A little bit more serious, now...
Oops, lost a couple of people off my friends' list with that last post. :)
On the other hand, I love how polite everyone is in the discussions, and I do appreciate it. Yesterday's post was pretty much off the cuff, based on some reading I've been doing lately, which in turn was triggered by my experience with the Lyrica.
( Oh, look, more diet rambling. )
On the other hand, I love how polite everyone is in the discussions, and I do appreciate it. Yesterday's post was pretty much off the cuff, based on some reading I've been doing lately, which in turn was triggered by my experience with the Lyrica.
( Oh, look, more diet rambling. )
THIS.
During college, I was the workout fiend who could eat anything and not gain. When I stopped eating anything and everything, and stuck to a healthy, relatively low-cal diet? I lost so much body fat so quickly that I stopped having a menstrual cycle. Yet I got compliments everywhere I went. I was thin, but I sure as hell wasn't healthy. Apparently, I looked HOT, even while I was inwardly full of panic over what was happening to my body-- was it irreversible? Was I ruining my health for the rest of my life? Was I seeing the beginning of the sort of obsessive behavior that leads women to anorexia?
The answer for me at the time was to find a balance-- I was working out too much, almost obsessively, and I was eating too little. I was following what some magazine article said about how many calories should be consumed per day by a woman of my age, height and weight-- nevermind that it didn't take my ridiculous levels of activity into account.
Thanks for yet another thoughtful and thought-provoking post.
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