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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net: June 2005
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
posted by Raphaelle,
Thursday, June 30, 2005
at 3:14 AM (Pacific)
I'm happy the diet, fitness, and body image blogs were merged into one. Makes more sense to me that way.
In recent months, I've come to realize something pertaining to my health. Or rather, I knew it before but I REALLY learned the lesson. Yeah, diet and exercise are key components of a healthy lifestyle but they're not the only ones. In fact, not only are they not the only components, I'm not even sure they're the most important anymore!
Let's see, in recent months, I tried to watch my diet more closely (wanted to lose 10 to 15 pounds; now, it's more 15 to 20). I tried to exercise like my doctor suggested (I've concluded the man doesn't know all that much about exercise). Not only did it not work but I completely lost interest in exercise. In the meantime, work got particularly stressful for me. Eh, it's not just the work, it's also the work environment. How healthy can you be if you're depressed every Sunday night because tomorrow's Monday? You might continue your exercise and healthy diet but you're still not healthy. Now, thanks to my doctor's idea of a good exercise regiment, exercise became just as fun as work. What, I'm supposed to do over 40 hours of work and top it off with more work? I just couldn't do it. My body did what it always does when I'm just not happy. Despite healthy life patterns (good sleep, good diet, exercise), I started getting sick. Just picking up pretty much any virus that came by. Headaches and migraines on an almost daily basis too.
So what did I do? I gave myself a week off from exercise and diet. It's not like my eating went bad. Instead of 3 treats per week, I had something like 5. My eating is naturally pretty healthy to start with anyway. After a week of no exercise, I still had no energy for it. Since then, I've given myself permission to do what I feel I can do and want to do each day. And if the Summer heat is too much, I don't force myself through anything strenuous. I'm not losing weight and I'm not at the best fitness level I can be but I'm not getting sick and that's really the best I can hope for right now...
 
24 lbs. in 30 days?????
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, June 10, 2005
at 6:43 PM (Pacific)
I'm sure I'm late in the day here, but I just heard on the radio that that Super Size Me guy put on 24 pounds in his 30 days of eating only fast food.
Holy Christmas.
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