Kenai

My new goal is to be more active.  My phone has a step tracker. I've been using that to help motivate me to be on my feet more.  The CDC says bare minimum of steps is 7k.  Right now I'm at 1.5k and its still morning so I'm somewhat hopeful of getting close to the 7k.

It definitely wasn't easy.  I still miss eating.  Well, I still obviously eat, but no where near as much as I used to. 

I very much agree with whoever first said that food addiction recovery is in some ways worse than drug/alchohol recovery.  Someone recovering from drugs can walk away from their addiction and avoid it as long as they want.  A food addict has to face their addiction head on three times a day.

43 minutes ago, Tika said:

Yeah we're all old...  but...  It's like fine wine we get better with age right?  Or maybe it's just wishful thinking lol

I know I like myself at 31 way more than I ever did in my early 20's.  So yeah, definitely better with age at least in my experience.

31.

4 hours ago, Tika said:

~waves~

It's been so long since I've been active on a forum I'm not sure I even remember how to do this...  However it might be good for me to interact with other human type peoples other than my family or my job I've kind of isolated myself lately.   I see a lot of familiar names here.  I can't even remember what names I've gone by other than Tika (Or some version of that) being my most common and first way back when.

Tika!  Next time I'm in Wisconsin we'll have to meet up again. I'll try to be less awkward.

Wolf, you nearly  made me cry.  I love how you always see the positive in people.

"What the hell!"

The inn door slammed open and a woman in full armor strode through, her sword firmly gripped in her right hand.  From the state of both the armor and the sword, it was evident she was in battle recently.  She sighed wearily as she looked around. 

"Of course its magical." 

Turning on her heel, she leaves the inn, letting the door slam behind her.  If one was close enough to the door, they would hear her swearing as she cleaned her blade and the worst of the gore from her armor. 

When she reentered, her sword was sheathed, but her demeanor was not any friendlier. 

"Who is responsible for bringing me here?  Send me back."  

I know its easy to say, but I think its important to remember him for who he was before the disease started messing with him.  Maybe for every bad memory you think about you could forcefully remember a couple good ones?

Just a picture of me and the cutest spawn ever to be born. (I'm not biased at all...)

redline! I remember that name!  <3

I am also from PI!  Preferred FE, fell in love with the northlands.

I'm a bored eater.  Well I used to be.  I make myself eat only at certain times which has helped.  But I still really miss the days where I'd get myself a favorite snack/meal/whatever, curl up with a good book and just enjoy.

the problem with that is when I read I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the outside world... and that includes just how much I'm eating.

I don't eat and read at the same time anymore.

I'm glad the counseling is helping.  I'm sorry the last years with your dad were terrible.  How was he before the disease changed him?

Count me in with the rest.  I don't understand it, but I care about you.  I'm worried for you, and I assume you know the risks so I won't spew them out at you. 

*hugs*

Welcome!

Standard warning: We're all crazy.

Option 2 has my vote.

welcome back!  I'm glad you're here.

eh, its manageable.  I'm still able to do most things, I just have to be careful about not tiring myself out.   

Danielle, I've forgotten her username. I'll pester her on facebook.  Alicia as well.  Her username was lionheart I *think*.

*runs into thread*

*waves*

HI!

*runs away giggling*

While my ataxia is a broken brain thing, I'm pretty sure it doesn't fall under the same category as mental illnesses.  

Two years ago I was fat.  5 foot 2 and 190 pounds fat.  

I hit my weight goal of 125 last week.  I haven't hit that weight again since, I'm still bouncing between that and 128, but eventually I'll figure out this maintaining business. 

I didn't do any special diets or anything.  I mainly just cut the amount of calories I was eating until I matched actual serving sizes on the food.  I also cut out soda, eating out a lot, and easy to make meals.  (aka frozen foods).

I feel so much better after, and the amount of energy I have seems insane to me.  I guess I just felt like bragging a little.

Yes. Was half asleep reading that and didn't realize by forest you meant the title of the rp forum.

*drags self into post*

ugh.  Morning. Blarg.

I think its despicable what the media has twisted it into being about.   Most of my debate points have been said by others, so I'll just leave an observation.

Media portray the black lives matter as violent.  Yes, some riot as all protests happen.  And truth be told, a lot of them are more violent than I would like, but I'm speaking from a position of privilege.  I imagine if I had to worry about getting shot over the color of my skin, or worry about my children getting shot I'd be a little violent as well. 

So the media asks sarcastically why they can't protest in peace.

So the NFL players do.  They found a peaceful way to protest and gain attention.

And then the media distorts their message into one of hate, and still points the finger at the other protestors that they're too violent.