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Poor trees. Poor Texans. Hope you see warmer temperatures really soon, Yooly!1
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Long sleepless night here. It’s still dark now but we’ve definitely got a big tree limb on the roof! Argggg. Trying to get someone to remove it will be a nightmare. There are millions of downed trees all over town today. The neighbors all have tree limbs laying about.
And we will need to have the roof checked for damage too. Hubby is in the attic to see if we have leaks.
I’m hoping I can maintain some food control today. Anxiety and tiredness = crazy overeating.2 -
If anyone can maintain control over their eating it is you, Yooly! You have done so very well - and you will continue. Because you are far too wise to settle your bottom onto that slippery slope to HEAVY.
Overeating eases the current anxiety but that relief ricochets back pretty quick with a whole pile of extra new anxiety.
Freakin' hamsters. Always saying FEED US FEED US MORE but where are they when you are not able to walk so freely? They are not there carrying you that is for sure.2 -
Two enormous tree limbs on the roof. Many, many downed and cracked branches all over the yard. Too heavy to move. Worse than I thought. No luck trying to find anyone to even agree to help. All crews are out and swamped!1
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I'm sorry Yoolypr! Maybe you can at least get someone out to tarp the roof up. Most likely that will be your best bet as there will be a wait for actual roofing crews to get around to all the damage. Do you have power?
Today will be another lazy day. Back is giving me trouble so I don't want to risk aggravating it any more. May do some light yoga this afternoon. Skipped my morning stretch (too much to do) and I can feel it.
If I can control my food I will be happy. That gets hard with pain and fatigue, but I know I am capable.2 -
Thanks - I appreciate the kind words Athijade! Hubby says the roof seems to be basically undamaged inside. No water showing up inside anyway. Will probably need a new roof. Insurance covers a roof (with deductible of course) but not tree removal. We do have heat, lights, cable and WiFi and no one was hurt.
Trying to get all the debris removed will be a long process. At 75 we are both incapable of moving heavy branches without hurting ourselves. And don’t have the equipment to do the work either.
This is going to be $$$$$$. 😱2 -
Thinking of you, Yooly. Glad no one was hurt - very good to keep it that way.0
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@Yoolypr first of all: hug! You will do fine. Stop fretting. The roof ain't going anywhere!
As long as you're not leaking, or even if you're leaking in a controlled manner where you can keep up with water collection (how much does it rain there anyway????)... you don't even HAVE to immediately repair and fight with everyone else and high prices.
Eventually you should be able to either get a tree crew or a handyman type person to climb up there and remove.
Anyway. Just a perspective if you can separate the idea of "my pretty home I have to take care off" vs "an asset that has to be maintained adequately so as not to collapse and it can maintain its value"
How old is the roof? Sure, start thinking replacement if it is near end of life. But most roofs / roof sections CAN be repaired. OK: so what if the repair doesn't last 25 years? If the roof is slated for replacement in 5.... a 5 year repair gets you there.
I've been dealing with a roof issue at a location that gets some but not a lot of rain. The leak was first spotted in September. Quotes were extremely slow due to a weather event in the area. Quotes from contractors who were promising things that didn't make sense were fast. The known to be good companies were overpriced and slow. I went with overpriced and slow. It is four full months later and the first crew finished yesterday. There is a second crew showing up in two weeks to fully finish the job.
The internal damage was already done when it was first noticed. So it has gone from a $1000 damage to a $1050 damage? I mean it is the same damage and the same repair even if the wet spot has become an inch bigger as compared to four months ago (and it didn't because we poked a hole so the water would come out). The only issue was that the water bucket had to be emptied twice!
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I am trying to stay calm. It’s not so much the possible damage and repairs. It’s the inconvenience and loss of time having to deal with it all. Not even worried about cost because it is what it is. But I can’t get back my time which is limited and my peace of mind. I feel like I sacrificed three years to covid already.
As for warranties- I laugh at extended or 25 year warranties. Cause you know I won’t live to 100! A young man tried hard to sell us an extended warranty when we got our new AC/heat in November. Seriously?
I am hoping in 5 years to move into a much smaller home. This one is a beast. Too much for two geezers. Unfortunately it will likely take a major health crisis to get hubby motivated. He’s not much for disrupting his comfortable routine life. And you and I both know making major life decisions in crisis mode is never good.
