2019: We Are Making a Difference!
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Adorable photos. That dog looks so intimidated by the cat. I just committed to Noom’s November challenge. The options are 30 miles in thirty days, 30 days eating veggies, and 30 day of meditating for 30 minutes. I’ve never been one to meditate, but I’m doing the first two. 2,000 steps equals a mile and I already eat veggies every day. So I think I can do this challenge. Join me if you’d like to challenge yourself. For those of you who already walk, feel free to more than a mile a day.0
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Helene - sounds like great goals (I couldn't imagine meditating either)!
I also eat vegetables every day although, as in most everything, my favorites seem to keep disappearing. I suspect, but haven't yet verified, that one of my all-time favorites is going to disappear - Green Giant steamers sugar snap peas in a box. The line has new boxes. One store I go to the sugar snaps have disappeared. The other store only has the old box for that one variety.
I have a super busy month this month and right at this moment I'm beyond tired which isn't promising. My goals for this month are 120 minutes a week on the treadmill and getting my 20-lb bear out of the closet (I always measure from my all-time high; it's the only way my head will seem to accept it.) Because my month is so crowded it's all going to be catch as catch can I fear.0 -
No wonder it feels sometimes like there are two McDonalds per block:
McDonald's outlets.
US: 14,146
Japan: 2,975
China: 2,700
Germany: 1,480
Canada: 1,450
France: 1,419
UK: 1,274
Australia: 981
Brazil: 930
Russia: 645
Italy: 571
Spain: 507
South Korea: 450
Poland: 422
Taiwan: 413
Mexico: 402
Malaysia: 271
Saudi: 263
South Africa: 252
Turkey: 2510 -
How about CVS? There are at 7 stores within 10 miles of my house. It’s crazy. There are only 3 McDonalds in the same distance.
I got through day one of my challenge. I had to work at getting all the steps in. I ended up with 2800 for the day. Veggies were no problem.0 -
We do have a lot of CVS' and just about every one is right next to a Walgreen.0
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I spent much of the day doing errands and at CROM's storage units getting ready for next weekend's flea market. Had to use SOME calories, right?0
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I had no idea:
In China, every day is Kristallnacht.
Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed, along with thousands of Jewish-owned businesses. It was in a sense the starting gun for the genocide that culminated in the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka.
In western China, the demolition of mosques and bulldozing of cemeteries is a continuing, relentless process.
In a cultural genocide with few parallels since World War II, thousands of Muslim religious sites have been destroyed. At least 1 million Muslims have been confined to camps, where aging imams are shackled and young men are forced to renounce their faith. Muslims not locked away are forced to eat during the fasting month of Ramadan, forced to drink and smoke in violation of their faith, barred from praying or studying the Koran or making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
And — in possibly the most astonishing feature of this crime against humanity — China has managed to stifle, through 21st century repression and age-old thuggery, virtually any reporting from the crime scene.
Which makes all the more significant the publication last week of a heartrending compendium of evidence: “Demolishing Faith: The Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques and Shrines,” by Bahram K. Sintash.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/03/china-every-day-is-kristallnacht/?arc404=true1 -
If you use your treadmill, you can Google how many steps in a mile. Then convert miles to steps if you want to track it. So if you do a mile on the treadmill, that’s 2000 steps. I’m using a knock off Fitbit that DH was given as part of cardio rehab classes. Before that, I was actually counting my steps mentally. I break them up into smaller segments so I might count 300 to 400 steps for example. Later on, I’d count more steps. Noom has a step counting app that works through your phone. I didn’t find it that accurate. There is a setting to adjust any steps the app missed. So I use that to transfer the total steps I walked that day. It’s clunky but it works.
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What some folks will do to get Krispy Kremes:
https://www.newser.com/story/282592/krispy-kreme-gives-strict-order-to-can-do-student.html0 -
It had been 2 weeks since I last weighed and I lost 3 pounds! Off to update my ticker!0
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I picked up the CROM holiday newsletter from the printer this morning. The printer is right across the street from our local candy manufacturer Wockenfuss. I didn't even go in!0
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That’s hilarious about the pandas. Congrats on losing 3 pounds. And on not going into the candy store. My temptation bag of chips is still sitting on the kitchen counter. I think it’s about 3 weeks since I bought them. I can’t believe I haven’t opened them. I thought about it a couple of times but I didn’t want them bad enough to open them. I’ll open them at some point but not before I really want them.0
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There are two branches of Wockenfuss in areas I frequent. Luckily none of them is a quick hop. I'd be a goner.0
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Today is my last PT. I have to make sure that I keep up the at home work o that my travel is as pain free as possible.0
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Today is my last PT. I have to make sure that I keep up the at home work o that my travel is as pain free as possible.
