Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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I had no idea doggo's liked carrots. We get them the puperoni, occasionally hot dogs, or cookies from petco, sometimes bananas. I'll have to see if they like carrots. They definitely like left over wet cat food.
I was teasing DH that today must be "take your cat to work day" because Beanie (the one on the diet) has been with him all day (working from home). He hasn't mentioned a cv death yet today, so I'm sure it was just too much cv yesterday.
I'm sure law enforcement is seeing a rise in domestic violence, or anticipates it and overall an increase in violent crimes.
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LA ordered gun shops to close for those exact reasons. I think it was LA. So much news in my head. And currently researching what CA courts are doing about hearings. NY is all teleconference hearings0
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@Elise4270 - Hobbes loved carrots (and crunchy lettuce). He gets them as treats and will do tricks for them. Often when we eat dinner and he has to be in his bed I will give him green beans or a bit of broccoli too.
@RunsOnEspresso - it was definitely LA - LA County Sheriff shut down all the gun stores with the Governor's approval. I haven't heard what CA is doing for court hearings. There was talk about postponing many of them but who knows for trials, etc. especially if someone is being held in custody. So many things could go wrong with inmates being exposed, etc. as well as the right to a speedy trial. You can't postpone it for months and months.2 -
My husband’s doing the grocery shopping for both of us and my mom - we are all high risk but he is lower risk than the rest of us. He wore a mask and gloves and went during high risk hour. It wasn’t crowded. Four younger people were waiting outside for the hour to end.
Stores are starting to look normal again, at least if you go early, except for paper products and cleaning supplies. My husband had a talk with the meat guy, who he knows, who was really proud of the way his department is getting on top of the situation. Meat guy was also wearing a mask, as were the cleaners in the store. Who wasn’t wearing a mask? The self-check people who get right up in your face every time the self-check system glitches and has to be seen to.
My mom is gonna drive me crazy. We explained that we were going shopping first thing in the morning before she gets out of bed and so it was important to email us a list the night before. Morning comes, no list. It’s impossible to wake her by calling because she’s deaf and takes her hearing aids out at night, and also recharges her watch which vibrates. So we make a list based on guesses plus what she asked for last week. I call her later about delivery and ask if she wants us to pick up fast food for her on the way out since I know she’s been craving French fries. And she starts giving me the list, verbally, over the phone, expecting my husband to go back to the store. A) it’s now noon and everything is sold out and b) there’s a pandemic, lady, my husband is already risking his life for you, he’s not going to do it needlessly because you wouldn’t follow instructions. So then she starts poormouthing and says if she’s too much trouble she will do her shopping herself. So I yelled at her that she is not going to do that, she’s 84 with heart problems and high blood pressure. My husband stepped in. Lest you think I am abusing the poor little old lady, my mom is the exact opposite of that - she is president of like four different things at the moment, and carries 50 pound bags of horse feed half a mile to the barn. She just doesn’t like having to do things to someone else’s schedule. Anyway she doesn’t feel any need to respect me, but she would be embarrassed to act that badly in front of my husband, so she apologized and it turned out we correctly guessed everything on her list anyway except for green onions and Brussels sprouts. Also I brought her fresh chocolate dipped pineapple from her favorite locally owned candy store (which now has curbside service!) because ugh. And my husband and I each ate a piece, and it was friggin delicious.3 -
@Elise4270 - Hobbes loved carrots (and crunchy lettuce). He gets them as treats and will do tricks for them. Often when we eat dinner and he has to be in his bed I will give him green beans or a bit of broccoli too.
@RunsOnEspresso - it was definitely LA - LA County Sheriff shut down all the gun stores with the Governor's approval. I haven't heard what CA is doing for court hearings. There was talk about postponing many of them but who knows for trials, etc. especially if someone is being held in custody. So many things could go wrong with inmates being exposed, etc. as well as the right to a speedy trial. You can't postpone it for months and months.
California courts seem to be all over the map between closures and staying open. LA superior courts seem to be operating as Maricopa county superior is (IA in person w/ limited staff & some teleconference). NY is all video/teleconference. Cook County seems shut down except IA/emergency.
I've heard of at least 3 positive tests for court related employees here. Yet they aren't announcing it like all other courts seem to be. Word spreads because you know people in other departments. I saw Cook County, LA and one other all post about employees with Corona and how they have resched out to staff, closed areas for a few days & disinfected. Here? Nada.0 -
@rehddmobile Stores here are installing plexiglass in front of cashiers.
Although our grocery is trying to go all self checkout. I don't mind self checkout if I only have a few items but its impossible when you only go shopping every other week. Too many items and not enough room.1 -
all the brownies are gone. I haven't studied much today.
