Healthy Submissives

i was wondering if any other subs had any thoughts or experiences about birth control?

i am getting the patch and was courious if any of you have had any strange side effects?
maybe what you have used?
if you have used birth control  have you noticed any weight gain ? what about your moods ?

i am a little nervous about using it because i  have heard horror stories about  very bad mood swings and weight gain , but want an extra measure of protection against getting pregnant besides just using condoms.

thanks for any help

i did x-post to another group

 

I've been WALKING. I still have to be very careful about working up to as much walking as I want, but since a few weeks after I started my new medications, I've been able to do *much* more than I had been.

diabeticfriendly.com has some really great stuff. I've been eating the Golightly hard candies for awhile now, but I recently discovered some of the chocolates too. Yum. If you ask they'll also send samples when you place an order.

8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3 eggs
1.5 cups almond flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup Splenda
1 teaspoon cinnamon (I actually use a lot more cinnamon - until the batter is brown - but that's up to you :)).

Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes.

If you want extra cinnamon-y-ness, mix 2T melted butter with 2t splenda and 1/2t cinnamon, and spoon it on the tops about 5 minutes before baking is done. Yum.

To turn these into chocolate muffins, I leave out the vanilla and the cinnamon and put in 4-6 Tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder instead. You might want to also add a few tablespoons of Splenda, depending on how sweet you want your chocolate.

1 cup almond flour
1 cup splenda
3 eggs
1 cup canned pumpkin or mashed banana
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter

bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Makes 12 muffins, approx. 1.5 net carbs per muffin for pumpkin or 5 for banana. It helps if you freeze and thaw the bananas first - it makes them much easier to mash.

Things have gotten quiet here. How is everyone doing?

I have a UTI (again! what is up with that!?). It's annoying, but my biggest concern is that it will throw me off track and thwart all my efforts. I'm not sure I should go in the pool (is this a problem, do you think?), I need to add 2 yogurts to my diet every day, my antibiotic says I should avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight (I'm supposed to be out soaking in the vitamin D), and between the infection and the antibiotic I'm really low on energy. I need a plan that keeps everything from falling down while I get better. I think that includes putting on sunscreen and going out every day anyway - it won't result in much D, but it will keep me in the habit - and being more careful with carbs so I can fit in the yogurt. Not sure yet what to do about PT, but maybe getting rest is more important for a few days so I can get myself back into a reasonable sleep schedule and not ruin the progress made by the synthroid.

I had 3 glorious weeks of having fruit in my diet, then I binged (twice) and screwed everything up. I've been back on induction for a week, and it's been rough. The good news is I'm losing weight again; I don't know the exact numbers, but he tells me things are moving in the right direction, and I'm hopeful that with the new meds (synthroid) we can keep that up. The bad news is I haven't lost as much as I gained by binging (how is that possible?? grr). The other good news is that Master added cherries to my diet today, so it's not going to be 6 weeks of induction again. yay.

I was also diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency, which I'm told can cause chronic pain. If even some of the pain can be explained by that and fixed, maybe I'll be able to get more exercise too. Wish me luck!

Hiya! i'm rawk, an owned submissive in service and really in need of support while i try to get my eating and exercise on track.

Sir isn't actually ordering me to start this, but we have discussed my goals and he is supportive.

I was also recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. When my blood work was done in November, my A1C level was a 12....it should be under a 7. I'm happy to report that as of last week, my A1C was down to 7.4!

My struggles are with trying to figure out how to stay motivated to exercise...and to MAKE ways to get exercise to be a part of my daily routine.

I'll have more to post later, but I thought I'd just say hi. :)

My brain is weird. I feel like I'm going to end up binging today, but I can't do it until Sir releases me from the "don't put anything in your mouth without permission" rule (which was put in place because I had a medical test that required fasting, and he thought it was fun to keep it up for awhile (the rule, not the fasting)). If that stops me, and I mean, really stops me - almost as if I physically *can't* put anything in my mouth right now unless he says so - then how the hell can I consider binging at all? Why doesn't the fact that he doesn't want me to binge stop me in the same way (actually it does, much of the time. I went from binges a couple of times a week to none for almost a year because he said so. but not today)? Why is it so thoroughly impossible to break one rule even while I'm thinking of breaking the other? That doesn't match. When I get into binge mode it feels like the rule might as well be "don't breathe until June," because there's no way I could possibly obey, and maybe that has something to do with it. It confuses me. If I were feeling just generally resistant and breaking rules all over the place it would at least be consistent, but this makes no sense at all.