arwalden
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:41 PM
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I Can't Stop Shaking My Foot And Bouncing My Knee... |
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Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:15 PM by arwalden
... if I'm not bouncing my knee up and down, then I'll just nervously "wave" my foot from side to side. I wonder how many calories I burn up when I do that for 8-10 hours a day?
Is that just a "guy-thing" or do women do it too? For the longest time I was convinced that it was a teen's "racing-hormone-thing" that would eventually subside... but here I am 44 years old, and still bouncing my knee at approximately 290 BPM (yes, I've counted).
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:44 PM
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My dad does it, my grandfather did it. Thought it was just a family thing.
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:44 PM
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Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 10:45 PM by lazarus
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:46 PM
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3. It's an indication that you are extremely YIN. |
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Sugar, coffee and high yin foods cause that reaction. Eat more grain.
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:46 PM
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4. It's a medical condition. |
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Perhaps? Restless Leg Syndrome: http://www.rls.org/
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arwalden
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:54 PM
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5. OMG... It's Got A Name?? And A Website? |
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I always knew I was strange...
Thanks for the info and URL!
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Sun Jan-30-05 10:57 PM
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6. It definately is..Most combat vets have it |
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:07 PM
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10. That's an interesting site. |
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Do you think you have RLS? I was going to ask about your caffeine intake! If you have to have a condition, it doesn't see at all life limiting or threatening.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:41 PM
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20. I Drink About A Pot Of Coffee A Day... |
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... and even though the coffee pot says it's a "12-cup" coffee maker, in REALITY it pours about 8-10 regular mugs of coffee.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:47 PM
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So, you giving up the coffee or content to have a name for the condition? (I'd select the latter, btw.)
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:56 PM
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My "four-cupper" actually = ONE :D
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:02 PM
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7. Allen, I do that too, and yes it burns up a ton of calories |
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Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:03 PM by Skittles
I have been banned from sitting next to Warren at work in meetings, since he does the same thing and it drives everyone nuts.
I think mine is an offshoot of an attention disorder :D I've always done it - I remember dad hollering at me when I was a little kid for "shaking the table".
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:02 PM
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8. You could be a brilliant drummer |
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My daughters did it,it isn't a male or female thing ,it is just god telling you to buy a drum kit.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:06 PM
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9. I've done it since I was a small child |
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And it's never stopped.
My partner, quite lovingly, calls it my "vibrating", because she can tell that I'm doing it in my head even if my body isn't doing it.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:31 PM
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17. No sex threads, Rabrrrrrr. |
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:08 PM
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11. they just said on the news tonight that fidgeters DO burn calories |
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and tend to weigh less than non-fidgeters. Scientific, but I don't have a link, because I think it was KING TV and they demand name and email info so...
I heard it a few months ago and try to remember to fidget-but it's hard. Hard work
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:16 PM
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12. Allen, my legs get so fidgetty at night, it keeps me awake |
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It's hell when your brain says 'sleep' and your legs scream "BOOGIE TIME!". I have been known to jog in place, in the bathroom at 3 AM.
Horse chestnuts are supposed to help but I haven't tried it. Anybody have any herbal things they have used which help?
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:18 PM
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13. I do it and I am definitely not a guy. And I am 56 |
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it is getting worse and more aggravating as I grow older.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:22 PM
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14. I'm 25/female and have done it since I was a little kid... |
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my parents used to get so upset with me in church for "shaking the pew" that I would get in trouble when I got home. I still do it to this day. For some reason I find the repetitive motion somewhat soothing...I know...it's weird, but I just can't stop!
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM
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15. I do the same thing which kind of negates the |
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Edited on Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM by ikojo
study that said thin people tend to fidget whereas fat people do not. I am definitely fat. I have always bounced my knee, so much so that my stepfather gave me the only nickname I've ever had, thumper.
I forgot to add that I am female.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:30 PM
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16. I'm doing it right now. |
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I do it all the time. And I have read that people who do that do burn a bit more calories than people who don't.
Sometimes I wish I could stop.
It drives people around me nutty.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:31 PM
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18. it's my natural manifestation that |
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didt didt didt didt
"I'VE GOT RHYTHM"
"I'VE GOT MUSIC"
"I'VE GOT MY MAN, WHO COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE."
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:33 PM
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19. I do it all the time. |
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People sitting next to me get pissed, and sometimes they ask me to stop.
I don't ever notice i'm doing it half the time.
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Sun Jan-30-05 11:42 PM
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21. I don't think it's just a guy thing. |
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I have what I call "nervous energy." I rarely sit still even when I think I'm sitting still.
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