Hot and sour seafood soup while I still can 🤷‍♂️ HR during soup eating registered in the "intense" range hitting 125! Walking maxed out at MODERATE!!!

Watched Julia Child episode - Idea - Imagine. Imagine this as a bowl of liver pate. Saute onions and garnish top of bowl along edge with a ring of saute onions.

Could use that in so many ways - over anything dense - with hummus, refried beans, chili, stew. With other vegs included such as peppers, a mire poix or sofrito - pretty and tasty in my imagination. Drooling! lol

Laurie: both and I don't know for sure. Could be that I am only noticing now and it has been going on for a long time—perhaps less obviously? Could be a corollary of some of the health issues we've touched on? Could be, I suppose, unrelated? If related, the atypical part would be that exercise, so far, appears to be less of a trigger.

My exhusband/friend/children father :) - don't like that "exhusband" moniker because it is usually pretty negative - always reacted extremely to something in hot peppers. Major sweat, flushed, heart rate way up. Didn't seem to be a health problem? Just a reaction? Didn't stop him from eating many spicy foods and chutneys. But he was a younger man then - not sure if he still has the reaction? Next time they are over I'll serve something spicy and do some research :)

Fingers crossed for you…spicy is so so so good :)
Spicy / lower sodium?

No… it just means that your fitbit SAYS you burned more calories; but, not that you ACTUALLY did so! Higher heart rates misinterpreted as activity burns are one of the major sources of error that Fitbits can have! ;-)

So here is something that even someone like @Yoolypr can "bite" into for few calories and good protein and weather appropriate and under 200 Cal! Water packed skipjack tuna can, mostly drained (less mercury than albacore), juice of one lime, mustard powder (or yellow mustard), salt/pepper/lemon pepper/sriracha or nothing, (optional: capers or olives mixed in too), and… CUCUMBERS sliced so very very thin lengthwise to the point that you can actually roll them!

Insert tuna in cucumber, roll cucumber, eat cucumber with tuna… repeat till everything gone!

Oof, the fiber bomb I consumed yesterday (2 slices of keto bread) has now given me some good lower gut cramping. It's my own fault, but damn.

Back from my trip and I am already missing all the delicious seafood and diner food that I had in Salem. It was all so tasty. But now back to reality.

Thin sliced a pork chop so I could have 2 pork chops, sauteed green beans, and stuffing was my dinner last night and will be for tonight as well. Friday I am making some fried rice with zucchini, broccoli, egg, cashews, and a protein. Have not decided if I will do shrimp or chicken yet.

Lunches this week have been wraps. Yesterday was a honey mustard chicken. Today will be a chicken ceaser. I used to hate wraps but lately I have been loving them. So they are now in my lunch rotation.

Welcome back, Athijade!

Laurie: HR is a function of metabolism for sure. And there IS some elevated caloric need to f.e. raise core temperature and sweat etc. So yes. There is SOME increase burn because of all that. But is it the same as if you were moving large muscles? Not sure.

Having elevated HR because you're angry is not the same energy consumption as having elevated HR because you're straining your whole body from lifting a fridge!

Without taking VO2 Max into consideration there is approximately 73% of the burn being explained by HR. With V02 Max into consideration 96%. But this is population level AND during exercise. Individually and not during exercise?????

If the poor device thinks you're exercising when you're eating… that would breaks down quite a bit!

Beautiful!

”Is that a promotional picture or the actual food? Looks good”

It’s a promo picture but honestly the sandwich looks exactly like that in person.

I’m not averse to creative food mixing! But I think I might do the mango and nuts separately from the salmon and cauliflower. One savory and one sweet. Dinner and dessert?

Looks creative!!! Very creative!!! Was that a salmon patty you bought or one you made? Blue Menu/President Choice (a local major food chain up north) have their own salmon burgers. Was that something like that?

Poor man's (and dog's) pizza here!

29.1g and 28.5g of "processed flour with water, yeast, and err whatever else before they bake it, slice it, and stuff it in a bag for me to purchase" covered by 25.3g of old cheddar cheese and 19.1g of habanero jack + 7.5g of Kirkland old cheddar respectively. Canine got a 27g slice of similar "flour based item" sprinkled with 8g of old cheddar cheese that was cut in tiny pieces and spread out to provide maximal coverage for minimum calories and fat while maintaining a level of smell!

Oven already warm, so put "pizza pan" at the bottom to get up to temp, then turned broil rack on and slid the three breads on the pan…. removed when they "looked" ready.

Reasonably OK! Pizza it wasn't—but good it WAS!

Plus an assortment of Scottish oatcakes, Nairn's ginger oat cookies, oh henry bars, a fry's peppermint cream, kuhne prepared cabbage, some random cucumbers, some black olives, some grapes, coffee, diet pop…. will probably end the day with some greek yog since protein is barely at 54g so far!

But the evening is young! :) (and I obviously need to improve my food choices from 12 yo to at least 15 yo!)

Late lunch, early supper …. Work in progress … cauliflower cheese patties - 400g cauli - riced, 80g cheddar cheese, cumin, paprika, turmeric, 1 egg & 1 tbs olive oil for frying…. Salad with lemon juice & black pepper …. Maybe need some chilli powder, lemon zest Couldn’t eat it all.. so leftovers… for under 600kcals 🤗