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Dang it @elise4270 - you didn't save any for us???
I wish we could go early and find groceries. I have decided no more grocery runs. It just isn't worth it. @rheddmobile our neighbor Hilde is like your mom only she can't go anywhere. She keeps texting me to get her some bananas and some margarine she likes. I finally told her no more. I am not going to multiple stores looking for things. I will try online for delivery. So far it hasn't worked but I am going to keep trying. All the stores can't be out of everything all the time. I know they get shipments. Also they are installing those plexiglass screens here too in all the Albertsons associated grocery stores.
@RunsOnEspresso - I don't understand why AZ hasn't gone to the safe at home model most of the states have. I guess they won't until the number of cases are just so high they can no longer pretend it isn't a problem there.1 -
@shanaber I don't know why they are acting this way. Our govenor seems to think golf is an essential business. Maybe sucking up to Trump?
Oh and now theres 4 employees tested positive. Sheriff's deputy made the news (only County employee to publicly be positive)3 -
Today was ok until dh made another frozen pizza. I saved y'all brownies, but snooze ya loose! Haha! They were the chewy kind that you don't like anyway.
Man my nerve-butt-foot is unhappy, my ear is stabbing me. I tried to get DH to look and take a pic, but he has no idea how. I bet I can get DD to look at my ear. DH says I should just to to the doc.i managed to use 2 mirrors and the otoscope to look at my ear. I may have an ear infection, serous otitis media (been studying ears). . I think I should just buy some decongestants and Tylenol.
Honestly I have got to stop eating the way I have been. It's horrible. I'm 639 pounds today. When am I gonna get serious? I mentioned to DH that I was getting fat, he said "I know". Then wanted a hug cuz he likes chubby girls. I declined sighting the inability to lean over and hug him whilst sitting with my bad ear, hip, butt-foot pain, shoulder today.. what if I fell over? How's he gonna get me up?
Think thin thoughts.
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Aww @rheddmobile I love your mother! Bless her. Haha! Glad you're looking out for your DH and her!1
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@elise4270 - my ear hurts too but I know it is a sinus thing. and it itches and feels like when you get out of the pool and there is water in there. I had a terrible sinus headache last night that I realized when I had to get up to go to the bathroom. I should have taken a Clairitin then but I didn't and fussed with it the rest of the night. I will take one before I go to bed tonight and hopefully avoid the issue all together. I will be happy when our weather settles down and decides to be high pressure or low pressure all or most of the time.
@RunsOnEspresso - I am sad about the running challenge. I hope you will stick with us here! I really can't believe someone reported you. Don't they realize we are all stressed and frustrated?
My daughter yelled at me on the phone tonight. She was upset I 'let' her dad go to Costco with me. I don't think she realizes I really don't tell him what to or not to do. When I did suggest he stay home he told me 'if you are exposed you are going to bring it home to me anyway so I may as well go.' So from now on, no more physical shopping. I am doing it all online if I can. So far not a lot of luck though. So we eat what we have.
We had a salad and spaghetti for dinner. I have lots of great meat sauce in the freezer so it can be a staple and I am making split pea soup with ham in the IP tomorrow. I saved ham off our last one but no bone this time, specifically to make another batch of soup.2 -
I plan to stick over here. There's too many people in the running thread. We've never asked to stick to running before or asked people to censor what they say. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
Justin will be going to the store for us. I need to make a list for him. I know grocery ordering around here is hard. People only get half of their order and delivery is delayed. People get mad. It's like what do you expect? Everyone is buying everything and suddenly ordering for delivery. There's going to be issue. Hopefully you have better luck!2 -
Some good news on my scale this morning. I'm down again by almost 2 pounds from last week. I'm eating lots, so it's not due to starving myself. I guess I finally jumped off the plateau I was on for months.
Hug to all and hope we can stay healthy and keep our families and others we are helping healthy also.3 -
Congratulations on the weight loss @quilteryoyo!
I was brave and got on the scale. It’s ugly. But figured it’d give me the push to do better. Maybe every time I think about snacking, I could just step on the scale.
I need to make a plan. Soup is usually the go to. But not being able to go buy stuff and needing to be reasonable in what I do fix, is keeping me from figuring it out.
Why am I eating so much?
Opportunity
Stress. Alex is trying to come back. I’ve told him he can not stay with me. His dad agreed to let him stay with him.
Stress. school
Stress. Where is the pandemic going? Will I ever be able to get tp again?
Stress. Physical health and limitations. Nothing worse than going for a walk a feeling like this is something you won’t be able to do much longer. Probably a dramatic fear.
