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Post by **AntiM** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:14 pm

Yeah, I can't have a dollop of tomato in any form without pain, but I can eat three or four french fries safely. Potatoes just aren't as mean to my joints. If I indulged, then yes, it would be bad.

Ginger does rock if you have inflammation issues.

Sodium benzoate/potassium benzoate gives me flu-like symptoms. Fatigue, muscle aches, stuffy head, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes in the neck. Like I'm coming down with a bad cold, but it never quite happens. The doc was going to treat me for chronic fatigue when I figured it out. He thought I was a hypochondriac, but I've tested it with diet sodas. Not my imagination. Diet sodas can be evil, I buy the new truvia sweetened ones or drink full sugar cokes.

I harp on it a lot because I think more folks are affected by it than anyone realizes.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:23 pm

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The doctor wanted to cut on me (corpa tunnel bull shit).. It was diet soda affecting the joint in my hand/thumb..

Monkeypoo · Post by **Monkeypoo** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:04 pm

Hmmm... Lately (the past 3 weeks) my left elbow has been hurtin' something fierce. I thought maybe it's because it's cold out and maybe I'm getting arthritus. But it feels like a tendon, not a joint. I don't drink sodas, but the past 3 weeks I have been drinking those sugarfree monster drinks, red bulls, rockstars. About one every other day. The big one, of course. I like the way it jet-boosts me into hyperdrive.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:21 pm

Monkeypoo wrote:Hmmm... Lately (the past 3 weeks) my left elbow has been hurtin' something fierce. I thought maybe it's because it's cold out and maybe I'm getting arthritus. But it feels like a tendon, not a joint. I don't drink sodas, but the past 3 weeks I have been drinking those sugarfree monster drinks, red bulls, rockstars. About one every other day. The big one, of course. I like the way it jet-boosts me into hyperdrive.

The key word for me is "sugarfree"..

Post by **Sham** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:31 pm

AntiM wrote:Yeah, I can't have a dollop of tomato in any form without pain, but I can eat three or four french fries safely. Potatoes just aren't as mean to my joints. If I indulged, then yes, it would be bad.

Ginger does rock if you have inflammation issues.

Sodium benzoate/potassium benzoate gives me flu-like symptoms. Fatigue, muscle aches, stuffy head, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes in the neck. Like I'm coming down with a bad cold, but it never quite happens. The doc was going to treat me for chronic fatigue when I figured it out. He thought I was a hypochondriac, but I've tested it with diet sodas. Not my imagination. Diet sodas can be evil, I buy the new truvia sweetened ones or drink full sugar cokes.

I harp on it a lot because I think more folks are affected by it than anyone realizes.

You're a mess!

thelionking · Post by **thelionking** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:53 am

Just wanted to post and give my support for everyone here who is trying to live a healthier lifestyle.

I had a change in jobs and will need to get a physical for insurance, so I wanted to make the change and live healthier, shed some pounds, hopefully lower my blood pressure and feel better about myself.

I probably took up jogging on the beach a little too fast and messed my Achille's tendon, but hope to get back to some walking and then eventually running again.

There will be good days and not so good days, but keep with it.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:16 am

Dammit, there's candy in the house again.

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:45 am

get it OUT of there....so easy to say yet so hard to do

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:50 am

lucky420 wrote:get it OUT of there....so easy to say yet so hard to do

Oh, I'm working on that ... wait a minute. Not through the lips?

I will start a care package for my nuke. He should like gedunk.

Monkeypoo · Post by **Monkeypoo** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:24 am

**BumpyPOO**

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LET'S DO THE MONKEY DANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning!!! Man, I have about that much energy this morning!

My doctor changed my meds about 3-4 weeks ago, and I have been running on a 290mph full-blown woo-hoo non-stop fast manic train for the past 3 weeks. I'm pretty used to these. I actually like them. It's like being on natural mother earth speed. The energy is incredible. I survive on 3 hours sleep a night. Some nights I don't sleep. I stay up all night reading books or cleaning house. The thing I have to be very cautious of is what goes up must come down. In the past, the downside of manic episodes have always included severe body crashes, followed by deep depressions, followed by lets-not-go-there... I have to be really aware of this and keep an eye on it. Well, my body finally crashed yesterday at 6am. WHAM. I slept all day solid until 10pm last night, went back to bed at 3am. Woke up at 10am today. I was almost a bit scared... I peeked my little eyes open as I laid there in bed and just felt my world. I smiled. I giggled. THEN I JUMPED OUT OF BED. There's no depression! This equation doesn't make sense, and I am glad! Maybe we got this shit under control now!!! I'm back on the train but today it is only going 125mph, so if anybody needs their house cleaned or yard work done.....

