The the 14th of April.... make a vow.....

SarahMs

I was diagnosed with IBS 6months ago and honestly have never really took it seriously, I still ate whatever whenever and now I'm starting to feel the effects....

So this is my vow.... from midnight tonight I will eat a healthy balanced diet and not eat all the things which affect me. It sounds stupid but I have put it off too much scared almost of not being able to eat 'normally' but its just giving me too much hassle! now its public I have to stick to it!

Whats yours?
one less cup of coffee? be nicer in the mornings? be more outgoing?

Pembily

SarahMs wrote: »

I was diagnosed with IBS 6months ago and honestly have never really took it seriously, I still ate whatever whenever and now I'm starting to feel the effects....

So this is my vow.... from midnight tonight I will eat a healthy balanced diet and not eat all the things which affect me. It sounds stupid but I have put it off too much scared almost of not being able to eat 'normally' but its just giving me too much hassle! now its public I have to stick to it!

Whats yours?
one less cup of coffee? be nicer in the mornings? be more outgoing?

Fair play - maybe keep a food diary to see your triggers if you don't know already!!! I have IBS too and its horrible!!!

My vow is to spend the next 4.5 weeks focused on college and not Facebook and Boards as I am getting a Mechanical Engineering Degree not a FB or boards degree :eek:

Pembily

Pembily wrote: »

rible!!!

My vow is to spend the next 4.5 weeks focused on college and not Facebook and Boards as I am getting a Mechanical Engineering Degree not a FB or boards degree :eek:

Do you want me to dispense some whoop ass, If I see you online? :P

I'm gonna get my garden done sharpish! 14th of April....how did that happen!

princess-lala

I was diagnosed 4 years ago and cant eat so many foods but "treat" myself now and again and really suffer after it!

Ah what the hell from tomorrow Im not gonna eat my daily Mars bar - instead I will have a banana

offaly1

I vow to start the couch 2 5 k training programme! I need some motivation to get fit...:eek:

Silverfish

offaly1 wrote: »

I vow to start the couch 2 5 k training programme! I need some motivation to get fit...:eek:

I'm going to start this tomorrow. So if ye see someone collapsed and vomiting around Crumlin - it's probably me.

Stheno

wtf is couch 2 5k training?

Is it what I think it is where you go from being a slob on the sofa to being able to run 5k without collapsing? /shudders

rainbow kirby

offaly1 wrote: »

I vow to start the couch 2 5 k training programme! I need some motivation to get fit...:eek:

Silverfish wrote: »

I'm going to start this tomorrow. So if ye see someone collapsed and vomiting around Crumlin - it's probably me.

Couch to 5k support thread - poke yer head in there

I will resist the urge to hit the snooze button multiple times tomorrow, and I will not use the fact that my first class is at 2pm as an excuse to sleep until midday. :pac:

WindSock

Pembily wrote: »

My vow is to spend the next 4.5 weeks focused on college and not Facebook and Boards as I am getting a Mechanical Engineering Degree not a FB or boards degree :eek:

If only.....

Good luck with that

Wibbs

Silverfish wrote: »

I'm going to start this tomorrow. So if ye see someone collapsed and vomiting around Crumlin - it's probably me.

Call me. I'll be in my car and G'em will be pushing same, so we'll get ya home together regardless. Faster than if I was driving like the granny I do

Stheno

Wibbs wrote: »

Call me. I'll be in my car and G'em will be pushing same, so we'll get ya home together regardless.

Lolol Does g'em know about this?

Wibbs

Well shes a very practical person so given a choice between me pushing and her driving or.. well she'll wish she could do both at the same time.

SarahMs

think im gonna try the couch to 5 k too......... people will think i have gone mad in my tiny town ha ha.

10 mins in.... so far so good!

Stheno

Wibbs wrote: »

Well shes a very practical person so given a choice between me pushing and her driving or.. well she'll wish she could do both at the same time.

AA membership is your friend, no fear of being beaten up by a weightlifter who's frustrated and cheaper than a trip to casualty

Shelga

Pembily wrote: »

Fair play - maybe keep a food diary to see your triggers if you don't know already!!! I have IBS too and its horrible!!!

My vow is to spend the next 4.5 weeks focused on college and not Facebook and Boards as I am getting a Mechanical Engineering Degree not a FB or boards degree :eek:

Me too, same degree! We must resist boards!

g'em

Wibbs wrote: »

Well shes a very practical person so given a choice between me pushing and her driving or.. well she'll wish she could do both at the same time.

You know me too well...

Great idea for a thread, really great, and so well timed. I gave up chocolate, sweets and crisps for Lent, and whaddya know my IBS all but disappeared. A week and a half later and bodyweight amounts of chocolate bars, eggs, biscuits, and ice cream later and I'm feeling miserable again

So from today onwards I vow to only eat chocolate once a week, on a weekend, and only in one sitting

mandz

SarahMs wrote: »

I was diagnosed with IBS 6months ago and honestly have never really took it seriously, I still ate whatever whenever and now I'm starting to feel the effects....

So this is my vow.... from midnight tonight I will eat a healthy balanced diet and not eat all the things which affect me. It sounds stupid but I have put it off too much scared almost of not being able to eat 'normally' but its just giving me too much hassle! now its public I have to stick to it!

