I have a new fitness tracker on my phone. It just pinged me and said "you hit your recommended Heart Association goal for the week!" I was like, cool, I had a pretty active week last week. So I click on it, to see which days I was most active. It turns out it is a Sunday - Saturday week. My goal was hit in a single day, on yesterday's leisurely bike ride. I admit, that makes me feel like a bad ass. But it also makes me wonder who is setting these goals, if two hours of slow exercise will meet them!

I'm so sorry you're going through this, and I truly empathize. I had a coworker who preached Zen and treating others with kindness, when she actually did NOT. She spoke terribly to and downright screamed at clients, vendors, others in the office and our team members - especially me - and the boss wouldn't do anything about it. I eventually had a breakdown because of her and left shortly after. She was the meanest, most aggressive and vile persons I've ever known in my life. I actually DO know witchcraft, but I only do white magick. Black magick, hexes, torture spells and the like will only reflect that back to you three times. (Rule of Three.) Voodoo/Hoodoo are closed practices, only handed down through generations <- just a little PSA. I know you don't want to, but send the bully love from your heart chakra.

Well, I was having the stress test because I’m in atrial fib, have SVT, and looking for other heart disease. Nobody said is was a false reading, but when the tech saw it he reached for the phone. I was getting readings ever four or five seconds and when it dropped he hung up the phone. I’m assuming he may have been calling a code, but nobody mentioned ‘false reading.’

It was a nuclear stress test. My BP shot up momentarily about 3 seconds after the injection. That, and my anxiety about a possible heart attack no doubt caused it. It went down to 180/88 within seconds.

My H was an alcoholic when I met him. He hid it well for a while. A year later he got so drunk he beat the crap out of me. I left him. He spent the next 6 months working on sobriety and keeping me in the loop. Eventually, he won my heart back. We spent many years with a good relationship. He almost made it a year into marriage without going back. Now he's drinking at least 2 6 packs every night. When he drinks, my entire body shakes and have anxiety. So far he hasn't gotten too mean. I've talked to him about it, he doesn't care. He won't get help. I told him we're over. I have 0 family or friends. Nowhere to go. I'm disabled but can't get disability (with my ex I was a SAHM for 10yrs). It's going to take a long time but I'm going to leave when I find a way to survive without him.

I got unfriended by someone I was best friends with all through childhood, and it was over the George Floyd demonstrations. She and I had a disagreement about it, where she commented on my FB post and started an argument with me. I stayed calm the entire time, but I visited her page today and realized that she had unfriended me. I know in my heart that she is a racist, and that it's no loss, but I feel like I lost something. I lost the idea that I could be friends with someone who has political beliefs that are the opposite of mine. There are two sides- racist and anti-racist. I chose mine.

Oh, no SHIT. My unemployed DH just spent $2K on a scissors lift and chainsaws for his "projects" around the house. Meanwhile, when I want to spend $1500 on a really nice elliptical machine to replace the cheap crappy one I wore out, he's having a heart attack about it costing too much. Hello, I'm the one with the job right now and we can afford it, so he definitely needs to shut it. DH claims that I spend more, but it's spread out on littler things. Yeah RIGHT. No way do I spend what he does on my hobbies. I buy all the food and cleaning supplies and whatnot for the house, but I do NOT blow as much on myself as he does.

So I just asked him why he didn’t go up with me yesterday. He said he didn’t think he was allowed because of COVID. That’s a lie!! He was sitting three feet away from me when the pre-op nurse called the day before. I distinctly asked if he could come with and if he could stay. She said yes and I said that he’d go get breakfast after I went to the procedure room and be back. So he’s not gonna tell me the real truth. I just know I can’t even look at him without my heart breaking (and the tears flowing). Thanks for letting me unload here. I’m done though.

But when anyone says ANYTHING that’s not in lockstep with him, he and his sheeple scream that it’s fake news; that it’s a liberal hoax just like the impeachment was. And if he develops heart issues it will be the fault of the Democrats. There’s no fixing stupid!

I'm 5'3", 104 lbs. I am trying to get to where I can eat without worrying so much about going over my calories, etc. I think I was in a big deficit before and I'm coming back closer to my maintenance. If you're only eating 1200 calories a day right now, you are likely no where near enough to be getting enough of the nutrients you need to be healthy. Even if your ankle's not functional, you can still do arm exercises to try and get your heart rate up a bit and allow yourself to eat more calories. 1200 calories a day would only be advisable for a very short term crash diet.