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What a terrific headline for December! With all the good news about the vaccine, my spirits are lifted. I'm doing a steady hour at the gym (which was my goal for November) and it is making all the difference. Knowing how loggy too much food makes me feel tends to keep me in check when I'm tempted to chow down. That being…
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T-day was awesome. I tend to do the routine food stuff, but my husband and son love to make elaborate meals so we had homemade pot stickers (requiring 16 ingredients), lentil masala (23 ingredients), mixed green salad, no turkey loaf from Trader Joe's(my contribution since I had to stand in the rain in line to buy it), and…
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Well, I was humming along nicely, working out an hour a day, and then Thanksgiving spread its shadow of me tonight, and I found a bag of M & Ms our son had bought me as a thank you for helping him with an assignment, and I've just polished off 32 of them. I'm not a holiday lover. Too much food, and too many memories of all…
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Tomorrow: Vegasport Protein breakfast, potato/vegan cheese, cauliflower for lunch, dinner: whatever is vegan/left over and includes veggies. Snack: Oatmeal/cherries. Exercise: 10k steps, and I've contacted my favorite personal trainer at the gym to see what her schedule looks like.
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TMac: A big welcome! I fall between listener and poster...but for me having a Plant Tribe has been such a great support. My husband and son are vegetarians, and I'm the only vegan in the household. It is also lovely to have a Plant Tribe of older women...we don't get a ton of love out there in society, but I love being…
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Oh, tomorrow: Vegapower protein drink (at 10 a.m.), lunch of beans/greens, snack of berries/cherries, dinner of whatever leftovers have not yet died.
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Good evening, Plant Family! Well, what can I say: But, we are truly awesome! I need to keep my brain busy, otherwise my thoughts are all directed towards my stomach! My Men are making a nice T-Day dinner: potstickers (vegan), big salad, tofuturkey, and then for dessert pumpkin mousse! My gym now only allows people to work…
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Happy Monday, Plant Family: One of the gifts of this time is the time to experiment and tonight I'm making spicy tofu with broccoli over pad thai rice noodles. So, we'll see how that goes! This week I'm working on the following: Musically: Working on the 1st movement of Beethoven's first piano sonata, the Bach Aria to the…
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Happy Sunday, Plant Family: I just finished reading a book about "time blocking", the simple idea being setting aside a specific amount of time each day to focus on one task...so this a.m. was a time block for meal prep...oh, my, I thought I never would get out of that kitchen. But, now I have enough food prepped for two…
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Evening Plant Family: I was just thinking what interesting lives we are all leading! And, in interesting times as well! The integrative medicine practice with our city's major teaching hospital has a many week wait but Monday I'm getting my paperwork in. I think that there are values within the "normal" range which my…
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Magic: I'm sorry you're experiencing this. I do think that some people simply can't control themselves. That ability to take a pause just never got hardwired into them. Today I ran off the Aggressive Weight Loss Nutritarian Plan weekly sheet from the Hello Nutritarian website. My goal is to hit those targets (green, beans,…
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Magic: He sounds like a bully. And, probably very insecure. Hang in there! Grace under pressure always wins the day! Oh, and I made 3 dinners this week using the Nava Atlas 5 ingredient vegan gourmet! I can handle 5 ingredients..6 would be pushing it. And, the family enjoyed them...so they aren't even aware that they are…
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Oh, shih tzus! All dogs are adorable, but as a family who love shih tzus, nothing cuter than a shih tzu puppy! Sorry things are stressful at work, Magic! The weather here is amazing. My family has decided that they are going to join me in eating healthier (my husband still sees himself as the mountainclimber he was 30…
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Congrats to Lulu! Hope everyone is well. Went to my WW meeting today and I'm up 3.5 lbs, which I attribute to losing my focus while distracted by other things. But, I went (as our son said: Mom, that's what WW's is for!). I'm going to make an appointment with an integrative medicine physician who has been in practice for…
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Mihani: Yep, I think isolation is the worst...and despite our hyperconnectivity, it seems that fewer Americans have real communities. My brother's death really made me think about how much community I have, and I concluded: not enough...so since his death I've made a real effort. Volunteering would be great....I think the…