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Nope no gardening! I do indoors- hubby does outdoor stuff. Because scorpions, tarantulas, fire ants, rattlesnakes, coral snakes, poisonous spiders, ticks……2
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You trying to off my sales buddy???? 😡😡😡1
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Poor Mr. Yooly.
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Hey - I have repeatedly told hubby to hire a landscaping crew to do the work. Grass barely grows here anyway. So once a month would take care of it. However, it’s a challenge to his manhood and his wallet so off he goes into the wild jungle of the backyard. 🙄2
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Hubby did escape to the grocery stores alone today. He scored bargains at Costco. They were selling bbq ribs and chicken drumsticks at ridiculous prices. The stores were closed for two days and the rotisserie people had to move the meats out of their freezer fast.
Apparently at the local grocery chain, they were giving away produce and meat yesterday. Hubby missed out on that but the clerks said there was a near riot!
I stayed home waiting for a tree removal crew that didn’t show up AGAIN today. Cancelled them and hoping the new crew can do some work early next week. The music of the chain saws goes on all day as cleanup begins.1 -
Weather's been so problematic this past year... I'm not sure if it's more than usual or just that we hear about things more than usual. I'm grateful I'm not in your shoes right now, Yooly.2
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Thank the gods for being able to be flexible.
Normally I go to the grocery Saturday mornings but it was single digit wind chills when I got up this morning. I walk to the store. I could drive, but I prefer not to. No way in heck was I going to walk in this cold.
So I am going to the store tomorrow instead. Which actually works better because it is usually quieter on Sundays anyway and I want to spend extra time to look for products that will work for my new food needs. A lot more looking at nutrition labels!
Downside of the switch is I have like no fresh fruits and vegetables. Brunch after my workout was a piece of whole wheat toast with half an avocado, 2 scrambled eggs, and 2 slices of tomato. As of now, I have half an avocado left, some small yellow potatoes, and onion left produce wise. That's it. I do have some frozen vegetables if I need them. Trying to figure out dinner.
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Athijade stock the freezer. Frozen vegetables do the job just as well as fresh some time. If all else fails use canned veggies. No shame there. Same thing with fruit.
When I lived in northern Maine, during the winters I always kept a good supply of frozen and canned veggies and fruit. Also I froze blocks of cheese and cartons of egg substitutes. Voila- quick omelette or frittata.
You just never knew if you could get to the grocery store!3 -
While I don't share some of the above feelings regarding canned veggies or to be very honest frozen fruit though I do use frozen fruit sometimes especially in smoothy/ice cream/with yogurt sort of things, I really do enjoy the convenience of frozen vegetables. Yes there is some difference between brands in terms of quality and price and for some veggies that's acceptable to me while for others it is not. And I guess there's a few veggies that don't really freeze that well that I either buy fresh or, let's be honest, skip ... because to me convenience counts, a lot!😁1
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I'm having one of those dinners tonight. Trying to use what I have, for a few reasons - save money! avoid grocery store temptations! use up things!
so tonight's roasted veggies include some old somewhat limp carrots - the last of the head of cauliflower plus some frozen green beans (those nice extra fine ones). I'm really enjoying the liberation of limitations. No thinking of what I can/should buy - just what can I put on the ovensheet? 2 -
Today's bulk "soup-oid-like" concoction, is a rescue attempt of all the "fresh not frozen" veggies that have been sitting there--till well past their best before / expiry date!
The whole 1399g of tri-color coleslaw (exp 10 days ago
but smelled ok!) about 120g of not as good as the new pack tomatoes. 256g of similar onion! And a little bit of this and a little bit of that: a couple of tetra packs of broth, 12g of garlic powder, 10g lemon pepper, 6g knorr, 368 shiritaki/oat rice, 111g of the relatively higher calories for volume (balanced by the shiritaki rice) orzo shaped lentil and chick pea flour based "pasta" https://www.presidentschoice.ca/product/pc-blue-menu-red-lentil-and-chickpea-orzo-rice-shaped-pasta/21408515_EA a couple of cans of habitante ham and pea soup... you know, the kitchen sink is still there!