So the plan is soup and coffee today. No walk. It’s monster windy and the allergies aren’t going to help my ear or my nagging butt.
So, today we’ll fix a study soup.2 -
I have not braved the scale yet.1
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@Elise4270 Maybe move the scale in front of the refrigerator or pantry.
Seriously though, you have a lot of stress on you. Work on what you can and try (not as easy to do as it is to type) to not worry too much about the rest. Hope you can get in a walk tomorrow. This is just a thought, and please don't take it the wrong way, but are you eating enough nutritional food? Soup and coffee doesn't sound like much to me. Maybe if you intentionally ate more good food, you would snack less. For instance, today I had a half of an egg and cheese sandwich for a late breakfast, almonds for a snack during a break from mowing, and then just had 9 oz of a baked chicken breast, 9 oz of baked potato, and some sauteed kale for dinner. With that and a Gatorade, I've only consumed a little over 1300 calories for the day, so far. And, I'm stuffed.
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So I went out and ran but I also ate 3 donuts. It is all about balance, right?5
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@quilteryoyo Your suggestion of eating better is a good one. Dh buys stuff I shouldn’t eat and I just eat it. I definitely need to snack healthier.
Today I have done better. I didn’t eat until after 6pm, Dh and I did get in a walk and I survived Walmart in search of veggies for a low calorie soup. We even found 2 small packages of steaks and potatoes. So I had a nice salad with some steak and boiled eggs. We even found siggies yogurt at this particular store. So I have an appropriate evening snack later!
Dh likes to listen to quacks on YouTube about this virus. I can not stand it. Please don’t go to YouTube for information. He’s killing me here.
Yay! Day one, back on track. Oh he did buy 3 more pizzas, all cauliflower though. Super!3 -
Hey I’m back to a weight I haven’t seen since Christmas! Looks like my higher dose thyroid meds (started mid February) are doing the job, since according to my logging I’m netting the same calories as before. Except that before I was gaining about a pound, two pounds a month, and now I am slowly gliding downwards.
My doc wanted to see me in two months for blood work on the thyroid and I think I am going to call and see if I can tell her not no, but hell no. Given that the clinic where I go for bloodwork has been turned into a drive-by testing center for Covid I think she will agree to let me postpone.
Yesterday was a very healthy day eatingwise. Steel cut oats with yogurt and fruit for breakfast, chicken nabemono (Japanese one pot) with lots of veggies (sweet potato, daikon, broccoli, onion, red cabbage) for lunch, left over grilled salmon and salad for dinner. Basically I chucked all the veggies which were looking tired into the nabemono. Today is the opposite, at least as far as saturated fat is concerned - bacon and eggs on toast for breakfast, steak with probably sweet potato for lunch (don’t judge me! Haven’t eaten lunch yet!) and who knows what for dinner. Probably leftover nabemono. Same calories and roughly the same macros both days.
My husband and I are both feeling tired with stopped up noses today. So of course we are both freaking out. Nothing to do but keep on and remind each other that there’s a red oak tree dropping pollen all over the back patio.2 -
@rheddmobile Yay! On the weight and having the right dosage! I hope the doc agrees given the circumstances to put off the blood draw.
Your food sounds amazing!1 -
I ran today and will donut tomorrow. We are going to our favorite donut place and I am going in to pickup the order. Dh is not allowed per the dd.
I have done ok today with food. Banana bread before my run and protein coffee and a fig newton afterwards then yogurt with granola and the hemp seeds which I am really enjoying. Not sure what dinner will be, we are going to order from one of the local restaurants we enjoy and help support them. I think dh wants bbq.
I was tired today when I ran and everything seemed to hurt and still does. I think I just overdid it this week. I am so glad tomorrow is a rest day.
@elise4270 - I agree with @quilteryoyo. I also am a firm believer in eating more than you think you need to but of the right foods. It isn't helpful to constantly starve yourself. There is lots of stuff out there on 'eating more to lose weight' which is basically the advice I got from the nutritionist too.
I need to get the split pea soup going and figure out where I am going to put it all once it is done.2 -
I'm gonna third on the eating more and no starving.
Also, probably a good idea to reschedule your appointment. A lot of places won't even take you unless it's an emergency.2 -
@RunsOnEspresso Sounds like a good balance to me!
@Elise4270 Great job on the food yesterday. Steak sounds really good. I haven't had that in a long time.
@rheddmobile Yeah on your weight loss! Glad you got your thyroid meds adjusted. I am always amazed at the human body and how such a little organ can cause so much havoc when it doesn't function correctly.0 -
Wow y'all have been quite busy!
