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Nice sky!
Nicky is looking like awesome happy sauce! 😎
Fitbit gave me a 92 😇🤣 for 6:58 of zzzzz (+19 awake minutes)!😎
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If Nicky is me, no thank you. I go by Nicole or Nic, lol
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I don't have emojis, but thumbs up ok
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My executive decision maker went on strike today. All food was fair game. Hoping tomorrow is more controllable.
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Food plan for tomorrow:
Hot coffee with milk
Coffee smoothie with protein and collagen powders
Leftover peppercorn pork tenderloin and veggies. Apple pie yogurt.
Two ballpark "lean" hot dogs, with mustard and onion, on a keto hot dog roll and green salad.
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Hello Nicole!😘😇🤣
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Maybe make yourself some turkey with veggies Yooly! Nice, substantial, yet low Cal (if not ground turkey!)
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@nicsflyingcircus - how's recovery going?
@Yoolypr - that sky is gorgeous! Hope todays executive decisions were easier ;)
(Evenings are the snakky hardest time to resist.)
I think part of the diet fatigue is all the food prep and veggies eating... The CSA boxes have inundated the fridge, can't prep & eat so much - but have explored some new things.
I don't know what to do with some of the new stuff and it doesn't get used b/c I eyeball it too long.
Last week had a ginormous eggplant... went to waste, but this week, had 4 small ones that were maybe 1.5 inch wide... and a stack of smaller zukes. Cut up a zuke and an eggplant and sauteed with onion, pepper, baby spinach and kale ribbons, shrunk down so split for 2 breakfasts.
McDs drive thrus are so easy!
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Yup - hate the food prep! Must you get the weekly assortment? Perhaps just cook the veggies - whatever they are - put in baggies and freeze. There’s always roasting veggies and freezing too. Portioned for one or two meals.
Could you do all the cooking/roasting in one day per box? That way it’s done and stashed away for future use.
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August focus with RD is the MIND diet approach for brain health; a combo of the DASH & mediteranean diet approaches.
'They/docs office' is saying food helps, however regular movement seems to be the most help to slow brain progression - so that is elevated as a priority along with food choices and my 2 main efforts this month.
A good overview on WebMD:
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Recovery is fine. I was able to take the dressings off today and reveal the 20+ stab sites, each with its own dissolvable stitch.
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Yikes! You were stabbed! At least you WANTED to be! @yakkystuff I admit that it sounds… too formal for me! And complicated. To some degree part of this particular group is to remind people / ourselves to try to keep in mind that MAKING IT EASY ENOUGH for us is a requirement in order to KEEP ON GOING. The PERFECT diet that lasts six MONTHS is way LESS useful than the 50% perfect diet that last six YEARS. Well. At least that's my own take. Or at least one of the parts that helped me turn the corner.
Learn. grab info. Figure what works and what DOESN'T work for you. Add good stuff to the mix and even if it is not all perfect…well, at least it will be BETTER than before!
Well there you go! Luckily I am too spaced out to type more so there's that!!! ;-)
of for a bit of a walk!0 -
My youngest is coming home today and my middle daughter came home last weekend, so I will have all 4 kids under the roof. We're going out for Mexican tonight, so light eating today. Coffee so far, a protein shake in the early afternoon, then dinner. Probably have a handful of tortilla chips with Queso, then do fajitas (I want steak) so I can pick and choose from the components. I usually go meat, veg, skip the melted/spiced butter, a little cheese, sour cream and guac, then lettuce and Pico De Gallo, skip the tortilla.
Friday we're going to celebrate my youngest's 20th birthday, which isn't until the 16th but she's off back to her college apartment on Saturday. She already got a pair of decent binoculars as an early gift before she went to Hawaii, so she's just getting some bird Lego. Haven't decided yet if we'll go out to eat or make something at home, or what the dessert will be.
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Sounds like a fun full plate of kids 😎
And the things you find out! Wow! Bird Lego👍🏼
Maybe I should start playing with Lego again! I wonder if my blocks are still stashed in a corner of a closet in another continent! 🤔
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“Maybe I should start playing with Lego again! I wonder if my blocks are still stashed in a corner of a closet in another continent! 🤔”
Well PAV perhaps go retrieve your Legos and visit your lady? Sounds like a win-win …..
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Sounds wonderful Nic. Nothing like a good visit.
Thank you Pav - agree, that's the best I can do. Sample it, keep the keepers, not fret the rest.
After a few days trying to sort the MIND dietary approach, it does not focus on quantity/tracking… Instead the focus is 'brain healthy' food choices, and I am willing to explore that.
Re 'not tracking' - i have similar uneasiness to other 'dietary approaches' such as Intuitive eating and, hmmm, the glycemic index... hmmm, Atkins… I took them at their word the weight would melt away and invariably, I gained.
