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docwebster) wrote2002-09-03 07:16 am
docwebster) wrote2002-09-03 07:16 am
Resolute
Perhaps a better subject for this would have been Tired. You'll understand why in just a moment or three, I think.
Genties and ladlemen, I am tired.
I am tired of looking like a beachball with legs. I am tired of wheezing for breath when I do something so simple as schlep a particularly full basket of laundry upstairs. I am tired of so simple an activity as feeding my cats in the morning being cause for immense back pain.
Here and now I'm swearing to the lot of yez I am going to get myself in a physical condition where I *don't* move around like an asthmatic pregnant heifer. So help me Ghu, it ends. Not here and now, because unless some kind soul among yez has a magic wand handy, this will take time.
But the journey of a thousand miles, and all that.
Genties and ladlemen, I am tired.
I am tired of looking like a beachball with legs. I am tired of wheezing for breath when I do something so simple as schlep a particularly full basket of laundry upstairs. I am tired of so simple an activity as feeding my cats in the morning being cause for immense back pain.
Here and now I'm swearing to the lot of yez I am going to get myself in a physical condition where I *don't* move around like an asthmatic pregnant heifer. So help me Ghu, it ends. Not here and now, because unless some kind soul among yez has a magic wand handy, this will take time.
But the journey of a thousand miles, and all that.
Re: I'm here for ya!!
That might be one of the most important things you said. It's very easy when dieting (especially if you're doing anything "extreme") to miss out on important vitamins or minerals. And just taking a multivitamin isn't necessarily enough -- Last major diet I was on, I was having major problems with painful leg cramps waking me up in the middle of the night. Turns out I wasn't getting enough Potassium; so in addition to the daily multivitamin, I was taking additional potassium supplements (after a while, I was taking four or five different vitamin/mineral pills a day, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything or in response to side-effects I was discovering along the way)...
I'm fighting an urge to sing The Charles Atlas Song at you...