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Michelle
Please understand, I do not want to be anorexic. I realize the dangers of an unhealthy lifestyle and this is not my intention.
The reasons why:
About 5 years ago I made a decision to lose weight and get down to my normal BMI weight (120 lbs). I am currently 160 and REALLY want to get down to a healthy weight. I try REALLY hard to eat right and exercise but I always screw up and get frustrated.
I need to reprogram myself to eat the right foods and to not want to eat the wrong foods. The only reason that I want to consume food is for my health and energy, but if eating becomes too pleasurable, I know I'll just start eating badly again.
I don't have a lot to lose, but not being able to get this weight off is making me really depressed and effects my self confidence. I just want to be able to look and feel healthy, but because I'm so short, those extra pounds really show up!
Do you have any pointers on how I can make eating not so enjoyable?
PS. I have successfully incorporated an exercise routine of 45 min. of jogging 5 times a week. The exercise alone is not helping me to achieve the desired results.
Answer
You're right, exercise alone is not enough. You can lose 40 lbs in just 4 mo. with a good, healthy, low carb food/exercise plan:
Breakfast: Cook 9-grain cereal (from health food store) in water with rolled oats and wheat bran. Make a big pot of it on weekends and nuke 1/2 cup each morning. Add low fat milk or yogurt, banana, walnuts and berries. Drink hot Ovaltine. Breakfast should be your largest meal of the day to raise blood sugar level which falls during the night.
Lunch: Egg, tuna or turkey ½ sandwich on whole grain bread with bean or alfalfa sprouts and yogurt w/fruit. If you had meat loaf for dinner, bring a meat loaf sandwich on whole grain bread (NO mayo). On cold days, a squatty thermos of hot chili, split peas with ham, or beef stew.
Snacks: Fresh (not canned) fruit: banana, orange, apple, kiwi, grapes, peach, nectarine, cherries, pineapple. No chips and nothing ever from a vending machine.
Dinner: salad with white meat chicken and fresh (not canned) veggies: tomatoes, 2 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of shredded cabbage, shredded or sliced carrots, alfalfa or bean sprouts, zucchini, green or red peppers, hard boiled eggs, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, tofu, cottage cheese...Instead of dressing, squeeze 1/4 tomato over it.
Or homemade bean/vegetable soups; great way to recycle leftovers.
Or grilled fish with steamed veggies.
Or omelet: In blender, whip together eggs, tofu, cottage cheese, onions, garlic powder. Cook with mushrooms, chopped tomatoes and green or red peppers.
Foods to avoid: junk food, fast foods, pastries, desserts, sugar, salty foods, syrup (even canned fruit in syrup), peanut butter, fat/grease (pork, wieners, chops, bacon, salami, pizza, chips, fries), pasta, potatoes, white bread, rice, canned veggies, ice cream, soda, chips. And of course no tobacco or alcohol in any form. Both of those add wrinkles and destroy your brain. No oil except olive and mac nut. Coffee also rots your brain.
To keep your skin clear, drink water. Veg. juice is good too. But not canned juice (too much sugar.)
Join a gym; they have all the equipment and staff to show you how to use it to get the look you want to achieve. Much cheaper than buying your own equipment. Go hiking, biking, jogging, bowling, swimming, rowing, jump rope, play tennis, badminton, volleyball, soccer, jumping jacks, lift weights, trampoline? To tone your tummy, do sit ups, push ups, pull ups, leg lifts and crunches.
If you lack energy, take Super B complex. Try appetite suppressants.
You're right, exercise alone is not enough. You can lose 40 lbs in just 4 mo. with a good, healthy, low carb food/exercise plan:
Breakfast: Cook 9-grain cereal (from health food store) in water with rolled oats and wheat bran. Make a big pot of it on weekends and nuke 1/2 cup each morning. Add low fat milk or yogurt, banana, walnuts and berries. Drink hot Ovaltine. Breakfast should be your largest meal of the day to raise blood sugar level which falls during the night.
Lunch: Egg, tuna or turkey ½ sandwich on whole grain bread with bean or alfalfa sprouts and yogurt w/fruit. If you had meat loaf for dinner, bring a meat loaf sandwich on whole grain bread (NO mayo). On cold days, a squatty thermos of hot chili, split peas with ham, or beef stew.
Snacks: Fresh (not canned) fruit: banana, orange, apple, kiwi, grapes, peach, nectarine, cherries, pineapple. No chips and nothing ever from a vending machine.
Dinner: salad with white meat chicken and fresh (not canned) veggies: tomatoes, 2 kinds of lettuce, 2 kinds of shredded cabbage, shredded or sliced carrots, alfalfa or bean sprouts, zucchini, green or red peppers, hard boiled eggs, brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, tofu, cottage cheese...Instead of dressing, squeeze 1/4 tomato over it.
Or homemade bean/vegetable soups; great way to recycle leftovers.
Or grilled fish with steamed veggies.
Or omelet: In blender, whip together eggs, tofu, cottage cheese, onions, garlic powder. Cook with mushrooms, chopped tomatoes and green or red peppers.
Foods to avoid: junk food, fast foods, pastries, desserts, sugar, salty foods, syrup (even canned fruit in syrup), peanut butter, fat/grease (pork, wieners, chops, bacon, salami, pizza, chips, fries), pasta, potatoes, white bread, rice, canned veggies, ice cream, soda, chips. And of course no tobacco or alcohol in any form. Both of those add wrinkles and destroy your brain. No oil except olive and mac nut. Coffee also rots your brain.
