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Step it up September!
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Oops, hit that too soon.
We are a dog loving household here, so I envy the puppy! I always have biscuits on me, more often than not I can find a small zip lock bag of biscuits in a purse more often than a lipstick!
So glad, Austin, to here your husband is mending. Is he going to do physical therapy..I found that the hardest part of my recovery. I so admire physical therapist...it is tough work, and my physical therapist was so patient with my crazy level of whining.0 -
Hi there!
Shred - A definite yes to physical therapy when he is ready! Right now, it's all about keeping the clavicle strapped down 23 out of 24 hours a day. to encourage things to heal in something closer to back in place. Right after the accident, his clavicle was noticeably high, a couple of centimeters above where it used to be. We are hoping to get this down to a bump and most importantly get back to usual function.
Mihani - Yay to that hanging out with friends in the lovely fall weather! and a big aww to the prospect of puppy therapy! That sounds so lovely!
I stayed close to the food plan today - yay! I had an extra bit of unsweetened peanut butter plus raisins, but weighed that out and burned off more than than doing step aerobics this evening.
One good day down. Onwards to bed, and then an on-plan day again tomorrow!
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Shred, that's so cute you carry a baggie of dog treats in your purse. I should do that! That's very cool about your creative writing class.
Wow, Austin... that's a very serious injury your husband has. I hope he does get back to full function. PT definitely will help. Yay to an on plan day!
I have been a bit here and there diet-wise. Always vegan of course, but not sticking to WFPB as much as I should. I did buy some fat-free whole wheat pretzels which at least keeps me out of the dreaded PB pretzels.
B - ezekiel toast with a smidge of PB, amazing grass powder mixed with water
L - Dr. McD soup, a handful of pretzels
D - big ol' salad with chickpeas, chia seed pudding with blueberries
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Good afternoon, plant friends!
A step forward, a step back. A good morning, and then things fell apart in the get ready for class crunch, delivery of said class and then working on catchup on other things. Yesterday's food was not ideal -- vegan, but calorie dense (incl some refined food (Garden of Life bars that are NOT the best choices for me) and way over on calories.
Back at it today, and I have made some plans for next week so I don't get so stressed on Tuesday.
I did get an errand and grocery shopping done yesterday, and I did get in some walking. I finished getting all my produce clean and ready this morning, so a better day going today.
Today
B - blueberry, broccoli & spinach smoothie, coffee, 15 g peanut butter, 30 g currants
L - turnip greens & spinach (1 lb); garbanzo beans; tomatoes & green chiles; a mandarin orange & a bowl of sliced peach
S (planned) - raw cashews (10 g, and less munchy-triggering for me than nut butter), apple slices
D (planned) - big salad with warm broccoli-based dressing; steamed mushrooms & carrots with diced onion & tomato
In other Austin news:
- Compost bin arrived! Need to put it together.
- No progress on Panda Planner.
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Austin, I forgot to comment on the Panda Planner when you said you got one. I love it honestly, but like most things it got left by the wayside as I struggle with work. When I got it I also bought a package of different color fine line marker pens. I enjoyed writing in different colors and playing with it for a while. I like how it asks you to focus on positives. The guy who designed it has quite a story. You have inspired me to get it out and start using it again.
Your plan today sounds excellent!
I put in a solid 2 hours of dedicated work last night but managed to be in bed by 9:30. I am not even turning on my "real" computer tonight. I'm going to eat an Amy's tofu scramble, read for a bit, get to bed early. I got home late.
Breakfast was oats with blueberries. Lunch was a Dr. McD soup and some raw veggies. Also had a small handful of the whole wheat pretzels. Staying away from those darn PB pretzels at least. LOL
I'm going to try to find time to do some cooking this weekend. I need to stock my freezer with homemade bean based soups and tofu scrambles so I can get back to oil free. I love convenience, but I'm going to have to work to create my own convenience instead of relying on prepared entrees that don't meet my standards!
Shred hope all is well with you.
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Good morning, plant-based friends! Happy Friday!
Shred -- I hope you are doing well and enjoying your varied diet!
Mihani - I hope you had a better day yesterday!
I tried to check in last night, but MFP was unavailable for maintenance. Ah, well.
