Is it unpleasant for anyone to hear about my struggles to diet?

Jun 10, 2021, 03:38 AM

@Soupe du jour and all:

Yeah, i was an extremely active youngster as well. I competed in gymnastics and then did aerobics in my twenties. At 33 i was still doing cartwheels!
I also ran 10K races.

I think the meds take the stuffing out of us. I know if i did a cartwheel at this weight (just under 240) i would flatten my head!!!

Aint life grand...

Jane.

Jun 10, 2021, 05:55 AM

I have squeeeeeeeeeezed into my size 22 blue jeans for the first time since COVID started! VICTORY!!!!!

MuddyBoots · Jun 10, 2021, 06:06 AM

That's awesome! High five!!!!! Nice feeling, isn't it?

buddha1too · Jun 10, 2021, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour

I have observed here that there are several of us that were highly physically active in our youths. Buddha1too, BethRags, and I are just three I can easily list still around. Beth and I were ballet gals. I wonder if there was some link to bipolar disorder or not, when physical activity becomes intense.

I'd never considered this as a BD factor. In retrospect, however, my schedule, especially when I was in high school, was nuts! I played three sports at a high level, worked 20 hours a week during the school year (60 hour weeks in the summers), & still managed to handle my academic work...plus, I smoked a lot of weed & found time to chase the young women. That's an awful lot to handle! But I still managed to handle it, somehow. That sounds excessive to me. I'm not sure a "normie" could keep up a schedule like that.

@whatever2013...Congrats on the non-scale victory! That's huge...& you're getting less so!

*Beth* · Jun 10, 2021, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour

I have observed here that there are several of us that were highly physically active in our youths. Buddha1too, BethRags, and I are just three I can easily list still around. Beth and I were ballet gals. I wonder if there was some link to bipolar disorder or not, when physical activity becomes intense. I remember dancing more hours per week than I can remember. Constantly. I remember at clubs dancing five or six hours, nonstop, with no fatigue. But then it ended suddenly at points, in between sometimes revving back up again. But it has now been years since my last exercise high spike. Like Buddha wrote, I am now so slowed, physically.

Good point. I used to dance for hours, too - no fatigue. And that was after stretches, then running or cycling for miles. And it wasn't an eating disorder, it was just an IMMENSE and intense amount of tremendous energy. I look back and it seems to me that I was in florid hypomanic or manic states, and I was on only Celexa and Klonopin.

06:47 PM

I gained 0.1 pounds this week which is unsurprising since i binged yesterday since i felt rejected. I weigh-in every Sunday morning, before breakfast, naked, after my morning bowel movement as @Soupe du jour asked about in another thread.

I binged worse just now, still out of feeling rejected, but i have all week to make up for it and a fridge full of leafy greens, green grapes, radishes, zucchinis, mini-cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, etc. and cupboards full of beans and savory crushed tomatoes and red wine vinegar and a freezer full of frozen veg for when the fresh runs out as i only shop monthly.

I have some vegan faux cheese and vegan faux meats that i ordered online on the way too. You baste the vegan faux meats with BBQ sauce, oil and ROOT BEER -- so unexpected!!!!!

I can't wait to try them!!!!!

Hugs,

Jane.

bizi · Jun 13, 2021, 10:56 PM

jane are you vegan? I forgot if you mentioned it before?
bizi

Jun 14, 2021, 03:30 AM

@bizi and all:

I'm transitioning to vegan. It will probably take me ten years as you have to cook and my cooking skills are very rudimentary. It's a whole lifestyle change, like for example, you do not wear leather or eat marshmallows as they have animal bone marrow in them.

I'm about 80% vegetarian right now and always have been all my life, just my preference. I love cheese tho. It will be hard to give that up. I have some vegan faux cheese on the way. I HOPE I LIKE IT!!!!!

I am a "Flexitarian" right now and will be for a while.

Thanks for your interest, bizi, always happy to hear from you!!!!!

Hugs,

Jane.

bizi · Jun 14, 2021, 08:56 PM

Do you eat fish? salmon in particular is very healthy for you
good luck eating healthy I try to follow a healthy diet. we had organic hot dogs tonight for dinner. they were good with serachi mayo.extra calories, hubby has been dieting and has lost 20 pounds he has been dieting for the past 2 months. He has also started to exercise and fast walk the neighborhood twice a day, in this heat and humidity.
I am happy for him as I sit on this computer on my fat arse.
bizi

Jun 15, 2021, 02:46 AM

@bizi and all:

Oh bizi, you make me laugh! How i needed that! And you are not fat, you are lovely! I've adopted the new word "PHAT" which stands for "Pretty Hot And Thick." We can't wait for men to tell us we're pretty, so let's do it for each other!!!!!

Hugs,

Jane.

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