SparkNB's Journey to Fitness

  WOOT! My candidate is the first immigrant daughter of color nominated as a VP. The beginning of the end! YEAH! PS: Kamala means lotus   Member Comments About This Blog Post v ROBEC4175     364 days ago v CD930416 364 days ago v 79PODGIRL YES!      368 days ago v LORI-K             368 days ago v MERMAIDLIFE I'm excited, too! 368 days ago v 1CRAZYDOG 368 days ago v 56ROSE   368 days ago v GOLFGMA Be glad when the election is behind us.  369 days ago v RIDLEYRIDER 369 days ago v HMBROWN1 How exciting! Best wishes to your candidate! 369 days ago v THROOPER62     369 days ago v RODILLA68 Thanks 369 days ago v CD6913562 369 days ago

  One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how basic what we eat is to our short-term, daily health. I often have these thoughts in the bathroom. It's difficult to not be indelicate on this subject, but our diets influence our digestion (we are what we eat). In most other matters, don't most people simply do what's best for their own health...yet eating (& hydrating) is so fraught with personal choice and preference in our society today, and so influenced by industry and what it produces (the food industrial complex) that we now have to use a website to discuss it. In comparing current foods to life a century ago or pretty much any other time in the past vs.modern time we had less choice, but overall less problems. Most people stayed lean and ate whole foods; though both my grandfathers, who were both 'from the old country', died relatively young of heart failure (about 65) and that was probably due to the emphasis on meat in their diets. The dig

  So the summer5% team has weigh-ins on Saturday (night). I was hoping I could keep up my streak of loss every week I've had so far this summer, but I *did* binge several times this week, and while I exercised a couple hours several days, I wasn't as hardcore as previous weeks, so I just wasn't sure. Then yesterday I had a very bad stomach ache, a literal pain in my stomach, which I noticed in the AM, before breakfast, but it was a stabbing pain for much of the afternoon. I thought it might have been related to my binges or maybe a slight food poisoning from some of the raw freggies that I eat in large quantities (& several carrots was one of my binges, a healthier one). So I had very low calorie count yesterday, just my standard breakfast, and a small yogurt when I was really hungry at dinner time, and mostly lay around, & watched tv. I weighed myself in the evening, but was feeling pretty weak, and it was jumping around, and I was wearing extra clothes because I w