Posts by milfred

Call it good.  Don't eat more.  You might burn 1,000 calories on the job, but that doesn't mean you're burning 1,000 MORE calories than you would in that 7 hours sitting behind a desk.  Get what I'm saying?  You may burn just 350 calories MORE than you would sitting at a desk for 7 hours.  (arbitrary guess.)

You guys and your DDR.  People on this site are crazy about DDR.  So I went out and got DDR, knowing the music would suck, but I planned to use my own adjustable-speed tape player, and play tapes of my favorite music, adjusted to the tempo of the DDR steps.

It doesn't work.  The tempo on the damn DDR keeps changing.

DDR is also very difficult, and for me to play at a level I can actually get the steps right at, I'm not getting much exercise.

I'm glad you all like DDR so much.  I wish I could get into it.  But bleck!!

Maybe I'll change my mind if I get good at it.  I wish it would say more varied words of encouragement.  That'd be cool.  I love its words of encouragement.  Do you get really good at it, so you can actually jump around and do the steps at a rate that makes you sweat?  That'd make it feel a little more productive and less like a waste of time!

I bet people are gonna tell you all sorts of CRAP, like you need to force yourself to eat.

Truth is, you need ot rest and eat EXACTLY as much as you feel like eating, because when you are sick, sometimes it is beneficial for the body to starve; the body will let you know via hunger level.

I hope you feel better soon.  Take care of yourself!!

YES!  I know exactly what this is.  Here's what you have to do.

Go on a STRICT, specific diet.  NO CHEATING.  Every time you cheat, you will flood life into the disease.  I don't know exactly what the "disease" is - I think it's undiscovered.  But here's what to do.  I had this; doctors couldn't TOUCH it; I cured it myself over 2 years of research and experimentation.

For several months, and maybe even a year, until this disease dies:

NO VINEGAR, meaning no mayonaise, most salad dressings have vinegar, some pickles have it...

NO SUGAR, including fruit and even milk.  You may have carbs in the form of certain grains, which you may prepare by boiling and adding oils and spices.

NO ALCOHOL

Those are the most important prohibitions.  They seem to feed the disease.  You should feel better after a week of no cheating on this.  Now I'll list the other things that are less emphatically prohibited.

spoiled or old food - everything you eat should be fresh.  I can't really explain this, but I can theorize that maybe when food ages, bacteria or some form of microscopic life grows on it, and this stuff feeds the disease organism and makes it flourish.

blue cheese - my theory is that the disease "eats" the mold in the blue cheese.

all cheese

Now, here's what I did.  I can't "recommend" it to you because it seems so extreme, but it worked for me.

I got a GOOD lactobacillus acidophilus suppliment.  It took a LONG TIME AND A LOT OF MONEY TO FIND ONE THAT WORKED.  The germs have to be alive in there, and it has to be JUST L. Acidophilus, NOT A MIXED CULTURE.  I got "Allerdophilus" from the refrigerated section of a health food store.  That seems to be the best one.  It cost me about 19 dollars a bottle.

I started taking 1 pill a day, which did nothing.  I took 3 pills and the morning and 3 at night.  That helped.  My problem was so bad I ended up taking 10 pills in the morning and 10 at night.  That really, really helped.  It didn't give me diarrhea; it just settled my stomach and stopped the gas.  I started developing mild acid reflux, but it was hugely preferable to the heinous gas.  Subsequent research led me to conclude that L. Acidophilus was actually killing the disease.

I also ate raw ginger.  For a few minutes after eating a mouthful of the unberably hot stuff, I would feel better.  I actually carried raw ginger around with me everywhere because it was the only way I could cope with the disease's symptoms.  It really, really does help, potently, but not for a very long time.  Still, it is better than any pharmaceutical medicine I have ever tried.  (You have to really chow down on it, though, and it's rather difficult to do since it burns your mouth.)  It is a MUST, because in subsequent research, I found that it actually probably kills the disease.

