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Tomorrow is the first day of baseball Spring Training! *Go SF Giants!*
And speaking of spring...the last time we had a completely rainless February in northern California was over 100 years ago, so we've broken a record - which is not good, because we're back in drought mode. Droughts, among other problems, fuel wildfires. Fingers crossed for rain in March and April. __________________ Last edited by *Beth*; Feb 21, 2020 at 11:13 AM.. |
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I think I might need to prepare my snacks ahead of time and then force myself to choose from an already portion controlled bin of options. |
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I like your portion controlled packaging idea! |
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I'm feeling nauseated. I really hope I'm not sick for the party tomorrow. Hubby will be really disappointed if i am
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Feeling pretty good today although I jacked up my neck somehow while I was sleeping last night. I went ahead and worked out pretty hard anyway. My muscles are in that weak and twitchy post exertion state, but it feels good because I did not make formal exercise a priority for the last three days or so. I zoomed around the house working and played a lot with my kids, but it isn't quite intense enough.
I've gained a few pounds over the last few months. I found myself stepping on the scale too much and becoming disappointed. I decided to put it away for a while and just focus on doing what I know leads to a more optimal state for me. I'll know what's up by looking in the mirror. I don't need the scale. Afternoon snacking is my challenge area I'm trying to tackle. My children have a rest time in the afternoon and I find that I most often reach for junk food at that time of day. I eat pretty great otherwise. I know I can tackle this habit. I've been paying attention to my patterns for a few weeks and have a few strategies of how to tackle all of the sneaky ways my mind will try to convince itself do stick to the usual plan. I recognize that for me at least there is a difference between how I eat when I am alone and when I am with others. It shouldn't matter whether or not that nobody's watching and I need to get to the root of that. I remember behaving like this as a child. I'm trying to rewind my mind to figure out what secret indulgence means to me and/or what it is trying to cover up. Good times! I figured admitting to it here is a solid first step. |
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Hi fern. A lot of my overeating of starchy snacks happens when I'm alone in the evening (hubby is in his office or asleep in bed). Sometimes if I have baked some dessert, I eat more than a serving during the day, when hubby is at work. When he's with me (awake) I'm pretty good. Actually, he's pretty good when I'm with him, too. He obviously eats plenty I'm not aware of. More than what I give him for breakfast or in his lunch bag.
I didn't do any formal exercise today, but did exercise a lot running around all over town doing errands. I made a point to not drive from spot to spot, but to park in one place and walk some distances to other stores, and then back. Then when I was home I had lots of unloading to do, and must have gone up and down the stairs to the second level 25 times. So I'm OK with today's physical activity. Tomorrow I'll try to do a little dancing, but I have my afternoon therapy and then French class in the evening. As usual, I've left the French studies to the last minute. I can get away with that now, since it's all review, but later down the line I will suffer consequences. I ate overnight oats with lowered sugar OJ and coffee for breakfast, a little tuna salad with tomatoes (no bread) for lunch, and had reduced fat Wheat Thins as a snack. Tonight I'll make Belgian Endives wrapped with a deli roasted ham slice in a low fat Swiss cheese sauce, along with some sugar snap peas and cauliflower. If I get hungry after that, I'll have one slice low carb/low cal toast with cinnamon and Truvia, and maybe some cantaloupe cubes. I did make a 6-inch lowered fat chocolate cheesecake sweetened with Swerve (to be 6 servings), but I won't have any until tomorrow. It needs to chill. Last edited by Anonymous46341; Feb 24, 2020 at 05:54 PM.. |
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went shopping tonight, got some healthy snack foods like hummus and carrots, radishes (but I cook those with my meat), bananas...some gluten free bread to go with my almond butter...