Apparently, I did not actually know how much I should/could eat and stay in weightloss mode PLUS my appetite is not a good guage - between habit/mental triggers and regular 'eat now signals' at mealtime, hunger has never been a good guage.
Mostly we did diets that specified the actual foods and amounts - either meal plans like the 'grapefruit/cabbage soup/whatever magazine' diet .. or we used weightwatchers or mom's diabetic exchanges... or whatever next 'diet book' her doctors strongly urged.
As she started losing eyesight, I helped with her foods & meds...
It remains a strong 'why' - i really really really don't want that - I don't want to need help, as long as possible!
Last, I think we have to know how much. Exchanges are organized by someone (as are weight watchers system) to hit a certain calorie level... Strip those away, you get to 'the calories actually matter' backbone of any system.
How we choose foods needs to be something we enjoy, and it actually is fascinating how some foods are good nutrition in so many ways... otherwise, I would not consider many different foods.
My non-dieting, party like it's a feast approach wasn't working. A very low calorie fad diet is crazy making. I do need to eat food and in ways that help.
No harm in trying things. Tried lamb today. Roasted well done. Liked it. Would eat again.
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Yup. Calories matter. What they're made off also matters and both interact to make things easier or harder on you.
The Twinkies only diet can-and can be show to-work. The quarter pounder cheese no bun diet also works. The bananas only diet also works.
None of them would work for 10 years for me.
All of them between some poundage loss and an increase in activity and exercise would show metabolic marker improvement (with the exception of diebetics on Twinkies and bananas and familial cholesterol responders on quarter pounders).
Start from a reasonable base that can work for you and optimize 😎
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Yep... twinkies, not so much here. Chocolate, any which way!
Tried watercress 1st time today, on my lamb sandwich. Lamb nearly gone. Dh doesn't care for it, so had the whole to me. Fortunately only 1.5 lb. It was fine roasted well done. Not too gamey for me, but daunting for just me. Not sure I'll repeat.
Watercress is a keeper tho.
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The cake was dense, but not dry (partly due to GF flour), sweet, but not overly so, and the flavor was amazing. Lemon and raspberry is top tier.
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Uh-oh! Careful there Nic! But yes, it does sound awesome!
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Yum!
Doing a lot of summer bbq, a bit of takeout. Weather is brutal this week, so just trying to stay cool enough when we are out. Car AC struggles when it gets so hot and appetite goes odd. Having a hard time getting going again but am trying. Sept/Fall has always been a natural urge for these things so not stressing it too much.
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I had one very thin slice (1/2" or slightly over) of a 9" round two layer cake shortly after dinner, and one about the same size later in the evening. I won't have anymore. I reckon 400 calories or so because both helpings together weren't much
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In n Out cheeseburger- no sauce- for lunch. Came to about 400 calories but delicious. Hubby had a burger craving so…. Dinner was a small green salad, a few Wasa crackers with low cal Laughing Cow cheese triangles. Unfortunately there were some fries, cheese puffs and maybe a fruit & nut packet. Over the daily allowance.
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But is the daily allowance a deficit or maintenance target Yooly?
September / Fall I generally fear and traditionally are an upward trajectory till I pull things back mid February
Usually by mid august I'm at my lowest which is not particularly great for this year given that I continue to hover about 3-5lbs above where I would like to be.
BUT, that's definitely a first world problem category…. so onwards!2 -
My usual pattern is loss spring and fall with feasting starting with Halloween candy and onset of pumpkin everything… then eggnog & peppermint icecreams, flavored whips, endless seasonals...
Think this is 1st time my NewYears effort kicked in and kept going... I am hoping/intend to not derail on the seasonal favs - a much more moderate partaking.
Picked up a granola to try for yogurts...
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Oh noooooo the G R A N O L A monster! Slightly crunchy. Slightly sweet. I can down 300g before you can get me to sleep?🤷🏼♀️🤯
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yakkystuff - be a little careful with the granola! I saw that the added sugars were pretty high (5g) with 16 grams total carbs.
A lot of people think - granola, gotta be healthy! But, most of it has a lot of added sugars - even honey and 'natural' sugars are simple carbohydates.
I prefer adding nuts, seeds, dried fruit myself instead of doing the granola. That way I know what goes into it.
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I can see the added sugar indeed! And the crunch monster for sure.
I was light on protein, couldn't find my whey powder, but good with the rest - used 1/4c crumbled granola in the yogurt. Ok with the salt (1 of my issues I struggle hard to contain.)
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Yup I can’t do granola cause it’s tooooo tasty and 1/4 cup is so little. Had to cross that off my list.
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Today is my left leg varicose vein procedure. Very happy with the right so far.
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