60 yrs and up
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Gotta say: I still have anosmia - lost sense of smell (from brain injury, not Covid). Odours/odors/smells or not, food is still good, just not very nuanced.
I tried a new local Indian restaurant on Saturday. I loooove Indian food, and this place was so good. The chickpea main I had (choley bhature) was excellent, and served with amazing, lovely, light, pillowy, tender fried bread. Oh, yum!
It's dangerously close to the boathouse, and opens about the time we usually finish post row coffee (at a marvelous locally owned French-Lebanese coffee shop that has excellent pastries).
No achievable amount of rowing fully covers the calories I can spend at these places . . . ! 😆
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Changing things up and adding a 40 gram protein breakfast to help build muscle. I'll keep you posted on how it works out. So far I'm still full after 5 hours!
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@BigDfromNJ Eat the protein and lift the weights. The muscle will come.
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This. ^^^
But also: At first, when either new to strength training or resuming after a long break, strength can improve surprisingly fast. It's from neuromuscular adaptation, better recruiting and utilizing the muscle fibers we already have. Since strength is useful in everyday life (and feels good!), that alone is a wonderful thing. Muscle mass gain tends to start happening as current muscle fibers' contribution nears being tapped out, in a context of progressive training stimulus and that very important protein that Jthanmyfitnesspal mentions.
@BigDfromNJ - keep up the great work!
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Hello ! Am new to the chats here and am looking for a group to belong to. Am finding it hard to navigate within this area of the program - any tips?
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honestly, unless you’re participating in a weight loss challenge (found on the Challenges board) grouos here are mostly dead.
The friends newsfeed was removed last year.Your best bet is to participate here on threads that interest you.
Sign me:
Former Woman3X. (Thanks, MFP. It works!)
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About the loss of the newsfeed: what's the point of having friends if there isn't a newsfeed?
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Ok thanks for the info. This one seems alive at least ! Not really interested in challenges. Find dealing with myself challenge enough.
Have you requested the newsfeed be brought back? Why was it taken away? Do you know? Just curious….
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Can confirm. 👍🏻👍🏻
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they said it was under-utilized and wasn’t necessary.
Unfortunately, most my friends fled for another site that had a social aspect. I found it very awkward to use, too open (couldn’t select friends), and had a sorta Reddit vibe. All MHO, of course.
I was also too dang lazy to learn a new site, because their logging was a PITA? And when it boils down to it, that’s the most important thing to me.
But Lordy, do I ever miss my friends. Always a laugh, always someone with a win or an NSV, or a pic from their bike ride. It was just…..uplifting and cheering.
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What? And miss my stable of handsome boyz who wanna be my new friends and romance pal?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m also seeing many new users (make and female) with hot profile photos, and I’m not the only suspicious person. I love the guy who called one of them a “thirst trap”.
That’s the new angle, I suppose. I’ve looked at some of their profiles and they’ve been collecting friends. Someone’s fire is lit. 🤦🏻♀️0 -
@springlering62 : "Researchers found that those that consistently exercised in adulthood could enjoy a 30-40 percent lower risk of death from any cause later in life."
Yet, the risk of death from any cause later in life remains solidly at 100%. 🤔
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In addition to what Spring said about this, MFP said that that part of the software was very old and becoming costly and difficult to support/upgrade - disproportionate, in their view, to the number of people actively using it.
It's reasonable to argue how persuasive any part of that is, but I will say this, as someone who had a long IT career: Older software does become more costly to keep running, more costly to upgrade when underlying technologies change, more difficult to change without introducting unintended new problems. In essence, over years, there tends to be expediency-based patching and such - basically putting things together with the coding equivalent of bubblegum and baling wire. In addition, the coding languages that were used to develop software back in the day become out of date, few programmers know how to use them, and that sort of thing.
Generically, that's an actual problem. How much and whether it applies here . . . none of us on the outside know.
