Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[merigayle]

I am just going to bail on my run today. Rainy and cold. My back hurts and I am cranky!!! I feel really fat and am up like 10lbs, though i hope it is preovulatory bloat, because nothing i do would account for 10lbs! HOLY CRAP! I had been up about 4-5lbs. I am just going to relish in my crankiness today and maybe take DD shopping. We have a lot of handmedowns but not a lot of pants for her since she refuses to wear jeans.

[diablita]

  meri

and we went through the 'no pants' phase this past summer

[Bolloxd]

Hope you get some stress relief meri.

I forced myself to run this morning ....only 2.5 miles but its a start.  Kids slept in this morning and now we're on the way to meet Diablita and see the Fresh Beat Band.  I'm expecting all of the kids to love it.  I'm planning on a drink beforehand.  . I've got my camera so hoping for pictures to share later.

[debbatx]

Did okay for breakfast and lunch, only to have DH suggest that we go to Mighty Fine for dinner. It's one of my favorite places, and absolutely delicious, but not exactly healthy.

http://mightyfineburgers.com/#/home

[merigayle]

DD will wear pants, just not jeans and all our hand me downs are high end jeans 

We went to Kohls and she got 4 or 5 pairs of pants, very cute, and i got three work tops. I am exhausted and just feel blah, not sure if it is the dreary weather or what. I can barely move off the couch. I do not think i am sick.

[triciaflower]

I am now CONVINCED wheat is my enemy. Not necessarily gluten. Just wheat.

 

I really like bread, breaded chicken, soups and chowders thickened with flour, chicken pot pie, pie, cookies, cake, etc etc. But when I eat it, my gut gets all bloaty and chubby. So goodbye cruel wheat. Again. 

[cgraz]

  Dang.

[merigayle]

I am now CONVINCED wheat is my enemy. Not necessarily gluten. Just wheat.

 

I really like bread, breaded chicken, soups and chowders thickened with flour, chicken pot pie, pie, cookies, cake, etc etc. But when I eat it, my gut gets all bloaty and chubby. So goodbye cruel wheat. Again.

and i just feel fat. I am no long up 10 pounds, but still up, too much. I hate my body right now. I do not eat crap, i do not eat a lot, it just sucks.

[merigayle]

yep, up about 8lbs still. Sigh. Eating tofu scramble for bfast because all my bfast ideas are too yummy (muffins, sweet breads) and even if they are low fat, etc, i still probably eat too much. I am definitely in a rut.

[debbatx]

I'm just effing bloated. I think it's the progesterone causing the worst of it. It had gone away and then suddenly started back up. I finally realized yesterday that it had gotten bad after they doubled my dose on Friday.  Good news is that even with the in-laws and all their bad, bad food, I'm only up about 2 pounds from the weight I'd be fine with maintaining, and 7 up from my pre-pregnancy weight. But my goddamn jeans don't fit right. 

[merigayle]

Oh yes, progeterone will do that!

[joan]

yep, up about 8lbs still. Sigh. Eating tofu scramble for bfast because all my bfast ideas are too yummy (muffins, sweet breads) and even if they are low fat, etc, i still probably eat too much. I am definitely in a rut.

I don't know how you do it. 

and i just feel fat. I am no long up 10 pounds, but still up, too much. I hate my body right now. I do not eat crap, i do not eat a lot, it just sucks.

I don't know how you do it.  If I ate what you eat, I'd weigh 10 lbs.  I've been trying to eat healthier, but I still want to eat junk, junk, and more junk. 

[debbatx]

Oh yes, progeterone will do that!

Yeah, it finally clicked yesterday that I'd been on the double dose for a few days and I looked at the side effects. INDEED, I do have bloating!!!  Seems a little better today, actually.

[merigayle]

I don't know how you do it. 
I don't know how you do it.  If I ate what you eat, I'd weigh 10 lbs.  I've been trying to eat healthier, but I still want to eat junk, junk, and more junk.

i know, right? this is the big injustice in the world and i had every stinkin blood test drawn earlier in the year. Everything under the sun, i swear.

But in the car today my neck hurt and i have a palpable little lump, probably a lymph node, but i am going to go all hypochondriac and call the dr if it is still there tomorrow. Thyroid cancer i am sure, LOL!!!

and to add to my crankiness, there is lice at DD's school, i have not checked her yet (just dropped her off) but hope to FSM that she does not have it. I ran back to school with a hat for her and lice repellant spray.

and time to hop on the TM.

[Courtney]

I am now CONVINCED wheat is my enemy. Not necessarily gluten. Just wheat.

 

I really like bread, breaded chicken, soups and chowders thickened with flour, chicken pot pie, pie, cookies, cake, etc etc. But when I eat it, my gut gets all bloaty and chubby. So goodbye cruel wheat. Again. 

I totally can empathize. 

I've had good luck using stuff like potatoes and corn starch to thicken stuff, and I've made some tasty stuff with oats & ground oat flour.  I made the worlds tastiest apple crips this weekend, and I have a TO DIE FOR oat cookie bar recpie that also has caramel and chocolate.  It's FUCKING AWESOME. 

In case I wasn't sure if gluten (or maybe just wheat, I guess I'm not 100% sure) was the problem, I accidentally ate it 3 times last week (did I tell y'all this already?), and I paid for it each time.  Jeez.  I went home feeling like shit, and did research and discovered that stuff I thought was ok at a restaurant, was actually not.  My bad, for not paying more attention and doing my homework before we got there.  But it was obvious that I'd eaten something with gluten/wheat.

[merigayle]

well, i had a surprisingly good run. i needed that!

[Courtney]

well, i had a surprisingly good run. i needed that!

I'm hoping to get one later today, in one form or another.  Treadmill or outside.  I'm just pissed because I forgot my headphones.     I like to watch stuff on my iPad when I run on the mill, but unless I can wrangle some up, that will not be happening. 

[Magic Microbe]

I want someone elses intestines. I am so fucking tired of diarrhea every single goddamned day...but I am 100%the healthy and it is totally normal if I try and talk to the dr. Wtf...it ain't normal!

[rocketgirl]

I want someone elses intestines. I am so fucking tired of diarrhea every single goddamned day...but I am 100%the healthy and it is totally normal if I try and talk to the dr. Wtf...it ain't normal!

See a different doctor.  Maybe it's just IBS and there are patterns you can manage.  Or maybe you have a food intolerance. 

In the end it may be "normal for you" (as in IBS) to do everyday.  But it's not normal in general, and it should be investigated.

[merigayle]

I want someone elses intestines. I am so fucking tired of diarrhea every single goddamned day...but I am 100%the healthy and it is totally normal if I try and talk to the dr. Wtf...it ain't normal!

yes see a different dr or get some acupuncture

it's like my seriously low BP, i have dizzy spells that make me almost keel over cause i see is starts, but no one seems to think it is an issue and commend me on how low it is. ftr, it is often 80/60 or 80/56, etc.