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  • MaggieGirl135
    MaggieGirl135 Posts: 1,029 Member
    @AnnPT77 Buying Gouda today in support of your healing! They say that bacon makes everything better, but I have always thought that was true of cheese. Please continue getting better and do it soon.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,255 Member
    Thanks for the update @AnnPT77! Good on you for making sure you get fully recovered before getting back after it. Friends are great. When I had an issue a few years ago, it was friends who helped me get through - no family anywhere nearby.

    I still don't have any cheese in the house, but I'll eat some chanterelles while hoping for your speedy recovery!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    What kind of weirdos are we? Toasting your speedy recovery with cheese and mushrooms instead of champagne?

    MFP Weirdos!!!!! Huzzah!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    I am back home, back to routine already,and feeling 1,000% happier in my own bubble.

    Rode my bike to my volunteer desk gig, as soon as my relief comes, I’m riding it to the gym to swim a mile, riding home, walking the High Anxiety Dog, and going to a hot yoga class.

    It just occurred to me, this will be the first time I’ve ridden my bike since I had a bad wreck on it in March. I should have done this ages ago, but my husband asked me to stay off it til all our traveling was done, and I respected that, since he never asks anything.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,255 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    What kind of weirdos are we? Toasting your speedy recovery with cheese and mushrooms instead of champagne?

    MFP Weirdos!!!!! Huzzah!

    A good champagne would be an appropriate accompaniment to a plate of sauteed chanterelles, creamed chanterelles, or a chanterelle omelet. Oh. It would also go good with some brie. Have you had the brie with wild mushrooms? Yeah... nothing wrong with being a weirdo. I mean who in their right mind would bother using a food scale?
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 398 Member
    @AnnPT77 Thank you for updating us, we all are concerned and care! I hope you don't try to do too much after you are discharged, nothing is as important as just taking it slow and letting your body heal. Staying at the cat's home is a good idea, and I'd have your friends currently feeding the cat come over every day for a few days to check on you. And perhaps do a grocery run for you to keep up your healthy eating. Hugs from me and everyone else here!
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,708 Member
    I ordered some champagne vinegar, does that make me an MFP weirdo too?

    I found a great really smooth and creamy cream cheese type product, and have been adding it into omelettes and egg scramble thingies lately 😋
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,133 Member
    I did not have cheese but added a nice Dunkin Donut in your honor of being released! Hope the headaches are gone soon and you feel stronger again. Also glad you did not break anything else in the fall.
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,708 Member
    Hi all - been a bit gloomy this weekend, weather-wise, in my neck of the woods - but that is how I think of November...it actually has had more sun than usual I would say, in between cloud bursts! 🍂 A lot of trees are bare now, but not all as we have not had a frost yet.

    I am keeping up my 1 hour a day walking, but had to use the treadmill yesterday and will use walking videos today. So glad to have these options but much prefer a brisk walk outdoors.

    I have now lost 20 lbs on the BodySlims program in 8 weeks. 2 weeks to go, and almost to the 10% goal, feeling great!

    @AnnPT77- how are you? Are you home yet or still rooming with the 😺?
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    edited November 18
    Happy birthday!!!

    Deke looks exactly like my Molly, right down to the white nose and round cautious eyes.

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    She’s been terrorized by the High Anxiety Dog after he caught her licking the gravy out of his bowl and flipped out on her She’s just now getting to where she can roam the house again, but only when she’s certain he’s in bed with us or out for a walk. It’s nice to see her snoozing in the sunbeams again.

    I’m so sorry your bang has messed with your head so badly, but on the plus side, I always picture how much worse bike wrecks/flying trapeze accidents/travel viruses would have been had I still been obese. So at least there’s that for you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

    It just takes so freakin’ long to get back to normal the older we get. And so darn much easier to mess something up. 😭


  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,708 Member
    Happy belated birthday Ann! Glad you felt up to going out and celebrating. 🥳

    As for the nap, Deke maybe having a positive influence in that regard? After all, cats have a great capacity for napping 😼

    Perhaps you would like to adopt your own little kitty when you're back home and off duty? Young to old adult cats are plentiful in shelters and do make great companions, and are pretty low maintenance generally.

