::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+

I am thinking about a group willing to be pretty active with posting/tracking/sharing in a closed group somewhere.

Sure, yeah.

I think I'm A+, and while carbs are my emotional comfort food (pancakes 4eva!), I do best if my diet is protein and leafy veg heavy.

ION, I have successfully removed the dark pink from my pink streaks! (Buildup/transfer from the burgundy I'm using on the rest of my hair.) Of course, now my pink streaks are cotton candy in texture, not just color, but that's what neutral protein filler and coconut oil are for.

I'm home. Reunited with my phone. Lungs still hate me. Tired. But wide awake.

A-, extremely fat, felt pretty good on Atkins, but did not lose as dramatically as I had hoped. I lost 50 pounds when I gave up dieting, but I find mindful/intuitive eating unsustainable because in order to pull it off, I would have to respect and care for the body.