Questions...
Jan. 28th, 2009 08:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylik* Wanna make out?
Yes, that would be fun, though living in different parts of the country is a limiting factor. (And small word of warning - while I'm being much less neurotic about such things, I don't think I can completely claim to be done being neurotic. Though on top of the obsessed grad student bit I don't know how apparently it would be.)
* I totally need to lose some weight. and my blood pressure is up. Can you help? :)
I don't know. I have some general advice, FWIW.
First, get plenty of sleep, and whatever else you can do to manage stress. But seriously, the sleep.
And then, when you are getting exercise, either get more of it... or make it more vigorous. At least some of it. It's pretty easy to get into an exercise plateau, where your body just does what it's gotten used to doing and doesn't have to extend itself for. In my experience it's the vigorous exercise that's most useful dealing with stress and sleep, too.
Diet... is tricky, and fairly individual. For me it's all about eating the fruits and veggies, and the whole grains, and getting enough protein. (Though the healthier I am, the less I seem to need to really push protein.) Would you like the recipe for the breakfast cereal we eat? It's a pretty easy way to start things off.
Or hey, you could come visit, maybe over spring break or something? It'd be like a trip to the spa, right?
* wetdryvac -- To what degree do you find medications (antibiotics or otherwise) interfere/assist in your ability to do your daily routines? (Mentally, physically, socially, other)
If they interfere more than they assist, then I don't take them. But it's all about the better living through modern chemistry. Actually, by preference I'm pretty conservative. (I'm constantly getting chewed out about undermedicating for pain, not to mention not coming in to get anti-biotics for a sinus infection until I've had it for two months. "Well, I got a couple of viruses and I was travelling a lot..." "And that was a reason not to come in?!" And really, I would have come in earlier if I'd realized that it was making me so tired. After the spine problems, it just didn't seem like a big deal) Before I found anti-histamines that worked well, I would get bronchitis multiple times a year, and usually end up in the emergency room at least once. (And end up taking oral steroids, which are dreadful.) Before I got on monteleukast, I pretty much never had the lung capacity to do the kind of training I do now. And when my spine really goes south, I don't function at all. These days the medication for the spine is minimal (because the epidural steroid injection worked), I only take my regular allergy meds, and for the next eight days the antibiotics. And I guess I'm lucky in that mostly I only take things once a day (more when I have to take a lot of neurontin, and for the moment the antibiotics).
* Do you celebrate Chinese New Year, and if so, what traditions do you follow (if any)?
I haven't been celebrating much of anything since I moved. And I mostly did Chinese New Year with my school, though there are a few things that I'd do on my own (like make fish! Which I'd probably do out here, except I mostly don't eat fish in Cleveland.) I've been kind of paying attention this year, though, since I'm an Ox myself.
Yes, that would be fun, though living in different parts of the country is a limiting factor. (And small word of warning - while I'm being much less neurotic about such things, I don't think I can completely claim to be done being neurotic. Though on top of the obsessed grad student bit I don't know how apparently it would be.)
* I totally need to lose some weight. and my blood pressure is up. Can you help? :)
I don't know. I have some general advice, FWIW.
First, get plenty of sleep, and whatever else you can do to manage stress. But seriously, the sleep.
And then, when you are getting exercise, either get more of it... or make it more vigorous. At least some of it. It's pretty easy to get into an exercise plateau, where your body just does what it's gotten used to doing and doesn't have to extend itself for. In my experience it's the vigorous exercise that's most useful dealing with stress and sleep, too.
Diet... is tricky, and fairly individual. For me it's all about eating the fruits and veggies, and the whole grains, and getting enough protein. (Though the healthier I am, the less I seem to need to really push protein.) Would you like the recipe for the breakfast cereal we eat? It's a pretty easy way to start things off.
Or hey, you could come visit, maybe over spring break or something? It'd be like a trip to the spa, right?
* wetdryvac -- To what degree do you find medications (antibiotics or otherwise) interfere/assist in your ability to do your daily routines? (Mentally, physically, socially, other)
If they interfere more than they assist, then I don't take them. But it's all about the better living through modern chemistry. Actually, by preference I'm pretty conservative. (I'm constantly getting chewed out about undermedicating for pain, not to mention not coming in to get anti-biotics for a sinus infection until I've had it for two months. "Well, I got a couple of viruses and I was travelling a lot..." "And that was a reason not to come in?!" And really, I would have come in earlier if I'd realized that it was making me so tired. After the spine problems, it just didn't seem like a big deal) Before I found anti-histamines that worked well, I would get bronchitis multiple times a year, and usually end up in the emergency room at least once. (And end up taking oral steroids, which are dreadful.) Before I got on monteleukast, I pretty much never had the lung capacity to do the kind of training I do now. And when my spine really goes south, I don't function at all. These days the medication for the spine is minimal (because the epidural steroid injection worked), I only take my regular allergy meds, and for the next eight days the antibiotics. And I guess I'm lucky in that mostly I only take things once a day (more when I have to take a lot of neurontin, and for the moment the antibiotics).
* Do you celebrate Chinese New Year, and if so, what traditions do you follow (if any)?
I haven't been celebrating much of anything since I moved. And I mostly did Chinese New Year with my school, though there are a few things that I'd do on my own (like make fish! Which I'd probably do out here, except I mostly don't eat fish in Cleveland.) I've been kind of paying attention this year, though, since I'm an Ox myself.