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Hello, Plant Family: Mihani: My brother committed suicide so I know how difficult this is. I'm glad your friend didn't succeed. I'm still very distracted, but just trying to get through the top 3 priorities of each day. ...and to let everything else go. Take care, all! The weather here is amazing, and I'm going to take our…
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Good evening, Plant Family. My apologies for not being a better poster, I usually log in after dinner, and then I'm just wiped out! I've got 4 election lbs to lose (the same 4 I lost when I started WW in September), but now that we are in the final phase, I'm sleeping far better. This morning, I got up at 4:20 a.m. to get…
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Thank you for asking. Scriabin Prelude No. 6, which is a big lush lavish piece of only one page, but very Russian..depth of soul, etc., and the 1st Goldberg Variation. I think the other participants are going to do Chopin, some heavy Beethoven, but I want a contrast...something lushly Romantic and something briskly…
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Happy Wed. Last night I ate more than I did in the preceding two days, and then I finally decided that no amount of eating would make my election anxiety go away! So, today, back to habits which support my well-being! Magic: My older brother and I could not have been more different, and there was a fair amount of sibling…
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Hello, Bisky! Glad to meet you. We mailed in our ballots so no standing in line for us, but the tension is definitely there. I'm "bingeing" on potatoes..which is far better than what I used to binge on. I'm back to doing an hour at the gym each day. Like most states, ours has terrible Covid numbers so I don't know how long…
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Morning, Plant Family! I'm working on pushing my top priorities to the a.m., so planning my menu on MFP, getting my piano practice in (I have a zoom recital in January), working out and working on my website for my new business. Hard to believe that we are heading towards the end of the year. Despite all, I think this has…
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Good evening, Plant Tribe. Today I started a new regimen: I weighed, measured and placed in glass Pyrex my food for today and tomorrow. I also appropriated a shelf just for my food, since my husband and son are lacto-ovo vegetarians, and I fall more on the vegan end (though today I had a slice of string cheese, and man, it…
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Happy Tuesday Plant Tribe! I'm increasing my protein via Vega Sport Protein, and also sneaking it into my husband's daily eating. Also, bought a weighted blanket on Amazon, which I read in the New York Times has been found to help with insomnia. So far, so good. Take care all!
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Happy Sunday Plant Tribe! I'm combining Weight Watchers with Mcdougall and down 3.5 lbs since I started, so a half lb a week fairly steady. I've asked my doctor if there might be other reasons for my fatigue, and perhaps seeing an endocrinologist might be in order (since I'm post menopausal.) Started drinking an a.m. shake…
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Dreamer: I broke my arm/shoulder in October, 2018 and it took a full year to get back to 90%, and then just as I started back at the gym...the virus...so I'm with you, I'm just getting back into it. I love weight training, and it is discouraging to me able to lift only 7.5 lbs, but I know with physical conditioning it is…
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Good evening, Plant Tribe and welcome Dreamer! I've been MIA since our internet connection has been wobbly due to an unceasing amount of rain. I personally like thunder cause with all the lights in the city I can seldom see any natural celestial activity, but the internet seems to have a different opinion. I had my annual…
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Hello, Plant Tribe! I think we're hitting a groove here! I just ran off an hour by hour schedule, since I find myself getting up at 6 a.m., and at 2 p.m. wondering where the heck my day went. I need to give shape to my days. Inspired by Magic I'm attacking the "dead zones" in our house. Today the freezer: I gave each of us…
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Happy Monday, Plant Folks! A dear friend of ours was on keto, and then had a heart attack. Now, I don't know what the underlying conditions might be, but her cardiologist attributed the heart attack to keto. Another friend did keto for a year, lost it, then gained it all back. Apart from being a vegetarian for 30 years,…
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I hear you! I've found a family homeless shelter not far from us which takes everything that a family could use from towels to clothes to books to furniture. Every year we take a load of stuff up the week of Thanksgiving, and my goal is finally arrive at one year when I have nothing to take! And, we've had this tradition…
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I hear you. I can attest that our house has never been cleaner and I've been more productive than I was waiting for results! Thinking of you.
