Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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@swenson19d Do whatever motivates you. For me, I prefer positive reinforcement. I used to pay myself $10 for every pound I lost and $2 for every day I exercised at least 30 minutes. I would use the money to buy something that I wanted, but didn't need. If I gained weight, I had to subtract that amount from my total. Maybe you could pay yourself for staying within your calorie count and save up for something really nice.
My recipe probably isn't the healthiest. I dredge a chicken breast in melted butter and then coat it with a mixture of bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, and Mrs. Dash. For the potatoes, I cut them in cubes. Put them in an oven proof pan with a lid, add some Mrs. Dash, minced onions, and a little oil, stir to coat, put on the lid, and stick in the oven. I cook both at 400°F for about 45 minutes, or until done. I do basically the same thing with a pork chop. Sometimes I roast veggies. All quick, put in the oven, and go do something else until done.2 -
@runs_on_espresso I used to be a Samsung girl through and through.
Then my phone started doing some annoying things - people would call and it wouldn't connect despite full cover etc. So I bought a new phone. I couldn't afford a Samsung with the same specs, and ended up with a huawei. I love it. The camera is amazing, and it's just kept going. No weird issues etc.
But I don't think they are available in the states cause Chinese made =spying apparently1 -
quilteryoyo wrote: »@swenson19d Do whatever motivates you. For me, I prefer positive reinforcement. I used to pay myself $10 for every pound I lost and $2 for every day I exercised at least 30 minutes. I would use the money to buy something that I wanted, but didn't need. If I gained weight, I had to subtract that amount from my total. Maybe you could pay yourself for staying within your calorie count and save up for something really nice.
My recipe probably isn't the healthiest. I dredge a chicken breast in melted butter and then coat it with a mixture of bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, and Mrs. Dash. For the potatoes, I cut them in cubes. Put them in an oven proof pan with a lid, add some Mrs. Dash, minced onions, and a little oil, stir to coat, put on the lid, and stick in the oven. I cook both at 400°F for about 45 minutes, or until done. I do basically the same thing with a pork chop. Sometimes I roast veggies. All quick, put in the oven, and go do something else until done.
Sounds good! I will try it tomorrow. I think we only have boneless breast left, but the butter will add some fat and flavor!
Thanks!1 -
@avidkeo I've heard of the brand but I think you're right, they aren't currently available here (but you know, every phone is made in China so it's just so weird)3
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swenson19d wrote: »
Ohhh pretty
I can only see one pic, and unfortunately 1 pic in 3D imaging kinda means nothing. But on this image, Nothing jumps out at me, though I'm no MRI expert! no bulging discs, bones look fairly uniform, spinal column looks normal...
Id be interested what the report says. Wish1 -
swenson19d wrote: »
Ohhh pretty
I can only see one pic, and unfortunately 1 pic in 3D imaging kinda means nothing. But on this image, Nothing jumps out at me, though I'm no MRI expert! no bulging discs, bones look fairly uniform, spinal column looks normal...
Id be interested what the report says. Wish
Maybe this Google drive share will work
I dont expect the report before Friday. Ill share it with ya!
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I think the last time I had an MRI that showed the lower thoracic they said this was an intraosseous lipoma. It kinda boring.
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swenson19d wrote: »swenson19d wrote: »
Ohhh pretty
I can only see one pic, and unfortunately 1 pic in 3D imaging kinda means nothing. But on this image, Nothing jumps out at me, though I'm no MRI expert! no bulging discs, bones look fairly uniform, spinal column looks normal...
Id be interested what the report says. Wish
Maybe this Google drive share will work
I dont expect the report before Friday. Ill share it with ya!
Saw the video. Don't we love technology, it's amazing what we can do these days.
Still not seeing much. Be interesting when the report comes in.
Thanks for sharing!2 -
Re: laptops. I am a windows person. The ex had a macbook, and I could sort of use it, but didn't really see the attraction. When the first ipad came out, I had to use it for work - one occasion stayed up until 3am to sync about 2G of photos. Hated its guts. I also have no idea to use an iphone. I'm kinda the tech person in our company, and ever since I figured out how to set up our corporate email on iOS everybody with a new phone comes to me for help with it. It is such an enormous pain in the neck and iphone logic just doesn't seem like earth logic.
