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When you're at this point, you have plenty of things to focus on to see if that 'click' will happen. PROBLEM: Eating too many calories OPTION 1: try drinking more water. You may actually be thirsty, but your feeling it as hunger. OPTION 2: seeing foods as 'good' and 'bad' sets you up for failure. The moment you have a…

I always gain about 5lbs during that time. And I'm ravenous 10 days prior to it, so I tend to gain a few pounds anyway. But since I recognize what my body is doing, I repeat 'I'm not actually hungry, it's because TOM is coming.' Then I try to find something to do to occupy my time.

Swimming! If you get tired, you can just lay back and let the water massage you. Plus, you're not putting pressure on your feet, or any of your joints even. My fibro doesn't bother me, but my mom has a really hard time with it. She'll garden for a day then have to rest for 2. But she never feels exhausted or sore after…

I'll switch over to tea and honey during weekdays and save my coffee for weekends. The benefits of honey (even though still sugary) doesn't have that crash I experience from sweet creamers.

I thought about using an antifungal cream, but didn't know if that would mess up anything when I FINALLY go to the doctors. Maybe I'll buy something just to see.

I've read that too, but when I asked my roommate, he just pointed out several round rashes on my lower back. So no tree.

I was just recently diagnosed hyper since other doctors said the nodules were just "fatty tumers", anxiety was a separate mental thing, and my weight loss was from "hyperactivity and overactive lifestyle". The mental aspect, I found yoga to be a great healthy way to combat stress, anxiety, and anger when I do it often.

This one is on my back.

Here's some. The big one is the size of a thumbnail.

I work a 13 hour a day job where I run around a warehouse the entire time and my calorie burns per day are between 4.2k - 4.5k depending on my morning workouts. You're either overestimating calories burned during your workouts, or underestimating just how much you're gonna have to be moving in a day.

When I order Chinese, I get steamed broccoli and rice with tofu.

With my super active job, I'm able to have breakfast in the morning, but then snack on fruit all day once at work. Then I have some protein after work, right before bed since I don't want a heavy meal sitting in my stomach while I sleep.

Tattoos. Although, I don't really have milestones anymore. I make fitness goals and I just feel fabulous when I can finally say 'I did it.'

I just found it much easier to get EAS protein powder. I simply add it to my oatmeal in the mornings and that's a quick 30g at breakfast.

Speaking of the Iditarod, k and I had planned to go up to the Cleveland museum of natural history tomorrow, and I was so excited to see Balto (famous sled dog). A prized fighter from Cleveland saw the mistreatment of the sled dogs, so he brought the team here to Cleveland where they stayed at the zoo. After Balto died, he…

CHALLENGE #3 This week I had green apples, green beans, peas, green cabbage, lettuce, spinach, green peppers....does a lime count too? Oh well, that's more than 4 anyway.

CHALLENGE #2: “SABAI (RELAX!) YOUR FEET!” Repeat I again chose Thailand (mainly because one of my favorite Kpop idols is from Thailand) to repeat the second challenge. I like learning about nonmedicinal methods of healing the body, and reflexology has always been an interest. This has furthered my research in finding what…

CHALLENGE #1: “MUAY THAI ANYONE?” Repeat I chose to repeat the Thailand #1 challenge since I love Muay Thai fighting and used to do it about 5 years ago.

Ugh! I hated logging my weight on the spreadsheet today! It's girly times and I ALWAYS gain about 5lbs of bloat. Oh well, it'll come back off for the next weighin.

I chose not to go the medicine route. My doctor wasn't too pleased with me to say the least. He said untreated hyperthyroidism will most likely end in heart failure since it's a constant adrenaline rush and your heart just can't handle it anymore. He kept pointing out that I already have mitral valve prolapse and…

I have hyperthyroidism where it's overactive. I'm super energetic, I can't tolerate temperatures, I'm so hungry all the time, my hands shake at times when it gets bad, and I have lumps on my neck (which doctors have said it could be a cause from the thyroid problem)

CHALLENGE 3 SPICE: ginger I chose ginger because I read somewhere it's supposed to help with a sick stomach. I always add cinnamon to my oatmeal since it's supposed to lower anxiety. And with anxiety, I often feel sick. So the cinnamon eases my stress while the ginger helped my stomach.

The weekly standings are really funny. There's only been two teams battling for first and second, two teams that have always been third and fourth, and two teams struggling at the bottom two spots.

I've actually given up alcohol since I'm a practicing Buddhist. It's very easy to turn down drinks when offered, and people don't pressure me to drink when I say it's due to my religion. I do miss sampling hard ciders on the porch in the summer, but I just sip Japanese sodas instead, while my roommate has his lagers.

I get up super early and begin exercising, then I walk with a coworker during our lunch, and when I go home I do my hula hoop while I read or watch tv for a few hours and then yoga right before bed. I only sleep about 3-4 hours a night even when I try to force myself to sleep in (like tonight. It's my rest day, but I was…

CHALLENGE 1 -I did the 10.49 mile indoor walk since the weather dropped and I've been working from sunup to sundown and didn't want to walk in the dark. I actually did all 10 miles on Monday. If it was last week, I got tons of miles in outside from walking with my coworker. CHALLENGE 3 -I gave up energy drinks for the…

After buckling down, eating perfectly, sticking to my exercise schedule, being more active, and staying focused, I've gained the appearance of my abs again! I should be rock solid by mid spring if I continue this endeavor.

Yay! Finally able to access the spreadsheet again. Deleted the app and downloaded and it works just fine. I've been stuck in 4th position on the power rank board for awhile now. So close to bumping #3 spot.

I can't get team 5 page to load up on the spreadsheet. Team 1 loads, when I switch to 5 it just says loading. Can someone put 302 minutes for me for Thursday?

I love Kimchi. That picture has me starving! I'm actually at the Chinese place waiting for my steamed broccoli and tofu right now.