Couch 160: The Squeaky Clean Couch!

I agree with ATAT and NP. I have gained weight over the last 3 years -stress over my person and eating what she ate and wanted (cake - she loved cakes). I am not a big believer in forbidding stuff. I have cut back on added sugar/sweets (not my big thing but I will eat if they are in the house) and making sure I add in a lot more vegetables and I am making sure I am getting more exercise , doing yoga/qigong and meditation every day sort of thing. I feel so much better when I do it. It takes as week or two for me to get into the swing but as long as I stick to it for that period - then it becomes just part of the day.
I use fitday too.

i'll have to check out fitday. thanks sd. i have been getting more adventurous with cooking veggies since a fellow couchie gave me some tips awhile back, just not cooking them often enough.

i do have a sweet tooth unfortunately....

Im on my 2nd bottle of water today, halfway thru it (32 oz bottle). I used an app to remind me for about a week until i got irritated with it. I was averaging 40 oz. But today i might finally crack the 2 bottle ceiling!

I lived in Phoenix for a year and have never been able to break the habit of constant water drinking I picked up there.

Yeah... drinking water's not an issue with me either... I have my mountain dew in the morning at work (hate coffee) but then I drink water the rest of the day. That's one thing I have going for me at least! Living in the desert you gotta drink your water!

I bought some organic chocolate chips, they got delivered today. Bittersweet so you cant just gobble them down.

Do you do that quarter plate carbs, quarter plate protein, half plate veg?

I assume they assume we get another plate for dessert, right?

I havent started my gnocchi diet yet. I just cooked and bagged ground turkey portions. My basic meals are oatmeal + yogurt + nuts + seeds + fruit, tuna + bread, and either cooked veg or a big salad. But sometimes i get bored / hungry and order out or eat peanut butter and stuff. My weight has been maintaining for about a year now i think, so at least im not gaining. Much.

Sometimes I am surprised to see others take me much more seriously than I take myself.

I've never heard of FitDay but I used to use My Fitness Pal. I should use something again.

I keep thinking I should join a gym. Except I've uniformly loathed all gyms I've tried out.

I have weights at home but........getting around to doing them is a whole other deal.

Have the opposite problem with water -- the sheer amount I drink of it seems to alarm people and they freely attribute some of my health issues to excess water consumption.

That is my question as well. I definitely did not ask. If he had said procedure, I might have thought that colonoscopy was a possibility. But I would prefer that, actually.

I might say that I was going to the Dr. I definitely do not talk about what will happen there. The only Dr appointments that I ever really talked about were with what I called my "hippy-granola" Dr. Please note that I said that lovingly-she was awesome and helped me get much more healthy after a long bout of Malaria. I tended to brag on her and want to share stuff she knew about integrative medicine.

I wish I could find a hippy granola doctor who practices integrative medicine. I'm signed up to watch Dr. Hyman's Broken Brain series that starts this week. I believe a lot of mental health/brain issues are related to the gut and cellular inflammation.

I don't know if this is helpful, art, but one thing I do to eat more healthily is to focus on making sure I eat enough fruits and vegetables. I don't think about what I don't want to eat - instead I just make sure to eat a salad every day, and a big bowl of berries, and whatever else. That way I just tend naturally to eat better and there's less room for less-healthy foods

I need to find a new job but keep failing at the interview stage. Why am I so unlikable?

I don't know what to do. I just want to crawl into a hole and never come out.

When i lived in one of our capital cities i just walked into jobs no problem. Since i have moved to a small rural town i have found it difficult because its not what you know its who you know. Also i tend to get jobs easier when i am manic as opposed to when i am depressed.

I am not keen on fruit and vegetables i only eat 3-4 kinds of fruit but maybe once every 3-4 months and i only eat potato pumpkin and peas because that is what i was raised on, i will eat a salad under sufference and if i am feeling lazy as you get these premade salads these days

R didn't show up for session. He may have forgotten as I've been on one session but we did also agree to a tuesday slot at the normal time.

You can improve interview skills. Do you feel you get very anxious? Could you email and ask for feedback?

(((Cake)))

I'm sorry...that ****ing sucks.

I don't do well at interviews either. Even internal ones where i work now, the interviewers know me and know I'm a good employee. I don't get it either! my work speaks for itself, y'know, so it's obviously something i do in interviews that scares them off. the only reason i got this new position at work that i started at the end of october is because the hiring manager didn't interview anyone - he knew all of us that applied well enough, and just picked the ones he wanted without interviewing any of us. i'm sorry it's difficult for you, too.

I'm sorry, Lemon. Did you try calling him?

I sent him a message after 15 mins, asking where he was. I haven't received a reply and I haven't got anything in my inbox either despite checking. I didn't imagine it. He asked if I wanted the afternoon or morning slot. I'm supposed to see him on thursday as well- but I really don't want to see him now. For me it was getting through the whole weekend telling myself I just had to make it till today.

EDIT:He just massaged saying he's expecting to see me at 4pm today. The time that we had our session last week. Last week I had a double pathology class I couldn't get out off and so subsequently asked him for an alternative time slot.

Glad you heard from him--sounds like it was just a misunderstanding on time then. Are you still able to see him at 4? If so, hope it goes OK...

well i hit a car today w a kid inside. they are okay (i think), though he said they both hit their heads. i feel so effing awful.

I'm sorry, Velcro...things happen. I'm sure it was an accident. Are you OK physically?

physically, yes. emotionally, no.