Postby Harriet » Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:09 pm
((Kathryn)), I know that you have encountered a lot of professionals/experts on varying areas of women's health recently. I hope some of them were people you could talk to about this, or, if they weren't, what if you called a nurse from your gyn or gen prac office and talked this out? My instinct is that, no, it is not a new normal and things will settle. I totally understand your comment about "hate being at war with my body".
NC SHE, cool to hear that you've been reclaiming your health. So mostly food/diet tweaking? OKay and Cowinkie have discussed carbs or the lack thereof here quite a bit. Both of them have had eye-opening success stories lately, as has Mr. OKay. LisaB from South Africa's eye-opening success has been through a bootcamp-style exercise program and she has the same calendar-event type goal as you and ds - a wedding in the family!
Nancy, I mentioned to dd that you biked 4 miles and she just shook her head! Of course, in fairness, she bikes outdoors and is not allowed to travel more than a quarter/third mile away, LOL! Anyway, she was impressed.
I had felt lots better with 1/2 dose Nyquil allowing good sleep for 2 nights, so tried going without it last night and went into a coughing fit, ouch, ouch, ouch.. Tried about a 1/3 dose and did sleep, but this am I have a stuffy head and I think the antihistamine part was not good for me. Like Kathryn, I feel at war with my body, because this bout has done nothing for my weight loss efforts, in fact sent me backward. I was "even" at the end of the month, but right now am backslidden. As you can imagine, my ddad's birthday party didn't help. I was extremely nervous trying to help him with every aspect of food, gifts, company, and by the time I paid attention to what I myself was doing, I had eaten both my serving and dd's leftover half-serving of ice cream and cake.
Ah, well. Harmony's probably right that I am gaining weight on stress, lol.
Today I'm trying to stay low on the sodium. And I'm researching. I've made a chart of potential frozen meals for me when I'm eating alone, and what their caloric/sodium ratio is. Today I have a tossed salad with avocado planned for lunch.