Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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I got on the bike today and yesterday. It's hard and the hip isn't happy but I love feeling like I did something good today.2
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Yay @Elise4270 - I hope you aren't super sore tomorrow!1
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Dh finally decided to work from home. We made a trip to the store. Bought everything in the store except the elusive tp.
I have a homemade lasagna in the oven. Not gonna lie I kinda like DH home a bit. He's doing dishes too. I dared getting on the scale this mornand I'm up of course. But maybe I can turn that around.
Alex was let out of jail due to the virus. Guess that's good. I hope he made some progress last 45 days.
Stay well. What's for dinner?
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@shanaber I imagine hemp seed would cook similarly to sesame seed, which mostly improves by being toasted.
We went to the store today rather than yesterday due to check not going through until this morning. One of the exhausting things about being a freelancer is trying to get people to give you the money they owe you. Lately, missing out on stocking up on supplies while others went nuts, I have felt like the payroll lady at our client’s office was going to be personally responsible if we ended up with Coronavirus!
Anyway, got there at opening - an hour before dawn! and husband went in wearing a mask and gloves while I waited in the car. He reports that there is one good thing about wearing a mask in public - people see you, worry that you are symptomatic, and run from you! He said it was funny watching the people who were elbowing each other for goods flee when they saw him. He actually got toilet paper. And then SOMEBODY STOLE IT OUT OF HIS CART! He was already worried about that happening and keeping an eye on it, but he had to weigh something in the produce department since he was using self scan so as not to have to stand in line, and when he looked back, not only was the TP gone, but the thief had moved the paper towels from the bottom rack to the top of his cart to make the theft less visible from a distance. Well... at least they didn’t steal the paper towels.
We have tp for the immediate future, hopefully people will have gotten some sense before we run out. But I was sort of hoping not to have to go out in public again for a good long while.
We did have one lucky break. Ordering kt tape from Amazon since they are going to stop restocking non-essential items now. Well... it’s essential for us if we want to keep running, but I’m guessing not officially essential. And since they were out of the color I wanted the seller gave us a note and an extra roll! That’s okay groovy seller, I can wear mismatched kt tape for the sake of getting twice as much.
At the market we got everything but Purell, alcohol, and any type of disinfectant. However, the meat was not my first choice, I have a jalapeño cheddar kielbasa instead of my husband’s breakfast sausage, ground turkey sausage instead of ground beef for my mom, and so on. We did get a couple of good porterhouse steaks, and some chicken thighs. Produce was pretty much untouched, no one seems to be panic buying broccoli. Since my comfort food is those fancy colored cherry tomatoes I’m happy.
Keep safe you guys, the pandemic is making me realize how much I love all y’all and would feel it if anything happened to you.
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@rheddmobile Glad you got most everything you needed at the store. I haven't ventured into a store for over a week. Just don't feel like dealing with the madness and I don't need anything anyway. Stealing TP out of someone's cart is crazy. Heard about people stealing it right out of someone's hands before too. What is this world coming to?
Glad to hear the produce isn't gone. If I go to the store, it will probably be for fruit and veggies.
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Kermit! Lol!
I went to the grocery for a couple Items and saw a man in a big gas mask. Kind of scary to me.
Finally, we got word that the teachers do not have to come in for a retreat on Monday. I suspect we will just be teaching from home. Since I have half a day of other duties I will do those remotely as well. Not sure how long this will last.
Had a nice run today. Good food day today. Hello Fresh dinner was a faro bowl with asparagus and zucchini. Three things I wouldn’t normally cook with. I like that it just two portions and it’s not wasteful. It’s fun to cook too. The timing with these Invisalign’s is perfect. I think I’d be snacking all day without them.
It’s 8:44 here and I may need a snack before bed ... but my idea of a night snack is ice cream so not sure it will remain a good food day.3 -
I had ice cream... vanilla that I put a drizzle of dark chocolate on and a few walnuts on top. But I did have a salad for dinner.
@Elise4270 - I hope things go well for Alex. Do you think he will come back home?
