After the sociopath, when the fog starts to lift, many of us ask ourselves, “Why didn’t I see what was going on?” According to a new book, we should probably cut ourselves some slack.
Read Book Review: The Invisible Gorilla on Scienceblogs.com.
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Hi Oxy. Glad to see you’re back. I missed you yesterday. Your walk sounds lovely. It’s still too hot and humid here. I am anxious for some crisp, cool, autumn days.
The walk was good in several ways, one was to get my fat body moving. One way was just spending pleasant time with son D. The other was just looking over the pasture grasses and the pond and trees and seeing what shape they were in with this low-rain situation and then looking over the cattle, donks and horse to see if they had any injuries or anything. Everything out there is so fat it can hardly walk. Th bit overcast most of yesterday and a bit today but humidity up some. I may end up having to turn AC back on but for last 5-6 days I’ve had it off and house opened up in the evenings.
I won’t run off and leave you guys for LONG so don’t get antsy or paranoid. YOu know I’m not gonna “fade away” and not say anything, if I’m going to leave here I’ll have myself a “farewell party” (((Hugs))))
Yeah, my metabolism is so sluggish, and I feel hungry all the time. I’ve gained 20 pounds in the last three years. I was always slim before. Is it a result of menopause?
Thyroid?
Low Vit D?
OLD AGE????
Too much chocolate?????
All of the above??????????????????
Don’t know, I haven’t seen a Dr.
Tell me more about vit D deficiency. I have never heard about that?
It’s not chocolate because I rarely eat sweets, but I do like fried foods, mac and cheese, and because I feel so hungry all the time, I probably eat way too much.
No Kim it’s from putting too much food down the hatch!! you simply don’t need as much now…but what I do is compensate not having a partner with eating totally delicious dinners….my guilty pleasure is fresh parmesan cheese block grated over tasty pasta…..with black pepper and a half a bottle of Chianti..oh yum…I’ve put on 6lbs I keep saying I’ll stop tomorrow…ha ha…I’m biting my lip now trying not to go into details about menopause…but it’s not the site for it!!! and it would put people off their food…actually not a bad idea…but how about a cut down on food intake….tomorrow!
Causes all sorts of symptoms…..
I don’t want to get boinked by ms. moxy……so i’ll let her explain or direct you to google.
I’ve taken Vit D since I was diagnosed with the C and my vit. d levels were 8!
Very low!!!!
It relates to energy levels, calcium absorption, depresion etc…..
Nuff said……i’m covering my head…i feel the wind from the skillet!
Kim, ‘
If you haven’t had a good complete medical check up in a while, I suggest you get one. Get Labs for thyroid, liver function, Vitamin D, and B, a mammogram, and if over 50 the colonoscopy. If you’re a smoker, a chest x ray wouldn’t hurt and an EKG either. Get checked for blood sugar, and glucose, as well as cholesterol.
Then. If all is well, go on a 1200 calorie died (NO LESS than that) because if you go too low, the body will shut down and you’ll gain on 800 calories (those crash yo yo diets are the worst)
Then exercise. WALK and do stretching exercises. Pull your gut in and hold it for a count of 10, great for the belly and abs. Pull your toes up toward your head while you are sitting, helps b lood circulate. and strengthens calf muscles. Do that at least 10 times an hour. Also 10 x an hour take a coomplete DEEP breath blow out all the air from your lungs and replace it ten time.
Get a dental check up and see what is going on with your teeth.
Cut down the amount of coffee you drink to nomore than 1 cup a day, two if you do decaf for at least one of them.
No caffine after noon time.
get 6 hours rest and sleep.
Check with your doctor on any thing else you are taking over the counter as asprin can cause you to bleedc if you have stomach problems, tylenol can hurt your liver, some “herbs and spices” are not really good for you or can interact with medications.
Get the vaccine for shingles if you haven’t already gotten it.
If you are over 60 get the pneumonia vaccine, or if you have heart problems or diabetes or other chronic disease.
If you are sexually active and have not gotten a HEP B vaccine get one.
GET A FLU vaccine every year. BTW It is a scientific FACT that the flu vaccine can NOT “give you the flu” if you took the vaccine and still got the flu, you were harboring it when you got the shot and just happened to come down with it after taking the shot.
If you have been sexually active (espeically with a psychopath) and have not had an STD check up, GO GET ONE most states will give you a FREE one and you don’t even have to give them your name. Even if you used condoms every time, there are diseases that can go around a condom.
Get yourself healthy! Start the walking and if you don’t have a safe place to walk outside, walk inside even if it is just up and down your hall way or in a mall somewhere but get those legs moving, stand in your living room and do range of motion exercises for a while each day. Then do something NICE for yourself every day!!!!!
Here’s your FREE “life coach” lecture from the Ox Drover—now shape up or I’ll boink ya! LOL ((((HUgs))))
Nah, EB, D and calcium is another thing that we some times are low in, and when we lose the hormones (menopause) we have trouble absorbing either. So even though we were posting over each other, I read your mind and gave Oxy’s health advice for mature women! LOL
Good Lord, Ox, that’s a lot of stuff… :0 but I will try.