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  • mellymoo74
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    Happy new year Joan.

    Managed to get in for my hair so I should look less like a scarecrow gutted about eyebrows I resemble a wolf currently due to overgrownness
  • Glad that you are feeling, better Joan! there are many strange bugs about. As well as WaSp and I, my teacher friend has something weird, his wife has a different weird thing and even my friend in America has been throwing up for the last few days. It is easy to become worried by an illness that you have never experienced before, I am awaiting in horror for the next unexpected stage of flu!

    Have a lovely New Year, I hope it is everything that you hope for.

    Aww, Melly I am sure it isn't a bad as it feels! The hair appointment will make you feel better!
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  • Pyxis
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    Here's an early Happy New Year, Joanthebone!


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  • Well well! I have been reading an article in Therapy Today which is VERY relevant to all our talk about food and being overweight. I hope it's not breaking any rules if I quote a little bit in an academic way.


    The article is about 'Challenging Fat Oppression' by Jo Reader, in the Dec 2014 edition.


    '..I also began to discover that the risks associated with obesity are not as clear-cut as we have been led to believe. For example, there is
    little or no correlation between weight and health in the large majority of large-scale epidemiological studies about fat. Indeed, repeated dieting causes more long term damage than keeping active with a stable body weight – the fittest people live the longest, however much they weigh. Dieting damages ‘the delicate balance of our bodies [which] cannot withstand repeated or constant semi-starvation’.


    ....researchers have also admitted that they are asked to ‘portray obesity in the worst way possible’ because the diet and pharmaceutical industry rely on research to justify their products and they are the companies who sponsor their research.'


    interesting, dontcha think?

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  • Pyxis
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    mellymoo74 wrote: »
    Managed to get in for my hair so I should look less like a scarecrow gutted about eyebrows I resemble a wolf currently due to overgrownness

    Aah! I get it now! You had an appointment at the salon, but you overslept so missed the eyebrow-shaping!

    I think this chest of gunge has affected my brain! :rotfl:
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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  • mellymoo74
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    Glad that you are feeling, better Joan! there are many strange bugs about. As well as WaSp and I, my teacher friend has something weird, his wife has a different weird thing and even my friend in America has been throwing up for the last few days. It is easy to become worried by an illness that you have never experienced before, I am awaiting in horror for the next unexpected stage of flu!

    Have a lovely New Year, I hope it is everything that you hope for.

    Aww, Melly I am sure it isn't a bad as it feels! The hair appointment will make you feel better!

    It is I look awful lol. Been running on empty for too long with the MIL and SIL stuff (thread raised) and OH finally getting his diagnosis (the crumbly bones arthritis) so thinking I would leave him. Then trying g to work with a 3 hour commute do all the caring and dog stuff so no wonder I look awful have no energy and have relapsed.
  • mellymoo74
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Aah! I get it now! You had an appointment at the salon, but you overslept so missed the eyebrow-shaping!

    I think this chest of gunge has affected my brain! :rotfl:

    I think the 1.5 hours sleep probably haven't helped me make sense lol
  • Waves_and_Smiles
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    edited 31 December 2014 at 2:17PM
    Aw, Melly a relapse is certainly not surprising, you have so much on your plate. It makes these times to get your hair done, etc all the more important, you need to do things for you! Tell your OH to stop being silly, I have had the crumbly arthritis thing for 25 years and you get used it and I have never been left!

    That is what my endocrinologist tells me, JM. Everytime I see him I mumble that my metabolism won't allow me to lose weight, he repeatedly tells me that my weight isn't a concern even though it is into the obese category. He feels it is far more important to achieve a stable metabolism than to be the 'correct' weight and not having stability is far more damaging to the body. He is also not concerned that my metabolism is very low, providing it doesn't increase or decrease rapidly. We are always looking for steady numbers. In my case with my metabolic problems, hypoglycaemia and history of binging and starvation he told me that I simply cannot afford to diet again, ever. My body won't cope with it and at the extreme I could be looking at organ failure and Type 1 diabetes if I try.
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
  • mellymoo74
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    Aw, Melly a relapse is certainly not surprising, you have so much on your plate. It makes these times to get your hair done, etc all the more important, you need to do things for you! Tell your OH to stop being silly, I have had the crumbly arthritis thing for 25 years and you get used it and I have never been left!

    That is what my endocrinologist tells me, JM. Everytime I see him I mumble that my metabolism won't allow me to lose weight, he repeatedly tells me that my weight isn't a concern even though it is into the obese category. He feels it is far more important to achieve a stable metabolism than to be the 'correct' weight and not having stability is far more damaging to the body.

    Thanks WaS he knows he's being daft but he also has OCD and anxiety so his head keeps telling him I'm going to go silly boy.

    Am leaving in 2 get hair done then might nap.
  • Pyxis
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    Yes, have a good nap, Mellymoo. Also, while you're out, buy yourself a treat, not necessarily edible, perhaps some nice face or hand cream?
    (I just lurve spiders!)
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