I had a good, on-plan day yesterday as regards food and exercise and supplements. I also caught up on sleep last night, which is having me feel much better today!
My husband continues to do well. Right now, it's just a matter of having him strapped up, in a position to heal, kind of like a cast. I wish I could also persuade him to try an anti-inflammatory diet, but no. My sneaky compromise today was making him a soup that he is excited about. It contains 2 chicken thighs in one large pot -- just enough to register as a chicken soup. It also contains lots of veggies and two kinds of beans. Heh. Sneaky me.
On a somewhat related note -- I recently realized that something that has changed is my reaction to mosquito bites. I am much less reactive than I used to be. I am guessing that it's the diet. It's a nice side effect.
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Add some turmeric and black pepper to that soup, Austin! Turmeric is anti-inflammatory and black pepper helps activate it. There are contraindications though, so research it first. I add chia or flax, turmeric, cinnamon and black pepper to my oats with blueberries. It's like a big ol' bowl of antioxidants.
Glad to hear your husband is doing well.
I have work to do on the house tomorrow, office Sunday. Secretary is sick and off the past two days. She went to get Covid tested today. It never ends. I swear all I want is to have one full week where everyone is there working. I certainly hope she doesn't have Covid though. She doesn't think so, but any time a fever is involved you pretty much have to get tested or take two weeks off work. This is insane.
I'm off to eat a big ol' salad for late dinner. Then probably watch a movie and chill for the evening.
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Hello, plant-based friends!
Hi Shred
I am hoping you are doing well. Life is busy, but I do always appreciate your sunny presence in the conversation!
Hi Mihani!
I love your description of a morning bowl of antioxidants. I am out of flax and need to get some more. Maybe I will get over to Costco on Monday.
And as for the soup - thanks for the nudge! I will go slip some antioxidants into that soup!
Sweet husband is continuing to do well. I made him waffles this morning and included some shredded summer squash -- more veggies. I did not think about adding antioxidants but will do that next time!
I am so sorry to hear about your secretary. It's hard. With only about 10% of the country having gotten sick and with it being such a tough illness on some, none of us wants to get it. I am glad she was able to get tested, so at least yo will know sooner!
I hope you had a nice Friday evening.
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I'm tired and sore this morning! Had a friend come over to help me with some projects. Cleaned up the garage and then he pulled the ratty old carpet out of the basement rec room area and from the stairway. It was a big job and took him most of the day. I didn't help with that because I would have just hurt my back. I spent the day cleaning and cooking.
Made one of my clean out the crisper drawer soups. It ended up having onion, carrot, eggplant, summer squash, pinto beans, a can of diced tomatoes, veggie broth, and at the end I wilted in lacinto kale and napa cabbage. I threw in turmeric, coriander, cumin, black pepper, garlic, Mrs. Dash. It is delicious! Made a pot of brown rice and will stir some of that in when I serve it up. Definitely enough for dinners all week.
Tried jicama for the first time. Yum! So sweet and crisp. Used it in my salads for the week. Also made un-honey mustard dressing and pickled red onion.
I am glad to have my week all set. I have been eating a lot of frozen entrees lately because I just haven't felt like cooking. I always feel more energetic in the fall though... something about the crisp, cool weather. Slept with the windows open and the ceiling fan on last night. It was lovely.
Waffles sound so good, Austin. I've never made them myself and don't have a waffle maker, but I have been considering it. I buy the frozen waffles once in a while but those obviously are a poor substitute for fresh. I've seen a lot of posts where people use waffle irons to make hash browns which sounds good too. Nice and crispy. Here's the whole foods plant based cooking show version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7UkIdl-jjQ
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Hey @Mihani !
I have gotten my money's worth out of this little waffle iron. It's a very basic one (something like this). And yes, I have made waffles for me son with grated potato, mashed beans, nutritional yeast and spices. He looooooooves those! It's another of my Sneaky Vegan dishes! (tasty dishes I make for the family, where nobody mins that it's vegan because it's delicious!)1 -
That's a cute waffle maker, Austin. And not so huge. I got rid of a lot of kitchen gadgets just to clear my kitchen out, but that would be easy to store.
Secretary doesn't have covid, yay! But she's still sick so it will probably be another day or two before she gets back. Just a miserable cold/flu. Who thought we'd ever be grateful for a regular old flu?
