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Last night was kinda rough. Not sure why, but my leg pain came back. I thought i was doing pretty good with my constipation management yesterday. Something ive noticed since going AID (anti-inflammatory diet) is that managing my bowels has been more trying. Subjectively, it feels like my poop is larger, im more bloated,…

Oh and im also gonna try embracing the ADHD way of working. Ive spent several years trying to work more normal—one thing at a time, orderly, and with a schedule—and altho i dont regret the time ive spent developing those skills, my assessment on whether this way of life is an improvement... im unsure. So im taking a vacay…

838 new posts. Wow. :o Hello yall ive returned. This time to document my new forray into anti-inflammation eating. I read that switching to this diet takes time to have effects. At least two weeks, with changes happening as late as six months later. Im also wondering who else has/is eats this way, what their experience is.…

Oh whoops! I meant to type *point* 5 pounds a week! Oh god, im only 130#, five pounds a week would be terrible! xD A quarter to half a pound a week was what i was hoping to ride at, so yeah, im doing pretty good, but not for the reasons you think. xD

Im not sure if i will be hitting my diet goal this week. Its a long story but i think i have become b12 deficient thru diet (ran some rough numbers and i appear to have only been getting 25, maybe 33% of the RDA). I bought some fortified milk. I also discovered that the cheerios in the house have been fortified. Is this…

Whew, im glad i didnt have too many pages to read through. I feel like ive been MIA forever. I did DDR on Wednesday and im not dead! In fact im planning on going again tomorrow! Therapy at home has been getting easier! I still feel very weak, but im happy that therapy is much less of a pain than it used to. And it means im…

@Bex953172, sounds like youve thought of everything. They only things you havent mentioned are keeping active (when im cold i move around the house or exercise), drinking hot water, and keeping thr blinds / drapes closed at night (not sure if that one actually helps, but i imagine it does, and i always forget to do it).

No update for today lol. I wrote out a nice big thing, but when i was mass deleting some text, iOS decided it was gonna delete the whole post, and i couldnt hit the undo before MFP autosaved LOL. Whats the point of having a draft button with autosave if you cant restore a manually saved draft? So i guess that update is for…

Man i cant skip coffee! One and a half hours into my day and im already holding myself back from my chocolate stash lol.

Did you know 8 AM on a friday is too early for math? A half pound a week, not a month. So four times quicker. Thats... six months instead of two years? LOL.

Im trying to not obsess about weight loss. Im getting there. I know eventually i will autopilot naturally. Looking forward to it. I also realized that my average loss is around one half pound. Which makes sense, thats a good rate for my BMI. But that means my journey will be two years. Which is a lot longer than i figured.…

Woah. Got up early today. Surprised considering yesterday was my most active day of the week. I dont feel tired at all, but i feel i should be. I also thought i was sleep deprived. Last night i wasnt even sleepy at midnight, which is strange for me. I even had to get out of hubby's bed to let hik sleep. I think ididnt get…

I ended up going to indian tonight. It was a mixed experience. On one hand, me and hubby aired and worked through anxieties we had about eating out. On the other, my eyes (and eating) were bigger than my plate. I realize much after that i had binged, and much of my anxiety going out was my psyche battling my binge…

Me and hubby are going to get indian food tonight. I am currently not a huge fan but im thinking i didnt have the right perspective—that the center of an indian dinner is the starches, not the curries and chutneys—so im giving it another shot. I do really like idly, so im going to get the sambar idly set, which comes with…

Oops, forgot to post yesterday! Yesterday was my last weighin for the 5 pound challenge. My end weight was 130.1 pounds. Thats a total of 2.6 pounds, or roughly 0.65 pounds a week. Congrats to all who hit their goals! Last night i slept kinda funky again. Definitely clenching my teeth more. Maybe cause i was hungry before…

Successfully avoided eating after dinner last night. Dont know if thats what did it, but i slept great. Woke up at 5 something AM (over an hour earlier than typical) feeling refreshed and ready for the day. Also hit my point goal yersterday, with three points to make up before sunday morn. I managed to rest during the…