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Endorsed. I started getting routinely active in my late 40s/early 50s, shortly after completing full-bore treatment for advanced-stage breast cancer. Even though I stayed obese for another dozen years while quite active athletically, just the fitness improvement was a huge quality of life increase. It didn't resolve every health problem, but I suspect - for example - that being active was one reason my blood sugar never went into dangerous territory.
The later weight loss resolved pretty much all of the other negative health indicators: Blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides. Oh, and gave me another huge quality of life increase.
A few years back, after both the fitness increase and healthy weight, I did one of those "predict your lifespan" quizes from a reasonable source. If I recall correctly, I was 66 at the time. I filled it out two ways: What was actually true for me at 66, and where I would've been if I'd stayed at the weight, lifestyle and health markers from my earlier 40s.
Obviously, I don't think those things are magic crystal balls, but the difference was dramatic: Continuing my earlier lifestyle, my predicted age at death was 67. With my actual lifestyle at 66, predicted age at death was 102!?! In reality, based on family history, I think mid to late 80s is more realistic, but still, that statistics-based prediction difference is pretty stunning.
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I know you're tongue in cheek here, but it brought back a memory for me.
When I was going through weight loss, I realized a statistical-trends difference between two of my frequent social circles: One group was rowing club members and YMCA workout buddies. The other group was people with a serious mixed-media arts or altered books hobby. The latter were mostly overweight and inactive, very sedentary.
There were many quality of life differences on average, with the active-hobby folks getting the better end of the stick in pretty much every case. Here, I'll note that both groups included a lot of folks in 40s-60s.
When it came to mortality, yup, the athletic ones did die . . . usually suddenly, or after a fairly short, sharp decline. Before that, quality of life was good, comparatively to the other group.
The more sedentary-hobby overweight group were much more likely to have a long, slow decline that started earlier age-wise, with things like diabetes, kidney disease, and other quality of life impairing issues like more surgeries/illnesses, slower and bumpier recovery from those things when they did happen.
It became pretty clear to me which group I should model my overall lifestyle on, to shift my odds more toward a longer life with pleasanter later years. I still do both things, rowing and mixed media - that's not the difference. It's the typical "average lifestyle" differences that I saw across those quite varied groups.
Maybe others don't see those kinds of generalities, I don't know . . . but it sure seemed that way when it came to folks around me.
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@AnnPT77 : Tongue in cheek, sort of. Our chance of death from all causes is 100%, undeniably. IMHO, the goal of healthy living is to improve our overall quality of your life in the moment. It's impossible to guarantee any particular benefit in the future, as everyone in their 60s knows, bad things can come up no matter how good your physical condition, but you are more prepared for success when you are in reasonable shape. And, you can have more fun when you are in good shape.
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The most fun I have these days is breaking the youngsters’ preconceived notions.
I bet you guys are likewise.
Nothing more fun than a head spinning b-b-b-but she’s old!!!!
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@woman3x Welcome to your new friends' group! No challenges and no judgment here, just old fashion coffee cup chats about how you're doing and asking advice from other 60+s! The point is we are all trying! Moving at something is more than a couch potato does, and 1/2 of millennials today sit on couches and play games, so I just think of them while I'm walking out in the sunshine and smile to myself! 😊
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Had quite a good greek salad from the bar at Whole Foods today, marked as 130 calories per 4 ounces, filled up the small box
Am in the fence about that calorie count, though. Granted, it was cucumbers and peppers, but a lot of olives (Ilooooooove olives!!!!!), rich in feta, and a bit of olive oil.
Anyways, it was tasty!
Have been introduced to Bluey today, and it’s a pretty funny show, even to adults. Which is good, because currently on my sixth episode. 😂
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Visiting my grandbaby this week, watching my diet as much as I can, I don't like traveling because it's harder to count calories. I stick to a healthy breakfast, and lunch, but never know about dinner. Keeping up with the water during the day!
Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day weekend!
