What's On Your Mind Today?
Replies
-
jamcnewman wrote: »I posted a picture of air-fried chicken legs I made on Sunday, January 23. I used the Southwest Marinade on the Thriving Home Blog site. They have 6 other marinades as well. I just realized that I didn't add the marinade in my calories for the day. The recipe is there now. I put the air fryer at 375 to 400 and cook it until it's crispy. Usually 35 to 40 minutes. The other food I like to cook in the air fryer is cut up potatoes. I spray with cooking spray and season it. I cook until crispy usually 30 minutes at 375. The air fryer I have has a rotisserie and cooked a cornish game hen. That's very good as well. Here's a link to the marinades. https://thrivinghomeblog.com/7-freezer-friendly-chicken-marinades/
Thanks so much for this @jmu1965 I love my air fryer (I know, such a Covid cliché…)
🥰
At least your Covid cliché is helping you cook healthy foods. I'm still on the original Covid cliché that is sourdough. I can only hope that all that sourdough bread I consume is helping with my gut microbiome!2 -
It is funny to me how my brain works - I tried to manage UAC in Nov and Dec and failed miserably. So in January, I decided not to join and get everything caught up that I needed to do from the holidays so I can "start again". I am finally to a more manageable point and for the last 3 days, I have been waiting for UAC in Feb to start so I can start tracking and getting back into developing a healthy lifestyle again. My thinking is off. UAC is not my focus, but developing a healthy lifestyle, losing weight, and getting healthy is my focus.
I wanted to post this since I was not in UAC for January and I will be watching for UAC Feb 2022. Hope everyone is doing well.
I will be working on getting back into the "swing of things" regarding tracking so by February I will be ready for UAC
Take care everyone!
Good to hear from you @KCJen !
Why not just begin now? 😘
If you can join this month (not sure)!just post here for Jan 25-31. That’s a whole week of progress❣️3 -
It is funny to me how my brain works - I tried to manage UAC in Nov and Dec and failed miserably. So in January, I decided not to join and get everything caught up that I needed to do from the holidays so I can "start again". I am finally to a more manageable point and for the last 3 days, I have been waiting for UAC in Feb to start so I can start tracking and getting back into developing a healthy lifestyle again. My thinking is off. UAC is not my focus, but developing a healthy lifestyle, losing weight, and getting healthy is my focus.
I wanted to post this since I was not in UAC for January and I will be watching for UAC Feb 2022. Hope everyone is doing well.
I will be working on getting back into the "swing of things" regarding tracking so by February I will be ready for UAC Take care everyone!
@KCJen it's my plan to get the February UAC group up and posted this evening since I have the opening post for tomorrow! You'll find the link in tomorrow's opening post (Jan 26), which I'll post later tonight.
For us in the c-o-l-d northern hemisphere, we're slowing inching ever closer to SPRING!!!
2 -
WhatMeRunning wrote: »@KCJen - You are discovering the biggest UAC secret of all. You don't win by joining any certain month(s) and making it through with 3 or fewer pass days for the month(s). You win by daily accounting of your progress towards the 3 UAC health goals. It doesn't matter what time period that accounting takes place, just that you keep doing it. Even when it's full of X's/No's/etc (more like ESPECIALLY during those times). Eventually just doing that for a long enough period of time changes your lifestyle habits, and the next thing you know you're regularly eating healthier and exercising. Over time that gives the biggest results compared to a month of dieting and exercise to achieve some goal, and that is how you TRULY win.
THIS!!!!!!! 1 -
I posted a picture of air-fried chicken legs I made on Sunday, January 23. I used the Southwest Marinade on the Thriving Home Blog site. They have 6 other marinades as well. I just realized that I didn't add the marinade in my calories for the day. The recipe is there now. I put the air fryer at 375 to 400 and cook it until it's crispy. Usually 35 to 40 minutes. The other food I like to cook in the air fryer is cut up potatoes. I spray with cooking spray and season it. I cook until crispy usually 30 minutes at 375. The air fryer I have has a rotisserie and cooked a cornish game hen. That's very good as well. Here's a link to the marinades. https://thrivinghomeblog.com/7-freezer-friendly-chicken-marinades/jamcnewman wrote: »Thanks so much for this @jmu1965 I love my air fryer (I know, such a Covid cliché…). I so crispy chick peas as a healthy snack and the whole family gobbles them up. My go to for chicken legs has been a dry rub and it is very tasty too. https://recipeteacher.com/best-damn-air-fryer-chicken-legs/
🥰
Yes, thanks ladies, for sharing these links! I made brussel sprouts and cut up a zuchini and did both of them in the air fryer last ight. Then I also made pork chops in the air fryer (for hubby). Lol. Im always looking for more recipe ideas!! I will definitely try the chickpeas too!