Slept bad last night. I think it was the big burrito bowl from Chipotle i ate last right before sleeping. A zero point bowl is a great dinner when youre low on points, but i cant ignore biology! The problem is sometimes i can get away with eating just before bed, and sometimes it even helps with falling asleep. But when…

Beautiful day today. The brief part of the year where noons are nice. Soon the sun will become a hostile lazer ray, baking everyone who dares enter its territory. Today im getting lunch at a Korean bento place called HŌM. Havent had them in ages, looking forward to it. Felt bad leaving my study partner today. But i felt…

Had a falafel wrap last night. A bit overkill for a snack, but i had tried the place last week and it was so delicious, so i was looking forward to eating one while waiting for the bus. But it was nowhere near as good as their chicken schwarma wrap, really greasy. So prolly the last time i eat there. Next time ill stash…

I soaked pinto beans in a mason jar in the fridge. Mistake! The gravity and jar caused the bottom beans to mold around each other forming a brick. Looked like one of those ancient walls made out of different sized & shaped rocks all fitted perfectly together. 🤣 Had to break it apart bit by bit. Next time ill soak them…

Yesterday was fun. I didnt get to go to the event in person (misread a requirement) so i watched via Twitch.tv. Not the same as in person, but was happy and grateful to be able to watch at all! And i got to watch some cool fighting game matches as well, including a game ive never watched before and is now my new favorite!…

I suddenly got sick of animal products (for the 376th time) and am eating vegan again. Today was day 2. I need to meal-prep more. I really like beans and unusual "grains" (stuff next to the dry beans that arent beans like hominy, quinoa, barley, etc) but they require soaking. I think i'm just gonna stick all my…

I have a sore spot on the tip of my tongue. Not sure if its an inflammed salivary gland, a bite wound, or something else. Quite annoying! I have almost all of my agenda finished. Its piled up again, and because of the colors i can see its piled up over the course of three days. But after i make this post, pay my therapist,…

Okay. At a PC. Agenda for today is up on the whiteboard. Whenever i'm at my PC its very awkward to transcribe the agenda so maybe next time i'm using my tablet i'll do it. Today is the first day of week 4 (i think) of my WW journey. As such, i have a new cache of weekly points. But i'm already negative. But not because i…

Whoops never did update. Ended up putting off all my tasks too. But i finally finished. I decided that crossing out all my tasks means i can wipe the board. That should prevent me from letting old tasks stay undone. I also have been writing tasks with different marker colors, a different one each day, so i can see how deep…

Weighed in today. Lost .6 pounds from last week. Thats a pretty good rate (if i actually keep it). I do wanna lose faster, so ill try not to dip into my weekly points instead of viewing them as a bonus stash. I hope im not being impatient. Ill post more in a bit. Time for brekkie.…

Agenda - laundry - empty bathroom trash - maintenance request: laundry machine - grocery shopping - take out trash - studying - change sheets - go thru starred mail Still have quite a bit of email to go thru, but ive made a dent (and most importantly—got started! The hardest part of email 😃).…

Been waking up a lot at nght lately. Not sure why. :/ Hopefully it passes. I didnt erase my agenda board yet so ill post it. Agenda for jan. 11 - take out recycling✔️ - study group✔️ - go to warhammer night (too tired)✖️ - wash jacket✔️ - shopping✔️ - wash sheets✔️ - vacuum bedroom✔️ Agenda so far for jan. 12 (today) -…

Oops. I was gonna post my agenda after writing it. But i ended up writing it throughout the day on my whiteboard. But it made me realize how well a whiteboard works for this purpose. Its handy, and it has a vertical limit, so its impossible to overload myself with tasks. And if i get everything done, i can erase the whole…

Good afternoon. Hubby is doing Weight Watchers now. I'm excited; dieting is always funner with someone. Especially when you're trying something new. He's making he famous enchliadas tonight (not actually famous, its just the one thing he really enjoys making). Havent done many chores yet today, been a slow morning, Hubby…