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:37 am

damn those monkeys have more coordination than I do. If I am ever on a cliff or high ledge I might as well just jump because I don't have much balance either. Still working out with KAIA Fit 4 times a week and trying to treadmill on the other days...

MonkeyPoo, glad your feeling incredible and have a great day

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:15 pm

Yikes! A friend brought tons of baked goodies to the house, I need to give them away! soon!

Hang in there Poo and Lucky et al.

Over n out, moon

Sic Pup · Post by **Sic Pup** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:35 pm

moonrise wrote:Yikes! A friend brought tons of baked goodies to the house, I need to give them away! soon!

There's a thread for that:

http://eplaya.burningman.org/viewtopic.php?t=29689

Monkeypoo · Post by **Monkeypoo** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:30 pm

Hey all. Earlier I had a great taste sensation. OMG. This thread is about Good Nutrition too, right? I took two friends to lunch here at Ellie's Mutt Hut & Vegetarian Cafe on State Street. I had a cup of butternut squash soup and the cashew chicken salad with tahini dressing. It was incredible. Food is just so incredible sometimes.

I'd give anything for that soup recipe.

moonrise · Post by **moonrise** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:24 pm

Oh yea, I recall that sic pup. After the 10 feet of snow melts in my yard,

I plan to have a HUGE yard sale, what's left get's donated to burners, then the goodwill.

@sic pup, you have one THE BEST avatars! Hilarious!! LOL
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Heya Poo, it's a fitness club, we can chat while we're exercising.
Just like a REAL fitness club.
Ginger rocks! Eat your ginger, use it to make tea, fresh juice etc.
We also food bash here, watch out for the deadly nightshade foods.
(Tobacco is deadly nightshade too)
AntiM says Tomato is the worst, causes pain. Fuck, I miss ketchup!
I think she's nailed quite a few pain inducing foods, thanks M!

Poo, I know a primo butternut squash soup recipe (I'll PM ya) easy and goumet.

eta Poo

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:51 am

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Bike trainer and arm curls w/lite weights..

must 3500cals per lb lose.. Then i'm hungry and wolf 2000..

Now off the clean the drive after the last storm.. That should burn a few..

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:58 pm

unjon, good on ya!

i've lost a couple of pounds and a couple of inches. Not as many as I hoped for but I'm headed in the right direction at least. Weekends are such a killer for me though. I have to really focus not to over indulge on the food/drink and not under indulge on the exercise... keeping myself busy really helps. Got to start crafting again soon

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:04 pm

I seem to be safely below 200 pounds now. They weigh me every time I set foot in the medical building, and it's been 196 to 199 for weeks -- with full clothing. Time to shoot for 190.

I'm participating in a program called Live Well. They are teaching me exercises to improve my posture and reduce various pains, nutrition (more fiber and water!), and more along that line. They think I may be able to ride upright bicycles again if I correct my shoulder/neck posture. Also getting Physical Therapy for my bum knee. Life is looking up!

tamarakay · Post by **tamarakay** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:15 pm

I have been walking during my 15 minute breaks at work (both of them). and I mean walking HARD. Plus kenman and i starting riding the bikes up to the gate and back each night. I lost the 10 lbs i needed to for my son's wedding, just have to keep it off one more week!

any time i mention Diet, kenman goes and buys three gallons of ice cream. If i never mention the D word, and just don't buy crap then he does fine. something about the D word makes me panic and go buy sugar, and then i have to eat it too.

