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Gluten sensitivity+thyroid disease?
I'm recently embarking on an experimental lifestyle as advised by my orthopedic surgeon. I have autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's) and tend to run hypo if anything. I have had 4 total knee arthroscopies and severe osteoarthritis in both knees and starting in both hips...I am 35. My surgeon has been looking into the…
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Rallying your spouse
How do you approach you spouse to join the "healthy" bandwagon? Mine is just starting to get back into weight training, but REALLY needs to be more committed (no excuses not to go) and fix a lot in his nutrition (dinner is about the only thing that is good and that's b/c we have that together). I don't want to be his…
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Insanity with knee injury
Is there anyone out there with any joint issues that is currently doing or has completed the Insanity workout program? Really want to try it but I'm supre worried about my knee; torn ACL (unrepaired with 40% remaining tissue), 3x arthoscpies on same knee forn torn scar tissue and torn meniscus. I'm mostly worried about…
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sleep deprivation
My 3 year old is driving me crazy. She dreams very heavily (crying,litting up in bed, yelling, talking, no sleep walking...yet) and gets me up (wants nothing to do with daddy at night) on average 5x/night. I NEED a solid 7-8hrs of sleep or believe me you don't want to be around me. My weight loss has become non-existant…
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meal planning-how do you do it?
I have tried a number of "systems", bulletin boards, coding, and recipe searching to try to build a meal plan for my family from week to week with very little success. I can't seem to find a rythm to stick to. Any suggestions?
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SLOWED Zumba CALORIE BURN
I have a dilemma. I started doing Zumba dance classes a few months ago and started with 700-800 calorie burn/class. I've now increased the number of classes I do a week and have upped weights for my Zumba Toning classes. i'm now only averaging 500-600cals burned for the same classes. If there are any instructors out there,…
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taking measurements
How often do you take your measurements? I've only ever done this with a personal trainer and never on my own and , to me, they always seemed to be at random time intervals. Any suggestions?
