Bipolar Lifestyle

To the comment about "before we blame the body"..the brain is an organ, an organ that is part of the body not seperate from the body. My thought is that to seperate brain from body is a mistake psychiatry has been making for a very long time.

Very very good point!!

My BMI has been 21.8 or in the 21 range for the past 6 months, before then I was over weight and have reached obese more then once. My weight is never a factor, it all depends what mood I'm in.

How are you inactive? You seem to be to be pretty active. On the days off you could always exercise longer such as walking more or even going for a hike, the more exercise the better.

I have chronic pain and I found exercising to help relieve my symptoms. I have very bad endometriosis so I feel pain almost all the time, but after I started working out I noticed the pain is less severe so I can workout more and be more active like taking the stairs instead of the elvator. I found that I'm more sensitive to pain compared to when I wasn't bipolar. All the little things seem to hurt now and I'm trying to toughen up since it's quite the problem.

Again I know this is not a scientific paper, but more so for discussion -

Sitting too much?

Sure, a sedentary lifestyle is not unique to bipolar. But the large majority of Bipolar patients I know in "real life" online are all older overweight women. Im not keen to turn out the same way. Is there a reason relating to bipolar, even during stability for there to be many of us leading inactive lifestyles?

I think it depends on the person honestly. All the bipolar women that I've met were skinny little things, but that's because they focused on staying small. When a person doesn't care about appearance or weight it's easy for them to gain weight since a pound or two doesn't seem like much until 20 lbs later. Not many people like exercising because it's non obligated work and not everyone likes the idea of that. A lot of people don't have the time for a long workout due to many factors including work, school, kids, etc. A lot of people do not want to go to the gym because they are embarrassed or have no one to go with. So many factors influence people to maintain sedentary lives.

It is pretty individual... I've never been overweight in my life, to give you some perspective, I weighed 56kg when I gave birth 10 yrs ago and lost the birth weght 10 days later and have remained there ever since.

Just this year though, I thought "fk it" and gave up trying to pick up weight after nearly 15 years of trying.

And no, I don't want muscle mass gained in a gym, I tried it and didn't like it, plus the minute I can't stick to the original exercise schedule I lose the muscle instantly.

I'm very inactive, probably because there's no obvious pay out in becoming active, annnd because I honestly have not broken all nasty habits from "My Great Depression of 2011" which lasted 14 damn months...

I do realise tho that it is really unhealthy, I mean Christina cleans like a maniac and goes for regular walks with a constant pain level of atleast 8 and here I lie around all day reading and listening to music with no physical ailments to deter me... just me, I'm the deterrent.

Bodies need some type of activity to remain healthy, I know this and that's why I want to join Dance Fitness and Yoga.

Need to start job hunting soon so I can make that happen though.