Re: Huawei. The whole spyware discussion is a bit of a joke in tech circles over here. If I were to recommend android phones to anyone these days I'd go for a Google Pixel or a Oneplus, depending on location and budget.swenson19d wrote: »ETA @noblsheep I love customs of other countries. You have anything you could share with us regarding the Chinese New Year? I think its interesting, your culture is so much older than ours. We are just spoiled brats and you all are wise.
LOL no we are not all wise, that's just something an illusion of continuity does. I certainly don't feel very wise, I just think too much.
Chinese New Year customs. I could talk about this for hours... where to start.
So there are things people commonly relate with CNY celebrations, like giving out money in red envelopes, writing caligraphy on red paper and putting it up, fireworks and firecrackers, homemade dumplings and other food (lots and lots of it), and I have to say it's all true. We really do all of it.
My family is from Shandong which is in northern China, so I can only speak of traditions there. Customs vary wildly in other parts of the country, and between families too so this is just me, one family in one place. We start the actual festivities around the afternoon New Years Eve, when all the relations gather at my grandparents' place, so there are more than a dozen people just chilling around at any given time. I might go out for firecrackers with my cousins and the little ones, and the red caligraphy would go up. We also start making dumplings, which can become an enormous production line with people jumping in and out of the operation. My dumplings always look horrendous so I try to stay out of the actual assembly phase, but I'm quite speedy at cutting and rolling the dough.
(In the past some families would hide a coin in one of the dumplings, and whoever got that coin would have especially good luck and fortune in the coming year. I think my family never did that for hygenic reasons, and I'm sure teeth must have been broken somewhere.)
So dumplings would be made, everyone would sit down and eat, and after dinner the dumpling making would continue, and we'd make enough for the next week or so and freeze them raw so we could just dump some into a pot of boiling water and not have to cook for several days. No time as it gets hectic with all the guests and celebrations. At 8pm, the Spring Festival Gala would begin on TV, and pretty much the whole country would watch it. It's a giant 5 hour production that extends past midnight and it has singing, dancing, magic, comedy etc etc etc. Recent years it's become a bit of a farce because it would try to cater to all ages and all demographics, all while being politically correct. As such things go, it would normally end up only being PC, and all ages and all demographics would join in mocking its PCness. But such is tradition.
Somewhere during this evening, I'd try to slip red envelopes to my grandparents and they would make a big show of trying not to accept it. Then I'd try to give some money to the kiddos, and their parents would make a big show of not wanting it. Which is ridiculous and tiring and longwinded but such is tradition. And I suppose prolongs the process and makes the gift feel more appreciated? I dunno. Funny story - one of my cousins was once bit by a dog when trying to give some tea leaves to a colleague. They got so carried away the pup thought his owner was being attacked.
Then at midnight there would be fireworks outside. Never knew who was lighting them. Some cities have an official fireworks show. Most don't, the random people are more than enough. Recent years, some major cities have banned fireworks, at least in central areas because of the pollution they make.
That's the overall gist of it. Lots of other details and stories around Chinese New Year but this post is long enough already...@noblsheep - how are the New Year celebrations? I have heard they are very toned down this year because of the virus.
Yeah this year the gov has asked everyone to stay in place and not travel if possible - it's not restricted but going to another province needs a negative covid test no more than a week old, and then a bunch of other red tape once you get there. And then you'd have to come back a week later and do it all over again. I'd say more than half the people I know are not going anywhere this year so no big family dinners or house parties and whatnot. I've always found New Year festivities to be a bit of a drag and all I wanted was some peace and quiet. But now I kinda miss having real people to be around. Yes even the shrill annoying smaller sized ones.
Speaking of which our company had an open day for kids today, it being the last day before the holiday. Spent the morning hanging out with other people's preschoolers. A three year old was forced to explain to me that all his cars were in a big explosion and now he really needed the tow truck from the top shelf. Great stuff.6 -
@noblsheep Man I love those dumplings. I think mine would turn out terrible too. I believe if the weather permitted, I might be up to trying to make some with ground pork. But I'll probably be lazy about it and just go buy them from the Chinese fast food place. Another cultural question, Whats your traditional breakfast? We grow up with bacon, eggs toast, maybe grits, oatmeal and some have sweat rice. I watched a David Chang (Korean) show and noticed their breakfast isn't like ours. Up til then, I just thought everyone in the world ate the same breakfast. I can't believe you aren't a Apple techie! I like the google products. I had a google made phone back in the day when they bought Motorolla. (least I think they did). I loved the phone and still have it. Every time I get in it, I think I'd get another.
