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My stool softeners and miralax aren't working, how come?
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How about slow walking, looking at the trees, noticing the clouds, breathing deeply. I'm not kidding. When you get home, eat a simple salad and sit outside if you can. Bring along a bottle of water and fill it up 5 times during the day. Take another half hour walk and come back and do the same thing again. A little ovo (olive oil), a squirt of lemon, some dried Italian herbs. Eat slowly. Think about your breathing more than your weight. Eat some fruit and nuts when you get hungry. Nibble rather than devour food and enjoy each bite. Wishing you well with your goals.
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Thanks for the suggestions. However, I was told by an allergist that since I'm allergic to mold, my best bet is to stay inside since people allergic to mold need to live where it's cold and dry all the time and the only places like that are the North Pole, the South Pole and northern Greenland. (It's usually too hot and smoky--more and more wildfires here every year--around here anyway.) I keep trying to convince my husband to move somewhere with stores and the library near enough that I could walk to and around in; now that's my kind of walking, lol.
I also am not supposed to eat nuts, greens since I have diverticulosis and am allergic to most fruits because of the citric acid or extreme flavor (only fruits I can get away with eating are canned pears and apricots since they have little flavor; every time I try to eat something with much flavor I get a strong stinging sensation in my cheeks in front of my ears; supposedly it's an inherited adrenal gland reaction to flavor.) I'm afraid that I've inherited that darn northern European thing of only being able to digest meat and dairy products; I actually met someone like me who for 2 years had been eating nothing but meat and dairy products and was feeling better than she had in her whole life; I lost contact with her before I could advise her to either take a multivitamin or eat a lot of animal innards, liver, tripe, etc.