4 -
MadisonMolly2017 wrote: »It is funny to me how my brain works - I tried to manage UAC in Nov and Dec and failed miserably. So in January, I decided not to join and get everything caught up that I needed to do from the holidays so I can "start again". I am finally to a more manageable point and for the last 3 days, I have been waiting for UAC in Feb to start so I can start tracking and getting back into developing a healthy lifestyle again. My thinking is off. UAC is not my focus, but developing a healthy lifestyle, losing weight, and getting healthy is my focus.
I wanted to post this since I was not in UAC for January and I will be watching for UAC Feb 2022. Hope everyone is doing well.
I will be working on getting back into the "swing of things" regarding tracking so by February I will be ready for UAC Take care everyone!
Good to hear from you @KCJen !
Why not just begin now? 😘
If you can join this month (not sure)!just post here for Jan 25-31. That’s a whole week of progress❣️
I agree with Maddie! Not to mention that it will help to solidify the "habit" of checking in daily!!!
4 -
@Mrs_Hoffer
I just received my l.reuteri from Amazon tonight. It wasn´t as expensive as he indicated.
I am going to first try this version made with coconut milk instead of dairy, which you might also want to consider. https://www.luvele.com.au/blogs/recipe-blog/step-by-step-l-reuteri-coconut-yogurt-recipe I will let you know how it goes for me.
I just made my first batch of homemade yogurt in my new InstantPot. It was delicious. From what I am reading looking around the web, it looks like I can use the sous vide function on my instant pot to keep the ferment temperature low enough for the l. reuteri recipe, so I am going to try that soon.
If you have not read ¨Total Gut Balance¨ by Mahmoud Ghannoum, I highly recommend it. He is the foremost expert in the U.S. on yeast in the microbiome, has directed numerous studies for the NIH, and has a diet he calls the mycobiome diet (which means it is addresses yeast, not only bacteria, in the microbiome.) It is real whole food, plant forward diet, that can be either vegetarian or omnivore. I aspire to make it how I eat once my insulin resistance is better and I feel comfortable adding some extra real food resistant starch sources (as he encourages a resistant starch at every meal). Here is the clinical study done on his diet, which includes under study design the principles of his diet. https://www.longdom.org/open-access/effect-of-mycobiome-diet-on-gut-fungal-and-bacterial-communities-of-healthy-adults-52909.html Although the clinical study of the diet was short-term and the diet was not intended for weight loss, some of the participants also lost an impressive amount of weight. (My guess is that a lot of Americans would lose some weight just going on a real, whole food diet for 6 weeks.)
His book is very interesting, and unlike the article above, written for non-scientists.4 -
When I start feeling greedy about it, I just remind my "inner elephant" that there will be more cake in our future, oh yes...yes, there will. That helps me relax and savor every crumb.
Pleasure is an important ingredient. lol"inner elephant" .... love that! 🐘🐘 (i often visualize IGM - Instant Gratification Monkey 🐒🐒)Yes! I love that. oh man. Instant gratification. I like it. And... it's more fun when it's IG occasionally. IIIIIII guuuuueeesssss. lol
Like you mention about keeping the keys of the bus out of Elifant's hands .... the trick (for me) of managing IGM is redirect / make things a "game" wherever possible. Eg. "we play Go For The Green together" every morning (pre-logging) so that IGM can make space for the snack that is coming .... getting steps in is mostly by wii exergame ... sufficient steps gets IGM closer to "mayyyybe EXTRA activity credits .... that THAT means a bit bigger evening snack! (monkey-spins and cartwheels with excitement)
Now that I am (only) half-way through my second back-at-the-office week, so not "available to play" as often .... (aka to avoid procrastination) "calling it a game" also works for keeping my whole brain focused on "boring-to-IGM" work-tasks too eg if I use colour-fill or cell-formatting in a spreadsheet to mark follow-up information.3 -
For more of what IGM can get up to (and IGM is not entirely food focused ... just "that's booooooorrrrrring .... let ME take over driving the body-ship!" ) watch the following TedTalk on Youtube.
Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.
This is the abridged version (less than 4 minutes)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5C149J9C0
and this is the full 15 minute version of the same talk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU0 -
@BMcC9-thx you! I just really enjoyed the abridged version1
-
@ideas2 I ordered my l.reuteri last night... it should be here tomorrow. I'm excited. I got my instant pot out of the basement and cleaned it.... I'm ready! Lol. I LOVE my yogurt for breakfast - and I've been putting my rolled rye in it that I ordered last week (I can't remember who suggested the rolled rye), but I really like it in my yogurt - even more than the oatmeal that I was putting in before!!
