Sorry I haven't been around...
lauralouwho84
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I am having a very odd health problem... I keep tipping over. I don't get dizzy or anything, I just lose my balance. I have only completely fallen once and that was at the bottom of the stairs I had just descended. I have been in physical therapy for about 3 weeks and they don't know what to do. I might have to start walking with assistance such as a cane or something. I hope not. Tomorrow morning I go and they are going to look in my ears for something that might explain the problem. I hope it gets explained so I can move on. But I have found that I can ride a stationary bike so that's what I am going to do. I am getting assistance with making sure I am eating very healthy. I have split my plate into halves. One half is salad and the other half contains the rest of the meal., It sure helps, I am feeling full at the end of the meal. I am hoping to make this a permanent change. I gave up for awhile because I was gaining weight and not losing so I started buying junk food and hiding it around the house. I am not going to let my health and weight run me forever. I am going to make positive, permanent changes! I am BACK!
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My Dear Pal...
Don't worry about the PERMANENT CHANGES...just eat well today. Keep yourself upright. Ride your bike. Live your life.
And then do it again tomorrow, as best you can.
Don't think of it as a battle of pounds and inches. Think of it as a balance of new days vs old days.
Hiding food, and comfort munching in despair sound like "old days" kindsa behaviours. Half salad, half other sensible choices and riding your bike counts as a "new day".
Log both. If only for your own edification and entertainment. Something to look back on to remind yourself of where you've been. Or maybe even to share with your medical advisors or trusted friends.
Don't commit to some New World Order and regime of change that you might not be ready for. You are only setting yourself up to fail, and then you are back in the moonlight digging up more buried snacks between the tears and negative self talk. And what's worse, you might fall down.
Focus on staying upright. Continue to attend your physiotherapy and do your homework exercises. And if your physiotherapist and your balance approve, keep on bikin'!
Drink water.
Log your exercise. Log your food. Log your pop--even the diet soda.
It doesn't matter how much or how little you do. Keep track.
It doesn't matter how much or how little you eat. Keep track.
Keep track for 30 days. Good days, bad days, old days, new days, red days, blue days, track them all. Faithfully. Accurately. Honestly.
Don't set a weight loss or fitness goal.
Set yourself a logging habit goal.
Collect your nutrition and exercise data for 30 uninterupted days.
This is my personal challenge to you, Dear Pal.
Don't worry about the walls or the forums. Just log your food and activity. All of it. For a month.
Eat well or badly, hydrate wisely or foolishly, behave as potato, slug, or bunny, but keep track. Then we will see...
Good logging and good luck.
Yer Pal,
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I think Mark just gave all the good advice out there, so all I will say is, big hugs, all the best and I hope they figure out why you are falling soon because that must make things difficult.
Also, to leave you with a funny image, sometimes like squirrels we hide foods and then forget where we put them, and months later find a bag of solid, icky-sticky candy hiding in the way back of a closet
This may or may not have happened to me very recently... 0 -
I agree with the advice too, making changes is not easy... Go hard but forgive yourself if you slip up!
When I was working on sobriety I was told that basically... Just because you slip up does not mean you have to be an addict (food in our case) you can slip up and go back to being good to yourself!
The past has been written and cannot be erased
Focus on today
Set goals for tomorrow!0
