True confessions - What didn't work in the long run

[hapl808]

My confession is exercising and hiking so much and thinking I could build up muscles and be normal again. Even after coming here and learning the truth, I still sinned. My final sin I even bragged about here. And have been punished for it ever since.

Same. Every few years I would redouble my efforts to get stronger and build up my endurance by going to the gym more or biking or traveling. Which would inevitably lead to some temporary setback that I would refuse to connect to pacing because the idea that I would be so incredibly limited forever was just something I couldn't accept.

Of course the obvious outcome is that I pushed myself so hard that I ended up somewhere where my previous 'limitations' are but a distant daydream of comparative health.

This is an interesting thread, though, as some people's best things are other people's worst. Makes it hard to know what to try as I know that no matter how poorly I'm doing, history has shown it can always be worse.

 

[Shanti1]

Massive amounts of vitamin c - eeek!

May I ask how much vitamin C you take and what improvements you noticed with it?

 

[godlovesatrier]

I don't take ascorbic acid, but my nutritionist and others recommended high doses, convinced it contributed to some problems "down there" which only surgery rectified in the end. Ascorbic acid never made me feel good, always caused problems in my colon and no not with diherrea, more like fast stomach emptying, which causes issues of its own. I think ascorbic acid is very overrated as well and has been shown many times not to really work via oral routes.

Anyway I take magnesium ascorbate, no issues with that, I take 4g a day. That does help and it gets me my vitamin c + extra magnesium.

 

[Shanti1]

@godlovesatrier Thanks for clarifying, and for your additional thoughts, for some reason I thought maybe it had helped you.

 

[L'engle]

My confession is exercising and hiking so much and thinking I could build up muscles and be normal again.

I did that too. The forest is just too beautiful. Have given up on cardio unless something really improves dramatically.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

The forest is just too beautiful

yes, we love the forest, and desire to just be there, breathing it in, gazing at it, smelling it, tasting it and hearing it sigh and murmur.

 

[Woof!]

For you forest lovers, I've found one way to enjoy my back-50-acres when I don't have the strength to walk their trails is to view pictures from my trail cams from my desk! Here are a few of them (and yes, that third picture is a bobcat!)...

 

[Rufous McKinney]

I've found one way to enjoy my back-50-acres when I don't have the strength to walk their trails is to view pictures from my trail cams from my desk!

How Wonderful!

I spend a fair amount of time myself, visiting some favorite trail cams.

Oddly I stumbled into this drying watering hole in the deserts of Namibia. And its odd to check in on this one spot. And it gets down to 7 degrees Celsius at night, in this desert!

And I am in love with Otis, Bear 402. He is probably 35 years old, Otis holds a record for consuming 45 sockeye salmon in one session in 2016. He was very hungry that day.