I just reserved ¨Total Gut Balance¨ by Mahmoud Ghannoum from my library. Like you, I'm fascinated by how much of a difference our gut health makes in our overall health!! I can't wait to read it!2 -
@Mrs_Hoffer
My coconut milk l. reuteri yogurt did not turn out so well today. The consistency was like ricotta cheese and it had a real sour tang. I tried to start with just a third of a recipe which made the agar agar hard to measure, so I think that could be the problem. I think next time I will try the recipe as the doctor gives it instead of the coconut milk one, although I might well try again with the coconut milk one with less agar. (I tried the coconut one because my testing for IgG sensitivities show reactions to cow´s milk. I recently found A2 milk that supposedly has protein sufficiently different that I may be able to get by with that.) I was able to eat the coconut milk l. reuteri yogurt it by putting a lot of stevia/monkfruit sweetener in it and mixing it with granola, but it was not nearly as good as the normal whole milk yogurt I made with active culture from storebought yogurt for my first try with the InstantPot the other day-- except after eating the milk based yogurt I woke up in the night with an upset stomach.
2 -
(🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 please!)
I have signed in for 90 days in a row! (one of my Jan goals was to have a perfect 94-day cumulative total since I got active on MFP again the last few days of October 2021)
10 -
-
-
@ideas2
Oh no. I'm sorry that yours didn't turn out very well. My current yogurt that I've been making in my Dutch Oven has been turning out just perfect, so I think I'm a little spoiled. (No pun intended!) Lol. But my starter was a 1/2 cup of Fage 5%, and I'm wanting to switch to the l.reuteri yogurt instead. I have heard that this one will have much more of a "tang" to it than the regular yogurt... so I'm expecting that too.
I plan on making mine this evening. I'm not going to vary from the Dr.'s recipe for this first try. I'm going to use a mix of whole milk and ultra pasteurized half and half. My l.reuteri came yesterday and my Inulin from Blue Agave is supposed to arrive today. I figure if I start it tonight about 8pm, it will be ready by Sun morn at 8am. I usually put blueberries, chia seeds, flax seed, and the rolled Rye that I recently ordered in my yogurt - and if it's an "acquired taste", then I'll have plenty of time to get used to the new yogurt! Lol.
(Someone in the group mentioned the rolled rye a week or so ago ( was it you @Bill70sStrong OR @ForLangston ??), and I'm LOVING it! I've been using it in the yogurt more than oatmeal now!)0 -
-
Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »
(94+28) sign-in streak for end of Feb of course ❣❣ (and may as well log food&exercise / report in to UAC while I am on MFP anyway .....
) 2 -
As someone who lives in the Northern Hemisphere moderated by the Gulf Stream, Spring has been uppermost in my mind as the lengthening days mean that I am waking up to lovely sunrises.@Mrs_Hoffer wrote:
For us in the c-o-l-d northern hemisphere, we're slowing inching ever closer to SPRING!!!
Beginnings
(Jan 2022)
The morning sky is tinged with gold
towards the rising sun.
Such beauty makes the spirit soar.
A new day has begun.
It offers so much promise to
the open heart and mind.
Be brave and stride towards it
and see what you can find.
The peace and quiet fills my soul
with energy supreme,
to take the necessary steps
to realise each dream.
(C) 2022 - Terri Richardson
There will be cold snaps, but these too shall pass. The spring bulbs are already breaking through and snowdrops are scattered under the trees at the end of the garden.2 -
TerriRichardson112 wrote: »
There will be cold snaps, but these too shall pass. The spring bulbs are already breaking through and snowdrops are scattered under the trees at the end of the garden.
OOOHHHH LOOOK! The "Severe Cold Warning symbol is missing from my computer! Wait, it's back again! 🌬 🌡 (wind chill -26C right now or -18.5F if you are in the USA) .... and SHE has spring bulb breaking through!! 😾1 -
BeeJ, I was thinking the same thing! We woke up to -5(F) yesterday morning here. But the weatherman says it's going to be in the 40s next week! Woohoo!! Break out the bathing suit!! Lol.
@TerriRichardson112 I love your poem! You're so talented!
1 -
Well done, BeeJ. You have such great determination. I have no doubt that you will add 28 days to that cumulative total in February.(🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 please!)
