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Absolutely! So do ants in your pants❣️😹😂🤣😇2
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Lots of food for thought there Gimpy!
I used to also see walking the dog as a chore. I'd be slumped on the sofa absorbed in a book, and I'd feel his eyes boring into me and I'd sigh and say 'I suppose I have to take you for a walk'.... and I'd take him out for the shortest possible time so that I could return to my book and sofa.
I know I'm going to sound like PollyAnna again, but a trick that worked for me was to change one simple word in my vocabulary, and it was revelatory to me.
Instead of saying HAVE, I started substituting the word GET.
When I find myself thinking, grumpily:- I have to take the dog for a walk
- I have to lose weight
- I have to try harder
- I have to eat more vegetables
- I have to drink more water
- I have to do my stretching exercises
I switch the word HAVE to the word GET in my head. And the result is remarkable! Instead of feeling grumpy and resentful at HAVING to do something, I feel grateful and blessed that I GET to do something:- I GET take the dog for a walk (in the fresh air! I’m mobile and fit enough to do that!)
- I GET to lose weight (because I have another opportunity to try again! I’m not dead yet!)
- I GET to try harder (because today is a new day!)
- I GET to eat more vegetables (because they’re freely available and I can afford to buy them!)
- I GET to drink more water (thank goodness I don’t live in Africa, where people are dying of thirst!)
- I GET to do my stretching exercises (again, because I’m mobile and fit enough to do them!)
You get the picture!
When you begin to see movement, activity and a healthy diet as privileges to be envied rather than hardships to be endured, it makes such a difference to your motivation and willingness to do them.
I also am a firm advocate of the 'USE IT OR LOSE IT' mindset. When it's bucketing down with rain and I don't feel like walking the pooch, I think of my eldest sister, who's only 71 but relies on a mobility scooter because she's unable /unwilling to lose the 40lbs she needs to lose to be considered for knee replacement surgery. Her orthopaedic surgeon can't safely operate until her BMI is below 45 because of her history of pulmonary embolisms. She says it's 'too hard' to diet and exercise...and is almost housebound as a consequence. I love her but I'm determined not to follow in her footsteps!
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One other note of caution I want to interject here is that activity and exercise are not always the answer. And they're never the ONLY answer. We do reach maximum burns and then the body becomes more efficient even faster. And injuries and advancing years are just waiting to pounce!
The difference between totally sedentary and fiendishly active probably doesn't exceed one BMR before we start to see accelerated down-regulation. 1*BMR... that's a lot of calories, right? As much as a day's worth of calories for many eating at a deficit!
But 1*BMR is also so very much NOT so many calories!
For myself at 1500 Cal BMR, it amounts to a normal sized package of cookies, or a single not carefully selected restaurant meal, or a momentary oops where I "accidentally" polish off the whole "tiny" frozen cheesecake once it's thawed-without cutting it in six pieces to share or eat over multiple occasions!
Sedentary is 1.25*BMR. Super active athlete for TDEE calculators is 1.9*BMR. To add 1*BMR to a 1.25 sedentary day you have to be hitting activity levels close to 2.25*BMR!
The big money won't come about by pushing a relatively effortless 1.7 to a painful 2.0. Or by sacrificing life to get a 1.9 to a 2.3
Not eating a 6 pack of donuts? That's an easy 1800 Cal NOT eaten... and almost a week's worth of walking saved, if I were to try and make up the net calories that way.
So activity and exercise good. Activity and exercise EXCELLENT for health. for hamster management, for happiness. And a contributor to the OCCASIONAL doughnut. But NOT the occasional SIX pack of donuts!3 -
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You had to write about donuts!…there was a time when we lived in Las Vegas about a mile from a large Krisspee Donut FACTORY!….it was huge, open 24/7 and always fresh including a free donut every time you walked inside to order….many, many, too many times I would make a “
“donut run” after dinner….I would buy 2 dozen assorted donuts plus 2 for me to eat on the way home plus the free one I got for ordering…. Then John,Amanda and her husband and I would divide the 24 donuts!….and I wondered why I couldn’t lose weight!2 -
Step away from the *kitten* donuts
(can't miss this opportunity to include kitten
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Why can't 1 donut ever feel like enough?3
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Just found this Working for Your Donut video (actually a fundraising promotion - but close enough) on my facebook link. Fit in here so well I had to share the link.
https://fb.watch/aR8n2YMH0B/3 -
Donuts have “ crack “ in them…I am convinced!2
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I am surprised how complete cheesecake eating seems less prevalent than polishing off boxes of donuts!