Maybe I'll just upgrade my ipad and keep the Dell. Although this AM it was a pain. Updated and stuck on rebooting. I am always weary that I'll have to call my favorite peeps in India.
Weather
cold snap! wow it is hard freeze for a week here. I don't mind it much. I might have to find a way to get heat to my outside cat and thaw the dogs water.
I got a new canvas photo of Alex
I have him here with me in the cat study room.
Food.
I set chicken to thaw for Quilteryoyo's chicken and taters. mmmm! Bear will love the chicken.
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@swenson1I love the photo of Alex. I hope you enjoy the chicken too. I think it's good and easy for one person.
@noblsheep Thanks for sharing your traditions. Sounds great. Sorry you can't travel this year, even if it is a mixed blessing for you.
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I've heard good things about the Pixel. I'm only interested in it because of the camera. Like when I got my Galaxy 9+ the camera was leaps and bounds better than the Note 5 I had been using. Then DH gets the Note 20 (something I don't recall which model) and his camera is WAY better than mine. Hell, he has more megapixels than my freaking Fuji mirrorless.
I was going to enter this trail running photography contest but they said no phone photos. I'm like I bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a cell phone and DSLR/mirrorless camera except from looking at the metadata showing the camera. It was for a magazine & online so it's not like they need to print something HUGE. I have some amazing cell phone shots from trail runs but I never take my camera when running, just my phone. And I don't always take it hiking either.
Sorry. I could talk cameras and photography for days.
Anyway... here is an interesting article I came across this morning. I would like to see more research into this. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/2 -
Since I am in MFP, I am going to go log my breakfast. Baby steps. Depression has been doing much better the last few days but it did that last week too and then got me one day. Ugh.6
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swenson19d wrote: »@noblsheep Man I love those dumplings. I think mine would turn out terrible too. I believe if the weather permitted, I might be up to trying to make some with ground pork. But I'll probably be lazy about it and just go buy them from the Chinese fast food place. Another cultural question, Whats your traditional breakfast? We grow up with bacon, eggs toast, maybe grits, oatmeal and some have sweat rice. I watched a David Chang (Korean) show and noticed their breakfast isn't like ours. Up til then, I just thought everyone in the world ate the same breakfast.
Fast food? Ugh. As a hardcore northern Chinese person, dumplings are consumed straight out of the pot or not at all. I'd even take frozen dumplings over takeaway any day. (I'm kidding, any dumplings are better than none at all.) But in all seriousness, some frozen dumplings are actually pretty good. Do you have any legit Asian grocery shops in your area?
Re: breakfast. Another thing that varies around the country. Again, as a hardcore (lol) northern Chinese, it's mostly carbs of all shapes and sizes. Noodles. Mantou (white flour buns) with pickled veg and/or beancurd. Fried mantou, also with the above. Youtiao (fried dough) with soy milk. Jianbing, which are crepe-like things with eggs and youtiao. Shaobing (flatbread?) and lamb soup. Sauced meat inside the shaobing, and then with lamb soup. These things don't translate, sorry. And I'm making myself hungry. Also I really like having tea eggs as a part of breakfast. Those things, done well, are awesome, but a pain to do at home so I rely on breakfast stands on my morning commute.
In the south, where people eat much more rice, they have congee and rice noodles as well as other stuff I can't remember right now. In the Shanghai area, there's this thing called paofan, which is basically last night's leftover rice in hot broth and whatever greens one feels like throwing in. And the Canton area breakfast is an artform - all the dim sum one can imagine and all the time in the world to eat it, as it would seem.
Oh and loving the photo of Alex.
@quilteryoyo Thanks! I'm giving myself a project to do over the holidays so hopefully it will be a good use of downtime.2 -
@noblsheep all those sounds good. We poor American have no idea what real food is, everything fast food.
ETA Sorry was interrupted.