@rheddmobile - I have heard of people stealing from other's carts as well as breaking into cars for TP and hand sanitizer. I did find one small travel pack of antibacterial hand wipes at Target, hidden down in with the travel shampoos. I hid them in my cart under other things so no one would see them!
Well we are on complete lockdown in CA as of tonight. No unessential travel, no unessential business. But we are ok to get outside and walk or run or whatever just be mindful of the space. I am hoping I can still take Hobbes to the Vet tomorrow. He has some new lumps that need testing, one is very suspicious. He is also drinking enormous amounts of water. I would hate to have to wait and find out he is sick and we could have done something about it.
I did hear from another friend here that her best friend's BF is now in the hospital on a ventilator positive for CV. It literally happened overnight. My friend is at her kids' now watching her grandkids because the schools are closed and so worried she may have brought it into their home and also that she won't be able to go home to her husband.
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@shanaber I hope you can get to the vet and that Hobbes is okay. Also hope your friend's friend will be okay. Scary times. Just heard about the CA lock down this morning on the news. Glad you are still able to get out and go for a run.0
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@shanaber - Oh my gosh - your friend, and Hobbes. Hope you can take Hobbes in. I had mint chocolate.
My daughter’s dog was featured in this article (2nd one, Rudy)
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Cute puppy dog. 😀0
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Dh went to Texas for his asthma shot. I suggested he grab a shower and wash his clothes immediately. He tried to hug me insisting he's not gotten any virus despite the woman at the counter coughing then puts on her mask. sheesh. folks, stay the heck home if you are ill. How thick are ya'll in an asthma clinic? treating folks with pulmonary issues to begin with? the employee is coughing?
The human race is just too dumb to follow directions.
Food.
GI upset yesterday. So i ate more than i should have. One more day of prednisone and i'm hoping the gut pain ends.
Sourdough bread with swiss
coffee and cream
It's cold and windy. Was 80+ yesterday after the rain stopped... guess no walk again today.. I tried the TM a bit yesterday, 23 minutes. It's hard, but I may give it another go. I noticed the bike kills my back when i lay down, much like i remember when i was 13 and first had hip/back pain. I got a new bike that year too, rode everywhere all day. I noticed pudendal pain too, but that's been "normal" the last few years. I got some violin practice in and noticed some pudendal tingling after standing for a bit. lovely. I think I'm officially broken. no shoulder, no hip. no back, no leg, no feet, no butt. Thank goodness there is poo bear and netflix. The pt place I use is open, insists they are taking CDC/WHO precautions and encourage keeping appointments. I may call monday about the shoulder.1 -
@Elise4270 Bless your heart! Hope your GI issues resolve once you stop the steroid. Hope you can get some relief from your other issues as well.0
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@elise4270 - Glad you have your snuggly pooh beary! Also hope the PT can help sort some of th pain out for you! I have never been to a chiropractor for 'adjustments' not even sure if they really work but is that something that might help?
Can't believe the lady in the Asthma Clinic coughing before she put on her mask!
We aren't even hitting the 60's and you are in the 80's - upside down weather! And we have rain, rain, rain and more rain. I am not complaining! I love the cooler weather and we really need all the rain.
@ddmom0811 - love Rudy! He is so cute!
Hobbes update - the vet had a great process set up. You call from the parking lot, they come and get you when the room is ready. No one allowed in the waiting room or up at the counter. You stay in the room, when finished the tech takes your payment to the desk and brings you the receipt. Back outside and I never saw anyone other than the vet and the techs all of whom wore masks and gloves. Hobbes had blood work, urinalysis and lots of needle biopsies. She has started a body map for him to track all the ones we have tested so far. The one on his belly had to be poked multiple times and it is suspicious so one of the biopsies of that will be sent out for cytology with results next week. Blood work was normal. Urinalysis we may get back tomorrow but with the bloodwork normal she is expecting it to be too. We can't figure out why he is drinking so much water but none of the worrisome things like renal disease are apparent.
I was pretty worried and didn't eat other than a few carrots and celery with hummus and my normal early morning protein bar. I was starving after we left the vet office and had half of another protein bar I left in the car from strength training a week ago. I had to be really hungry to eat that! Chicken and veggies for dinner.2 -
I got an email about this today and I think I will join in tomorrow evening. Could be fun!