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I'm not sure I do that very often, at least in the rowing context. One of the great things about rowing is that we can put people of quite varied ages and strengths in a boat together, and it works out OK . . . as long as no one of any age/stage has their endurance run out. It's true that people who've been rowing seriously for 40 years tend to have technical chops that counterbalance some of the young'uns strength.
Note: I haven't been rowing for 40 years, and I'm profoundly not a natural athlete with inherent physical talents. Any physical accomplishment is an ultra-slow build for me, and I've only been at this for around 22 years. I have to learn physical skills verbally, not visually or kinesthetically, which is seriously dysfunctional. 😆
In most cases, what I think there is in rowing between the young folks and oldies like me is mutual respect of different skills/strengths. I do think they tend to respect that we keep at it, and can somewhat keep up, plus help them develop the technical side.
Personally, I feel like less-active people my own age are more disbelieving about what older athletes - people their age - can do. When I can break through that bias, which is rare, that's a rush for me.
P.S. I did find it fun when a post-doc who's a rowing club member (so probably in her late 20s or early 30s) and I finished several boat lengths ahead of a college-age women's double during a long-ish near race-pace piece during a coached row. Since my double partner's an exellent rower technically, and strong, I think it's more that she rowed that piece, and I rode. 😉😆
But I was proud of myself in another similar piece for keeping my heart rate at or above 220 minus age bpm for around ten continuous minutes, except for about one minute midway through. (I think that one minute was when I slowed down to steer us through a double bridge: I was in bow, the steering position, and we face opposite our direction of travel, so bridges are a little challenging.) It was fatiguing in all-day energy terms, but otherwise just fine. I think my conditioning is pretty OK.
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Every time I visit SoCal, I really look forward to getting Handel’s Ice Cream.
We were in line last night and my son in law noticed they were using an ice cream bucket to hold wooden tasting spoons, and the ingredient label was facing out. SIL exclaimed,”Corn syrup is the #1 ingredient?!”.
I didn’t beleive him til I’d looked at the (butter pecan) container myself
By that time they’d handed me my salted caramel truffle cone.
It didn’t taste the same .I’m just over Handel’s now 😭
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….HOW can ice cream not have milk as the first ingredient ?…..
Call it what it is. Iced corn syrup!!!
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I grew up near Youngstown, Ohio and going to Handel’s (60’s- 70’s) was a big treat for our family. Pretty sure everything was made on site then.
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Milk and CREAM.
Perhaps it actually was the first ingredient in the actual ice cream itself. But since that flavor was salted caramel truffle, I would not be completely surprised if sugar (or corn syrup) were the first ingredient for the prepared tub. Caramel is pretty much all sugar. Truffles are likely pretty sweet too.
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but the tub we saw in the window was the butter pecan. 🤷🏻♀️
I’ve tried googling and can’t find a definitive answer. Some says Handel’s doesn’t use corn syrup, others say it does.0 -
anything that puts me off Handel’s is a good thing.
Now, if only I could find a similar scenario for See’s and In-n-Out.
Our diet busting SoCal trio: See’s, In-n-Out, and Handel’s. 😬
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It may be a misimpression, but I always figured butter pecan ice cream was a kind of riff on pralines and pecan pie . . . both of which, to me, are sickeningly sweet. I could be wrong about the ice cream's vibe for sure, though, because I really, really don't like butter pecan ice cream, either.
I do like pecans. In the ice cream, they always seem . . . soggy.
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First, we all know very well that ice cream is a treat. I like to have a little now and again. I had it twice over the weekend. Mocha chip. Yum!
Second, you can always make it yourself, gaining full control of the ingredients. You just need an ice cream machine. Or, as a creative person once showed me, you can whisk it in a fairly large metal bowl nestled in a mixture of salt and ice in an even larger metal bowl. It was a rather-impressive party trick, actually. And, it looked like good exercise. It's on my list of ridiculous things to try at home. Butter pecan looks do-able:
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