Chat and Accountability Nov 22 - Nov 28
Hmrjmr1
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Hey Folks Thought I'd get this one going.
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Happy Saturday Folks. Hope all is well with all of you.
Finally able to start a decompress day. I really need it this week, Monday (as everyday) I started by checking what we call the Vista Report. It is a hospital wide report that identifies new admissions, discharges, and transfers. The report Monday includes 3 discharges (Death) from Hospice and palliative care ward. That was high for one day but not unexpected. It included one of my guys from the D ward who had been transferred to hospice a couple weeks ago. He was a Marine, and had played trumpet in the US Marine Corps Band. He also taught music when he returned to the area after his service. He was already on the ward when I started working there 4 1/2 years ago. I now only have one of my original 32 left. Understand something here, Harry is in a much better place now and I recognize and take some joy in that. But Harry was one of my great teachers in dementia care. He taught me more about the physiological response to music than all the research I've read. In fact he was the one to inspire me to dig in to it. Yet Harry never was able to speak a single coherent word to me. Dementia had already taken that from him. But Harry was a musician in the same way that I was and still am a soldier, it's not about what we do its what we are. Harry had an inner beat going that did not often allow him to sit down. In fact he was the only person I have ever seen that could keep three different beats going while music played. He would keep the back beat with his feet, the melody line with his hands and the front beat with his hips. and when he found encountered a song that he particularly liked he would do a perfect form *kitten* - heels body weight squat and clap the floor with his hands. It used to horrify the nursing staff until I explained to them the good form elements he was displaying and that trying to intervene put him at a higher risk for falls than letting him express himself.
- So normally when I get a report like this on vista I can hang together till I get home and then decompress and honor him in my own way and for a guy like Harry take the next day as a sick day to get my head right cause I often don't play well with others when I get in this mode. But with Maris out and other folks out, plus events scheduled like Golden Corral, and Old Times Buffet Thanksgiving meal just have to suck it up and get through the week. Catching my self when it starts to grab me with the mantra your guys need you NOW you'll get it later. Keep moving. Keep humping that ruck. Time for you is later. Well today is later. So here to honor one of my favorite Marines, and one of my greatest teachers is Harry's favorite Song. Listen to the different beats and imagine a guys standing in place moving to all three God rest you well Marine I will see you at Heavens gate when it is my time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aMICD3aMZpw
Hammer Jammer 1 out.0 -
Follow up from last week.
Heron - Thanks for all the info all makes sense. Don't know that I'll get knees back to even 80% but close would be good. I do the stuff I do with about 60% of my previous range of motion and stress tension. Any additional improvement would be very good. Will keep you posted. jeep on Jammin'! at Muay Tai. Great Metcon.
Also My Boss is one of the better ones I've had in my life time. While she has some supervisory challenges I tend to treat her like a good Platoon Leader. As for me, I have no ambitions beyond giving my best to my guys everyday. For my duty position there are no advances. My annual performance eval is embarrassingly positive, and when I ask my Boss how to do my job better she has no answer (one of my frustrations with her). Your concerns about who gets credit etc are applicable (and well founded) to folks that have/want to keep moving up or feel a need for praise. I have none of that left in me at this point in my life and my satisfaction comes from the smile or reactions like Harry. I need no more than that. God Bless you though for being concerned. I do appreciate it beyond my capability to express.
Arturo - Go Give Heron a Big ol hug and tell her that's from Big John!
Cynthia - I'm in for your challenge as well. Bring it!
Carol - BTW do you have dates for upcoming Paleo FX? I'm thinking of attending and will have to get leave request in sometime in Dec if I want to have the dates guaranteed.
Back to chores and getting stuff done Have a great day folks I'll be opening the Hammer Jammer 2D (two penny) Nail Challenge Thread tomorrow so folks know what to expect.
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John: how wonderful that you're honoring Harry today. We are lucky for his service. Thank you for your service too John. You just KEEP serving! Keep on Jammin Hammer!