I suffer from IBS too, to be honest I'm not quite sure what my trigger foods and pretty much eat everything (but I have been trying to clean up my diet recently in order to lose weight like most women). Thankfully I only suffer the extreme form when I'm stressed. I recently got a great tip, buy a bottle of peppermint oil (I got a bottle in Holland and Barrett for 6.99e) and if you feel any twinge of IBS put 2-3 drops in some water (it says warm water on bottle) and drink it. I've started taking it every morning just in case. There's tablets on the market at the moment, can't remember what their called but they only contain peppermint oil so buying the bottle is a better value investment in my opinion in these recessionary times as it'll last longer.

princess-lala

g'em wrote: »

You know me too well...

Great idea for a thread, really great, and so well timed. I gave up chocolate, sweets and crisps for Lent, and whaddya know my IBS all but disappeared. A week and a half later and bodyweight amounts of chocolate bars, eggs, biscuits, and ice cream later and I'm feeling miserable again

So from today onwards I vow to only eat chocolate once a week, on a weekend, and only in one sitting

I always put mine down to other foods and NEVER ever blame my lovely chocolate! Even though the doc says it probably is! Ok instead of giving up my one mars bar Im gonna give up all chocolate and sweets for a few weeks and see how I get on

Xiney

I vow to start drinking my 2 litres of water a day again. I'd been doing so well for years and I pretty much stopped sometime in the past year.


We'll work on the healthy eating after that... baby steps... baby steps...

Pembily

Moonbaby wrote: »

Do you want me to dispense some whoop ass, If I see you online? :P

I'm gonna get my garden done sharpish! 14th of April....how did that happen!

Defo ass wooping I know April is nearly gone!! :eek:

WindSock wrote: »

If only.....

Good luck with that

Thanks :rolleyes:

Shelga wrote: »

Me too, same degree! We must resist boards!

Oh fellow Mech Eng I wonder can I block boards???:rolleyes:

Xiney

Pembily wrote: »

Oh fellow Mech Eng I wonder can I block boards???:rolleyes:

People have asked for temporary bans from the site to make sure they can't see it - the ban expires the day after their due date/exams finish :P

Problem is... if you're going to procrastinate in one way you're likely to find a different way of doing it.

Pembily

Xiney wrote: »

People have asked for temporary bans from the site to make sure they can't see it - the ban expires the day after their due date/exams finish :P

Problem is... if you're going to procrastinate in one way you're likely to find a different way of doing it.

That is so true, also I don't want a ban as I like to post my food diary and come in here and laugh when people have to be cut out of dresses!!!

A proper long term vow of mine is swim and do any exercises I am given from the physio to strengthen my back - a solid proper vow!!!! I am 26 and have a bad back, what will I be like at 46 let alone 86 :eek:

peggie

read this post this morning and thought the couch 2 5k sounded great, have talked about learning how to run for years so decided this morning i would just do it and follow the couch 2 5k plan......all great til i finished work and realised opps i actually need to do it to do it! but despite dreadful humour i got up off my tushie and did first run of first week- friday is the next day and i have no work on fri so no excuse- wish me luck!
thanks for getting me on the road
peg

Blush_01

I am cleaning up my CV. No more procrastinating!

Silverfish

I didn't make it, I wussed out and walked 5km instead.

Travel is good

Xiney wrote: »

People have asked for temporary bans from the site to make sure they can't see it - the ban expires the day after their due date/exams finish :P

Problem is... if you're going to procrastinate in one way you're likely to find a different way of doing it.

I think this is a great idea! Say if we don't go on boards for an hour, then we could go out and exercise for an hour, that the theory anyway!

I had heard about some people giving up the internet for Lent. It might give you time to do other things which would benefit your health. I know myself, i never get enough time to read all the nutitional literature or keep a food diary. I'm trying to do that now.

g'em

g'em wrote: »

So from today onwards I vow to only eat chocolate once a week, on a weekend, and only in one sitting

Birthday dinner. Chocolate Fudge cake. I failed to keep my vow epically

Xiney

Awwww

chocolate is a tough one though.


I had my porrige for breakfast today, instead of going "meh" to breakfast, going hungry, going ravenous, and pulling up a chair to the fridge by 11:40. Filling up my Nalgene in 3...2....

Silverfish

Silverfish wrote: »

I didn't make it, I wussed out and walked 5km instead.

Still!

Snowie

look folks choclate is hard to give up...

but Ive found away

God forgive me for saying this tho humous is a good subsitiute, also avacado, made into quackamoli with tortia chips is also a rather decent subsitute... Properly made not that chemicakl induced crap you buy, in super markets and if any one says its easy to buy it... It may well be but, you dont gtet the satisfaction from making it your self and that euphric sensation of how good it taste maybe thats because Im an awesome cook

another one is cinimon and rasin bagels as well as rasin and nuts... Its doable.. cause im doing it and im the bigist fan of dark choclate ever... I miss it texture its warming flavour ......

but im doing it..... I dont eat any choclate any more. thoI hve the odd pastry on a sunday morning with to crosaunts and a cup of java black mmmmmmm and a cinemon swirl then i brush my teath... like mad

Xiney

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

quackamoli

ROFLMAO

Do you make it out of ducks?

Silverfish

There's 276 calories in an avocado, and 175 calories in a creme egg.

So you go on there with your avocado, and I'll have two creme eggs.

Oh, and about 412 cals in a croissant

Another 5km today, so I've walked 20km this week so far.

CathyMoran

My weight has seriously plummeted since I gave birth to my son almost 2 weeks ago - I would like to try and gain 7lb and get back some of my energy...at least from next week he should be allowed out so I can get some walking in...there is just never enough time to eat and I am partially breastfeeding which does not help...I love being Shane jnr's mum though.