For the past few weeks I have been hacking and coughing relentlessly. Something's been going around at work and I seem to have caught it. I suspect it's bronchitis because it's not going away as I had hoped it would. It seemed to be getting better last week but a couple of rather stressful days over the weekend seem to have brought it back with a vengeance, so I am back to hacking and coughing and feeling that familiar tightness in my chest that comes when I have bronchitis. It's pretty miserable stuff and I would be most pleased if it would just go away. I used to get this all the time when I was younger but I chalk that up to second hand smoke, which I am no longer exposed to. If I get this at all, it's usually during the cold, dry winter months. The last case of this I had was, in fact, in the winter months, in December of 2009, I think it was. I had that for the better part of 6 weeks and it was awful. I hope this doesn't last that long. I'm sick and tired of it already. I've been living on regular every 4 hour doses of Robitussin DM, which, had I seen my doctor, he would have told me to take, so I saved myself the ridiculous doctor office co-pay by self treating this thing. I've been through this enough times now that I can pretty much self treat it and avoid running to the doctor for something I am more than acquainted with and know how to handle. Not worth wasting money to see a doctor when I know what to do about this.
For the past month or so I have endeavored, without any success whatsoever, to lose weight. The scale literally has not budged one ounce. I have remained the same steady weight the entire time despite upping my physical activity and cutting calories like mad. I thought that was how you did it. You increase physical activity, you cut calories and the weight comes off, right? Not in my case. I haven't even lost so much as one ounce of weight. I am utterly baffled by this. I was on anti-depressants for 4 years and gained a ton of weight on them and now, it won't come off. I am wondering if it's the fact that it's medically induced weight gain, caused by a drug and thus harder, if not impossible, to get off. If I can never, ever lose this weight and if I continue to look seven months pregnant because of my belly fat I will be most upset. I wonder if weight loss has to be done by a different strategy when it is caused by taking medication. If so, I would like to know what that strategy is. How does one lose medically induced weight gain? Is there more to it than eating less and exercising more? Could my age have something to do with it? Is it impossible, after age 50, to lose weight? I look at all those books and magazine articles written on how to lose weight fast but they all require exercises that someone half my age could do, but not someone my age. Those exercises would kill me in a New York minute. I also can't afford membership in one of those fancy health/wellness clubs with all the fancy machines they have. And the diets they prescribe - all foods I do not like. I have not a kitchen but a kitchenette that is far too small in which to cook meals anyway, and being single, the idea of whipping up a gourmet diet meal for one person seems a bit silly and a waste of food because I would more than likely end up throwing most of it away anyway. I'm also doing the work of four people right now and seem to feel perpetually exhausted as a result. The last thing I want to do at the end of a long workday is to go into the kitchen and spend hours cooking up some fancy meal that only I will eat. Then I would have to wash all those dishes, which I detest doing because I am mostly too tired to care most nights. So barring having an executive chef to prepare all of my meals that would allow me to lose the weight I want, I don't know what the answer is. I just don't. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life being overweight with an unhealthy BMI. Already I have high cholesterol and that puts me at a risk for a host of diseases that I can't afford to have, because let's face it, at the moment, I am practically uninsured and am expected to pay all of my own medical costs out of my own pocket. I just cannot afford to do that. And in this economy, who can? Nobody that I know of. Well, if I could just lose one lousy pound....is that asking too much? If I could see SOME sort of movement on the scale, I wouldn't feel so discouraged, but that number on the scale has remained stuck at the same number all year, without budging. Sure, I haven't gained any weight, but I sure haven't lost any, either. And that sucks. Plain and simple. No amount of altering my diet and upping my physical activity has budged that stupid scale one single ounce. I wish I knew why. >:-<
For the past few weeks I have been hacking and coughing relentlessly. Something's been going around at work and I seem to have caught it. I suspect it's bronchitis because it's not going away as I had hoped it would. It seemed to be getting better last week but a couple of rather stressful days over the weekend seem to have brought it back with a vengeance, so I am back to hacking and coughing and feeling that familiar tightness in my chest that comes when I have bronchitis. It's pretty miserable stuff and I would be most pleased if it would just go away. I used to get this all the time when I was younger but I chalk that up to second hand smoke, which I am no longer exposed to. If I get this at all, it's usually during the cold, dry winter months. The last case of this I had was, in fact, in the winter months, in December of 2009, I think it was. I had that for the better part of 6 weeks and it was awful. I hope this doesn't last that long. I'm sick and tired of it already. I've been living on regular every 4 hour doses of Robitussin DM, which, had I seen my doctor, he would have told me to take, so I saved myself the ridiculous doctor office co-pay by self treating this thing. I've been through this enough times now that I can pretty much self treat it and avoid running to the doctor for something I am more than acquainted with and know how to handle. Not worth wasting money to see a doctor when I know what to do about this.
For the past month or so I have endeavored, without any success whatsoever, to lose weight. The scale literally has not budged one ounce. I have remained the same steady weight the entire time despite upping my physical activity and cutting calories like mad. I thought that was how you did it. You increase physical activity, you cut calories and the weight comes off, right? Not in my case. I haven't even lost so much as one ounce of weight. I am utterly baffled by this. I was on anti-depressants for 4 years and gained a ton of weight on them and now, it won't come off. I am wondering if it's the fact that it's medically induced weight gain, caused by a drug and thus harder, if not impossible, to get off. If I can never, ever lose this weight and if I continue to look seven months pregnant because of my belly fat I will be most upset. I wonder if weight loss has to be done by a different strategy when it is caused by taking medication. If so, I would like to know what that strategy is. How does one lose medically induced weight gain? Is there more to it than eating less and exercising more? Could my age have something to do with it? Is it impossible, after age 50, to lose weight? I look at all those books and magazine articles written on how to lose weight fast but they all require exercises that someone half my age could do, but not someone my age. Those exercises would kill me in a New York minute. I also can't afford membership in one of those fancy health/wellness clubs with all the fancy machines they have. And the diets they prescribe - all foods I do not like. I have not a kitchen but a kitchenette that is far too small in which to cook meals anyway, and being single, the idea of whipping up a gourmet diet meal for one person seems a bit silly and a waste of food because I would more than likely end up throwing most of it away anyway. I'm also doing the work of four people right now and seem to feel perpetually exhausted as a result. The last thing I want to do at the end of a long workday is to go into the kitchen and spend hours cooking up some fancy meal that only I will eat. Then I would have to wash all those dishes, which I detest doing because I am mostly too tired to care most nights. So barring having an executive chef to prepare all of my meals that would allow me to lose the weight I want, I don't know what the answer is. I just don't. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life being overweight with an unhealthy BMI. Already I have high cholesterol and that puts me at a risk for a host of diseases that I can't afford to have, because let's face it, at the moment, I am practically uninsured and am expected to pay all of my own medical costs out of my own pocket. I just cannot afford to do that. And in this economy, who can? Nobody that I know of. Well, if I could just lose one lousy pound....is that asking too much? If I could see SOME sort of movement on the scale, I wouldn't feel so discouraged, but that number on the scale has remained stuck at the same number all year, without budging. Sure, I haven't gained any weight, but I sure haven't lost any, either. And that sucks. Plain and simple. No amount of altering my diet and upping my physical activity has budged that stupid scale one single ounce. I wish I knew why. >:-<
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Get some Mucinex.
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