 Poster: A snowHead
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Last week, skiing in Austria = no pain, very few IBS symptoms, few alcoholic and caffeinated drinks, loads of unhealthy food.
This week, at work in Notts = extreme pain every morning, terrible IBS, headaches, no alcohol or caffeine, mostly healthy food.
So basically I don't need a healthy diet and all sorts of pain medication, I just need to be on a permanent skiing holiday...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Maybe it's your job.
You were with ( good) company last week?
Stress might be your problem.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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queen bodecia, you have my every sympathy. Daughter has an IBD and it's not pleasant. She's been told to avoid healthy food (that's her excuse). She's only 9 so hasn't tried the wine and coffee diet yet.
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Stress might be your problem
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sounds very like it. queen bodecia, you have often mentioned you have 2 jobs and don't enjoy your time off. Maybe there is something you could do, in the UK, which would be in some way like skiing. Something outdoors? Adrenaline probably helps?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not stressed but the headaches might be work-related, the light is all wrong in our studio, for me anyway. IBS seems to come and go, I've tried all the food diary things and all I've discovered is that fibre and alcohol do not help, liquorice does help. It's probably radiation damage that's the main reason, and there's nothing I can do about that. It just seems odd that I felt better than fine last week and absolutely rubbish this week...
pam w, the weekend work is mainly to keep me occupied, I'd be bored beyond imagination otherwise.
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I'd be bored beyond imagination otherwise
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But isn't that quite significant? Your main job sounds quite taxing and demands a lot of you. Why is it that you find it so impossible to enjoy a couple of days a week "off"?
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If I lived and worked hard in the mountains, I wouldn't be on the happy pills, and my lungs would be much stronger...
you have my sympathies though, you have it far worse off.
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I always suffer with more aches whenever I come back to the UK from Europe as the dampness plays havoc over here.
My IBS started when I gave up smoking and we thought it could be stress related but diet does play a large part. Like you, I seem to feel better when I'm skiing and like Filthyphil30k says, stress doesn't help, neither does lack of exercise, MTB-ing provides me with a buzz and exercise, I've felt lots better since I started that.
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gixxerniknik, MTB-ing? Good for you? Apart from the cracked bones and other bashed about bits. 
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dobby 
seriously, Giro, 661 & Dainese are the secret to less hurts and more smiles, that goes for skiing too.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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gixxerniknik, my friend has a Giro helmet in the Giro "saved my life" hall of fame after she headbutted a tree on a descent. She got a free replacement helmet, too.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ow!
Going back to the OP, I agree with Queen bodecia, more skiing = less stress. Having read about the lady who supposedly got breast implants on the NHS, do you think we could get skiing holidays on the NHS to alleviate the problems of IBS? Now that's what I call a cure!
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Yes, skiing is good for you, of course! But so are a lot of other ways of getting exercise in the open air and for many people the most enjoyable exercise involves some skill, and maybe some "adrenaline" rush. Thing like sailing, kayaking, climbing, etc etc. Few people living in the UK are able to go off skiing for more than a week or so. So if you feel good when you are skiing, and bad for the other 50 or so weeks a year, it's something of a waste of life, isn't it? Those kinds of activities, like skiing, typically involve not only the exercise itself, but also interaction with other people, whether competitive or not, getting together afterwards, enjoying the arguments and rehashing the day, sharing a special environment, etc etc.
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You know it makes sense.
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Last week, skiing in Austria = no pain, very few IBS symptoms, few alcoholic and caffeinated drinks, loads of unhealthy food.
This week, at work in Notts = extreme pain every morning, terrible IBS, headaches, no alcohol or caffeine, mostly healthy food. |
I guess it's healthy food... this thing will kill you
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Skydiving is great when the weather is a bit warmer, (but depends how bad the IBS is!) 