I have signed in for 90 days in a row! (one of my Jan goals was to have a perfect 94-day cumulative total since I got active on MFP again the last few days of October 2021)
😂🤣😂🤣😂 The vagaries of the weather around the world!TerriRichardson112 wrote: »
There will be cold snaps, but these too shall pass. The spring bulbs are already breaking through and snowdrops are scattered under the trees at the end of the garden.
OOOHHHH LOOOK! The "Severe Cold Warning symbol is missing from my computer! Wait, it's back again! 🌬 🌡 (wind chill -26C right now or -18.5F if you are in the USA) ... and SHE has spring bulb breaking through!! 😾
Patience, my dear. This, too, shall pass. 😉
1 -
Mrs_Hoffer wrote: »@ideas2Oh no. I'm sorry that yours didn't turn out very well. My current yogurt that I've been making in my Dutch Oven has been turning out just perfect, so I think I'm a little spoiled. (No pun intended!) Lol. But my starter was a 1/2 cup of Fage 5%, and I'm wanting to switch to the l.reuteri yogurt instead. I have heard that this one will have much more of a "tang" to it than the regular yogurt... so I'm expecting that too.
I plan on making mine this evening. I'm not going to vary from the Dr.'s recipe for this first try. I'm going to use a mix of whole milk and ultra pasteurized half and half. My l.reuteri came yesterday and my Inulin from Blue Agave is supposed to arrive today. I figure if I start it tonight about 8pm, it will be ready by Sun morn at 8am. I usually put blueberries, chia seeds, flax seed, and the rolled Rye that I recently ordered in my yogurt - and if it's an "acquired taste", then I'll have plenty of time to get used to the new yogurt! Lol.
(Someone in the group mentioned the rolled rye a week or so ago ( was it you @Bill70sStrong OR @ForLangston ??), and I'm LOVING it! I've been using it in the yogurt more than oatmeal now!)
I think it was @Revlish that posted about the rye first) Teresa.
@Mrs_Hoffer
2 -
Yesterday was a really challenging day for many reasons. One that is related to my experience here was the need to first find the time, then go out and get a new iPhone to replace my iPhone 11 due its shattered back glass case. Avoid EVER having one of these models. Then the fiasco of Apple ID not synching to the new phone, with my Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook Air, MFP, Vax Wallet, etc. I am completely dependent on my phone (and now my watch) for all tracking, reminders, and prompts (including medications). Perhaps too much, as proven yesterday. 🥸 My frustration spiralled as the evening progressed and as my blood sugar plummeted, so did all sense of rational perspective. There is more to all this, which I am now unpacking 🥺
While out dealing with the phone at two shops on opposite ends of the city, we stopped out to eat because I had hit the point when sustenance had become essential. I have, since the fall, kept a protein bar “re-stocked” in the glove compartment to ensure that I always have something for urgent situations like yesterday. I hadn’t realized until yesterday that I forgot to stock the new (used) car. Yes, it has been a very expensive week in so many ways 🥳
Today is a new day. I will rebuild the new phone. I have stocked the new car with healthy snacks. I will be excited and grateful for having a new (to us) car, a new phone, and all the privilege I do have. And. there will be no further pass days in January — not because I want to be in the Winners’ Circle, but because I fear I am on the side of a slippery slope.💡18 -
@jamcnewman Good reflection and understanding of the challenges your difficult day presented and the places where little issues could become the slippery slope. Your corrections sounds spot on..hoping for happier days to round out the end of January1
-
ashleycarole86 wrote: »@jamcnewman Good reflection and understanding of the challenges your difficult day presented and the places where little issues could become the slippery slope. Your corrections sounds spot on..hoping for happier days to round out the end of January
@ashleycarole86
Thanks Ashley 💛1 -
@jamcnewman: nope, I am not a great baker. So it wasn't me discussing rye Take care! 0
-
Julie @jamcnewman Yikes! It sounds like you had quite a challenging day! Great job taking steps so that you don't find yourself in that spot again! {{Hugs}}.1
-
@jamcnewman
I hope you are getting to grips with the new phone. I also rely on my iPhone to keep on top of all the things I have chosen to do.
Great insight into the problems you encountered. Warning re iPhone 11 duly noted.
Tech is great, when it works, but v frustrating when it doesn’t.1 -
@jamcnewman man that sounded like a awful day I was tired reading it! Like you noted it is frustrating when technology fails for what ever reason and we then realize how dependent we have become. I do hope today and the coming are better, stay the course and I am confident you won’t slip down the slope and if you slide a little you will recover just like the rest of us you’ll make it!3