To keep your skin clear, drink water. Veg. juice is good too. But not canned juice (too much sugar.)
Join a gym; they have all the equipment and staff to show you how to use it to get the look you want to achieve. Much cheaper than buying your own equipment. Go hiking, biking, jogging, bowling, swimming, rowing, jump rope, play tennis, badminton, volleyball, soccer, jumping jacks, lift weights, trampoline? To tone your tummy, do sit ups, push ups, pull ups, leg lifts and crunches.
If you lack energy, take Super B complex. Try appetite suppressants.
Why do I laugh uncontrollably?
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I've done this weird thing my whole life where I just start laughing over something and I just can't stop laughing. I start laughing over whatever stupid thing and then I find it hilarious that I'm laughing so hard over something that nobody else thinks is that funny, so it makes me laugh more, like self perpetuating laughter. I mean like silent, nostrils flaring, watering eyes, cant breathe kinda of laughing for a long time. When I see other people looking at me like I'm crazy, it just makes me laugh more because I think that's funny too! I used to get in trouble for this when I was a kid because I would laugh for like 30 minutes straight. Well fast forward to now I am 26 years old and I still do this. I may be sitting in a restaurant with someone who gets up to go to the bathroom and while their gone I think of something funny, that maybe even happened 2 weeks before that and I start laughing. I laugh so hard and I know thats weird and people will think I'm crazy so I put my phone up to my ear so it just looks like I'm talking on the phone to cover up my crazy laughing. Today in the college classroom during group study time I said something that struck me funny and the cycle began. After about 10 minutes I couldn't stop and i thought i was gonna get in trouble so I had to leave the classroom and stood in the hallway by myself laughing until I settled down but for the rest of the day I continued to laugh and giggle off and on for no apparent reason, other than just getting a kick out of myself laughing over whatever the originally funny thought was. Even now just thinking about it all makes me laugh. I know that sounds kinda weird. I'm just curious if this is a sign if something like bipolar or a neurological disorder or something. I rather enjoy it and don't want a "cure". I'm just curious. I am naturally a very energetic person with a warped sense of humor so it may just be that, I don't know.
Answer
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder causing the sufferer to have mania or hypomania and depression.
I developed it at 14 and was diagnosed at 18. I go through weeks and months of being depressed, feeling suicidal, hopeless and worthless, going days without leaving bed, never washing or dressing or eating. Trying to kill myself and hurt myself. Sleeping over 18 hours a day and only getting up for the toilet and even then one day i went the whole day without doing that as i was too depressed to get up. Then ill switch into mania and i am the complete opposite. Stay up all night for days and days or get like 3 hours a night and am NEVER tired, completely full of energy and confidence. Reckless and impulsive. Do things like sleep with strangers, steal and shoplift, spend every penny i have on anything, drinking every day, doing drugs or all of the above. I think i can do anything I want and do not care about the consequences. Aggressive and have fits of rage, i once trashed my mums apartment and tore her front door down. Nothing is going fast enough for me. My body can't keep up with me and i am full of ideas. My thoughts race and i talk a million miles an hour. I have no control over my behavior or anything i say. In my last mania i tried to trampoline a moving car and I once told my psychiatrist all about my sex life and how i f**k the sh** out of my boyfriend when manic and how it sucks to be a loonbag. I also hear voices telling me to kill myself and harm others and have hallucinations and delusions that lead me to be a danger to myself.
Bipolar moods are more than emotional highs and lows, its mania and depression, and when you are in either state you are in it for weeks and months on end and your mood doesn't change at all then after however long you switch to normal or the opposite state.
You clearly do not understand what bipolar disorder is. It is not laughing for no reason everyone does that. You just sound like a happy person.
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder causing the sufferer to have mania or hypomania and depression.
I developed it at 14 and was diagnosed at 18. I go through weeks and months of being depressed, feeling suicidal, hopeless and worthless, going days without leaving bed, never washing or dressing or eating. Trying to kill myself and hurt myself. Sleeping over 18 hours a day and only getting up for the toilet and even then one day i went the whole day without doing that as i was too depressed to get up. Then ill switch into mania and i am the complete opposite. Stay up all night for days and days or get like 3 hours a night and am NEVER tired, completely full of energy and confidence. Reckless and impulsive. Do things like sleep with strangers, steal and shoplift, spend every penny i have on anything, drinking every day, doing drugs or all of the above. I think i can do anything I want and do not care about the consequences. Aggressive and have fits of rage, i once trashed my mums apartment and tore her front door down. Nothing is going fast enough for me. My body can't keep up with me and i am full of ideas. My thoughts race and i talk a million miles an hour. I have no control over my behavior or anything i say. In my last mania i tried to trampoline a moving car and I once told my psychiatrist all about my sex life and how i f**k the sh** out of my boyfriend when manic and how it sucks to be a loonbag. I also hear voices telling me to kill myself and harm others and have hallucinations and delusions that lead me to be a danger to myself.
Bipolar moods are more than emotional highs and lows, its mania and depression, and when you are in either state you are in it for weeks and months on end and your mood doesn't change at all then after however long you switch to normal or the opposite state.
You clearly do not understand what bipolar disorder is. It is not laughing for no reason everyone does that. You just sound like a happy person.
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