Hello World

I have been having such a busy time of late that i havent had the time to pop in and visit my blog. Or anyone elses much really:) I have a huige list of blogs in my favourites that i love to read but i have been kind of busy:)

Doing what you may ask...well,,,,,,i was lucky enough on my recent birthday to get an Ipod touch....and may i say i LOVE it.
Its so convenient to just pop on and check my facebook and i love playing words with friends.

I have a few health based apps on it and one i use every day to track my food and exercise is my fitness pal. It is SO easy to use and i have logged on everyday so far and written up my food and exercise.

Hmmm not that there has been much of that lately. I am however getting back into it, I went to see my gym man armed with a list of things i wanted to achieve for my health goals fitness and body shape. He has given me a rip snorting program that entails 30 mins cardio and 30 mins weights. And i love it. It is so hard but im getting such a buzz out of it.

I did speak to him at some length about my anxiety, labryinthitis and depression. He told me that completing this program will give me the confidence to address my anxiety.

After showing him my food diary he was freaked out at the amount of sugar i eat. After talking to him about it he thinks i hype myslef up on sugar because i feel nauseous and ill due to the anxiety and work and then i come down from sugar highs. I happened to google the effect of sugar and whether it has anything to do with anxiety. Well i found this very interesting piece of information which blew my mind!


Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum Answered:

Sugar wreaks havoc on the central nervous system and can leave you feeling on edge. Sugar addiction causes anxiety for a number of reasons. Excessive sugar intake, especially when associated with chronic stress, can exhaust your stress-handler adrenal glands. This causes wild swings in your blood sugar levels. As blood sugar levels plummet, the brain reacts by sending out a panicked adrenaline alarm, leading to severe anxiety. Over a period of years, this can become chronic.

I have times where i feel so weak that i get the shakes and an instant hit of chocolate or sugar usually fixes the problem, after mentioning that there is diabetes in my family he urged me to get my blood sugar checked...it came in at 4.5 which is a good number for my age.

Well since being aware of my sugar intake, the anxiety attacks have eased quite significantly, i kid you not, this coming from someone who would love to crawl under the covers all day every day...... if i wake anxious i can usually pinpoint that i had too much sugar day before. Thankfully getting few and far between now that i am aware of it!

Today was a busy day and very productive! I took Leigh down and filled out a heap of paperwork for Youth Allowance and while we were in that town we decided to hit the rego office, medicare office for various things. When we got home i took him to the bank to open a new savers account and we ordered him a new card.....his atm ard i kid you not is not much wider than the magnetic strip on the back....:) He broke it quite some time ago and never went to replace it:)

I have lots of things to talk about and get down, and something else i have learned while i am on this self imposed hiatus.......i lack focus and direction as well as motivation:)So im working on that as well.

So when time permits i want to upload photos to my blog posts for people to see rather than read my ramblings and not having any photos to tempt you back to my yummy blog.

I have plans in the pipelines to also do a new blog header. So that is going to keep me busy for a while trying to decide what i want to put up there:)

I brought a really cute notebook today called.....My To-Do-List......i love it and already have some things popped down.

I plan to participate in Mardi and Janelles Thrifty Thursday and What i wore Wednesday posts so that is something to look forward to:)