Guest guest Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 I find it so frustrating when I read about losing weight & how it will make me healthier. While I know it's true... It's difficult to move some days let alone exercise. So what should I do, starve myself to lose weight? Chelsea Want to Boost Mitochondrial Function? Lose Weight? Got Nicotinamide Riboside? http://www.prohealth.com/fibromyalgia/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=17048 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 > It's difficult to move some days let alone exercise. So what should I do, starve myself to lose weight? > Chelsea I have not been exercising much but I have been losing weight by eliminating white carbohydrates, eating meat, green vegetables, avocado, coconut and dark organic chocolate, (.46 of an ounce a couple times a day, a little Green & Black's, very satisfying). I eat no gluten (no bread, pizza, cake, cookies, no pasta of any kind), no white nor sweet potatoes, some rice occasionally but no other emotionally satisfying foods my family of origin called staples. Giving up white carbs is working since I can now cross my legs with comfort and the crossed leg sits close to my body. It had been decades since doing that comfortably. Losing weight with diet changes is incredibly slow without exercise. I do exercise my core muscles for a few seconds whenever I remember. The exercise is a Jane Fonda one, holding tummy really taut then pulling up my butt into it while remembering to breathe. Breathing during this exercise is important. I appreciate the exercise since it established more body balance since I no longer fall as I stand to walk to bathroom, my other exercise. Sometimes, I hold my tummy taut while walking to bathroom which has becomes easier. I dream of doing yoga, biking and more but exercise causes post-exertional malaise for most people like me with CFS, ME, FMS and Orthostatic Intolerance (which is a condition suffered by 40% of FM patients too). To read more about post exertional malaise: What is CFS?: http://www.cfsnova.com/whatscfs.html and Cracking the Foundations: Pacific Fatigue Labs & CFS - Interview with Staci s, Exercise Physiologist, U of Pacific: http://phoenixrising.me/pages/News/PRJan09Pacific.html and CFIDS Chronicle article by Staci s about exercise for CFIDS patients, page 6: http://www.cfids.org/archives/2004/summer-issue.pdf toni cf-alliance.tripod.com/ from iPodTouch > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 > It's difficult to move some days let alone exercise. So what should I do, starve myself to lose weight? > Chelsea I have not been exercising much but I have been losing weight by eliminating white carbohydrates, eating meat, green vegetables, avocado, coconut and dark organic chocolate, (.46 of an ounce a couple times a day, a little Green & Black's, very satisfying). I eat no gluten (no bread, pizza, cake, cookies, no pasta of any kind), no white nor sweet potatoes, some rice occasionally but no other emotionally satisfying foods my family of origin called staples. Giving up white carbs is working since I can now cross my legs with comfort and the crossed leg sits close to my body. It had been decades since doing that comfortably. Losing weight with diet changes is incredibly slow without exercise. I do exercise my core muscles for a few seconds whenever I remember. The exercise is a Jane Fonda one, holding tummy really taut then pulling up my butt into it while remembering to breathe. Breathing during this exercise is important. I appreciate the exercise since it established more body balance since I no longer fall as I stand to walk to bathroom, my other exercise. Sometimes, I hold my tummy taut while walking to bathroom which has becomes easier. I dream of doing yoga, biking and more but exercise causes post-exertional malaise for most people like me with CFS, ME, FMS and Orthostatic Intolerance (which is a condition suffered by 40% of FM patients too). To read more about post exertional malaise: What is CFS?: http://www.cfsnova.com/whatscfs.html and Cracking the Foundations: Pacific Fatigue Labs & CFS - Interview with Staci s, Exercise Physiologist, U of Pacific: http://phoenixrising.me/pages/News/PRJan09Pacific.html and CFIDS Chronicle article by Staci s about exercise for CFIDS patients, page 6: http://www.cfids.org/archives/2004/summer-issue.pdf toni cf-alliance.tripod.com/ from iPodTouch > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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