I have the SAME problem. What irks me about the skinny folk who eat whatever is that they think that just because they are thin, they are healthy. I think that's the only consolation I get :P
I heard through the grapevine this morning that my 2 classes have been cancelled for the summer and that the owner "doesn't have the balls to call the instructors" and that I should call the gym. I don't think I should. If they cancel my class, they can tell me themselves. They know my phone number. Humph! Do you agree with me?
It is a beautiful day today, my bf and I are going for a walk by the lake (Ontario) later.
I had planned to get up and run this morning but allergies got me up at 1:30 a.m. and I was up for about three hours. I did finally get back to sleep but slept too late in time to go run. Ah well.
Still kinda groggy so no clue on food. I have an in-home today and that's it.
The appointment was okay but what bothered me was that I told him upfront that I have had allergies/asthma my entire life. I am not just some person walking in there with a runny nose. He wanted to do a skin test. I refused. He wanted to do allergy shots. I refused. I've done both of those things before and neither of them did any good. The upside is that he gave me some new medicine to try and a boatload of samples so I don't actually have to buy anything yet. I was not trying to be a difficult patient but he's probably the 6th or 7th allergist I have seen in my lifetime. It bothered me that he was trying to start with a very basic approach.
I guess I compare it to how I treat clients. The majority of the clients I see have never had a trainer before and so I handle them a certain way (lots of explanation, very basic exercises, etc.) When I get someone in front of me and I realize they've had trainers before, my approach has to change. I can't treat them like they've never walked into a gym before because that's insulting. I felt like this doctor should have given me a little more credit for having explored the major avenues of asthma/allergy treatment.
All in all he was nice, but he asked me a lot of strange questions and it got on my nerves. He asked me a lot of things that I didn't feel were relevant (like what does my primary care doctor look like and have I ever considered doing home health work). *shaking head* I think he was trying to be friendly and personable but it came off as just trying too hard.
I'm going through the same thing. I finally weighed myself the other day (I've had an aversion to the scale for a good 6 months now) and I'm up between 5-8 lbs since December. A couple of things have changed since then...
-I've incorporated a lot more fruits/veggies into my diet.
-I've started running.
-I've been doing a lot more functional training which relies on bodyweight.
-I stopped counting calories and tried to gauge my hunger by how I feel.
-I'm definitely stronger as I can do things I couldn't do before, like military push-ups and running 4 miles at a time.
Of course, when I realized I was up, I was really upset and my first irrational thoughts were of crash dieting to fix this problem. After I got done being neurotic, I started to think about it rationally and wondered if maybe it's muscle. I think it's theoretically possible that it's muscle but I'm so used to "punishing" myself when the scale goes up. I need to check my body fat again. I was going to do it this morning but the whole allergy thing just got me off track. What's odd is that my clothes feel a little bit tigher (some of them do) but my husand and I both think that my muscles are looking tauter.
On top of that (and I need to just get over this), I feel like my weight is just *high*. I know that I'm strong and definitely healther and it's totally a mental thing. I need to give myself the same pep talk on weight that I often spout to my clients. It's tough being a role model. :)
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See what I mean?
I have the SAME problem. What irks me about the skinny folk who eat whatever is that they think that just because they are thin, they are healthy. I think that's the only consolation I get :P
I heard through the grapevine this morning that my 2 classes have been cancelled for the summer and that the owner "doesn't have the balls to call the instructors" and that I should call the gym. I don't think I should. If they cancel my class, they can tell me themselves. They know my phone number. Humph! Do you agree with me?
It is a beautiful day today, my bf and I are going for a walk by the lake (Ontario) later.
Pre-gym: babybel, banana
Post-gym: bagel sammich, coffee w/milk & splenda
Lunch: veggie burger, salad, ice cream
Snack: fruit, kettle corn
Dinner: pork chops
I had planned to get up and run this morning but allergies got me up at 1:30 a.m. and I was up for about three hours. I did finally get back to sleep but slept too late in time to go run. Ah well.
Still kinda groggy so no clue on food. I have an in-home today and that's it.
This will probably turn into a bit of a vent...
The appointment was okay but what bothered me was that I told him upfront that I have had allergies/asthma my entire life. I am not just some person walking in there with a runny nose. He wanted to do a skin test. I refused. He wanted to do allergy shots. I refused. I've done both of those things before and neither of them did any good. The upside is that he gave me some new medicine to try and a boatload of samples so I don't actually have to buy anything yet. I was not trying to be a difficult patient but he's probably the 6th or 7th allergist I have seen in my lifetime. It bothered me that he was trying to start with a very basic approach.
I guess I compare it to how I treat clients. The majority of the clients I see have never had a trainer before and so I handle them a certain way (lots of explanation, very basic exercises, etc.) When I get someone in front of me and I realize they've had trainers before, my approach has to change. I can't treat them like they've never walked into a gym before because that's insulting. I felt like this doctor should have given me a little more credit for having explored the major avenues of asthma/allergy treatment.
All in all he was nice, but he asked me a lot of strange questions and it got on my nerves. He asked me a lot of things that I didn't feel were relevant (like what does my primary care doctor look like and have I ever considered doing home health work). *shaking head* I think he was trying to be friendly and personable but it came off as just trying too hard.
I'm going through the same thing. I finally weighed myself the other day (I've had an aversion to the scale for a good 6 months now) and I'm up between 5-8 lbs since December. A couple of things have changed since then...
-I've incorporated a lot more fruits/veggies into my diet.
-I've started running.
-I've been doing a lot more functional training which relies on bodyweight.
-I stopped counting calories and tried to gauge my hunger by how I feel.
-I'm definitely stronger as I can do things I couldn't do before, like military push-ups and running 4 miles at a time.
Of course, when I realized I was up, I was really upset and my first irrational thoughts were of crash dieting to fix this problem. After I got done being neurotic, I started to think about it rationally and wondered if maybe it's muscle. I think it's theoretically possible that it's muscle but I'm so used to "punishing" myself when the scale goes up. I need to check my body fat again. I was going to do it this morning but the whole allergy thing just got me off track. What's odd is that my clothes feel a little bit tigher (some of them do) but my husand and I both think that my muscles are looking tauter.
On top of that (and I need to just get over this), I feel like my weight is just *high*. I know that I'm strong and definitely healther and it's totally a mental thing. I need to give myself the same pep talk on weight that I often spout to my clients. It's tough being a role model. :)
Hope something he gave you works--otherwise, change doctors!
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