Looking forward to details on the 2D Challenge!
Here is the link for PFX 2015. Would be awesome to see you there! Not 100% sure that I'm going but I want to:
. http://www.paleofx.com/paleo-events/2015-austin
Or just search on PaleoFX 2015
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Oops! Forgot to answer the question: PaleoF(x) Will be on April 24-260
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Thanks Carol!0
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Happy Sunday Folks today is Dead lift Day. My son is also going to cook me a steak dinner for my Birthday today, We both have to work tomorrow so do what we can when we can.
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10024985/hammer-jammer-2d-nail-wellness-challengehttp://0 -
Excited about the 2D challenge Hammer! And just completed another 4 mi walk with my BFF. Time VERY well spent on many levels!0
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Awww John, see you are such a nice guy. I have a sense that you just want to help people and not seeking nor need praise. I just don't like the idea of people taking advantage of your kindness and drive to help. I've seen that happen to others but you have so much life experience I should know that you know what's up.
I am happy that you have a good working environment and a boss that is not an A**
Thank you for telling the story of Harry. I'm glad that he had someone that understood his needs at the end when he can no longer express himself.
Enjoy your steak dinner! I LOOOVE steak. I can totally put away a 16oz ribeye and fixings lol. I miss cowboy ribeye
Carol, I see that you've been kicking *kitten* this week! Here's to another week of kicking *kitten*!!
So this week is going to be a mini torture for me. I'll be making pies (i make my own crust) and other baked goods as thanksgiving gifts for friends and neighbors with the pumpkins that I grew. So the house will smell like a freaking bakery and I'll be staring at all the baked goods and know that I can't eat them.
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Happy Monday Folks! Hope all is well with all of you.
heron- I feel for ya lass on thanksgiving and Christmas our main event of the day is serving Pie to the guys throughout the hospital, we have to cook em first, then take them around to the wards. Fresh and warm. Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and Pecan Pies for 300. Will be Thinking of you on Thursday as well.
- Keep on Rockin it Carol! Jam time is Fun Time!
First Challenge is up http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10024985/hammer-jammer-2d-nail-wellness-challenge#Item_1
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Thanks Heron. I'm still at it over here. I am moving my first Carb Nite to Thursday. Pie is my favorite Heron!!
Did you see John's challenge?. Day one is awesome. I talk SO MUCH!! Should be interesting.
Happy Birthday Hammer!!!!
Happy Monday Folks!
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I guess I should get back into the habit of checking in. Happy Monday. I'm back @ work after a 3 day weekend of barn building and deer hunting. The nice thing about the deer hunting is I tend too walk quite a bit, 3-5 miles. Not a huge amount but it is up and down hills.0
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3-5 miles is fantastic. The low end of that is a 5k. I wish I had an active sport. Sounds fun0
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Oh, WE are definitely having PIE this Thanksgiving
Heron's pies will be the main desert Thursday. So all is not lost. We skipped CN this past weekend so we can pig out on Thursday. Then no CN again until Dec. For our first December CN we're thinking a late lunch of Japanese Ramen at an awesome Ramen restaurant in town, followed by a late dinner/supper of Indian Butter Chicken with Naan! 
Carol: When will you know if you'll be accepted as a speaker for PaleoFX?
I'm thinking of flying in to Austin that weekend to meet up with some old college friends, and also see who I can catch after the PaleoFX sessions for a low-carb dinner. Who's all thinking of attending besides Carol and John? I won't be paying to attend myself however.0 -
happy Tuesday Folks! Another Great Day rising with the sun.
Mark - Welcome home lad.
Carol - I beg to differ with you. You have but to look at your tough mudder headband collection to know that you have a sport, and a Team Sport at that. It's up to you to train for it.
Arturo - That would be very Koo-EL to have a meetup there.
