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Originally Posted by Juleske
First off, I like your new picture, you look radiant  |
Ah, thanks for the complement. That was me yesterday. Actually I'm tracking photos of my hair as I grow out the gray.
We've been trying to find the pain issues, most are related to the DDD in the neck. I've been tested for RA and that's totally negative, and I truly don't want anything like that. I do feel thing could be fybro-like, minor arthritis, etc. I was on Naproxen for a year, but it gave me high blood pressure, which was horrible, and I felt it in my head and whole body and at times felt like I would explode.
I rather take no pain meds than also take BP meds. And I was serioulsy self medicating with wine.
I'm doing tremendous on the deficit, I've never had a "metabolism" problem. My body is really craving the long easy/moderate cardio workout. I'm eating really well and only occasionally have had a sweet craving (when my carbs get a bit too low.)
Healing has been done since this past Spring when I got off all meds. Hormones, painpills, and alcohol were starting to kill me, and I felt old and horrible.
I think it all culminated in a "flare up" (when we thought it might be RA.) That was when I realized I was doing much of this to myself. People with true diseases like that are told to exercise, and I wasn't exercising. I asked my husband to force me back into the gym, and the day he did, I said that felt so good and I've kept up with it now for the past month.
When I'm focused, I'm very focused.
I think I'm starting to accept that to keep pain at bay that I have to exercise like a wuss. That's difficult as I love a muscular body (I know I have muscles hiding under my fat, I can feel them.) I use to draw photos of Arnold when I was in middle school, went to bodybuilding contests in college, lost my virginity to a bodybuilder
. I'm attracted to that physical type, for both men and women (not attracted to women like "that" though....
)
So thanks for your concerns, it's nice to know someone read my rant yesterday, and it was a rant. I truly was mad and sad at myself yesterday.
I feel better today, still motivated.
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Exercise for June 25
45 min AM walk
simple exercises (those bridges on the ball have killed me today
)
2 hour Country dancing PM
Cals Burned - 2917
Cals Consumed - 1748
Deficit - 1169