You know i've never liked to use smileys before i started posting here, but i really love that little eye rolling guy

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:25 pm

(Rolling eyes.) Why not do what I do? A month from today I will be running the Boston Marathon, for the fourth time. I assure you, if you train for and complete a marathon, even some pussy marathon like the New York Marathon or Marine Corps Marathon, you will lose weight and, in spite of your sordid and slovenly lives, will lose weight. And you can be really obnoxious to everyone around you because, by deffinition, you are better than they are.

tamarakay · Post by **tamarakay** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:49 pm

i work with a guy who completes in the iron man craziness. he is a special kind of weird. i've never been very competitive. i kinda like being plump. i just don't want to die getting around at burningman lol
but hey, if i had the cash i'd travel to boston and eat some ice cream while i watched you trot on by!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:51 pm

Dr. Pyro wrote:(Rolling eyes.) Why not do what I do? A month from today I will be running the Boston Marathon, for the fourth time. I assure you, if you train for and complete a marathon, even some pussy marathon like the New York Marathon or Marine Corps Marathon, you will lose weight and, in spite of your sordid and slovenly lives, will lose weight. And you can be really obnoxious to everyone around you because, by deffinition, you are better than they are.

I'm just simply better than you without training.. @ 73yrs an hour on the bike trainer and a few arm curls will keep me in shape to ride all day at BM11.. Must stay in shape to insult flame doctor at M&G 2011

Sic Pup · Post by **Sic Pup** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:03 am

unjonharley wrote:
Dr. Pyro wrote:(Rolling eyes.) Why not do what I do? A month from today I will be running the Boston Marathon, for the fourth time. I assure you, if you train for and complete a marathon, even some pussy marathon like the New York Marathon or Marine Corps Marathon, you will lose weight and, in spite of your sordid and slovenly lives, will lose weight. And you can be really obnoxious to everyone around you because, by deffinition, you are better than they are.
I'm just simply better than you without training.. @ 73yrs an hour on the bike trainer and a few arm curls will keep me in shape to ride all day at BM11.. Must stay in shape to insult flame doctor at M&G 2011

Forgive me but this visual just popped into my head:

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:38 am

How about this visual?

That you, Doc?

(I wish they had used a female runner, but that's off topic.

)

Now, keep in mind that the original Marathon runner died of exhaustion. Maybe ancient Greek soldiers were not in as good a shape as Dr. Pyro is!

All right, it is hugely impressive to be fit enough to run Marathons. If I could live my life over....

Here is an update for those who have not been to a gym in some years. Gyms now have recumbent stationary bikes. They are not quite as recumbent as real recumbent bicycles, but they are much more comfortable that conventional upright models. And some of them have cranks for hand-"pedaling" also, which gives me a good arm and torso workout. Definitely recommended.

Oh, one more thing.... Can somebody teach me how to live a sordid and slovenly life like Doc mentions?

Post by **AntiM** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:33 pm

Easter candy
Brightly wrapped
On sale
Calling my name
Oh, precious malted milk and chocolate robin blue eggs!

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:42 pm

AntiM wrote:Easter candy
Brightly wrapped
On sale
Calling my name
Oh, precious malted milk and chocolate robin blue eggs!

I'm voting for the Cadberry Lion this year.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:10 am

I scaled at 196 yesterday, in full street garb. This in spite of eating what-I-thought was a bit too much the last few days.

But I am being careful not to each much late in the day, and I seem to be developing a bit of an appetite for breakfast instead.

I conclude that managing my appetite gets easier the further along I get. I really believe anybody can do this, with just a serious determination to get started.

Post by **AntiM** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:59 pm

Well, they're on me about my BP again. Three days of going in to have my BP checked next week. Impending medications.
So I'm going to join the gym downtown, they have water classes and I can get there on the bus. To get the best discount, I joined

sigh

AARP.

Cry.

lucky420 · Post by **lucky420** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:57 pm

oh god AntiM that's kind of funny but hey if you get a discount then why not. I am now at the age where I start to notice those commercials about retirement/insurance and shit. Not that I am even close to retiring...

I've heard that dark chocolate is good for blood pressure, the darker the better but it should be at least %70 cacao

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:23 pm

Chocolate is good for E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!

I joined AARP for motel discounts, but dropped it because of all the junk mail. Heck, they let you join at 50, so it doesn't mean that you are an "old-timer" yet!

My pressure is below 120/80 these days. Cannot help but believe that slimming down helps the BP. Go AntiM, go!

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