also, finally worked out properly again tonight. walked for 30minutes on the treadmill and did chest presses and lat pulldowns for some weight training. It does seem that the weight training is the most effective way of losing weight for me. I had taken a break for probably over a week now and had gained a pound in that time. So, gotta keep up the exercise for sure...so I can eat what I want! Since it's been awhile, I hope I can sleep tonight. The first time I did weights again after a looooong time, I couldn't sleep until 6am!! I guess we'll see! __________________ Celexa (Citalopram) 20mg Levothyroxine .75mg Liothyronine 5MCG (2x daily) Probiotics And a whole slew of vitamin and herbal supplements. |
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Since stopping my rexulti, I've pretty much stopped eating. I eat only once or twice a day. For example, two days ago, I ate 2 eggo waffles for breakfast @ 4am and then had a small amount of pasta with red sauce @ 3pm. It was like 1/3 of a standard bowl of pasta. Then yesterday, I ate 2 eggs for breakfast and half a grilled cheese for lunch. I was never an overeater and have never been overweight, but I guess I'm just eating a lot less. I don't know why. Prior to this, I'd eat breakfast, a morning snack, lunch, and an early afternoon snack. (Yeah, no dinner. Never ate that because I'd get horrible reflux.) Now it's like... I hardly eat. Just not hungry or interested in food anymore, I guess. In fact, eating is more of a hassle than anything else, and I can't be bothered to do it. I don't even want to weigh myself. I managed to pull my weight up to 110 at some point, but I'm sure it's back down again from not eating. But I'm also not that tall... I'm somewhere between 5'4" and 5'5". Still, I've always had problems with eating because of reflux and IBS... and gaining weight back is hard unless I want to get severe reflux pain and the shits. I *was* prescribed protonix for reflux at one point after having an endoscopy, but after hearing about Zantac causing cancer in people, I didn't want to touch it anymore. Then again, my aunt has the same problem as me where there is an irritation of the stomach spinchter from reflux and she needed surgery to fix it. I hope that doesn't happen to me. But I find that if I just eat less and eat healthier, I don't have to worry about reflux so much. I would normally eat like 1200-1400 cals a day on average, but nowadays, it's more like... 500 or less. |
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Hi bluebicycle. I don't think there is anything that wrong with eating only twice per day. I would suggest that if you do eat little that the content be fairly well-rounded or if not, do you take a multi-vitamin? I hope my suggestion doesn't sound preachy, but it is very important not to become deficient in various ways.
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I have to pick up my cogentin today anyways since my pharmacy didn't fill it yesterday, so I'll browse the vitamins aisle. I forgot to say... sometimes when I get too much reflux, I puke in my mouth and have to go spit it out in the toilet or whatever, then rise my mouth out with water. That's a big reason I try not to eat too much crappy food in one day. But I'm afraid of the cancer stuff that comes with a lot of reflux meds. |
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One need not buy 3 or more bottles of vitamins. One really good multi-vitamin can often be plenty. |
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Veggies are safe for me, even if I am not a huge fan of them. But I can eat spicy food and be okay, as long as I eat in moderation. I don't know why bread and crackers are worse than spicy foods, though. |
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Natural Remedies for Acid Reflux Eating twice a day is ok for some people, but generally speaking small amounts of food spread out into 6 meals or so is the recommendation for optimal digestive health. Just something to keep in mind. Eating only 500 calories a day is a red flag though and you can easily throw your body into an unhealthy level of ketosis with that approach. You don't have much of a fat reserve, so your body will feed elsewhere when the reserves dry up. In the past, I think it was over the summer or early fall, when you were mentally symptomatic the same eating pattern came about. You even got to the point where eating anything at all was incredibly painful. I'm concerned. |
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My husband has horrible reflux and had a close relative pass from reflux induced esophageal cancer. My husband takes Prilosec and it works for him, but I wish he'd be open to natural methods or controlling it better with diet choices. He prefers to rely on a pill. I don't push it since the main goal is to keep the reflux at bay. Eye on the prize! |
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@BirdDancer: Yeah, makes sense why you stopped Nexium. Nexium didn't help me whatsoever. Protonix helped when I was prescribed it (since I think it's Rx only), but the cancer stories scared me away since colon cancer runs in the family. (I know the med works on the stomach, but the intestines are connected to the stomach!) I do worry about the chronic cough and sphincter inflammation, though.
@fern46: Thanks for the link. Maybe I should try eating multiple meals a day to see if that'll help. I do remember eating being painful, though, yeah. I think Rexulti has really messed with my digestive system. I just hope that the cogentin I took doesn't worsen things, since apparently it can reduce hunger and affect your GI tract in a number of other ways. @giddykitty: yeah, I was tested for celiac disease when I was tested for chronic diarrhea, but it came back negative. They instead said I have IBS-D. I don't have so much of a diarrhea problem now, though, because meds constipate me. lol. But I used to take an antispasmodic a while back. |
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