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Poster: A snowHead
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If I lived and worked hard in the mountains, I wouldn't be on the happy pills
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Wouldn't bank on it. People have problems here same as they do everywhere. Could be right about the lungs though.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lizzard, true that, it would help the situational depression but maybe not the chemical so much, however a mountain lifestyle with much more exercise would probably help with that too. The dry air helps my asthma a lot more though.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, I'm one of these people that needs something to do, I go stir crazy sitting at home. I get your point about other activities, but the expense is a big factor. Saving up for skiing holidays and motorbike trips means being kinda frugal elsewhere in my life. So I'm better off using my 'free' time doing something that earns money rather than costing more money.
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queen bodecia, well, we've had these conversations before, haven't we? It's a case of identifying priorities. And not all outdoor activities are expensive - most areas have a growing number of cycle tracks and belonging to a local cycle touring group costs little or nothing.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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endorphins from exercise and just general contentment?
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queen bodecia, you seem absolutely determined not to change anything about a lifestyle which gives you health problems including chronic pain and headaches and seems to make you unhappy. As a single person without a lot of ties you have much more scope to make some radical changes than many people do.
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queen bodecia, you do graphic/computer stuff, right? No chance of doing it remotely from the Alps?
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Heck, this was supposed to be a light-hearted thread about skiing being good for my health, not a lifestyle evaluation. I have two jobs I love, I just seem to be healthier when I'm skiing. Yes it probably is an exercise thing so maybe I need to find some form of exercise in the UK which I enjoy and which doesn't cost too much. So far I've had no luck there, I find swimming boring, gyms don't appeal to me, running hurts my legs, but might be worth trying something else. Can't think of any cycling tracks round here and my bicycle is ancient!
clarky999, that might be a plan one day but I'm tied to the UK at present, two mortgages and a poorly mother.
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queen bodecia, you also had good company - all round perfection I would have said
its easy for us to say what you could/should be doing - but if you are in a bit of a rut (just got out of mine  ) then its far easier said than done - you cant instantly replicate the fun you had last week
I do feel tonnes better when Im exercising though (or rather when Ive finished the exercising!).
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Shimmy Alcott, it was most definitely a perfect few days.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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When I ski I can become alive again and my injuries and pains for a time are overwhelmed by endorphins and I can ski good off-piste for 5 days 5 hours at a stretch, after which I need about 3 weeks of recovery skiing only gates once a week to keep my spine moving. I use specialist treatment to get me going again; looked after by a physician who also keeps a le mans driver racing, he cannot understand the motivation of either of us
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Looking at this discussion I can see most of you guys lost contact with reality Yes living in Alps has some benefits, but unfortunately it's not like your holidays look like Even if you get job, where you can be somewhere on ski resort all day long (instructor, coach, liftee...) it's still far from this what you imagine. I can't say anything about instructor/liftee job, but I would imagine it's same thing, but I have "some" experience with being coach/serviceman and nowadays as photographer shooting skiing, which means I was and I still am on skis A LOT. Sure there are great days, and you can even ski from time to time, but most of time (for example in 14 days in Schladming on World championships, I was skiing exactly twice... once for hour and half, and once for 3 hours), you work and your skiing means slipping down the course (with being serviceman that means slipping down then course with at least 2 or 3 pairs of skis on your shoulder, and then spending rest of day and night in waxroom, or with being photographer slipping down the course with 20kg and 20.000+eur worth backpack on your shoulder to position and then wait even for 8h in snow, fog and cold). Next thing is, you are out there on beautiful warm sunny day, as well as on rainy or snowy sh***t day, with wind blowing, and where temperatures are -25c... and you are out for hours and hours, with no warm huts around, with no hot chocolate etc. But everyone see just those nice sunny days, noone see us being up on hill for hours in crappy weather.
If you forget this sort of jobs, and you get "normal" office job, living 5km from ski resort doesn't help much either. Sure you can ski on weekends, but during week you work, and sometimes, especially on nice sunny days, it feels even worse looking through office window seeing all that snow on hills just few kilometers away, yet you still can't go.
So life down here is not really 365 days a year of holidays either
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Wot primoz said. There are plenty of jobs which let you ski every day, and lots which give you weekends (or some other two days off), but it's much the same as living anywhere - you fit your hobbies in around work. People also have the same problems here as everywhere else (relationship breakdown, redundancy, hassle at work, financial issues etc etc), often compounded by the low wages and job insecurity which are inevitable in a seasonal economy.
