Thank you all, very much! Lyle, yes it does make sense. Carol, I love that a pickle will do it for you! Too salty for me, though. Ebbie, that is what the other Mudcatters and I have been telling each other, but it is easier to say than to do. Harpy and Mary, yes, when I can!

I cannot share what the others have told me, but for myself, it's up and down BP which has never happened before and which we're having a time getting under control, coupled with just feeling like crap because of it. So...my best-laid efforts of exercise, which was going pretty well considering, and eating right, which was also going pretty well, just went to hell and then I get into the vicious circle of it feels better to treat myself to chocolate or some other not so great food and/or other "indulgence," and saying oh what the hell, then feeling rotten for having fallen off the wagon, so to speak. My doc and Rog say to not beat myself up over it, but I am tired of going through this and want it to get settled so I can get back on track. We are repeating some blood tests to see what we can do to help that way, but my doc and I also are working on keeping the meds to a minimum. Arrgghhhhh! It's spring and I want to be out doing things and feeling better, chronic shit or not!

Thanks for listening!! I feel like a whiney-titty-baby and I've probably missed some other posts because I started this, then received a phone call and have only just come back to finish it up. Rog and I are going to go for a very short walk when he comes home, tonight, so that will help. I just have to feel some progress and it gets me down when I don't.*bg*

Big question which I know the others have asked, too: Why do we do the things we intellectually know are not good for us, yet emotionally feel good from doing?

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