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@shanaber Glad the news on Hobbes is good so far and that the vet was taking precautions.
The dance party sounds like fun, but my internet is so slow, I can't do live streaming. That's what I get for living in the boonies and not having cable.
I'm not sure how, but I lost 0.6 pounds this week. I had two really horrible days of eating...the cheese burger and fries on Wednesdar and then yesterday I couldn't resist the day care spaghetti and meatballs they had for lunch, including a piece of garlic toast. I really expected to be up today after that. So, I was very happy when I was down a little.
I am supposed to do a 9.5 mile run this weekend. I am not working next week, so I may put it off until a pretty day during the week so I can run it outside instead of on the treadmill.1 -
@shanaber Sounds like the vet office has it down. Good for them! I feel for you and poor Hobbes. Best wishes and love to the both of you.
@quilteryoyo WOW! always a nice surprise when the weight moves unexpectedly in the right direction. Mine is not. well, its not horrible. I think i just watch too many 600lb shows and feel like that is where i am heading. Increased pain and food for comfort. ugh.
Walk today no matter the weather.
My body has to move to mitigate some of this worsening ache. I really need a pool. I saw a modest home (on TV) with an indoor pool that opened up to the outside. WOW, yes please. I have physical needs. There should be a program to build me one, like the tornado shelter program? its just a necessity. I may be a fish as much as a dog. I think a morning swim would do wonders for me. hmm. I might put action to that when possible instead of wishing, (go to Y or school pool).
Classes are canceled for the rest of the semester. So... I'm in full blown lazy mode and don't want to study at all despite the communication that we will have 2 exams the 30th. I'm sure they'll use a lock-down browser or the Proctor U one. No chance of cheating, you are watched and anything suspicious and you are kicked out of he exam. One girl (i may not trust), said her dog came in the room and it booted her. She was in that particular class the third time, had problems coming to class... I've not had any problems with it, but i don't try to cheat. so... I just dun wanna anymore. haha! Maybe the walk will help and I'll find some motivation.
Stay sane and motivated.
oh. What are you eating today?
coffee
I think a tuna sandwich sounds good later. we have some crispy lettuce so maybe a boat.
bananas that are ready to be eaten.
With all of this, I am more mindful of wasting food.1 -
@Elise4270 Sorry for your worsening aches. I hope you can get out for a walk today and it helps you get motivated to study for those tests.
As for food. I had an egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast, with coffee, of course. I'll probably just snack for lunch - maybe a piece of peanut butter toast or a Super Hero muffin, go for my planned run - 4 miles, probably on the treadmill, and then cook something for dinner. I may try one of the recipes from the new book - either Turkey Trot Meatballs or Bonk Burgers.1 -
@elise4270 - maybe you can write off a pool as a medical expense? Way long ago we got a waterbed at dh's allergists recommendation because he had such severe allergies and we were able to write off the expense.
I have lettuce to wash and wrap so it doesn't spoil. Also need to finish my strawberries before they go bad. Will likely have them with some yogurt after I run. It is lovely out right now but expected to rain this afternoon into tomorrow. Not sure what dinner will be. Leftovers probably, cabbage balls and mashed potatoes and veggies. Tomorrow is dh's birthday so I have all the makings for a nice dinner, steak, baked potatoes, veggies and maybe a salad too. I also found everything I needed to bake a chocolate cake. It has been a long while since I have baked one so hopefully it turns out.
Hobbes is exhausted still. The spot on his chest is angry. One of the worries is when you poke it, if it is a MCT it will set off a flare in the body and make it worse. Kind of like poking a bee hive. I am going to continue to believe for now that it is just unhappy from being poked 3 times just like any part of the body would be.Puppy cinnamon roll 😊
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@shanaber - poor Hobbes. Great idea on the pool for @elise4270! I'm not sure how cold it gets there in the winter.
@elise4270 - ugh don't blame you for wanting to be lazy with school cancelled. Go walk!
@quilteryoyo - nice on the weight!
I rode on my bike with 5 others for 48 miles. The weather is really nice. That said it was a 1004 calorie burn! When I bike for hours I'm always annoyed if it is < 1000 calories, lol.