    Take it easy and I feel positive you will make progress you can notice on your recovery soon, as Springlering mentioned thankfully you were pretty healthy and strong before taking a tumble. Such a good point, we all must do what we can now, while we can, because you never know what tomorrow may bring.
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 398 Member
    Happy late Birthday, @AnnPT77. Take your time on the road to recovery, look at the positive things such as that you have lots of time to get ready for rowing next summer. Glad you had friends take you out for your birthday, they can be a wonderful distraction at times. Take care, and let that kitty enjoy your lap, great way to keep warm!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    edited November 19
    Welcome @welshflier4323

    Dream on. I lost a lot and, when I was looking up things to do in London, I saw a flying trapeze class in Hyde Park. I decided to fulfill a life long dream and “fly” on the trapeze. This was at 61. No regrets.

    So, *kitten* happens. Sometimes for bad, but often for good, too. We make a lot of our own *kitten*.

    If you’ve got a dream of flying, what a helluva goal to work towards.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,216 Member
    Welcome, @welshflier4323! As you might guess, I'm an "Ann" too, just without the "E".

    I was overweight/obese for most of my life, until losing to a healthy weight at 59-60, about the same age you are now. I'm now 69 (as of last Sunday), and still at a healthy weight.

    If a hedonistic aging-hippie flake like me can do this, I'll betcha you can, too.

    Wishing you success - it's worth the effort!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    Waiting at lab for a blood draw, and the continuous cycle “health” program on the tv suggested a “healthy low cal” vegan pumpkin pie, which included:

    Ingredients
    Crust:
    1 1/4 cups raw pecans
    1 cup pitted dates
    3/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
    1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    Filling:
    2 1/4 cups pumpkin puree
    1 cup coconut oil, melted
    3/4 cup pitted dates
    1/4 cup almond milk
    2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
    1/4 teaspoon salt

    And, when they showed it being served, the serving was a quarter of a pie.

    I nearly fell out of my chair.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,216 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    Waiting at lab for a blood draw, and the continuous cycle “health” program on the tv suggested a “healthy low cal” vegan pumpkin pie, which included:

    Ingredients
    Crust:
    1 1/4 cups raw pecans
    1 cup pitted dates
    3/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds
    1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    Filling:
    2 1/4 cups pumpkin puree
    1 cup coconut oil, melted
    3/4 cup pitted dates
    1/4 cup almond milk
    2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
    1/4 teaspoon salt

    And, when they showed it being served, the serving was a quarter of a pie.

    I nearly fell out of my chair.

    OMGosh! There are some nutrient dense ingredients in there . . . but nearly all of them very calorie dense, too.

    1.75 cups of dates, around 715 calories.
    1.25 cups pecans, around 941 calories
    0.75 cups pumpkin seeds, around 419 calories
    1 cup coconut oil, around 1940 calories

    Just those ingredients, a quarter of the calories would be over 1000 calories. It darned well better be nutrient dense, and extremely tasty . . . or else it needs to be marathon run week, or something similar.

    Yikes!
  • BCLadybug888
    BCLadybug888 Posts: 1,708 Member
    @springlering62 - healthy perhaps...but low cal?? No way. Hilarious, thanks for sharing!
    However, I do now have a hankering for dates and pecans...
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,452 Member
    edited November 22
    Doc prescribed arthritis drug earlier this week to help with inflammation which should have helped with swelling and fatigue

    Feeling about 900% better, and no longer feel like a stack of heated marshmallows. Flexibility is returning. Woo hoo!

    Ironically, this is the same drug prescribed twenty years ago, which was effective, but I was afraid that by the time I really needed it twenty years later, I’d be too accustomed to it so I stopped using it.

    And here it is twenty years later lol, although much lighter weight bit has helped a lot

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