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. )
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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 ( ... )
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I'm close to my heaviest right now but I've recently made the committment to get on the treadmill evey morning before work (and that means 5 am!). I may not be losing weight, but my cardio is already getting better - I no longer weeze going up a couple flights of steps! I'm working towards being the most healthy fat person I know! If I do lose weight as a side effect, bully for me!
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Me too. I skate on a roller derby league and since I started working out so intensely have... gained 40 pounds, over three years. Up to about 10 hours a week of very intense exercise, and the weight just keeps creeping on. So I don't know what I'm doing wrong; I don't eat much more, but I exercise fantastic amounts. And it makes me bigger. I have huge thigh muscles now, but I've put on fat around my waist and hips too. So who knows! Guess my body really wants it there?
Now I've tipped over into "obese" on that Metropolitan Whatsit chart, whereas before I always hovered in the "overweight" category.
But dangit, I can kick anyone's ass now!
I think I might start crosstraining so my arms get more beefy so I'm more intimidating, because all this ass-kicking smears my makeup. :)
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As of yesterday? What, as in yesterday she became your wife, or as in she was your wife until yesterday? Well, if the former, congrats! :)
Boo for the ankle-breaking. We have had three girls break legs in three years-- one the first year, two this year. One of the ones who broke her leg this year is back already, though-- it wasn't a severe fracture. The other one had to have surgery but she is almost cleared to be on skates again. The first was the worst, and she hasn't come back at all. :( (It was a spiral green tib/fib fracture and it took her months to be able to even walk at all.)
So that sounds like a bummer. I'm hoping I get a good long ride before I have to stop, and I hope it's something better coming along that makes me have to stop, as opposed to a calamity like Calamity's.
I will try to stay healthy, thank you!
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Have you heard what some crazy school boards/city governments are trying to do up here in Canada? Banning bottled water within their grounds. It's all in the name of being 'environmentally responsible' and push people to drink more tap water. Yeah, right. Guess what, everyone's just going to go out and purchase stuff other places, sigh (I do use tap water- I'm not going to pay for a bottle of water unless I actually need the container). Maybe if they'd put enough recycling bins around, it wouldn't be quite as much of an issue- I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to recycle, but no bin was available, or it was so tiny, it was packed full.
And I very much agree about not having one ideal for body shape. There are numerous celebrities who were 'large', but as soon as they lost weight and became "hot," I can't stand how they look- they look sick and
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So he carries a liter water bottle with him to school every day, refilled at home from the Brita water filter. When the bottle gets grungy he recycles it and buys another. If the school banned bringing bottled water, he'd bring in one of the insulated bottles we use when we go camping.
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I'm also a size 16 (although I was back down to a 14 before my Dad died and I got lazy with the eating). Honestly, I would not want to be much smaller than a 10. 12 would be about right. But to show you how weird sizes can be--my Mom wore a 10 most of her life; towards the end she was wearing 8s (more the sizes changing than her). Mom was 5'5 1/2" and never weighed much more than 125. I've got about 3 inches on her in height. When I was a size 12 (in university), I weighed 170. I now weigh a little under 200. That's a 75-lb weight difference, but I carry my weight so differently than she did that the clothing size difference is not nearly as much as might be expected.
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The only good thing about it was it made me learn to sew. I had to, or I would have had NOTHING to wear. And I still sew, although now it's period clothing. But as a large woman who's working on losing weight, I practically live in pants and t shirts. Not the prettiest things, but at least I have another choice than miniskirts.
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