Good WFPB kinda day... almost
B - oats with blueberrries
L - leftover cooked veggies with brown rice
D - big ol' salad
S - vega bar... oh my goodness haven't had one in a while and they are supremely decadent... will not be buying more. Like a gigantic candy bar and 290 calories! Ugh! I'm really not that into sweets, but once in a while I do like a little dark chocolate or a cookie. Much better off having a little bit of that than a big calorie bomb bar.
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Good morning!
A huge HURRAY to your secretary not having COVID! That is great news!
Yes, the waffle maker doesn't take up much room. I am not a big fan of kitchen gadgets, but this is one I do like and use!
My day went well. I was over calories, but all the foods wee good Dr F choices.
Thanks for the reminder about avoiding bars. I am headed to the store and mentally putting those on the "no" list!
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Austin, the bars "seem" so healthy don't they? But when you really look at them they are not so WFPB. I do like the lara cashew cookie bars. Nothing weird in those and WFPB, but still too high in calories and fat with all the nuts. Best to avoid the darn things.
Pretty good day!
B - oats with blueberries and a little almond milk (I almost always eat my oats raw just let them soak for a couple minutes to soften a bit. I also usually just use water but I had opened a container of almond milk to make unhoney mustard dressing so I want to use it up.)
L - big ol' salad with unhoney mustard dressing
D - will be a veggie sammich (ezekiel, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, brown mustard)
Worked late and still have a couple things to get emailed out tonight before dinner so I best get at it.
Oh, and I managed to get on the treadmill for 15 minutes this morning. I am really really going to try to make this a habit. It is so hard for me to work out at night most of the time. Never know when I'm getting out of the office and I'm always so tired. I felt great today just getting that little bit of treadmill time in this morning. Going to try for half an hour every morning, and then I just have to work in some strength training a few evenings a week.
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I got sidetracked... meant to give a shout out to Shred... hope all is well in your world! And Magic... we miss you!1
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Ladies ...back in October! Miss you, tooo!💜👻🎃👻💜0
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Hi Magic! Glad to see you. Hope all is well. Good to see Lulu's little face there.
Busy busy day as usual. I hope tomorrow will be a bit less crazed.
B - oats with blueberries and a little almond milk
L - Dr. McD soup, 2 Lundberg rice thin crackers, an apple
D - big ol' salad with chickpeas
Day 2 of getting treadmill in before my morning shower. Put in 20 minutes. Yay! Strength training this weekend and at least twice in the evening next week. I sure feel better when I treadmill in the morning. Loosens up my back and I'm just more energetic through the day.
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I forgot to mention. I put a bunch of WFPB youtube videos on my watch list so I will watch those while I treadmill in the mornings. I have all the big WFPB docs and a couple people like Chef AJ, but hit me with any other recommendations y'all have.
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Day 3 of getting on that treadmill first thing. Did 20 minutes. I am so happy! I really want to make this a habit. I'm not breaking any speed records or really even trying to get in a real workout. I just want to get in some movement first thing in the morning. As time goes by I'm sure I will increase speed and make it more of a workout, but right now just want to build the habit. I watched a Dr. Greger video on youtube this morning while on the treadmill.
B - oats with blueberries and a little almond milk
L - Amy's enchilada
D - big ol' salad with chickpeas
Work to do tonight so off to get at it!
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Good evening Plant Friends: I tend to swing between: I've got this, I don't need any support to holy crap, these a relatively new habits, and who am I kidding...I need all the support I can get!
Austin: I feel for you, as for your husband. I was not an easy patient, and I detested bed rest. I did find myself watching a heap of videos on prescription drug addiction since I was given one nice big bottle of oxy and I could with having to deal with the pain understand how very easy it would be to get addicted.
I had to see the orthopedic surgeon weekly for the first few weeks, and I got to know people who had had up to 5 shoulder surgeries. I couldn't imagine that, and I couldn't imagine that recovery.
I may have mentioned that I nicknamed my physical therapist The Destroyer..not cause she was rough, but because she seemed to make it her personal mission to vanquish the limited range of motion I had.
I'm enjoying WW...I'm just shoring up my new habits every way I can.