I am finally ready for my online classes that start tomorrow. Hope the kids are. I've made so many videos (welcome videos for four classes, instructional videos, etc.). I feel like the setup for online learning is way worse than the actual classes will be. I'm lucky I teach high school. My neighbor 3 doors down teaches 3rd grade and says she has cried almost every night this week. She's the lead 3rd grade teacher at her school and has 5 other teachers she is responsible for. Most of them have little kids at home (her kids are grown). They have called her sobbing that they don't think they can get it done and this won't work, and so on. She teaches at a school with lots of kids on free lunch and most don't have computers. So the school got them tablets and set up wifi, but can you imagine!? And the few kids who have looked in the class (hers starts tomorrow also), are very sad and miss her! One teacher called her sobbing because a parent posted something on facebook about what was in the online class and was critiquing it. WTAF!?!?!? That is so mean!
Give a virtual hug to your teacher friends. This is all a lot on them. At least for high school teachers, though we have a lot more students, our kids can follow directions on their own. I can't fathom having to suddenly teach K-4 online!
In my welcome videos, I encouraged them to walk or run or do some exercise outside away from people. I hope their parents don't get mad at that, but they know I'm a runner/cyclist, and I say it in class, but it's never been on a video before.
@rheddmobile - cracking up at your description of mom. Similar story here with DH's mom. I said we need to send a pic of how the shelves look. DH yells at her quite a bit because she DOESN'T LISTEN!!!
@shanaber - how did DH take it that he can't go out? Agree, he's going to do what he wants!
@elise4270 - I think part of the problem with all of this situation is, like we stated before, it's hard to get going on any one thing. I found I was all over the place and never got anything done. Last week and all weekend I've been working hard on getting ready for tomorrow. But when I was on spring break the week before I would sit around never getting started on anything! That's why I decided to start a running steak because then I knew I had to do it early (FL temps!) and it would set my mood.
@quilteryoyo - I mentioned that my mom is a quilter to you before. She is making tons of masks for the local hospitals, doctors, etc. All her quilting friends are. I was worried they won't be allowed to be used but they are using them. She made 50 yesterday and when I spoke to her at lunch, 15 today! It is keeping her very busy. I told her to send some to Florida. She sent a picture of herself with a Betty Boop one on! I said I don't care what I get, but my son and his wife want the FL Gators and DH wants plain. There are tons of patterns online. However the entire nation is out of 1/4 elastic which is what they use for them. She has some coming from Amazon but won't be there till May and she bought some 1.5" elastic that she cut down to 1/4" but says it is a mess. A local children's hospital asked one quilting group for 500! That's the ones she is working on now.
My running streak is keeping me sane, somewhat. I feel like I'm not going too far over on calories but my weight is not budging (It goes up 1 and down 1 every other day). In any case, I decided I'm going to bake an angel food cake tonight. I noticed the box says it expired 2/28, but it should be okay. I want some chocolate icing for it, but don't want to go to the store for that. So I may try to make some from scratch.
If I'm not here for a few days again it means the online teaching is worse than I thought!
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@ddmom0811 can the mask pattern be modified to use tied strings? Because bias piping can be made pretty easily using the same material that’s used for the masks. Turning the piping is a bit of a pain but not if you do it using a hook made from a wire hanger.2
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@ddmom0811 Our church is asking all sewers to make masks too. I haven't yet. I did see some on FB that used ties instead of elastic.
Hope the online teaching goes well. Sounds like you are prepared. I do feel for those that work with younger, underprivileged kids.0 -
@ddmom0811 I never thought about the little kids. Dang. I guess that is difficult parent or teacher. I'd push to go to a homeschool curriculum with the kids that are able. But that's assuming they have parents that can teach them and such. What a difficult situation. I can believe someone was so insensitive to post on social media about the changes. People are really dumb and its amazing their little sperms beat a million others anywhere. HAHA!
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I haven't done so great today.
Coffee/cream x2
English muffin and light cream cheese
nachos w/ mushrooms, onion, beans (all i could find that was nacho appropriate)
studying- but lazy studying. playing zombie games.
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@rheddmobile - I'll forward that suggestion on to my mom. She said she had an idea but it would be time consuming for so many masks.
@quilteryoyo - Thanks, I know it is really sad for those kids and their parents will have a tough time trying to help them. The stress on everyone...
@elise4270 - HAHA - good point!
My angel food cake was all lopsided but is good. Made homemade chocolate icing using some weird organic bag of "cacao" that my daughter bought at xmas time when she was here. It is good! Ate 1/6 of the cake. But, hey! It's angel food!2 -
The problem with going to homeschooling is many parents are still working. Either going in or telework. I imagine it would be hard to do both. If I had a kid I'd want them to do online school. It's hard enough dealing with the dog while working.2
