Suburbs & The City  

Date / Time: 11/13/2007 6:14 PM UTC

Are There Any Shows Like Ours?

Date / Time: 10/24/2007 3:43 PM UTC

Just Clearning My Throat for Thyroid Health

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Since moving to the Midwest, I cannot escape the horrible fact that married people cheat on one another. An innumerable amount of my acquaintances have somehow been wrapped up in an extramarital affair. (I just threw up in my mouth a little). People, if you are going to cheat on your husband or wife or assist someone else in cheating, please don’t tell me. Your secrets have dashed my idea that marriage is forever and that marriage protects you from having your heart broken before death.

 

You’ll remember from my previous blog that Dr. Christaine Northrup says, “Thyroid dysfunction develops because of an energy blockage in the throat region, the result of a lifetime of 'swallowing' words one is aching to say”. Well, it seems that I still need to clear my throat:

 

Mrs. Carrot Top, yes you. You make me sick. You pretend to be my friend so that you have an excuse to see a certain someone, so that you have an alibi, so that you have a reason to be in this city, this neighborhood, this street. How dare you do those terrible things to your husband and have the audacity to share them with me, the wife of your husband’s good friend.

 

I will not be the keeper of your secrets, the sounding board for you to share. What you did will NEVER be okay. I pray to God that He was the only one but I know in my heart that He was not. For the sake of your husband and your unborn baby, I pray that Baby is truly the offspring of your husband. Your secrets are too heavy for me to carry. I’m glad that I am rid of them. I am sad that I had to be rid of you but you didn’t even put up a fight. Maybe you were too worried that I knew too much or perhaps it is as I thought all along, you were only using me. Ciao!

 

When I weighed in this week for the big Slim Down Challenge, I was 1.1 pounds lighter. Maybe getting all of this off of my chest IS making my thyroid function properly.

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Date / Time: 10/24/2007 3:40 PM UTC

YOUR Attitude is Making ME Fat!

 

 In case you haven’t heard, Oprah has a thyroid condition. Tada! Could this finally be the answer to her weight problem? A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a thyroid condition and yes, she looks FABULOUS! I’ve never thought that she looked bad but wow did her treatment do a number of wonderful things for her. She also eats a lot better and exercises more. Well, right away I thought, maybe that’s the reason why I’ve gained so much weight the past 4 years.

 

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Sadly, my doctor and my blood tests disagree. After hearing Oprah’s guest doctor, Dr. Northrup, I know I have a thyroid condition!

 

Northrup says, “In many women thyroid dysfunction develops because  of an energy blockage in the throat region, the result of a lifetime of 'swallowing' words one is aching to say”. Sounds like me, right? NOT ANY MORE! Lately, I just don’t care as much. My problem is that I tell other people how I feel and not the person that I have the issue with. I really have been working on it but as a result, somehow I lost someone that I thought was my friend. As a result of losing that “friend”, I also lost a few other friends. Maybe it’s because I didn’t really say what I meant to say.

 

“In the name of preserving harmony, or because these women have learned to live as relatively helpless members of their families or social groups, they have learned to stifle their self-expression,” says Dr. Northrup. Well, here it is; YMCA “Sweetie,” you are a spoiled brat with little to no creativity. You use people, you copy people, and you steal their ideas, their traditions and their livelihood. When you’ve exhausted them with your constant whininess about your pathetic “problems” and woes and you are done criticizing them to death, you stomp all over them, pack your bags with all that you’ve taken and walk out. I’ve waited for almost a year now for you to return my phone calls and have you? No. You are now deleted from my cell phone and thus, my life. Ciao!

 

“It's no coincidence that so many more women than men have thyroid problems. Thyroid disease is related to expressing your feelings..." Thanks Dr. Northrup…I feel skinnier already!

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Date / Time: 10/7/2007 7:02 PM UTC

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Date / Time: 9/24/2007 1:51 PM UTC

We Had So Much Fun

Date / Time: 9/23/2007 5:34 PM UTC

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