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How healthy do you think you are?

How healthy do you think you are?

  • I'm really healthy and fit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I'm healthier than the average person

    Votes: 12 44.4%
  • I'm average

    Votes: 6 22.2%
  • I'm not as healthy as the average person

    Votes: 8 29.6%
  • I'm in really bad shape

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • Total voters
    27

flyhighk

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I'm definitely healthier than the average person, and I'm always trying to get healthier, both physically and mentally. What about you?
 
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I would consider myself as healthier than average. I exercise from 5-6 days a week which I consider as active and eat very healthy. Like you, I am always keen on becoming healthier. There's always room for improvement as they say.
 
I have a condition that when untreated has a 20-30% mortality rate and I'm learning to give myself IVs to treat it. Along with that, I have more common health issues like allergies, asthma, nasal polyps, migraines, psoriasis and hypertension.
 
Have you tried any type of light exercise that suited you? Even yoga might be able to help no?
 
I'm hoping to get back into things again. Doing little things were a trigger before I was being treated. Most of the other stuff has affected me since I was a kid and I was fairly active when my asthma would allow me to be. The hypertension showed up before the genetic condition, and I was fairly healthy at the time. I've put on a fair bit of weight since cuz of feeling sick so often. The condition was making my hypertension worse though, since starting the IV med my BP has dropped. I'm hoping now that I can increase my activity level I can lose weight and get my BP lower and reduce the hypertension med dose.

It wasn't that long ago that I was dancing frequently, teaching dance and going to pilates classes. I ended up to the point where going out grocery shopping might be too much one day and I'd feel like shit the next day after pushing through it.
 
I'd say 7.5-8 out of 10

Because there's always room for improvement.

This. Sadly I know exactly where that room lies (less alcohol, more discipline in going to the gym more regularly) but somehow can't really take that last step
 
"I'm healthier than the average person"
Well, I don't eat meat and I eat very little dairy. Being vegetarian and almost vegan is really helpful. I also avoid a lot of junk food however I don't deprive myself sompletely.
As for exercise, that's where I could improve more. I hula hoop and do a lot of walking and strength exercises daily but not like super intense. But, for the amount I eat, it's fine.

I could definitely improve by cutting out ALL unhealthy foods (as anyone could, really) but I don't think that's necessary. I could improve my doing more intense cardio.... but I probably won't. :P
 
I recently in the past week sneezed and felt a pain where my adductor muscles in the thigh connect to the groin/undercarriage. I'm thinking it is a sports hernia. I lived with a hernia on the other side, inguinal, for 17 years.

My dad was exposed to agent orange, and smoked around my mother during her pregnancy. My brother developed breasts and has weight problems. He was first born. My sister lucked out as far as I can tell. Very pretty IMO. But she has bleached a "mustache" since she hit puberty. I don't know how common that is. I was third born and have suffered chronic ear infections my entire life-- well up until I discovered that a milk allergy was causing all of the inflammation, which caused all of the infections. That occurred at around 27, when I finally found out. At that point my longest continuous infection lasted about 6 months... And may have just been a constant allergic reaction, though I had infections when I was younger that lasted weeks and came back two weeks after knocked them out. At around age 20 I began to experience some of the most excrutiating pain I've ever known, in my face. It was disabling, the pain was. and due to the milk allergy. It put me into a state of chronic inflammation, in hindsight I should have connected that when I got stung by a bee, that it felt similarly, but I thought it was a jaw disorder because that's where a lot of the pain was. The trigeminal I'm sure had inflammation constantly around it.

At the time when the allergy went into that phase at around 20, I also started to hear voices. In layer years I found that they would be condemning and mean when I was suffering from reactions, and when I drank caffeine, more than when I wasn't experiencing the level of allergy. I am probably always having some form of inflammation. Age 20 my social life took a hit. I isolated myself. Talking was easier before, and then with the strange sensations and pain, and mental anguish, and voices that were new and causing me paranoia, I withdrew. I struggled. People thought it was the drugs. Some. I was strong enough to hide it and keep up with some. Omega 3s reduced some of the paranoid symptoms, and inflammation.