Local News chatted with Maris (my Rec Therapist for Dementia Ward) She is doing pretty good and may return to work today. I cautioned her on coming back too soon but we all do miss the lass. Today's Challenge will be an interesting one so come on over will have it up in couple mins.
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LOVE today's challenge!! Thx John
Having fun with it !
Arturo: no idea when but I will post it everywhere when I know for sure.
John you are right! Tough Mudder is a sport!!0 -
Hey guys.....gosh it has been forever since I checked in. I was doing so well, really had a good morning habit with it...which got broken when I kept adding other bits into my morning routine ( which was 10 minutes of meditation and then checking in with you guys). Now 15 minutes meditation, 2 minutes planks (not in a row, can't do that), 2 per side unweighted turkish get ups. Once I realize how long I'd been out of touch, I felt overwhelmed by trying to catch up. Which I realize is a stupid reason for not getting back in here. So apologize if it takes a while to get caught back up with everyone's progress. I will.
I've actually been doing pretty good. I think 6-8 weeks into CarbNite. Going well, slow from a scale perspective but well. Back in gym lifting. Regularly even - keep making gains there - tho' have no real idea what I can truly do. Following Keifer's Shockwave protocol via an app which I love. In the last week of a 4 week program and for the first time ever have followed a program. Lifting 4 times a week - tho' admit to doing the "quick" version about once a week.
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Oh and as of now I have a hotel room booked with points the weekend of PaleoFX...not sure I'm actually going but want to lock in that at least. I think it will depend on who the speakers are. Tho' have heard my fav gal Sarah Fragoso is locked in, so maybe. If Kiefer locks, I'm going.0
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Happy Wednesday Folks! Kim Good to see ya here, welcome home Lass. I like the Shock Wave protocol, After I complete this iteration of my program (around Christmas Week planning to incorporate it as well. To show great minds think alike my Son and I are planning to road trip from Ga to Austin. I have to get my leave requests in for the year before Dec 5th so gonna be there for sure now. If a bunch of us show up will have to get together and do a Fat2FitHQ WOD. That would be a blast.
Good News sort of My Dementia Ward Therapist Maris returned to work yesterday. Gonna have to modify my sched (already Approved) to help her set up the Christmas Tree Friday. She can't do any lifting yet. Any one got any good Bone Broth Recipes? Gonna make her some over the coming weekend. She suffered a bunch of stomach damage when the Lap Band Slipped down. Having problems still keeping things down due to inflammation but doing better than she was. Keep her in your thoughts please.
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Yay Welcome back Kim! You've been missed. Your morning routine sounds pretty good though.
Here is Caveman doctor's famous bone broth John: http://www.myhealthwire.com/news/diet-nutrition/852
Off to the gym before the kiddies wake! Happy Wednesday!!0 -
Hey all, back to work today. Spent all day yesterday setting trusses for my new barn. did lots of climbing up and down.
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Hi Kim what is the app that you are using? I feel you the weight kinda stalls when you are working out. It takes a lot of tweaking that's why Jef had me working out max 3 days a week and the scale started moving.
John, for the bone I recommend a pretty common "Chinese style" Chinese believe that you heal with food and all the spices have anti inflammatory, antioxidant and GI benefits
Star Anise, cloves, fennel, ginger, tumeric, cinnamon. Get good quality bone and low simmer for At least 10hr.
For a 6-7quart pot
Sauteed 2 chopped onions, 4 cloves garlic 1-2 carrots chopped 1-2 celery chopped
10 start anise, 6 cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks, 2 TBSP fennel, 2 4inch piece ginger, 2TBSP Tumeric powder, Salt to taste. add water bring to boil then simmer for at least 10hr.