I am rural and don't have immediate access to an Asian market. But Do make it to Dallas now and then or oklahoma city where there are many. You have a recipe to share with me? We bought a kumquat tree the last time we went to the market.
I had to ask my DD what tea eggs were. Sounds good. I may have to try them. Regular black oolong tea or something else?
Id agree on the dumplings. I had fresh ones at a Japanese Ramen place, (yes, japanese, chinese, koren american all rolled in to one here. It's not authentic most of the time). They were very good, I could live on dumplings i think.1 -
Lamb soup for breakfast sounds awesome! I would have a problem with all the carbs though.
My favorite Korean place celebrates lunar new year and in years past they have had dumpling soup specially on the day - I wonder if they are doing it this year.2 -
Oh boy, all I want to do at the moment is stuff my face with food. I'm doing the best I can to control it, but stress totally makes me lose my self-control. Ugh.
Been to the doctor this afternoon, he fumbled and prodded and compared one side to the other and made me sit up, lie down, turn one way, turn the other (at one point I wasn't sure whether he was trying to tune an old-fashioned radio or about to tell me to do the hokey-pokey) before announcing "well dear, I really couldn't say one way or the other but given your history we'll send you to the breast unit and let them have a look". So, at least I got my referral which is what I wanted, even if he didn't exactly give me any peace of mind.
Also mentioned I wanted blood tests and hormone checks, he was so intent on getting me out the door to get on with his phone consultations that the moment I said 'irregular cycles and hot flashes' he handed me the paperwork.
So, progress at least.
In other, more positive news, my Dad had blood taken for tests on Monday in preparation for chemo starting next week (he told me he didn't sleep the night before 'because needles' and claimed he had never had blood taken before even though his wife insists that he has and she was there!), an MRI yesterday and then the hospital phoned yesterday asking him to go in today. He thought it was for some other test, turned out it was for his first dose of covid vaccine!
@quilteryoyo I can't believe it's so long since your surgery, time is flying for me this year though I'm sure it has dragged for you. Hope you're sleeping a bit better.
@RunsOnEspresso hugs, depression sucks.
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@RunsOnEspresso I have the Pixel and love it. I'm surprised they won't let you enter pictures taken from a phone for a trail running photo contest. Who runs with an actual camera? I hope your depression subsides soon.
@eleanorhawkins I feel you. I tend to be a stress eater too. You have a lot going on, so try to not be too hard on yourself for your food choices. I'm glad you got your referral and hope you find out something soon. Also glad your dad got a CoVID shot and hope he does well with the chemo. The year seems like it has gone quickly for me too. I've had plenty to occupy my time...still don't have my to-do list done. I am chipping away at it though.
Today was so nice outside - sunny and 65°F this afternoon. If I didn't have restrictions, there are a lot of things I could have done in they yard or along the driveway today. I opted for a 2 mile walk with Tippy, sitting outside and reading a book for about an hour, then walking to mom's for a visit. Food wasn't the best today, but I was pleased to by back under 140 pounds this morning. We'll see what tomorrow brings.0 -
Hey all. Skimmed while I relax for half an hour before work.
Went out to the dentist this morning. Need 5 fillings. Joys. Sigh.
Then I went for a 20k bike ride along the coast walkway to the velodrome and back. It was a fantastic day for it. Warm and not hot with a slight breeze.
At the velodrome, mountain in the background.
Mountain!
Then got home and did strength workout. Almost skipped but I know I'm not doing it Thursday next week so didn't want to skip today.
Weight the last 3 days has been the same. Not worried. Just find it amusing.
DH has been trying to lose weight. He weighs in every Monday. And typically after his initial loss he's stalled. Typical. I explained yesterday how I weigh daily and track the trend and how that's more accurate. He's also stopped rolling his eyes every time I weigh food, and I kinda half expect him to start as well, because he can see how mine is going down and his isn't. Will see.
The next couple of days is going to be crazy. I'll be in bed at 1130 tonight, then have to be up at 630am for my long run before taking my oldest DD for her food challenge! Trying peanuts for the first time since she had a reaction as a baby. I'm excited because I doubt she will have a reaction!
Then Saturday, I'm doing a long run - 16k!. So will be up at 7am, to be out at 745.
Roll on Sunday so I can sleep in!4
