DollyR
10-21-2007, 07:39 AM
Hi Ladies,
I have been a member of this forum on and off for almost 2 years. I get started and fall off and get started and fall off....etc etc.
You get the picture....right?
I was trying to get my life together this summer with exercise and healthy eating when I was struck down so to speak with a mysterious baterial infection that settled in my kidneys which is resistant to most anti-biotics. I ended up in the hospital and in bed for a little over 4 and half weeks in July and part of August. (thank goodness I am teacher and we generally have summers off)
I returned back here to Seoul to have the same infection rear its ugly head again...( I guess it never totally went away.) I was down again for a little over three weeks...same infection in my urinary tract (but this time it did not make it to my kidneys). It was less severe this time.
You know what........I blame my eating habits on it all. I truly do because you see. I think the lack of eating healthy and the lack of staying away from junk has done it's worst to me. I have to watch everything now. I believe eating yogurt, fiber and cranberry juice everyday will ward off another episode. If it happens again the urologist is going to preform some other tests which sounded pretty bad to see why this is happening. I think if I eat the yogurt I will build up good bacteria all the anti biotics have killed off along with the e coli bacteria that caused everything in the first place. The urologist has told me to drink 8 ozs of cranberry everyday or take the tablets because he said there is a lot of evidence that this works. As far as the fiber?? Well we all know what it does. ;)
I decided to pick myself up, dust off and move on this new lifestyle one more time......I have read many success stories here and have watched people who have reached goals. I am in awe of some many of the success stories. I would love to be one......
When I return from my business trip on Tuesday night I am going to the grocery store and shopping for the YOU on a diet plan. I like the WOE it talks about and following that along with watching calories should be a good start. I also want to do 30 minutes of walking each day. My ticker shows my new starting weight which is the highest I have been in five years. It's all me in the past...not the food, not the boyfriend, not the etc etc etc.....
Just me and not allowing myself to adopt something better for myself and allowing laziness to be the control in my life.
One more time...wish me luck!
I have been a member of this forum on and off for almost 2 years. I get started and fall off and get started and fall off....etc etc.
You get the picture....right?
I was trying to get my life together this summer with exercise and healthy eating when I was struck down so to speak with a mysterious baterial infection that settled in my kidneys which is resistant to most anti-biotics. I ended up in the hospital and in bed for a little over 4 and half weeks in July and part of August. (thank goodness I am teacher and we generally have summers off)
I returned back here to Seoul to have the same infection rear its ugly head again...( I guess it never totally went away.) I was down again for a little over three weeks...same infection in my urinary tract (but this time it did not make it to my kidneys). It was less severe this time.
You know what........I blame my eating habits on it all. I truly do because you see. I think the lack of eating healthy and the lack of staying away from junk has done it's worst to me. I have to watch everything now. I believe eating yogurt, fiber and cranberry juice everyday will ward off another episode. If it happens again the urologist is going to preform some other tests which sounded pretty bad to see why this is happening. I think if I eat the yogurt I will build up good bacteria all the anti biotics have killed off along with the e coli bacteria that caused everything in the first place. The urologist has told me to drink 8 ozs of cranberry everyday or take the tablets because he said there is a lot of evidence that this works. As far as the fiber?? Well we all know what it does. ;)
I decided to pick myself up, dust off and move on this new lifestyle one more time......I have read many success stories here and have watched people who have reached goals. I am in awe of some many of the success stories. I would love to be one......
When I return from my business trip on Tuesday night I am going to the grocery store and shopping for the YOU on a diet plan. I like the WOE it talks about and following that along with watching calories should be a good start. I also want to do 30 minutes of walking each day. My ticker shows my new starting weight which is the highest I have been in five years. It's all me in the past...not the food, not the boyfriend, not the etc etc etc.....
Just me and not allowing myself to adopt something better for myself and allowing laziness to be the control in my life.
One more time...wish me luck!