Yesterday I roasted and puréed pumpkins from my garden, made 24 pumpkin cupcakes with pumpkin frosting. 5 pumpkin pie and 5 pastry crust, pumpkin cheesecake bar with swirled caramel topping on a homemade chocolate wafer crust. And I did't get to eat any of them, because 1; its not a carb nite and 2; they are all gifts. The house smelled great though (especially after I baked the chocolate wafer). But I did put aside small portion of the cupcakes and cheesecake bars
Today I'm gonna brine the turkey and make fresh cranberry sauce. Tomorrow I'm making mash potatoes, creamed corn and homemade dinner rolls some will be coated with butter garlic herb cheese. For dessert pumpkin pie, some of the cupcakes with frosting and cheesecake bars. Then I don't want want to cook till Sunday LOL I've been doing a lot baking these past 10 days and I just want to stay out of the kitchen for a couple of days. I'm not complaining, in fact I love baking and cooking and giving food to people
but I think I need to just take a break from the kitchen for a couple of days. 0 -
Mark 3-5miles on a hilly terrain IS a good amount. Good for you!
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Wow Heron that's a ton of baking. Like you guys moved my CarbNite to Thursday for Thanksgiving. Had my last one on Friday - but had gone nearly 2 weeks since one before. Having heard all the warnings from Kiefer, AJ etc that women over 50 don't seem to burn glycogen as fast, I've been a bit more cautious of the CarbNite timing - typically do weekly, based on if I am at or below the prior pre-CarbNite weight (I only weigh once per week on the planned CN morning). I know I like this WOE - as I feel better and it feels instinctive ( hence the big gap in logging)
Did read back through all the Nov threads, which sadly took very little time given the lack of posts. Some surprising drop outs. Where's Howie?
Saw mention of the FB carb nite group. Been in that a while (maybe longer than I've bben doing CN). Good group even if one or two folks kinda rule every post (which is both good knowledge and slightly annoying to me). Think I saw Arturo post...I'm kim walls there.
Bone broth.... If you have a pressure cooker it will make amazing bone broth in 90 minutes. I was skeptical, and a bit afraid of mine. I'd been given an electric one (Breville smart pot type) for my birthday. In past I simmered none broth for at least 24 hours. My husband hates the smell so could only do if he was gone. I never thought I'd get that same gelatin thickness so quickly. But you do. Have made both poultry based and beef based. It's a godsend. In fact plan on making a batch today. May try Herons spices instead.
Carol, listened to your podcast last week. Glad you're back on the wagon so to speak. Given your schedule don't stress. Work in getting movement, managing stress (that walk with friend seemed yo hit both!), work on sleep and just make the better possible choice when you can on food. Beyond that you've got too much going on to try to be perfect. Good is plenty!
John, nice challenge!
Oh and I did see Kiefer is confirmed for PaleoFx.0 -
Since Heron sent me a message, I thought I better check in.
I have fallen off the wagon big time and having a lot trouble getting my focus and motivation back. Even though the food part has fallen apart for me, I have gotten back in the groove with running and working out. So all is not lost. LOL
Between traveling (did the 5K & Half marathon a couple of weeks ago) and work, there just doesn't seem to be a lot of time for much more. I have started blogging again (started in September) and even that has been spotty lately. But if you want to know what I've been up to, you can read the blog at stacyinmontana.com
Scott and I are hosting Thanksgiving dinner for my mom and son... and though they don't know it, they will be having a Paleo feast.
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In the "olden days" ... stocks were made using bones, while broth was made with (mostly) boneless cuts of meat. These days the terms 'stock' and 'broth' are used interchangeably ... especially since most people throw both into the pot these days. Now that I eat low carb I can't look forward to Thanksgiving leftovers, but I do look forward to my Mom's turkey soup which she makes from what's left of the turkey carcass (mostly just bones). So this Thanksgiving weekend I'll be watching closely to ensure she doesn't include any evil starches (no potato,rice, or carrots). I may sneak in some coconut oil when she's not looking
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Happy Thanksgiving Folks. The Challenge is up. Have fun with it. Do it throughout the day, the benefits today will be huge.Might end up being something you do everyday from now on. I do.
