Water Woes

[IWMP]

Its great that you managed to get to the gym when you didn't feel up to it. That's one of my challenges. Someone asked a friend of mine if I were pregnant. The friend told me they were having a giggle about it. Made me wonder if perhaps she is less of a friend than I thought. But nonetheless, when someone wonders if you are pregnant , it's a sure sign that it's probably time to hit the gym

How rude!!!!

I certainly would be mortified if I assumed someone was pregnant and it turned out they weren't. So even when I really think people are, I just don't ask incase I offend someone. But to be fair, the lady that asked it is like in her 90s and is the sweetest person. She wouldn't have meant to be offensive.

[drumdude]

How rude!!!!

I certainly would be mortified if I assumed someone was pregnant and it turned out they weren't. So even when I really think people are, I just don't ask incase I offend someone. But to be fair, the lady that asked it is like in her 90s and is the sweetest person. She wouldn't have meant to be offensive.

Ah well that’s different lol

[Valo]

We will feel happiest and have more vitality when we take care of our bodies.

One way that we get disconnected from our spirit is through poor lifestyle choices. Not to mention how, I personally, have had many ailments I was taking medicine for, disappear after I started eating healthier and being more active, consistently. For example I used to have severe gastrointestinal issues, was lactose intolerant, etc. I can now eat and drink any dairy I wish without issues and rarely have stomach issues unless I eat trash food like certain fast foods. High blood pressure, gone. Blood sugar levels great.

Sugar is still a big issue but I am consuming less and it makes a difference. However, it's hard to avoid sugar and super addictive!

In any case, Spirit/Body are connected and our joy and sense of peace in this world gets manipulated by what we eat and how sedentary or not we are. There are systems in place designed to encourage us to be sedentary and to consume foods low in nutrients by highly addictive. If we don't take positive action and force ourselves to act beyond default mode, our default programming will engage and we will continue to do what we always have.

To get out of NPC mode requires desire. Desire comes from loving yourself enough to take care of your body and Spirit, which are connected/One system. When you have sufficient desire to be better because you love yourself, then discipline becomes your friend.

Discipline becomes the friend that tells you to get your fat a$$ up and get to work, even if it means just going through the motions. Even if it means baby steps, we don't allow the default mode of being sedentary and eating junk and making excuses be the driver. When the inner complaining voice whines and says no, you ignore it and take this as a sign that it is now necessary, absolutely necessary, to act or else you will become more and more weak and that is not allowed when you love yourself the way a healthy human loves themselves.

[IWMP]

We will feel happiest and have more vitality when we take care of our bodies.

One way that we get disconnected from our spirit is through poor lifestyle choices. Not to mention how, I personally, have had many ailments I was taking medicine for, disappear after I started eating healthier and being more active, consistently. For example I used to have severe gastrointestinal issues, was lactose intolerant, etc. I can now eat and drink any dairy I wish without issues and rarely have stomach issues unless I eat trash food like certain fast foods. High blood pressure, gone. Blood sugar levels great.

Sugar is still a big issue but I am consuming less and it makes a difference. However, it's hard to avoid sugar and super addictive!

In any case, Spirit/Body are connected and our joy and sense of peace in this world gets manipulated by what we eat and how sedentary or not we are. There are systems in place designed to encourage us to be sedentary and to consume foods low in nutrients by highly addictive. If we don't take positive action and force ourselves to act beyond default mode, our default programming will engage and we will continue to do what we always have.

To get out of NPC mode requires desire. Desire comes from loving yourself enough to take care of your body and Spirit, which are connected/One system. When you have sufficient desire to be better because you love yourself, then discipline becomes your friend.

Discipline becomes the friend that tells you to get your fat a$$ up and get to work, even if it means just going through the motions. Even if it means baby steps, we don't allow the default mode of being sedentary and eating junk and making excuses be the driver. When the inner complaining voice whines and says no, you ignore it and take this as a sign that it is now necessary, absolutely necessary, to act or else you will become more and more weak and that is not allowed when you love yourself the way a healthy human loves themselves.