I kept doing my at home exercises until the first anniversary of breaking my wrist. Then I decided to move on. I think I'm SO lucky it was my left hand.
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I think our Indy has a friend. Where I sit here to work I'm looking out the front of the house. Now that the neighbors across the street (one house down) have decided for some unknown reason to let one or both of their cats out (we can't tell for sure), I often see one of them running from out front across the street, back toward their home. I'm guessing they've been visiting Indy who hangs out much of the day on the cat porch.
The cat(s) I see have no collars. I hope they're chipped. It's not like they just moved in. They've been over there for 5 years.0 -
I don’t get why people think it’s okay to let their cats roam. The danger of them getting hit by a car is too much of a chance to take. And they take a deadly toll on birds.
PT is finished. I mentioned I might go back to water aerobics but my therapist suggested I just do water walking. She thinks the aerobics would put much strain on my knee. I think I’ll take her advice.0 -
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As of today, I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I left FL in May. I’m still doing my daily food logging. I‘ve started planning out my meals in the morning. I resisted doing that for years even though NS and WW suggested doing that. I liked the spontaneous feeling of choosing my meal just before I would eat it. It was stubborn of me not to give it a try. Since Noom focuses on the psychological, I thought what the heck. Why not try something new. I plan the day at breakfast but sometimes I make changes during the day if circumstances change. I think that change in attitude is one of the reasons I’m making progress.1
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Helene - really great job!
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I'm a world class expert at DVR-ing TV shows and fast forwarding through commercials but I've started to stop every time I glimpse I'm forwarding over a Subaru dog commercial. They are SO cute!
My standard line for decades has been "I'll get a dog with my next husband or my next life whichever comes first" but for some reason lately it's hit me that I'll probably never have a dog. Life is a long, long series of trade-offs I guess.0 -
I am always most successful when I pick out my food in the evening for the next day and put it on a spreadsheet. Then if I do adjust a meal, I adjust the spreadsheet.
I'm doing the first step now - picking out my food the night before. Haven't started the spreadsheet yet.
I've been so horribly busy the last month or so and it's not going to end really soon. Makes it hard to eat right.0 -
I pick my foods at breakfast. That new for me. I’ve always admired you picking your foods out and putting them on the spreadsheet. Are you still doing packet days.0
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I pick my foods at breakfast. That new for me. I’ve always admired you picking your foods out and putting them on the spreadsheet. Are you still doing packet days.
I did a packet day last week and one this week! I sort of enjoy them. And I recently did a diet direct order to restock my packets. LOL! One thing that turned out to be better than I expected was the chocolate wonderslim wafer cookies:
https://www.dietdirect.com/wonderslim-protein-wafer-bars-ws151-chocolate.html0 -
I’m so glad I had to buy a new scale. The old one would stay on the same weight for a week or two. I would find myself frustrated by the lack of movement. The new scale weighs in tenths of a pound. It’s already gone down twice this week. Even though the increments are small, I’m energized by seeing it go down on a more regular basis. I find myself looking forward daily weigh ins0
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I’ve been without WiFi connections for 4 days, which was nice in some ways, but a little frustrating in others. Today was our last day in Greece and we have an early wake up call tomorrow to get to the airport in time for our flight to London, then on to Dallas. It will be a long day, but I should be sleeping in my own bed tomorrow night. This has been a wonderful trip and we’ve met a lot of very nice people, but I think everyone of us is ready to go home. Restful this vacation was not, but I am really happy to have seen all that we did, and learned so much about the history of this country. We had great tour guides and drivers everywhere we went and were fortunate to have a very congenial group of people on our tour. Twelve days would have been a long time to spend with this group if they had not been as friendly and genuinely pleasant as this bunch. Despite a tremendous amount of walking, climbing steps, and just standing around listening to our guides, I am sure I have gained weight, though I’ll wait until I’m home to confirm this. I think I’ll have to get back to going to the gym a few times a week to try to get a handle on the weight issue again. I didn’t love Greek food, but I didn’t hate it either. I did find a few favorite dishes that I might try to learn to make.0