Yesterday I couldn't decide what I wanted to do. I knew I should take a rest day, but I was wanting to do something. So I sat around contemplating, wasting time and then suddenly there were all these questions about the database at school so I was quite busy with that.
Tuesday we have an all-teacher google hangout. Some of the teachers asked me if we could do a practice today, so I did that with them a little while ago. It was fine with 8 of us, but 95?! I can't see it! I wish they would just email us what our requirements are for the virtual school that starts the 30th. College Board is struggling how to have the students test. They did release which parts they are removing from my two AP exams (Computer Science and Computer Science Principles). I was shocked! I feel like all grades for high schoolers, and college for that matter, will be ignored in the future. Everyone will think "oh yeah, the spring of 2020, ignore those!" . I don't think we should grade the students (or if we do nothing harsh). I think we should just offer lessons and either discussions or an online quiz/worksheet. It's too stressful for kids and teachers!
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@ddmom0811 I couldn't decide whether to "like" or "hug" your post. Great job on the 48 mile bike ride. I don't know how you do it. AND congratulations on the calorie burn! I'm with you on that one. I hate it when I feel like I've had a hard run for over an hour and it's less than 500 calories. But, I'm getting used to it. LOL
I agree with you about the kids and school. It's going to be so hard for them to learn and testing will be a nightmare. When I heard schools were closing for a few weeks, my first thought was that they would use our snow days and then make it up and just go to school longer in the summer. That makes more sense to me, but apparently that is NOT what they are doing. As a teacher, how would you prefer they approach it?0 -
Well the out and walking definitely helps with the constant desire to eat.
Assignments have been communicated. So, I also need to get back to it.
Food choices.
DH cooked breakfast. Eggs, bacon toast and gravy.
Noosa
Apples
Avocado and left over breakfast toast.
I hope I have time for a walk tomorrow too. I think the steroids have helped and makes it that much easier and enjoyable.
Stay sane. Wanna write my paper? Haha!2 -
wow. The scale may not have caught up with my recent gain but my clothes are undeniably uncomfortable. It's dreary outside again today, but I think I'll still try for that walk.
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Reasonably, I should put on a light soup. I could do that before the walk so I won't be tempted into anything else. Yesterday wasn't bad until DH put a stuffed crust frozen super high calorie pizza in. I am back to chipping away at assignments and that keeps me busy and out of the food, some.
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Hang in there @Elise4270 . It's hard when you have someone else in the household eating not so good for you foods. Good luck getting your assignments done and I hope you were able to get out for a walk.0
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@elise4270 - yay! on walking!
You can download and use the Peloton app for free for 90 days. I tried it today. OK NOW i know what all the hype is about. I listened to Robin Arzon, that my friend recommended. She was amazing! I just did a 20 minute run with HIIT, but I didn't run fast during HIIT due to foot issues I mentioned earlier. Then I added in a ten minute extra session. She makes you feel so good about running. And they have ones for walking too, @elise4270!
Makes me want a Peloton. A good friend of mine has been raving about it for over a year and hardly ever does the group rides anymore because she is so addicted to the Peloton classes.
Try the running! (Note it wasn't for outdoor running, it's for their treadmill, but who cares, it was really good anyway).
Today has been quite stressful and I'm so glad I jumped up and did a run this morning for my new streak!
I'm recording videos for my classes... and you really have to practice or you sound like a bumbling idiot.
It's one thing to get mixed up live in a class, they can't replay that. So everything is going to take double the time it would normally! In the meantime, I'm getting so many emails for the database side of my job with problems. I suspect it's that millions of kids and teachers are using the various apps online this week too!
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Time for some food porn! We had steaks, baked potatoes and broccoli for our dinner last night for the birthday party for two. I ended up cooking the steaks in the house because it was pouring rain. This was a first for me and I was excited that I got them right. His was nice and rare and mine was perfectly medium. Delicious!