This makes a lot of sense. I appreciate your perspective. I once tried the low FODMAP diet and within days I lost bloating and my wedding ring fell off. I didn't even realise my fingers were swollen. Apparently my face looked healthier after a couple of weeks. The problem was though, I couldn't get over the sugar cravings and the intense need to eat. My calorie intake had plummeted and food was no longer satisfying. It became eating because I had to. Which I suppose is the ideal but as a person that enjoys food, it was hard. I caved. I wish I kept going and found a distraction.

[Valo]

I was obese and morbidly obese for over 20 years.

I know what it feels like to have cravings and what it feels like to be fat and what it feels like to always be in pain and all that comes from being obese.

I tried many diets and failed and then I would feel like a failure and then I learned to not even try cause I was just gonna fail so then I just kinda gave up.

For me, the underlying issue, was not that I had poor eating habits and was sedentary or was lazy, no. The obesity was a symptom. The real issue is I did not love myself. In fact I hated myself. It wasn't until I started to learn to love and accept myself that I gained the desire to be healthy.

I am the master of my soul. I, my brain, is the "general of my body and my body is the troops" and my body takes orders from me. I am the driver. I am the one in command. Not my body, not my cravings, not my weaknesses. I can't feel good and happiest if my body is not healthy.

I still struggle with loving myself because the self hatred is deep down and for many years hidden but it's still there, those old feelings, part of them are, and it's not always conscious so I have to constantly be vigilant and look out for destructive patterns. I learned to identify self destructive patterns through therapy and years of self work, reading, and educating myself through research and study.

Small, little tiny baby steps done consistently turn in to giant leaps. I had to do baby steps first. Instead of 20 pops/sodas a day I cut out 2, then 3, then 5, etc. Now I still drink pop, but not daily and not as my main drink and with moderation. Same with exercise. I started with just doing some exercise I could do like walking for 5 minutes or stretching for 5 minutes a day. This built up.

Baby steps, time, consistency, discipline, and patience

[Valo]

We will feel happiest and have more vitality when we take care of our bodies.

One way that we get disconnected from our spirit is through poor lifestyle choices. Not to mention how, I personally, have had many ailments I was taking medicine for, disappear after I started eating healthier and being more active, consistently. For example I used to have severe gastrointestinal issues, was lactose intolerant, etc. I can now eat and drink any dairy I wish without issues and rarely have stomach issues unless I eat trash food like certain fast foods. High blood pressure, gone. Blood sugar levels great.

Sugar is still a big issue but I am consuming less and it makes a difference. However, it's hard to avoid sugar and super addictive!

In any case, Spirit/Body are connected and our joy and sense of peace in this world gets manipulated by what we eat and how sedentary or not we are. There are systems in place designed to encourage us to be sedentary and to consume foods low in nutrients by highly addictive. If we don't take positive action and force ourselves to act beyond default mode, our default programming will engage and we will continue to do what we always have.

To get out of NPC mode requires desire. Desire comes from loving yourself enough to take care of your body and Spirit, which are connected/One system. When you have sufficient desire to be better because you love yourself, then discipline becomes your friend.

Discipline becomes the friend that tells you to get your fat a$$ up and get to work, even if it means just going through the motions. Even if it means baby steps, we don't allow the default mode of being sedentary and eating junk and making excuses be the driver. When the inner complaining voice whines and says no, you ignore it and take this as a sign that it is now necessary, absolutely necessary, to act or else you will become more and more weak and that is not allowed when you love yourself the way a healthy human loves themselves.

This makes a lot of sense. I appreciate your perspective. I once tried the low FODMAP diet and within days I lost bloating and my wedding ring fell off. I didn't even realise my fingers were swollen. Apparently my face looked healthier after a couple of weeks. The problem was though, I couldn't get over the sugar cravings and the intense need to eat. My calorie intake had plummeted and food was no longer satisfying. It became eating because I had to. Which I suppose is the ideal but as a person that enjoys food, it was hard. I caved. I wish I kept going and found a distraction.

Processed foods have been engineered by scientist to be highly addictive, to leave you feeling less satiated so you eat more, and the food is designed to create intense cravings. Unfortunately we aren't just fighting against our natural cravings but cravings that have been enhanced artifically by what I consider evil men and women. Don't allow this fact to go unnoticed. Makes me angry when I think that some person wants me to become an obese addicted person and they are clandestinely taking steps to manipulate me so they can make money.

[Valo]

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