Thank you very much for your response getting by. I know I keep saying this, but nobody knows better than me, how bad FM sucks !
Sawa, well seeing as some of my worst issues were from IBS, it seemed kind of obvious to me that cutting out my horrendous nightly food binge, should oughta help.... and it did. So basically I started by going from 3000-3500 cals (after 9pm... not to mention my 3000-5000 cals of other assorted garbage from breakfast until 9pm) to a dinner of a bowl of bran flakes, some 1% milk, and some fresh strawberries.
Now this ^ in itself did basically nothing for all of my (many) other FM issues. But it sure helped my digestion, and my IBS. In fact, changing nothing else, I lost 25 lbs in 5 weeks, and saw an improvement of maybe 75% in my IBS.
That's when I started going though, and straightening out the rest of my diet. IBS got better yet.
Now here's where it gets weird.... For whatever goofy reason, I have found that when I work out any part of my body with exercise (in other words, give myself a reason to be sore) my FM gets sidetracked or something.
In other words, the more real aches and pains my body had to deal with, the less and less my FM affected me, especially the weird, unexplainable FM pains that used to suck so bad.
So, yea' I do resistance training 5 days a week, and maybe 30 minutes a day of cardio 5 or 6 days too... especially on my off weight training days. And I eat like a freak 
Of course being 47 years old, and working out like a mad man, is definitely going to make me sore anyway.... and I'll be honest, sometimes I don't know if an ache or pain is from working out, or from my FM.
Still, I feel so much better overall, I just can't imagine falling off this wagon ! I honestly think I'd be dead in less than 5 years, if I ever did. And BTW, from where I was at, I don't think I had another 2 or 3.
And if your still with me Sawa, always this disclaimer.... I did have a silver bullet. It's called OCD. Just so happened that I got this whole health and fitness thing stuck in my head, and Bam !
Eating like a freak, and working out 7 days a week was easy for me. The hard thing for me, is thinking about anything else ! No, seriously !
So their you are. If you said my whole miraculous recovery from poor health, and hard core FM, to the best shape of my life, with minor FM nuisances, was all due to a psychological issue {OCD} I probably could not argue with you.
.......but surely their must be some others with FM, and without issues 
who could make hard core diet changes, and start doing both cardio and resistance training long enough, to start feeling any positive effects, and then for that to give them the motivation to push even harder, and it just snowballs ?
It would feel so good to help just one FM'er from where I was at, to where I'm at now ! (More than 1 would be good too )
And hey as the mods will always remind us, FM can be so different from one person to the next. I honestly don't know how many, or how few FM'ers whom this might help ? I just have a hard time believing that I'm the only one ?
Peace,
Fish Chris
PS, It only sucks that it took me 20+ years of FM hell, to finally hit rock bottom, and something in my OCD warped brain to click, and decide to do all this !
Just water under the bridge right ?
Post Edited (Fishchris) : 3/5/2012 9:56:14 AM (GMT-7)