Posts by counselork

Oh, and as for my activity level: I'm a part time teacher and a grad student.

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No need to get snarky. My assumption was that modern Ireland was different, which is why I asked the question. The research supports the trend of certain aspects of 'old' Irish culture, however. It could be more prevalent among the offspring of the Irish who fled during the diaspora, thought. My time in large cities in Ireland wasn't any different than my time in large cities anywhere else, but I found the culture in the smaller villages to be more friendly and family-esque than small towns here in the States.

I have similar stats, lindseyf (26f/5'6/150)...except I've been on this carnival ride for over a year and continue to lose and gain the same 5 pounds. I've tried everything - working out 5-6 times a week, weights and HIIT; eating any calorie combo from 1300 a day to 2000 a day... with no joy.

My husband has been overseas for the last 5 weeks and I started a new job... which means I'm eating significantly less and not working out at all (except for the occasional yoga session). So on roughly 1600 calories a day and NO exercise, I'm losing a little. It's serisouly slow, to the point of being unnoticable, but it's happening.

So I don't know... maybe just quit working out and just eat normal.

They don't, but among the other Jr. High/High school teachers I see two options - those veteran teachers who have been doing the same job for 17 years and don't NEED the prep, and the beginning teachers who fall behind or work until 6 or 7 at night. I'm also a graduate student, so working that late on teaching stuff is not an option.

I get home around 3pm and AM fatigued, but then I can have a snack. Really, my days look like this:

Breakfast - 300-400 calories

Snack - 200 calories (Luna Bar)

Snack - 200-300 calories (toast, crackers and hummus, almonds, etc).

Dinner - 400-500 calories

Snack - 200-300 calories (cereal, wine)

I'd suggest that you NOT shop in the Junior's department. Those clothes aren't meant for grown women... and most of the time, they're poor quality anyway. Like Stacy and Clinton say, buy the clothes that fit your body, and you will look good! Don't try to squeeze your body into clothes you wish fit, because then you WILL look like a sausage in a casing. The jeans for women have evolved beyond the awful "Mom" jeans look. Give it a whirl - it may help you feel better about your current body.

Don't jump to the worst case scenario. Celiacs has a lot of really negative long term consequences, and can be fatal. It could be that you just have a wheat or gluten intolerance. Try eliminating things one at a time from your diet until your stomach pains go away, and then add things back in one at a time until you discover what it is that causes the pain.

The top food intolerance/allergies are: dairy (lactose); wheat; peanuts, shellfish, eggs, and gluten.

I went through something similar about a year ago... I went completely gluten free for about three months, and then slowly started adding stuff back in. After almost a year of no wheat, my stomach problems have subsided and I can eat pretty much whatever I want. If I ever get the pains again, I know that a sort of "wheat cleanse" will probably help.

Ah, military docs. As much as everyone thinks government run health care will save the system, those of us IN government health care definitely know the disadvantages.

What service are you guys in? Is there a chance your hubby can arrange for a delayed arrival date? It takes some time, but two weeks should be enough... My friend's husband had his commanding officer arrange for an early return because she was having a baby... If his orders have already been cut, it means that the deployment office will need to rewrite them and have the General sign off on it, but sometimes that's easy enough to do.

I hope it works out! In the meantime... spicy food! :)

I usually burn about 100 calories a mile doing some jog/walk combo. How long does 8 miles take you? That would help figure out your overall pace.

hotharmony: not according to several ob-gyn's my mother and I have seen over the years.

Floggingsully: I eat between 1500-2000 calories a day. I haven't been losing weight, and I've been counting for over a year. That's why I'm investigating some of the aspects of fitness and weight loss more thoroughly... I"m tired of people saying it's a matter of basic math when, apparently for me, it itsn't.

It's a digestive system thing - particularly your colon. Every female on my mother's side of the family has colon issues, and lettuce, certain beans, and raw onions just do not break down easily in our bodies. There are some people who have the necessary acids and such to digest extremely high fiber veggies; the rest of us have to choose to endure the gas and other grossness or find other ways to get our fiber. And yes, it does get worse with age. :)

Start anytime... you don't necessarily need to keep temps during your period. In fact, those temps won't be really accurate. Right before your period, you'll see a drop, which is the dip in progesteron levels. However, because of everything that goes on during your period, those temps could be unnaturally high. Keeping track of temperatures is beneficial in finding out exactly the day of ovulation (when your temp spikes)... but if you're charting for birth control, you don't even need to keep track after your 3rd consectutive high temp. If you're trying to conceive, then continue tracking your temperature throughought... 18 consectutive high temps is indicative of pregnancy.

Good luck!

I'm in a similar position - I am being considered for a teaching position, working on my Master's degree and my husband and I are talking about when to try for our first baby. There are a lot of details for us to consider, but one thing that I have found to be a positive element to getting pregnant soon is that if I time it right, I wouldn't HAVE the baby until after the school year ended. That's the nice thing about teaching... if I get pregnant in July/August, the baby would be born May/June and I'd have the whole summer to recover, get him used to a bottle and daycare ready before I went back to teaching in the fall.

I've done a little reading on the GI diets since diabetes runs in my family, but it's not all that clear to me...

I eat tons of fruit (though not as many veggies) throughout the day, and I eat high fiber bread and cereal (high fiber as in 3 grams or more per serving). Lots of oatmeal, brown rice, beans, almonds (allergic to peanuts), egg whites, lean meats, fish, etc. I like kasha, cous cous and whole wheat pasta... Sweets and potatoes are my weak spot. Transitioning to sweet potatoes would be no problem, but cutting out sugar seems to be impossible.

How can I figure out the GI value in food? For instance, Honey Nut Cheerios are made of whole grains, but are a mid-level GI food. Why? Is there some ratio of carbs: fiber I should know of? Similarly, oats are low GI, but does that count for the prepackaged, flavored, instant Quaker Oats?