
Mar 27, 2010, 04:43 AM
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Member Since: Mar 2010
Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania
Posts: 84
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Originally Posted by Rohag
Yes.
I honestly don't know. Here's what I'm currently trying and doing:
- I recognize managing depression with stress-intolerance, weight, and several other health issues is tricky business no matter what advice I receive. Weight by itself is not the greatest threat to my existence.
- I try to think in terms of overall health and don't use weight as a measure; I pay far more attention to the results of various blood tests and blood pressure readings.
- I'm s-l-o-w-l-y increasing the proportion of vegetables to other foods in my diet without counting calories. (Counting calories, carbs, etc. or trying to keep a food diary are for me self-sabotaging non-starters.)
- I'm complying with my drug regimen even though it's somewhat self-defeating in the weight and exercise departments.
- I'm trying to incorporate absorbing, pleasurable activities in my day that deaden or take my mind off appetite (depression greatly interferes with this).
- I'm hoping to restart regular exercise doing only a few minutes per day and working up to a decent level at my own pace (last year's attempt fizzled, and I'm not yet ready to begin again).
- Whenever my mood allows me to enjoy life, I try to enjoy it, because, in the long run, I'm dead no matter how healthy I am.
I wish you the very best, Amanda_1981, and not just with regard to weight-control. 
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Man do I agree with you!!
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