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Finally sick. Just a headcold.
Had such a good run.
I attribute it to the body being run down from stress of resigning (HR issues in terms of notice period etc) and changing jobs. Plus carried on training while I was feeling down so I probably contributed to it myself.
I've never brought it up here before, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Our youngest (honorary) little Hubber is clinging to life.
Please pray for her or think of her or whatever you may believe in!
https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/169450-please-help-a-preemie/page-34
Ag nee. Moenie dit sê nie.
The thing with a pain in or on your head is that you cannot escape it. You can't block it out or "go to your happy place". Your entire reality in that moment is just pain.
I'm sure you'll skip that part brother, its rare.
On the right hand side, blow my ribs, just above my hip. (above the belt line)
The pain however is a large patch that starts below the ribs to the side of my abdomen to my belt line and to the kidney area at the back.
It's not funny. If I caught it early, and only have a mild case, I would hate to experience a more severe bout.
You also get a variant of shingles which makes no sores at all. I had that on my scalp, right hand side. Basically from where your hair starts, over the top of your head about halfway. Absolutely ridiculous itching. But scratching also doesn't do anything as the itching isn't a real itch, its the nerves telling your brain that you are itching. There is nothing agitating the skin. I had to go to doctors and other health places that mix their own stuff to get anti itch cream which I had to paste into my hair. But nothing worked.
That was the nice part.
Then came the post shingles neuralgia. Enter Occipital Neuralgia.
<Insert blasphemous term here> guys. I was sitting with my wife in the lounge when the first attack happened. Its this burning pain that started from the back of my neck and then expands to the top of your head on the one side. Insane pain. You'd just be minding your own business, and boom. The attack lasts about 60 seconds. After that 60 seconds of clenching your fists, biting down on your teeth and making grunting noises, the pain slowly subsides. Your vision would be blurry and your face would be sweating on one side. I was taking between 12-16 Myprodols every day and it didn't even make a dent in the pain. It lasted about a week with an attack roughly every 6 hours.
Then it stopped.
I told my wife I'd probably prefer to rather pass away than go through that again. It was not humane.
Along with the medication's share of drainage leaves me with about 10% for myself, which I use currently to get out of bed.
What meds did you get? Larica?
Shingles.
Apparently stress induced, now why, in 2018 with 3 kids, in our economy and political environment would anyone stress?
Luckily caught it early, got meds so the "rash" was just a group of about 5 spots. But it is painful. And the meds induces fatigue, spent the whole long weekend in bed, doing nothing but sleep and watch tv. Back at work yesterday, and by lunchtime,I felt like I could fall over and sleep.
So I have to wait another week after all symptoms have cleared to start any activity.
Have not had a beer in forever.
Where are the spots?
Watch out for the post shingles neuralgia...
I got the SMS this morning.
Camo print's coolness died roughly in around 1997.
I think you'll find they're called 'moobs'
I'm sure they have many names, I go by the Fight Club definition 
This thread is good reading as one realises that what you think is good and sugar free is actually counterproductive to weight loss . I love a coffee at about 8 at night and have my own mixture . 2 spoons Nestle coffee , 1/2 spoon cocoa and 2 spoons cremora topped with fat free milk to give it some colour . i did not realise cremora had a sugar content .. Im going to stop with the Cremora and just add some warm milk . Lets see what happens during the next week
EVERYTHING has sugar in it these days. Even braai spices.
We are all addicted to it and don't even know it.
The first step is always the biggest! You can do it! Good luck, remember the small victories, stick to the plan and the results will come.
Just need to get through the first 3 days. And not expect to really see anything for at least 2 weeks. Its super hard to not give up, but you have to keep at it.
Good grief, that's light. I'm 1.89 and weigh 92, and I don't carry a lot of fat.
It seems I have a cyclist body. Above my belt all that my upper body is good for is connecting my legs to the handlebars. Very thin. All legs.
I see it doesn't contain soy, but I'll post this anyway:
Soy contains phytoestrogens called isoflavones that may mimic the activity of the hormone estrogen in your body.
WELL!
And I was just looking at this...
https://www.takealot.com/health-connection-wholefoods-just-protein-just-soy-500g/PLID41381770
So in an attempt to not develop b*tch t*ts, I might go ahead and avoid the soy version...
It seems like casein (or a mix of whey and casein) would be better if you want to avoid the spike. What I know about it is from the internet and you know how that goes, one site will tell you it's good, while the other says it's bad, but the consensus seems to be that it does create a spike.
Here is another interesting article: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-muscle-building-messenger-complete-guide-to-insulin.html
It might seem that plant based proteins have an even smaller insulin response than even Casein...
https://www.takealot.com/muscle-wellness-super-vegan-protein-900g-chocolate/PLID45196382
I think my choice is made.
500g of yoghurt sounds like quite a lot. I like yoghurt and could easily eat that much, but it might be too much? Also, if it's whey protein you are adding it has an insulin response, from what I've read it's as good as adding sugar.
https://pescience.com/blogs/blog/lesson-9-avoid-massive-insulin-spikes-from-your-whey
It is whey, yes. Do you recommend going to slow release casein protein? Edit 1: Just read the article... CASEIN from now on.
