I'm thinking about adding a piece or 2 of bacon to my breakfast, because I can't believe how quickly I get hungry after eating a big bowl of oatmeal with protein powder and coconut oil in it. Also applesauce and fruit.

I actually also think it is the fat, not nrcessarily the protein that makes me crave meat. Right now i am super duper craving spinach!

I'd be interested in joining the group, Rebecca.

(ignores the half eaten piece of cake next to me)

For what it's worth, my weight has been stable for years, the number hasn't changed on the doctor's scale for months and months and months. And if the tape measure isn't lying, I think I've lost a couple of inches--or I measured wrong a few months ago. But I absolutely need to move more.

::raises head::

There's cake? Cake someone's not eating?

I'm so frustrated with my weight right now. I've been heavy all my life and have made peace with my body for the most part. BUT the last few months have seen multiple courses of Prednisone with the crazy eating cravings and I have added more pounds and now I am just not comfortable.

But it is that crappy circle of knowing I need to exercise and cut calories. Exercise kicks my asthma, which requires prednisone, and I end up mindlessly consuming calories. Lather, rinse, repeat. I just want to break out of the asthma cycle and I'll be in better shape to handle the other parts.

Venting. Sorry. Rebecca, add me in, please. Even if it is small changes in the short term, I have to do something.

How are you feeling, Burrell?

Much better, seems to have passed this morning, so it may very well have been stress or coffee or something like that. Thanks for asking.

Suzi, I realize I am sort of in the Bob likes carrots phase of tai chi, but have you thought about something like that or maybe yoga, something that allows you to focus on strength and flexibility not aerobics? Seems like it would be less likely to trigger the asthma.

Exercise kicks my asthma,

God, yes. I think I've been under-estimating the affect asthma has been having on my life all these years. I figured the trouble breathing was just because I'm fat and out of shape, but depending on the air quality and the temperature, the exact same walk from the parking lot to my office will feel very different, lung wise. And I've been getting into a bad feedback loop of "hard to breathe, something must be going wrong with something, what's happening that I'm not dealing with." I've assumed that most of the asthma went away as I got older, and I don't think so, now.

Exercise induced asthma really seems terribly unfair.

Exercise induced asthma IS really unfair. Humph.

I'm not sure that Atkins made me feel any good, but lowER carb definitely does. I'm just like Jesse though, in that carbs are my One True Love and therefore never gonna give them up...and I'm A+