Just under 2300 Cal for the whole pot... which is closer to 5kg than anything... I am having trouble finding enough containers... so final weight is TBD! Can't say it's gourmet, because, well, it's cabbage! I've had worse. I've had better! @Yoolypr last week's peas were probably a better blended flavour. This one is still blending--first batch was eaten asap.1 -
Cabbage is pretty gourmet in my books! I love reading about your concoctions. 1
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small update: make that 6,613g of soup-oid-like in total: 1500 consumed and the rest "containerized" in the fridge! It's running at almost 350 Cal per 1000g
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What do you do for protein on a soup-oid eating day/meal? I know you lean toward less meat eating so think you might have a few tricks up your sleeves
I'm usually going the eggs/bean route...with some greek yogurt as a daily snack. Trying to go less on the soya/fake hot dog sausage route - just to reduce the amount of processed foods I'm eating and to reduce costs - but they are such a simple high-protein hit!
It is absurd. When I am "dieting" - I'm all worried about protein. When I'm "not-dieting (aka binging) I'm not worried about protein and getting very very little.
I so wish I could find that middle ground. Though I don't think it is going to happen. Maybe I can just worry less about the protein number for a little while. Maybe as an experiment to see how I feel? I remember when I first became vegetarian - as the food provider for a family of four it was scary. It was a long time ago - pre internet - I didn't count grams of protein but tried to feed us protein rich foods and watched our overall health and how well we healed. With two young boys there was always occasional to observe how quickly a booboo of one sort or another healed.
Only problem with that is everything heals so slowly these days! ...
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healing: in a (successful) deficit, it *IS* one of the things that slow down. together with base heart rate, internal temperature and all that. Not necessarily immediately. Not necessarily permanently. Maybe not for EVERYONE. But I think that it is silly to ignore that it happens to at the very least some of us. And I am satisfied with my personal observation that to a degree it happens with myself. (and there are some ideas in the re-feeds thread as to how you can partially counter-act).
Doesn't mean that it definitely feels good to be changing from gaining to losing, right?
I don't have a magic protein wand. A few observations. Though I most certainly aim for higher as opposed to lower... it's not like I'll keel over if on one or two days I eat a bit less protein. THAT SAID.
Let's take yesterday's soup consumption as an example. Remember that I may be aiming for over 125g of protein a day (a good 1g per lb of my estimate of lean mass, and I could easily get away with 0.6g to 0.8g per lb of LEAN mass)... but I also have a pretty hefty caloric allowance.
The 1500g of soup-oid-ish were 520 Cal. And 26g of protein. Given that there was both rice and peas and lentil and chick pea flour in there. I don't think the 26g were particularly unbalanced to begin with.
If you scale this to even a 1500 Cal diet... that would be 75g of protein. Which is not OVERWHELMING... but i would think would be sufficient at the very least for quite a good percentage of the population.
Beyond that... of course I "cheat" and amp up with greek yogurt and please don't ignore egg whites if you're cutting calories a lot. Sure. I've reverted to using whole eggs in the past few years. But a 2:1 fluff up of whole eggs with egg whites is a very easy protein add for minimal or no loss of taste... assuming you enjoy the taste of eggs...which I DO!
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In case it's not clear I was trying to say that it does feel good to switch from continuing gain to containment and loss3
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It DOES!!!!!
The soup is a reasonable amount of protein.
And...I'd forgotten about the soy spaghetti....it wasn't available for a while - I will take a look.2 -
So, I cleaned out the pantry and the one cabinet I use for food yesterday. I did keep some stuff that may not be the "healthiest" such as hot chocolate mixes and some noodle bowls (high carb and added sugars), but unless my numbers come back really bad next week, I am not willing to dump everything.
The only real symptom I am still having is the thirst/dry mouth but that has been an issue since it got colder and the heat was turned on so I have to wonder if it could still be that. It got worse the last few days when it was just SO cold too. Who knows. My appointment is next Tuesday so I guess we will find out then.
Weather should be nicer the next few days so I may try to walk outside instead of doing indoor workouts. Take advantage of it while I can.
Also, a small MFP rant. I really wish they would add a way to watch added sugars. That is what I am trying to watch when it comes to carbs/sugar. It's annoying because I would love to be able to see what each meal is like.2 -
Still waiting on the tree removal. The city is covered in fallen and dangerous branches. We have two big limbs on the roof - which we aren’t going to even try to tackle. And several huge branches and debris in the yard. Too big and heavy for two oldsters! But we’re not alone and will just have to wait our turn. All the tree companies are just inundated and working as fast as they can.
But it does bother my peace of mind. Just having something out of order and needing to to fixed. And waiting. Perfect anxiety triggers. 🥺2 -
You're not leaking! 😁🤞 Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough!!!😜😘1