Stacy and Kim Welcome Home gals. So good to see ya here again.
Thanks all for the great recipes on the Bone Broth. Gonna try some this weekend. I'm not a big soup fan for me but Maris is so will give most of it to her, but was thinking it will make a good foundation for my stews/concoctions I like to make in my crock-pot.
The Question is If I use mason jars and 'can' it (yep my Grandma Ellis taught me how to can stuff when I was a young lad) How long should it keep? any known issues with storage that way?
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Did it - signed up for Primal Blueprint Cert. Training0
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John - that's so cool re: Primal Certification! I've been contemplating same but unsure if I'd have time to stick with it. Can't wait to hear your impressions.
Stacey- great to see you back!
Made it to gym yesterday for shoulder/arm day. I kinda hate upper body work. Lower body days make me feel strong, upper body not so much. Exposes weakness...which I get means I need to do it. The app I'm using us called "Shockwave Protocol" by Gain Fitness. It may only be on iOS. I went ahead and got the full shockwave add on packs, and had it design me a 30 day novice program with 4 days of lifting. You tell it days you want to work out, and what equipment you have available. It prompts you on those days, and during work out cues you to exercises, reps, last weights used, rest between etc. for me it's ideal. App is free and includes several workouts. I think full add on pack was around $20. Kiefers voice is the cue. And each exercise has a small video or moving g gif to show you how to use. My four days are roughly 2 upper and 2 lower body. Th is is final week of the 30 day plan. I've made gains ESP lower body...unsure what yo do next 30 days...
Cooked like crazy yesterday as prep for today. Two kinds of pie, turkey brined. Lots of other prep stuff. Making quite the feast. YOLO right? Or it's carb nite.
Happy Thanksgiving folks! Wishing you a great day with loved ones.0 -
John, if you want to can the soup you'd need a pressure canner/cooker. I think it'll keep for a long time if left in a cool dark place however the texture/taste might change. When I took my canning class, my teacher said she rotates her meat stuff every 6 months or so because she goes through them regularly.
Kim, hanks for the info. the app sounds very practical
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I am Thankful for having Arturo as my partner who provides us with such a loving and stable home and understanding that I have "crazy irrational moments from to time lol"
I am Thankful that Arturo is the "fun dad" to our dogs. ( He is great with our dogs and the fosters)
I am Thankful that I've change and grown over the years.
I am Thankful for my health and the life I lead
I am Thankful for our "mostly well behave" healthy dogs. They are AWESOME!!
I am Thankful that we are still fostering dogs after property damages, disruption of life and many many many frustrating moments.
I am thankful to be able to live in this country.
I am Thankful for having such supportive MFP friends.
I know everybody has problems in their life but take a moment and be Thankful.
We are all living in a war-free country with a roof over our heads and have electricity, access to clean water and children regardless of gender and religion can go to school.
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Happy Thanksgiving All!
I've been reading through everyone's posts and enjoying the exchanges.
Beautiful post Heron.
Kim, what a great app. I have never heard of one that allows you to put in the equipment you have. Cool! I went over and downloaded the book. Will give it a go as I want to focus on strength training for awhile and the plans I have are getting a bit boring. Thanks for sharing.
John, Congrats on going for your certification. You got me to check out the Primal Blueprint. My quest to go vegan has not been successful in the weight and energy dept. While I was on my trip I "cheated" by eating meat and honestly felt better. Could have done without the fats, but otherwise felt good. I want to go back to it for awhile. The boyfriend is not pleased with my decision, but we'll figure it out. I need to look into the PB more.
I am feeling very thankful today. Thankful for my boyfriend snoring away in the next room. Love him:) Pets that make me smile every day. Wonderful, loving friends. A warm home. Food in my cupboards. Most of all, I am thankful for the Lord, who sticks by me through the roughest of days and never fails to lift me up!
Wishing everyone a Blessed Thanksgiving!
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