I've certainly done my share of both... and it's only if you include timbits (donut HOLES) that the donuts would come ahead in frequency. Because many a time I've bought a 40-pack to take somewhere... and a 40-pack or 20-pack or 10-pack to eat on the way.
The most classic incident was when I bought two 40-packs for staff at places I was stopping at and a 20 pack for myself which included a few plain ones in there to share with previous dog who was driving with me.
When I got back to the car after the first stop, all I could see through the window was a hind-end and a tail waving in the air... and I was totally ignored!
Please realize that a certain dog was very methodical when eating....
So it took me a minute to realize when looking at the slightly open box that it wasn't the store who had only put in the bottom row of donuts in the 40-pack!
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For some completely inexplicable reason - I don't think I've ever eaten a complete cheesecake. An entire regular cake yes - a 6 pack of donuts - yes - other things - yes. Wow. This almost feels like a win...lol
I can picture that tail in the air...3 -
***whispers*** I don't like doughnuts, especially glazed ones...3
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You should hide Garfield!
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Bella - I'm thinking that you are too good to be true....1
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Now a slab of bread pudding on the other hand...
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I never met a bread pudding that I liked!1
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Who knew! There is still hope for Connie!!!
OH NO! There ISN'T!!!!
I, OBVIOUS AS KITTENS, thought that she had uttered the sanest words ever: "I've never met a bread pudding that I didn't like!"
The horror and betrayal of delayed reading comprehension strikes deep!!!!
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Connie's never tasted my husband's bread pudding. 'Nuff said. He makes the BEST BREAD PUDDING EVER (which is saying a lot, considering my mom won prizes for her bread pudding!) Kim's is totally fat free and sooooooooo scrummy!
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So where’s the recipe!!! Anything served in a slab must be wonderful 👍3
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Simplest recipe ever:
Contains just a few ingredients. Measurements are approximate, because it depends on how spicy / fruity / sweet you want it, and the freshness of your mixed spice. The fresher your spice mix, the less you'll need. Personally we add sufficient spice to make a nice dark brown mixture. Bakeries tend to make it much paler, which isn't so tasty. Cut some of the sugar if you don't want it so sweet as obviously the sultanas add sweetness. You could substitute granulated sweetener (e.g. Stevia) for sugar if you want to - it shouldn't affect texture or baking times, but it may add bitterness - and obviously it would significantly decrease calories
We always weigh what we chuck in the bowl, so that we can work out the calories per slice.
The following proportions totalled 2,500 calories and made 10 good sized slabs.- 450g stale bread, torn into pieces. You can use all types of bread (white, sourdough, granary, ciabatta etc.) including the crusts. In fact, the more crust the better, as it'll make a chewier pudding.
- 100g dark brown soft sugar (reserve a tsp for sprinkling over the top once cooked)
- 65g caster sugar (reserve a tsp extra to sprinkle over the top once cooked)
- 200g sultanas
- 40g mixed spice
Method:
Drench your bread in water until wet and squidgy (it needs to be fully moist and malleable but not dripping wet. Too wet and you'll have a soggy pudding, which isn't what you want!). Squidging it with your fingers is therapeutic, like making papier-mâché.
Stir the other ingredients into your pulpy bread, ensuring even distribution.
Feel free to add a little grated lemon or orange zest if a citrussy flavour floats your boat...
Put into an ovenproof dish (helps if you grease the dish, but it's not essential) and bake for about an hour at 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Timings are also approximate, because it depends how chewy you want it!
Sprinkle over your reserved sugars.
Eat hot or cold.
The corner bits are the bits that you fight over first, followed by the rest of the edge pieces! Lasts for a good few days if kept covered in your larder.3 -
Because we have no larders here it must be eaten quickly! Off to make measuring conversions to our clunky US system. 👩🍳
I’m going to try dried cranberries and orange zest.3 -
I assume you can buy mixed spice in the US?
Our commercial blends here are a mix of cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and/or mace, cloves, ginger and coriander seed.
