rhahl wrote:
 
The condition or risk is real.  There is nothing wrong with pre-testing; it is the response that matters.   If the response is drugs, then yes, there is a serious problem here.

In a similar fashion, if the only tools in the tool-kit for chronic back pain are drugs and surgery, then yes, there is a serious problem.  

The underlying serious question is why are folks so averse to exercise?  Along the same line, why do folks insist on such awful diets when media, not just elite media, have been spelling out the dangers for decades now?  

Dubious diagnosis

After massive infusions of the high protein Ensure,I've been able to put 10 pounds back on.I'm actually 3 #'s over pre-boot camp weight.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
Bet you're not entering the change, though, are ya?
 
 
I eat plenty of protein, too. And exercise almost every day. Something has changed in the past 6 months (as in, slowed down and nothing I used to do successfully works anymore), and that's the only correlation I can see.

 Alexandra wrote: 
My metabolism is older than yours, hon. I think really pushing the protein hard may help - I have a BACON snack almost every morning and eat a lot of cottage cheese. I want to drop another five, that will put me at 170. I'm thinking that's right where I want to be.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
That's fantastic!
 
Carb-limiting no longer has that magic effect on me where I shed a bunch of pounds.  Got damn metabolism.
 
I still limit, though. A bunch.

I've lost ten pounds since the end of April by limiting my carb intake but eating all the protein I want. Just sayin'.

 wallacehartley wrote: 
I won't be impressed until you play footy barefoot. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
when should I stop?

Happy International Yoga Day!

 

I am wondering if my new -found liking for running is because I have been doing it in Vibrams, or if its because I have developed such a liking for yoga as well and done so much of it in the past few years, or because the mi!itary, where I learned to hate running, is but a very distant memory??

I'm thinking its the Vibrams.... I might try barefoot soon...

Grocery shopping in Turkey:

Taking it up to another level, doing Qi Gong for neck and upper back. Highly recommend. Accupuncture is into 3rd week now, the demon in my back is on the run and the pain shows up in random different places every day, at least it no longer resides permanently on the right side of my neck. Sometimes in the middle of the night I can hear it bargaining between fits of rage.  I am stalwart in my quest for pain free fluidity, I shall be free........

I have a totally newfound respect for yoga practitioners! That shi'te is hard!! I probably shouldn't have started with the P90x version.  Also about to try accupuncture, anyone have any experiences with it?

 sirdroseph wrote: 
I stumbled across that one on Tumblr - one blog posts a lot of early 20th Century print ads.  I couldn't verify a year or anything, but the wording is so strange in that one...

 Proclivities wrote: 
Where do you find this stuff? I steal many like these to post over at that other place, I love stuff like this.