I'm finally able to go back to the gym. Our state has opened gyms up, and my gym got enough business stimulus money to create "pods" around every piece of cardio equipment (shields and air filters), distance equipment, move classes to the roof deck, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
It has been 6 months since I've done more than walk and 15 minutes of free weights at home. My cardiovascular condition isn't bad, but oh, there is squish where before there was no squish.
Also, I'm taking an on-line/zoom class on Creative Nonfiction Writing. It has been eons since I've taken a class, so this will be a challenge.
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Oops, I tend to block out stuff I don't want to think about...but I had a couple of weeks of shortness of breath, and getting down on all fours in the living room and having our son pound on my back. No fever, and I could smell just fine (and oh, teen boys seem to be founts of odors!).
I don't know if it was Covid, or what, but if that was mild Covid, I can't imagine the discomfort of a less mild version. Having to rest when I reached the top of one flight of stairs was frightening.0 -
Shred, good to see you. I am glad you are feeling better now. I had something back in early February that was killer. I mean I coughed myself nearly to death and at one point couldn't breathe to the point I went to an urgent care. They tested for flu and did a chest x-ray and just said it was bronchitis, gave me some meds. I think there's a good possibility that I had Covid then. A lot of people I know were really sick around then and got tested for flu and negative. I really do wonder if it was already running rampant.
Day 4 of morning treadmill. I overslept and was going to blow it off but reminded myself there are NO EXCUSES and I got on there. Only 10 minutes as I didn't have much time, but I think it is incredibly important that I develop this habit no matter what. NO EXCUSES!
We need to get an October thread going... I will put some thought into a topic if nobody else gets around to starting it by tomorrow. I have had a headache for two days and thinking about a topic makes it worse. LOL
B - oats with blueberries
L - Amy's enchilada
D - big ol' salad
S - got into the peanut butter pretzels... I was tired and not feeling well and that always seems to trigger eating things I shouldn't be eating. For me fatigue = hunger. But I could make good choices even then. Could have had some fruit or some veggies. Shoulda coulda. Will work on those better choices!
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Mihani: I'm with you on habit. I made a vow to go to the gym every day this month without excuses. Even if it is for 20 minutes, which is just about what I can do with a 6 month hiatus.
And, that does sound very Covid like. I think I'm aware of the most widespread symptoms, but what you described, what I experienced and similar symptoms with other friends sound Covid like.
I find myself eating skinny popcorn and skinny cows...not overeating, but eating them while my mind is saying: Grrrrrrl, why are you doing this! I need to noodle on a "treat" between lunch and dinner that I actually feel good about eating.
My annual physical is at the end of October, it will be interesting to see what 6 months of eating McDougall has done for my blood work. I have been feeling excessively tired lately, and I don't know if it is the shift in my life due to the pandemic or that I'm not consuming sufficient protein. I'm averaging about 50 grams a day.
Take care, lovely people!
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Hey all...my computer is totally messed up...having a horrible time even getting here...was going to try and set up October...but can't even do that...I am struggling right now...lots going on in my life...knee replacement set for early spring...wrestling with the idea of adopting another dog...only because Lulu is alone so many hours at a time...she would be a puppy...that's a whole other story. Once I get this stupid program off my computer that is blocking me from doing my normal thing...I will be back...sorry this is so all over the place, but want to get it all in before I get kicked off.
Still plant based but using Gardein products to help...fresh produce along with Gardein. Anyway, TC...talk to you all later.
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Hi Magic! Sorry you are struggling. I hope the knee replacement will help a lot to get you feeling better. Oh, I hope you do adopt another pup! You're such a good dog mom.
Shred, are you getting enough good sleep? If I eat later in the evening I don't seem to sleep as well.
Austin, hope all is well with you and your husband is still recovering well.
I need to set up my salads and make salad dressing, finish laundry, run to the grocery, and try to get in a few hours of work this evening.
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Magic: That's so much going on. Sometimes everything personal has to be chaotic cause everything in the world is the same!
It may well be the sleep. I have a good family, but my whole outside social support network..even those little incidental social interactions...are gone now, and I think I feel down the most at night, turn to watching mindless YouTube videos, and then before I know it is is 1 a.m.!
Then, the next day I'm unfocused, store up a big load of guilt, and then my mind is running around in circles...
So, not good...this week's focus is on breaking that cycle!0
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