I shouldn't really be telling my entire story I guess.

My head was cut into when I was 12 or so, because the chronic infections caused a tumor. I beat my head into the wall when suffering from it, the inflammation and pressure in my head very uncomfortable, having chronic infections and an ear drum that ruptured every morning to seep puss. An exploratory surgery to find the problem as nothing definitive was revealed in CT or MRI, revealed the tumor. I was in surgery 8 hours that time. Modifed mastoidectomy. Then they later reconstructed the ear, as it had been excavated of the disease in the prior surgery, the canal as it was destroyed/heavily altered, and two out of three ear bones gone, and of course the spongy part of the mastoid.

My teeth aren't well off. You can't tell from my smile but the back teeth have trouble... Largely from years of bruxing and consuming lots of caffeine- something I did to battle the tension of reactions.

Hmm.

Gallbladder disease.

I have had blood in my stool twice in the past month, but I think its what I'm consuming. Lots and lots of kelp, in powder form, and apple cider vinegar (16 oz a day) and lots of apple juice.

I lived off of hemp seeds alone for 2+ years, minus the occasional experimenting and chicken livers. I did that because I was very afraid of food. I was afraid of not feeling well. Hemp seeds made me feel alright, where just about everything else messed me up.

Then hemp seeds gave me diarrhea, and more and more I couldn't tolerate batches of them due to contamination or bacteria load.

Now I eat chicken and hemp seed oil. And take vitamins in powders. I should eat apples, but I drink so much unfiltered apple juice too. I may have a low grade allergy to it as my right nostril always has bloody boogers at the end of the day. This could be why my stool has red in it sometimes.

I can't handle perfume, or any man made fragrance. I can tolerate the smell of gasoline easier. Fragrance can give me anywhere from burning mouth/skin and a headache to a full on inflammatory response, felt in my throat. Nausea happens too. As well it effects my mood... Or I just get really pissed. I don't show it to others but I at these times wish they would disappear.

I didn't get a cold this year. I rarely do at all. Ill think I am getting one and it turns out to be a reaction to something. I haven't got the flu in a long time. This could be an upside to an immune system that fights everything. People assume I am healthy. My family tells me how good I look. I weigh 170 at 183-184 cm and two years ago when they worried, I weighed 120, with clothing on. But I'm about the same level of health. I feel about the same. In ways I felt better then, but that could have been because I wasnt metabolizing much.

I can't give myself a rating.
 
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No. Haven't in awhile. I wouldn't right now with that tear in my groin, but wish I could get back into it. I was on a kick some years back but then got a staph infection from the gym, and had to take antibiotics to knock it out, which also put my immune system out of whack, leading to more sensitivities to foods, chemicals, etc. Then I had the surgery to repair a hernia, and lifting especially is something I haven't wanted to do. I also get chronic pain from the repair. Too much movement or the wrong movement can wake up nerves like they're being pinched.

Eh...
 
I am pretty fit for my age but I find that arthritis and stiff joints are getting worse with each passing year. I have been unable to do yoga due to "frozen shoulder" but I'm working on that so hopefully it is a temporary bump in the road. I've been trying to follow a more anti-inflammatory diet lately--maybe that will help.
 
I'm pretty unhealthy. I smoke, I dont go to the gym, and I eat a lot of junk food, but do eat healthy food along with it. But I am an RN so active on my job. I weight about 100lbs, and recently cleared Mono and Hep B.
 
I have a target weight of 130 lbs by the end of this month. I am sitting at 137 lbs at 5'6-5'7 but I feel like I still can lose some more to be more fit. Whatcha think flyhigh?
 
I don't think you'll be able to lose 7lbs by the end of this month..I suggest you lose 1lb a week. You could just do more cardio and eat less, but that isn't a reliable way of losing weight. Better calculate your TDEE here. It should be around 1950calories. If you eat 1450cals, you WILL lose at least a pound a week. Be sure to eat enough protein and fat.
 
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