Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[debbatx]

Oh! One other HUGE thing I have cut out- Caffeine. Yup. No coffee. No tea. No soda.

The thought makes me want to go ahead and stab out my eyeball, just so I won't have to deal with the headache. That said, I pretty much only drink my morning coffee these days. But I'd be a raging lunatic bitch without that.

[diablita]

same here, debba.  same here.

[debbatx]

Survived the gym tonight. If being sore makes the scale go up on Saturday, I'm going to be PISSED. I guess I should probably work out tomorrow to try and prevent that, huh? Dang.

[triciaflower]

I dealt with one day-long caffeine withdrawal headache. I waited it out and suffered until is passed because I knew if I had caffeine, I'd have to start again the next day. So here I am. A month so far, without coffee.

I still crave it sometimes, and believe me, it takes some serious control to say no when you're surrounded by it. 

[Courtney]

That is quite a feat for a coffee shop owner!! 

[Magic Microbe]

I dealt with one day-long caffeine withdrawal headache. I waited it out and suffered until is passed because I knew if I had caffeine, I'd have to start again the next day. So here I am. A month so far, without coffee.

I still crave it sometimes, and believe me, it takes some serious control to say no when you're surrounded by it. 

Lucky. I gave up caffeine once and had to suffer through a weeklong pounding headache. Never again!

[merigayle]

i gave up caffeine for a long time, but recently i have one cup of tea in the morning.

with my cut back calories, i am not seeing a move on the scale at all. trying to accept that it is what it is

[debbatx]

Yeah, I "gave up" coffee when I was sick over memorial day, and had a pounding headache for almost a week.

[Courtney]

I'm still on caffiene  



Mmmmm...  I'm having one now. 

[merigayle]

i was a Mtn Dew (diet) addict in grad school! LOL.

so, although the scale is not budging (though ovulation due around tomorrow, so could just be bloating?) i was looking in the mirror today at work and thinking i was looking pretty fly. 

[debbatx]

In high school, when I was dancing 4 days a week and in theater and walking regularly, weekend pre-rehearsal breakfasts were frequently a liter of Mt. Dew and a pack of Skittles.

[Bolloxd]

I'm not a happy person without coffee.  Just one cup will do but until then I cannot function.

The cupcake thread made me bake some lemon-blueberry cupcakes yesterday.   Which also includes eating the batter, frosting, and finished product.   Gah.   I have been doing my push ups and crunches again regularly.   

[diablita]

A local friend who's a neurology PA just posted on her FB about a correlation b/w drinking coffee and reduced risk of Parkinson's and skin cancer.  Another reason to have another cup!

(and rescue this thread.  boo)

[debbatx]

Oh thank God, you found it. Whew.

Thai food for lunch, pretty basic but yummy dinner - grilled chicken on the Foreman, roasted carrots, and couscous.  for the number on the scale tomorrow.

[diablita]

good luck, debba

[debbatx]

Thanks! You know I'll let y'all know as soon as I do.

[triciaflower]

Lucky. I gave up caffeine once and had to suffer through a weeklong pounding headache. Never again!

Oh believe me, if that had lasted more than two days, I probably wouldn't have totally given it up. Just cut back.

[diablita]

I ate too few calories in the morning b/c I was so busy at work.  When I went out for my run at 1, it was way too hot and I was way too underfueled and I bonked and cut it short. 
Now I'm sipping on sweet tea vodka and snacking on a few chips with salsa.  So I'll pay.  But hopefully the salt will be out of my system by Monday's weigh-in.

(I was down to a new number this morning, though. yay!)

[diablita]

oh, and since we talk about exercise in here (including r*nning), maybe we can get this moved to the running board?

[triciaflower]

That seriously sucks about the food forum.