Edit 2:
...and just yesterday I ordered a massive 3.2kg tub of whey protein on Takealot. Eish.
I must say I'm feeling "strong" though... My immune system is also tip top right now.
Either a mistake in your BMI calc or your typing. BMI = 22.68
It differs depending which website you use. I used this one.
https://www.calculator.net/bmi-calculator.html
Age 38
Male
6 Foot 1
179 pounds
23.62 kg/m2
On Pick 'n Pay's one I'm 22.7. Maybe I'm converting my height wrong. 189cm seems to be 6 foot 2, not 6 foot 1. And that should make the 23.62 above, 22.9.
I think what you doing is clearly working! Lite yogurt is just rubbish, I could never go back!
I find if I kick into a daily 16:8 fast after a weight plateau for about a week I start to lose again!
Eat supper at about 19:00 don't eat until lunch time the next day!
Seems to work for me.
Thanks mate! I know Lite yoghurt is usually sweetened to make it not taste like wet paper. I think Parmalat's Fabulite is completely sugarfree though.
The fasting I do is a full 24 hours. Breakfast on Wednesday, and then next meal is breakfast on Thursday. After my 1st fast I was down to 79.5kg. A week later after the 2nd one it was 79.3kg. I didn't get time to weight myself this morning so can't say what it is right now. But after fooding up again it goes to over 80kg.
I think what screwed my weight was that me and the wife would each have a chai tea latte most nights as we relax by the TV. Its obviously flippin nice but is nothing more than a cup of sugar. I think out of 100g of the powder, 81g is sugars. I've stopped that completely.
My wife made my life blerrie tough last night though. I was fasting, and she was prepping supper. The chicken was "off" so I had to take it back to the shop, not that I was going to eat anyway. So what does she do... orders pizza. And I can't have. And I didn't.
I did pack in 7 slices for food at work today though, haha. First pizza in weeks.
Time for me to join this fred as well.
Not overweight (I think), but as cyclists are, we always feel we can be that little bit lighter to help with that power to weight ratio.
I'm 1.89m @ 81kg at the moment. I know BMI is frowned upon for various reasons such as body shape, etc, but I am at 23.62 kg/m2. Normal is between 18.5 and 25.
For the last, almost 2 months, I've been avoiding sweets and snacking (had maybe 2 unfortunate pigouts during that time), also going with a high fat (double cream yoghurt, nuts) and high protein diet. I'm almost completely off breads, rice, etc.
I also fast for 1 day of the week.
When I put my mind to something, and decide on something, I get almost obsessive about it.
During this almost 2 months I've also been getting up at 4:30 to bang out a 30 minute indoor bike session, and then 25-30 more of free weights, situps, legs raises, planking, kettlebell swings, weighted squats etc. My stomach has visibly become smaller, not that it was ever very big. I can almost swear my legs have visibly popped as well.
3 weeks ago I did a 140km marathon and finished 3rd behind two guys who have both been on the Trans Baviaans podium (one was on the podium this year), the other guy was on the podium 2 years ago. So I kinda think what I'm doing is working.
I don't count calories but try to keep it within reason.
Most mornings my breakfast consists of 500g of double cream bulgarian/plain/unsweetened yoghurt mixed with 2 scoops of vanilla protein powder (makes a nice "paste") with about 40g of mixed raw nuts as well. During the day I try to eat just "clean" proteins, like biltong and some fruit. No breads if I can help it.
When I started this thing I was about 83 (I was 72kg years ago for Ironman), and am sitting on 81kg today, as I've been for 2-3 weeks now. I'm wondering if the plato I'm stuck at is maybe me gaining muscle mass offsetting the fat loss?
I'm also not sure if my double cream yoghurt is screwing me or not... I'm going double cream to be in line with the "high fat / high protein" concept, to make your body fat adapted and keep you fuller for longer. Maybe I should move back to "lite" yoghurt? Anyone?
The Post Office has a legacy ...
There was a time (not so long ago) that any White person could pitch up and get a job. It was part of the plan to address the 'poor white' problem, going back to the 1930's. For example a big works facility was built right next to a poor white area in Jhb West (Fietas)
I think that 'culture' has been perpetuated, just a different race now. Plus some residuals hanging in.
Yep, plus just like SAA and other SEO's, the staff bas bloated without really adding any value. I think for example SAA's "staff per aircraft" is by far the highest in the world. I'll safely guess that the Post Office's ratio of "staff per mail item" is also probably the highest in the world.
One difference though between now and "then", then things worked just a bit faster.
This morning my 17Track app on my phone alerted me that another one of my parcels was scanned at JHB yesterday, first update in just short of 3 months. So in 1 week I received one parcel, and another came back to life..
Awesome to bring out those alloy Trails!
I'm pretty sure that would be 5 million pieces of mail - whether letters or parcels. I would assume that the majority of these (especially the letters) would be sorted automatically with machines...
How? With people's horrendous handwritten addresses on?
There's only one way to speed this process up.
Please help a preemie
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What about that "milk" they give newborns if the mom can't produce enough? Or is that the stuff they are giving her?