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

[annaraven]

Today, I took it pretty easy. Focused on getting water. I was pretty sore from yesterday's yardwork. (I'm such a wuss!) I did talk myself out of the 2nd caramel macchiato though! So that was my healthy choice today - only 1 caramel macchiato instead of 2. That counts, right?

 

[oesdog]

Hi

Sorry I haven;t been on much there has been lots of stuff going on here. So its been a bit stressfull.
In all of this I have felt incredibly drained and tired out. My diet has been practically none excistant because I have not felt or been able to prepare food. So Dh has been doing his bit. - Today I got lunch of Strawberry mosse, chocolate biscuite and a strawberry and chocolate muffin? ( Fed the muffin to the dogs when Dh wasn;t looking - does that count as a good diet choice today????) I hate to think what would happen to DH if I died????
Bless him he tires hard.

Today I have bad headaches again and this is really dibilitating. Along with my fibromyalga ( Athritis) Has come back big time so I am finding moving about very hard and painful. No excercise for me this week. Then on top of all that I just had my monthly and I am getting really heavy bleeds. - So anyhow I got some extra Vitamins and Iron to help me out a bit. I am up on my feet again today but I feel really washed out. If I am up for an hour I can hardly stand and have to sit or go lay down again. NOT AT ALL GOOD. I have so much on my mind needs done. The garden , veg bays need racked over and planted out and the chicken runs need sorted and the coops cleared out, and the dogs need a good long walk - But I have not got the energy and it is all very much more than I can cope with right now.

Oesdog

 

[3goodeggs]

I know how it feels to get overwhelmed and behind, and everything hurts. I wish you better days real soon!
I get to felling well, then over do it and suffer because of it. Make a list and prioritize so you won't over work trying to get everything accomplished at once.

 

[annaraven]

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Rest is also a good choice!

 

[Kassaundra]

oesdog,

sorry you are feeling so bad.

oesdog and anna, of course it counts if you choose NOT to eat something!!!!

Well I'm still attempting the great drowning of Kassaundra (water consumption) still struggling w/ it. I am not drinking diet drinks though, not sure if it is better since I'm not really replacing them w/ water like I should.

I went to the Dr today he cleared my hip and said it looked great, but he thinks the pain is referred from my lt lumbar spine, he saw something on the x-ray that wasn't clear so now I need to go to yet another Dr to get an MRI next week

But he did clear me to do yoga again. And I did learn something from the visit, that twisting motions really aggrivate lumbar spine issues, the yoga I've been doing has a lot of twisting in it, so I'll do the program, but skip the twisting part or at least lessen in dramatically.

Oh almost forgot my good health deed for the day I am going to push mow the front yard

 

[Kassaundra]

Well I have a bitter sweet post, I did in fact push mow the front yard, yeah me!!! (that was the sweet part) Now for the bitter part, the GF reciepe thread has tempted me over to the dark side today, one of the reciepes was for peanut butter cookies, that were not just GF, but completely flour free, so I made them and ate a few!

 

[3goodeggs]

Kassandra, I tried to post on that link so i could be on it and get the other posts, but my computer hung up and I lost it. Could you paste the link here for me? i might not cheat so badly if I know I can have something good eventually. Thanks!

I was having some awful lumbar pain earlier this week and could not get rid of it. I finally decided to switch back to plain old Bufferin and it went away. I guess I have over used the Motrin and it just doesn't work like it used to. Alive and Tylenol don't work either, so I figure it was something I would have to endure until it corrected itself.

I hope you all are feeling better soon. Every spring I over do it. 'Slow and steady' has never been one of my strong points.

 

[Kassaundra]

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I'm confused what link?

I think I figured out what you were refering to:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=474838


Are you trying to be GF? If so cold turkey is the only way, the first few weeks are evil, you will sell your first born for a yeast roll!!! literally!!!!!! But if you tough it out it will get better, and you will feel SO MUCH BETTER (at least if you are doing it for a gluten sensitivity) And there are some healthy and not so healthy alternatives now so if you get a real bad craving you can usually find something GF that will calm it, not like several years ago when there was nothing out there except the healthiest health food, you know the kind that is bark and sand.
And read labels they sneak it in some of the most unsuspecting things.

 

[3goodeggs]

yup. that was it! thanks! I was looking at those muffins and thinking ,'That looks like real food!" and my computer locked up. I knew it was GF, but did not have a title because I could not scroll or anything.

I went cold turkey many years ago. I felt great. lost weight. thought clearer, had more energy... and then fell off of the wheat wagon about five years ago and can't seem to get back on for very long before a muffin calls to me. I avoid the high gluten flours because I do get ill if I eat them. Pasta and bread I still avoid well. cookies and cakes and muffins are my weakness. so I sneak them. They are not on this weight loss mind set either. I don't eat in the closet or anything, but...

Maybe if I make a point out of knowing I can bake it and eat it, I will wait for it and enjoy it -and not sneak the evil stuff.

 

[annaraven]

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Read this and thought "why would cold turkey help with cravings for rolls? And would cold chicken work as well?"