If you want to email or message me, I'd love to communicate with you on a regular basis and try to help you through this, by the way.  It would mean a lot to me to see somebody else get over this thing.

I don't take anything for the problem anymore.  My digestion is normal, but I generally avoid vinegar (though I do occasionally use mustard and mayonaise) and alcohol, and sort of avoid sugar, but not by any means strictly.  I have soy sauce occasionally, and I eat as much fruit as I want, and I'm fine now.  I killed the disease organism, whatever it was.

I'll add things as I remember - for example, YOU MUST TAKE THE ACIDOPHILUS ON AN EMPTY STOMACH!!  This is absolutely imperative.

AVOID SOY SAUCE AND NUTRITIONAL YEAST!! (I forgot about that one).  And good god, avoid Bragg's liquid aminos.

Ok.  So I had this regimen, and I did it a few times.  I took the Acidophilus every day, no matter what.  If I screwed up and ate so I wasn't on an empty stomach, I took it anyway, but you are wasting pills if you do that.  I did the ginger every day, sometimes with acidophilus, sometimes on an empty stomach, sometimes a full one.  I ended up drinking TONS of water, because in order to eat the ginger, I wouldn't be able to handle it unless I alternated bites of ginger with sips of cold water.  I'm sure drinking TONS of water was an indespensible piece of the cure.

 So here's the regimen:

Wake up.  DONT EAT.  Immediately, take acidophilus (in an amount you have to customize - be careful at first.  It may hurt you to take as much as I did; I don't know.)  You may eat ginger.

DONT TAKE ANY VITAMINS right now.  I don't know what specific vitamins to avoid, but for me, B Complex seemed to aggrivate it.  Just do without them until you're better.

WAIT AT LEAST 1 HOUR (I would wait 2 if I could) BEFORE EATING AFTER YOU TAKE THE ACIDOPHILUS.

When you eat, eat something like boiled quinoa with some olive oil and salt and turmeric, or something like that.  I could list 200 foods that'd be okay and 200 that wouldn't.  I don't know what the rhyme or reason is; I never came to understand it.  I just experimented on myself and found foods that were ok and foods that were not.  I could draw some generalizations, but a lot of it was a true mystery.  Are you vegetarian?  I would avoid tomatoes for now, but again, I'm not sure about that.  I'd avoid corn for sure, though.

Your diet is the thing that will kill this.  The pills are pointless without the diet.  You must starve the disease to death, eating things it can't use.  Once it diminishes, you will be able to feel it flourish if you drink a glass of orange juice.  You will notice subtler changes once it stops being SO BIG.

OK.  Last thing I'm gonna say is, DO NOT EAT IN THE EVENING because YOU MUST TAKE THE ACIDOPHILUS ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.  Depending on how much you've eaten, I'd leave 4 hours before taking that night-time dose.

This is a basic outline of some things I did.  I would also wake up in the middle of the night (set my alarm) to take pills on an empty stomach.  I also used lots of herbs that may have helped - cinnamon, cloves, I can't remember offhand...

Also, I did run a complex course of powdered herbs and teas for a couple of weeks at a time.  I'll tell you about that too, but it's rather extremely involved.  The acidophilus on an empty stomach (work up to a humungous dose, but make sure it won't hurt you) and the diet should work WONDERS.

tofu shirataki = 40 calories a cup

spaghetti squash = 40 calories a cup

why do people get angry when you mention ddr?

I'm trying to buy it on CL, so I can get it cheaply, but I just pissed off the seller by trying to be a cheapskate and haggle the price way down.  I don't know if I'll like it or not; I am afraid the music will defeat the fun for me, but I had this bright idea I'd make tapes of music I love and play them on my hand-held tape player with adjustable speed and turn the dial to adjust the speed to the correct tempo.

Tennis is a great idea.  I know I like tennis.  I will look into where to play tennis around here for free, and getting a cheap raquet CL.

Baaaaahhh!!!  Put an orange, 1 TBSP olive oil, 1 clove garlic in the blender.  Pour that on your salad.