I'm not saying it's a rubbish life by any means, but it's a life, not a holiday - that's why everyone bogs off to the coast the minute the lifts close.
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You know it makes sense.
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So life down here is not really 365 days a year of holidays either
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When I was working I once spent 6 weeks in the Caribbean, visiting Barbados, Aruba, the British Virgin Islands, Trinidad, St Kitts, Antigua and the Bahamas and probably some other I've forgotten. In that time I had precisely one day, a Sunday, when I could have a "holiday style" day. All the rest of the time, including weekends (when we were tending to travel) was work. Three days report-writing in Barbados, in the office over a long holiday weekend when everyone else was at the carnival and we had to get special security clearance to open up the office to use the computers etc.
I've also done extensive work travelling in the Pacific. Sitting in very hot government offices with no air conditioning, having long and difficult meetings, trying not to be distracted by the views over a sparkling palm-fringed lagoon, trying surreptitiously to tuck my cotton skirt between sweating thighs whilst dabbing Anthisan on the inevitable insect bites.....
it's not all beer and skittles!
contentment in life has a lot more to do with who you are than where you are.
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It was still a great job though!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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contentment in life has a lot more to do with who you are than where you are.
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THat thing. Unfortunately you are obliged to take your own head with you wherever you go.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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primoz, Lizzard, I'm aware of this and I consider myself lucky to have a job I love and to be able to afford one or even two skiing holidays per year. I am aspiring towards a future of semi-retirement in the Alps when I have fewer financial commitments. Maybe that's the way to have a happy and healthy semi-retirement! 
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To return to subject the reality is skiing takes your mind off other things - you cannot ski and worry other issues in your mind - if you do you are not skiing but faceplanting in the snow - it takes 99% concentration on the matter in hand and that is why it is so therapeutic imho. Even on a lift you are looking for different lines, "admiring" great and horrendous technique and soaking in the atmosphere.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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countryman, that's very true. Although my Mum was very much on my mind last week, I didn't think about work at all! 
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queen bodecia,
Another thing that requires 99.667235% concentration is learning to play a musical instrument - have you ever tried that?
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skiing takes your mind off other things - you cannot ski and worry other issues in your mind
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that's one of the many things skiing has in common with sailing - and why quite a lot of the same people like both. You have to be OK with being cold and/or wet and/or scared sh*tless some of the time. Or even enjoy it!
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DB, used to play the flute at school. That was me being bloody minded after having been told I couldn't play a wind instrument (asthmatic). I think my neighbours would hate me if I picked that up again, haha!
I'm looking into ice skating lessons. I enjoyed that when I tried the Christmas ice rink in Derby. Might be a similar buzz to skiing, who knows...
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The only thing I've found with a similar buzz to skiing is going on rollercoasters
queen bodecia, at least you can be glad you found skiing, imagine if you hadn't!
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| I'm looking into ice skating lessons. I enjoyed that when I tried the Christmas ice rink in Derby. Might be a similar buzz to skiing, who knows... |
Most likely not... I admit I don't do much ice skating (except for playing ice hockey, but that's hardly ice skating  ), but in summer I do quite lot of speed inline skating. And when it comes to this what I will write, it's very similar to xc skiing or cross running. Once you have proper technique, you don't think about anything to do this sport. You don't need to think how you will push/ski/run, you just go. If you can, it's really great thing, since you go out for hour or two and you don't think about a single thing, and you come back home as new born. With alpine skiing things are different. Even if I have technique in subconscious, I still need to "think"... from checking for bumps, taking care I will make right turn to avoid someone when passing them with 5 times of their speed and so on. So with alpine skiing you really can't think on anything else. With xc skiing (or speed skating, or running), you can go out and not think on anything, BUT you can also go out, and you have 2 hours time to think about all the problems you have, since you don't need to concentrate on skiing itself... you have this in you and you can dream and still ski/skate. So if you can't follow first option (not think about anything), these sports are everything but great to clear your mind, since you have way too much time to think about problems when doing them.
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