Posts by kajikit

1200 calories is not nearly enough for a 16yo... you had a meltdown because you were HUNGRY!

I just caught up on the last couple of episodes so I'm up to date now. At first I felt sorry for Tracy for having the bad luck to get so ill right at the beginning... but as soon as she actually appeared on the show she showed her true colours. I can't wait to see her gone because she's an evil game-playing b@tch. I don't often say that about people either...

As for her injury, it was serious enough. She might be evil but she wasn't making it up. She's lucky she didn't kill herself by running a mile full-out on the beach in the middle of the day in the heat of summer with no preparation. She literally melted down her muscles, and that can kill you. The show probably was so vague about it because they don't want to scare people off.

The pain and muscular weakness that you feel after strenuous exercise is caused by damage to your muscles... it happens to everyone, but in the extreme it leads to a condition called rhabdomyolysis - your injured muscles release proteins that put a strain on all your other organs and in the extreme it can literally kill you. Dehydration makes it worse, and certain medications and genetic conditions make you more susceptible.

But back to this week... evil manipulative b@tch she may be but she knows how to work the system. I can't WAIT to see her gone, but with her ability to manipulate other people that may wait awhile. I think her team was MAD to keep her because she is sheer poison...

Fiber has NO EFFECT on your thyroid or your body chemistry. There are certain foods that you need to avoid if you have thyroid issues - the major one is cabbage, especially raw. It contains a chemical that can makes your thyroid work less efficiently.

Seaweed is very good for you because it contains iodine, which is a thyroid-improving chemical. When I was a kid I had to take kelp tablets for that reason...

Nah. Not unless you're sleeping on a treadmill or something :P Ordinary daily activities are already counted for you... you only need to add it in if it's something out of the ordinary or extra-energy-intensive, like if you spent half the day digging in the garden or traipsing around the mall.

If you want to wear heels, go for it! Who cares what random strangers may or may not be thinking about you... does it really matter?

The fact that you got your period back when you stopped exercising (for whatever reason) and lost it again once you started suggests that there IS a direct corellation. Your body weight is very low, and you don't have the reserves to burn off... if you want to exercise, you need to eat a lot more. You can feel 'full' on 1000 calories a day if that's what you're used to getting, but that doesn't make it healthy.

I'm not going to repeat what's already been said... you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, and parenting a child with multiple mental and emotional health issues is a tough thing to do. But you need to remember this - MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE NOT VOLUNTARY. Your daughter didn't 'choose' to have a brain that's wired differently to 'normal'. She didn't choose to have trouble relating to other people and showing affection in a 'normal' manner. And she didn't 'choose' to develop an eating disorder. She's living in a whirlwind and she is feeling terribly out of control... and from the sounds of it, she's probably been feeling like that for many years. She and you both need professional help to deal with this, and you need professional help to help YOU deal with the emotional strains of raising a child with problems. Of course you're angry and frustrated and feeling helpless at your inability to help her, and her apparant unwillingness to comply... you wouldn't be human if you weren't. You've been dealing with her myriad of problems for seventeen years, and that's a very long time. Has anyone ever sat you down and said 'how can we help YOU?' She's not doing this because she wants to punish you, or because you screwed up as a parent, or because she hates you and her sister, or any other of the thoughts that may have entered your head. She's doing this because her brain and her body have gone haywire, and she needs help.

Three hours for the live finale was ridiculous... even two hours is too drawn out and they added in all sorts of junk to stretch it to three. We watched the first hour, turned over and watched Fringe while our DVR recorded the Biggest Loser, then turned back to our now-recorded program and zapped all the ad-breaks and interminable time-wasting, and we caught up to 'real time' five minutes before the end of the show!

The final three were very close... I thought for sure that Mike or Tara was going to win but when you saw all three together you really couldn't take any bets on it. It looks to me like Helen and Jerry are BOTH thinner than they should be for optimal health. Looking at Jerry all I could think was 'I hope he never gets seriously ill, because he has NO reserves left to lose.' But I always think that when I see a really thin person...

Kristen looked FANTASTIC and so did a few of the the other formerly extremely large competitors. To be honest I don't think they should even let anyone under 250 pounds go on the program, because they end up losing too much weight in the end. The really big people really NEED to lose the weight and the smaller competitors always end up going too far.

I had a really good swim today... which brings me to 300/1000

Went for a real (long) walk this afternoon... almost four miles. 260/1000

If you possibly can, don't buy your fresh fruits and vegetables at the grocery store... go to the farmer's market or a market stand instead. The produce might not look so shiny-perfect as in the grocery store, but it'll always be cheaper if you buy stuff that's in season. I spent twenty dollars at the local farmer's market this morning and came home with BAGS of fresh produce.

Buy a carton of lactaid milk and try drinking some of that (or using it in your cooking)... if you do NOT experience digestive discomfort from that, and you do from regular milk, there's your answer... your body does 'forget' how to handle lactose if you don't have it for a long time, that's not unusual. Most people who are lactose-intolerant are okay with yogurt though... yogurt and cheese have much less lactose in them than milk.

You know, you can make your own custard from fat-free or 1% milk and then you can have it with impunity if you just put a little sugar in it (or use splenda)... it's just milk with custard powder or cornstarch and vanilla in it. I made two pints of yummy custardy goodness yesterday afternoon and it's 3/4 gone already. Homemade custard tastes better than bought because it's not so sickly sweet...

But any sort of custard mixed into cereal is YUMMY!

I think you're reading things into their smiles that weren't there... when I pass somebody on the street I ALWAYS smile at them but it's not judging them in any way, shape, or form, it's just saying 'hello, nice to see somebody else out here!' Or I'm smiling at their cute dog because animals make me happy... Please don't feel self-conscious or embarassed about exercising.

Give her a diet scale and a set of measuring cups and tell her to USE THEM... for EVERYTHING! She doesn't need to do it forever, but even one week of weighing and measuring everything that goes into your mouth (and logging it) is a real wakeup call.

But if she really wants to lose the flab it's not going to happen unless she starts to exercise. She doesn't need to follow your 'all day in the gym' approach, but regular exercise is vital to everyone who wants to be healthy.