If you don't have any stale bread to hand you can use lightly toasted bread.2 -
No mixed spice sold here but I have all the components so easy enough to make.3
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Ooooh, I hope you like it!2
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*** Update ***
after writing this out in a fit of guilt - I logged everything - (big rule number 2
) It wasn't quite as terrible as I thought - only over by about 2200 calories. Which is bad, but manageable, and still leaves me at a slight deficit for the week if I don't completely blow it today. And I might not now that I see yesterday wasn't as bad as I thought. Reminder to self: MUST LOG
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Yesterday absolutely fell apart for me. I wasn't even sure why, but in hindsight I see it probably had a lot to do with putting off eating a "real meal." I started off the day walking a fair bit in extreme (for me) cold with only a couple of clementines in my belly. Dangerously to go to a "special" grocery story to buy a couple of orange trees for gifts (left early because I had arranged a pick up since it was way too cold to take those babies outdoors for more than a blink). That "special" grocery store sells treats I don't normally see, which I picked up 2 of, and ate almost immediately, then I didn't eat a proper meal because I ate said treats.
This is where it started. Those treats only added up to 800 calories. I should have accepted that and got back to the plan when I got home. I would have ended the day 800 calories over plan.
Instead I skipped "brunch" and then took the furry one out for another walk in the cold, then went out to to the regular grocery store to buy food for a visit to my cousin yesterday (two little pies) and for visitors today (cheese, hummus and naan bread) and for a birthday cake I'm making for a friend tonight (premade cream cheese whipped frosting).
Finally I had dinner - and then I couldn't stop eating and managed to consume everything I bought in a mini binge.
Which left me at an overage of almost 4000 calories - 800 (treats) + 600 (pie) + 440 (naan bread) + 600 (hummus) + 250 (cheese) + 1000 (frosting)
Lots of high calorie foods with very little staying power managed to undo a week of healthy deficits, mainly because I wasn't eating (though I never had a chance to really feel hungry).
Back when I was on a good roll month with after month of no binges and constant loss - I remember telling my friends who asked what my secret was: Feeding myself well.
Why oh why do I still forget that number 1 rule????
I hope sharing this with you will remind anyone about to make that same mistake not to.4 -
Oh Laurie, we've all been there! Too many times to count, in my case! I feel for you! But today is a new day!
And yes, I agree that THE NUMBER ONE RULE to staying on track is to feed yourself well. By which I mean food that is TIMELY, FILLING (ie. fibre and protein) and SATIATING.
HEALTHY is also good, but not as essential as the other three.
If food is timely and filling, you may still binge if you don't feel emotionally satiated.
If it's timely and satiating, you may still binge because you'll be hungry later
If it's satiating and filling, that's a good combo, but you may do damage because it's too long delayed...
I've learned that for me, it needs to tick all 3 boxes.5 -
Cyclists’ “bonk” (complete energy depletion), my husband’s meds (blood sugar sweats) and my autistic niece (hunger meltdowns) taught me the importance of ALWAYS having food with me.
I ALWAYS carry a small baggie of nuts and raisins, a tube of fruit pastilles and a peanut butter and carob protein ball. They pack small and light (so fit in a pocket or bum bag), it doesn’t matter if they get warm or squashed, they’re calorie controlled and they’re tasty enough to be considered ‘treats’ rather than chore foods.
If I eat any of the items I replenish them as soon as I get home, so I can always just grab my bag and go...4 -
Physical therapy this morning is going well except for one muscle that cramps up and screams 😩. I have two more weeks and then it’s “as needed”. I will miss the massage!
Getting ready for deep freezes - teens F- in the next few days. Not exactly snowmaggedon but cold. The big problem here is that we have no basements - all houses on concrete slabs. Not much insulation in the walls. And most water pipes are not buried deep and bursting pipes are common. The forecast is for freezing rain which also affects electric lines and tree limbs falling. Lots of pipe wrapping and preparing to do today.
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My poor husband was tested positive at the ER Sun. night….after waiting 9 hours for a room he got steroid shots for his lungs, pulled out his IVs and came home…the hospital has never called to ask if he came home!….our doc prescribed three meds and his oxygen level is being monitored 24/7 in case of pneumonia…..he is isolating in our room, forcing fluids and sleeping….the rest of us were negative but the doc thinks we all had it and are having post Covid symptoms….daughter has pink eye and all I can taste is metal….4
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