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Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw

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I try & keep my body very healthy overall, but I have my traps.

I like to drink beer, usually a lot at once. I try & work on this by sticking with liquor.

I try and make myself stand up for a minute or two for every hour I sit, but I get lazy & forget a lot. I also slouch & have a bad habit of using my computer in bed which puts a strain on my neck/back. I don't know a good way to work on this without getting more pillows.

I'm a sucker for microwave burritos. I'm also a sucker for a carb-loaded breakfast. I try & fix those by cooking large meals ahead of time & eating as needed.

Since I rarely drink soda, I have a lot of sugar-free drink mixes for work, but I'm trying to cut back. I just hate the way water tastes.

Perhaps most unhealthy is when I start binging & don't eat but a few hundred Calories for a few days. I've lost 5-10lbs in the past week or two. I feel like my hipbones could open bottles :|. The only way around that is to not get so wasted for such long periods of time, and I'm working on that.

Other than that, I do pretty well. Lots of lean meat, veggies, no fast food, mostly drink water or almond milk, no canned food, little frozen food.
 
I don't wash my face and brush my teeth every night before I go to bed.
I have been slack with flossing.
I don't drink enough water when I am at home.
 
I'm a sucker for chocolates, all you can eat places and chips if that makes everyone feel better lol. I'm a meaty girl but it's all good I like my body the way it is haha! I'm in between chubby and skinny if that makes sense lol!!!.
 
what PI said

also i break down and drink soda sometimes, i think i am most ashamed of that.

the biggest thing is that i don't eat enough calories.
 
Inconsistency. Old habits die hard. For years I've gone back and forth between my extremely healthful lifestyle and my old unhealthful one, the latter spurred by a lapse of willpower/overtaxing myself/drug use (mostly the latter, particularly marijuana).

Being healthful is like a high-performance vehicle. Everything's gotta be just right and you can do amazing things, but if you surround yourself with temptation and don't look three steps ahead of every potential action, you are precariously close to breaking down and going in the shop for a few weeks.
 
Uhh... My diet lately is dark chocolate, and chicken. It's not by choice. I just can't tolerate other foods without getting hives, or other symptoms, that suck. I have tried cacao powder. I think I'm okay with it. I may start messing with that instead of the dark chocolate, as it doesn't have the added sugar and tons of saturated fat that the dark chocolate has.

Chicken... I have been eating a lot of liver. I love it. But I know I am overdoing it on the vitamin A, and need to take a break from it. I tried some regular chicken, but I reacted/got a headache, which may have not been from the chicken, but the medium it was stored in (some kind of polystyrene/oil-based foam that likely leaches, and me being allergic to petrocarbons in my water, I likely have issues with them leaching into food from their mediums).

When I eat liver, or any meat (I have tried lamb, but quit because I got a horrible headache last time, which may not have been the lamb), I drench it in hemp oil. I love fat. I don't think hemp oil is a bad choice for it, and probably is keeping me alive. Haha. When I'm done with the food, I tip the bowl I eat it in, with the left over oil, sometimes two spoons worth or more, into my mouth, and drink.

I also have gallbladder dysfunction, or it contracts/spasms and becomes painful, so this isn't recommended, but fat actually seems to help, sometimes. Swishing it in my mouth/mixing with enzymes/diluting, keeps it from being painful.

My diet just ... sucks.

I guess technically I could "tolerate" other, healthful foods... ones I am still allergic to (will get a single hive, for instance, or a headache), but might benefit my health and keep me alive in the long run, but I have this horrible pain avoidance habit...

But... My grandma's diet was comprised of a good deal of chocolate (though it was milk), for proportion of "normal", I seem to think, and very little actual food from the looks of it- what it was, and she lived to be 93. I think my genes coming from her might be designed to just stay alive. She smoked, stopped walking because of arthritis years before she died... I just have a feeling I'm designed to put up with shit, and live. I mean she can't have had enough nutrients. I have lived for years without a real supply of sodium, myself. No salt. No sodium intake, except what I bathe in (soap- replaced with baking soda)... or brush my teeth with... but i never show real signs of sodium deficiency. Which basically means.. I mean... you people are recommended a gram a day of salt. I have had a gram of salt in the past year. Maybe that's not in proportion, but where the hell am I getting my stuff (but chicken has some sodium)? How am I even alive? I ate hemp seeds for two years, and that was pretty much it, and I know that it doesn't have the salt/sodium.

Does the body absorb it in water?

Sometimes, I admit, I do simply eat/drink in water or my own saliva, baking soda. But not so much.

Sorry for the ramble. I could go on.
 
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^ oh my... I give you credits for having the discipline and surviving as well. I can't imagine having that kind of sensitivity, it's going to drive me insane.
 
I eat a huge meal minutes before I go to bed. I rarely brush my teeth, I cannot stop myself from picking my nose and eating it. I also cannot stop myself from biting off my finger nails. I chew at them and pick at the skin around them until they bleed. And after that happens, when they're sore and stinging with pain, I will push down on the broken nail to cause more pain. I know that sounds retarded, but by causing more pain - it, ironically, stops a lot of the pain. This is likely due to natural opioid release by the brain in order cope with the pain that I am ironically causing.

I also suck my thumb and I'm 17. I have a blanket - that's now a rag, that I've had ever since I was born that I put up to my face and hold with the same hand I'm sucking my thumb with (which is my left hand). I, sometimes, have to suppress this urge to avoid embarrassment. But when I'm by myself, If I feel the urge to suck my thumb, I cannot help myself.

I'm, also, rarely able to stop my compulsive impulses (picking my nose, sucking my thumb and biting my fingernails, I would consider compulsions).
 
I used to do that... The biting of my nails until bleeding... picking nose eating it... I think it took becoming sensitive to my environment and a hypochondriac (more afraid of chemicals on things though) to get me to stop.

I have no desire to eat them... But pick my nose whenever I get the chance (that is, I get a sense of satisfaction clearing the things if they are there... I also get that with earwax, which I don't get as much of anymore). I wash my hands specifically for it! :) I mostly use my thumbs anymore. For some reason others don't feel right, unless the thumb can't accomplish it.

I do still bite nails occasionally until they bleed. Usually it is after I have picked at them and created a hangnail, but I used to feast, eating the skin around them...
 
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Loll unhealthy living hobbits! I have to add lack of sleep btw. I'm so not a morning person and my sleeping time is super late!!!
 
I have difficulties motivating myself to get back on my workout routine if I slack for more than a few days, like currently. Hoping I can get it together to do something tomorrow.
 
^get your ass off and give me 300 situps and 300 pushups now! :)
 
I do not have a normal sleeping schedule. Since I work on my PC at home for now I usually just go to sleep when I want and wake up whenever I wake up.

It has been great for my gains which is the reason I decided to take this apartment and put myself in this situation, but it's playing hell on me being able to keep a somewhat regular schedule or even a daily expectation.
 
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