The cake was good (very dark chocolaty) and he loved all of it. The icing was not my favorite (butter cream) but I was happy he liked it. I can always scrape it off which is what I did last night 😂
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@ddmom0811 - I love Robin Arzon! Have you read her book - Shut Up and Run? I did not know she was one of the coaches on Peloton. I will have to check out their app for the 30 day free trial. @bearly63 on the Challenge just got a Peloton bike on a 30 day trial. She is out injured and can't run so thought she would check it out.
Its too bad you can't do the classes live using FB or something similar. I think that would be way more fun and it could be interactive like in a class room.
@Elise4270 - It is good you are able to get up and move a bit! I have been dealing with someone who eats terribly all or most of the time other than what I cook for dinner. He gets the big heavy pizzas too but fortunately I don't care for them and they upset my stomach so no worries with that. I do have to ignore a lot of the other things he brings into the house and It is really hard sometimes. I just try to have alternatives lined up so I don't end up without a yummy choice and then fall into what he is eating.
I have been waiting to go for the thick dark clouds to leave so I can run. All the weather apps say no rain but every time I have believed them recently I have gotten soaked.
The problem is I haven't eaten breakfast because I kept thinking I was going out to run and now it is already lunch time and I haven't eaten that either... do I eat, wait and run? not eat, run while hungry and then eat? Such a dilemma but I think I will have some toast and go. Then eat lunch when I get home.2 -
@shanaber. That cake!!!! Yum!!!! And baked potato and broccoli!!! No haven’t read her book. It’s a 90 day trial. Try her out!!!
I’m completely overwhelmed. We got our directive from our superintendent on what is required for the online learning and everyone is freaking out. We will survive. One day at a time. I’ve got it better than most but I feel so bad for the technologically challenged.
Good food day till that email came in and I want crazy on peanut m and ms. Whatever. I’m doing the best that I can and that’s all I can do.
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@shanaber yummy! Thanks for sharing that dinner!
I have been eating so much. It dawned on me that it could be the prednisone. I hope so. I'm laying around eating 3000 calories a day. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to manage better. I'm stuffed and just keep eating.
No walk today. DH got a new toy and kept putting me off, then a work call just as we were going to go... Forget it then... I just watched bear catch a tiny earth snake and climb trees. Dum dum brought me a frog last night that he ate the legs off of. So, I trimmed the bushes where bear was snake bit last year, hoping to curtail the frog buffet for the snakes.
Tomorrow walk. I hope.
There should be an alternate setting on mfp. Calories should be shown as "miles to walk all the crap you ate off". I think I'm looking at, oh no... 437 miles? How discouraging. (10 pounds, 3500 Cal's/pound, 80 calories/mile).1 -
@elise4270 - this is one of many reasons I wouldn't ave a cat. The only thing Hobbes brings me are toys!
Prednisone can be so bad in so many ways. For me I always retained SO much water. When I had to take it as a teen for rheumatic fever I looked like a monster with my face and hands so swollen. If I smiled you couldn't see my eyes. It was awful.
I think the alternate setting in MFP might scare people - it would me!
@ddmom0811 - hope you can get the virtual learning and recordings going. I still like the idea of just having them all log in to class where it would be just like they were in a classroom but in a livestream. I can't imagine dealing with all teachers who are technologically challenged and/or terrified of technology.
Forgot my food update - I didn't eat enough. I did have toast and honey before I ran and a protein coffee and fig newtons when I got back. Then nothing until dinner which was leftover cabbage balls and mashed potatoes.
Tomorrow we are hitting the senior hour at Costco early and then I have a list of things to get done. I figure if I write them down in my journal and check them off they are more likely to actually get done. None are difficult just finishing up the laundry and baking some banana bread, but I just don't seem to be able to get anything accomplished these days.1 -
@shanaber That dinner and cake look delish! Making lists always help me accomplish what needs to be done. I have several going at a time. I love being able to check things off.
@ddmom0811 Good luck with the online teaching. Hopefully once you do it for a little while it will get easier. I do feel for those who are technologically challenged, or, like me, have really slow internet service. Not sure how that would work out.
@Elise4270 Yep. That alternative setting on MFP would scare me off. It would just be too overwhelming and I'd give up. Hopefully it is the Prednisone that is causing you to eat so much when you aren't hungry. When do you stop taking it?
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