "aren't in their 20s anymore" and who understands that we "don't heal as fast as we used to" so is really into good form and doing things to avoid injury.

 

[oesdog]

I can understand where your comming from. Younger folk seem to be able to just get out and run and do all sorts of stuff but I can;t do that. If I overdo things I am laid up for a week!!!! So that is why I started the bouncing!!!! When I was away I used the indoor pool a lot. Everyone else in the hotel seemed to like the outdoor pool but I prefer to hide! So indoor and lengths for excersize. I loved the walking while away but honestly when we got back and it was cold grey and raining I was not inspired and even DH said he near burst into tears this morning when we took the dogs to the beach and it was indeed horrible!

We are tired already so I am away to bed - its just 10pm here.

Anyhow I hope were not the only two die - hards to keep going on this thread???? I was hoping to get the year through and lose some more weight?

Oesdog - thanks for the thoughts on Danny, I am hoping we can start to go down the road of perminent care.

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm still here too, just been doing a ton of yard / garden work today. Got my main goals accomplished today. Made a 70' x 4' bed (well expanded it I actually did 2' x 70' today) transplanted wild onions, planted garlic bulbs (50), mowed part of the front yard and used the clipping for mulch for my new garlic bed. This spring it will be my herb, edibile flower, and salad bed.

Oesdog, I think your plans for permenant care for your son is an excellent idea, you can't take care of him if you are in such a spot as you have been, it sounds like the vacation gave you the breathing room you needed for perspective. Don't let the negative comments you are going to get about it bother or dissuade (sp) you, do what is best for you and your son.

I haven't lost or gained any weight lately, but my husband wants to go on a diet starting Nov 1. The same one I did and lost 33 lbs, so I will go on it w/ him b/c he won't do it on his own and he really needs to lose the belly weight for his health.

I haven't been as faithful w/ the yoga since the garden / yard have been in full swing just so hard to fit it all in.

Glad there are a few of us hanging in there.

Anna how did you bruise your ribs? A personal trainer is an excellent idea, my former work partner who was hugely overweight (like well over 300 lbs) and he lost over 100 lbs w/ one.

 

[annaraven]

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Well....
I had just finished a workout, and DH walked over to meet me halfway home from the gym with the dog. And the dog was so excited that I took his leash and started running with him. And I was too clumsy after my workout (I was really supposed to be doing my cool-down by walking home) that I tripped and fell onto my right side with my arm digging right into my ribs. Oops. I'm lucky I didn't break my arm. Or my darn fool neck.

That was a few weeks ago - it took a while to heal.