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Sorry to hear about folks falls/injuries, hope you all recover soon. I haven't had issues with balance and falling so far, but it's an obvious risk as one ages. I recall reading somewhere that strength training can help with this issue. I imagine that using free weights with lower-body exercises, like squats and lunges,…

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I only take Calcium/Vit D based on my endocrinologist's recommendation for low bone density. Other than for truly specific reasons, I don't see a value to taking supplements. As noted, there isn't very much quality data to suggest that various vitamins and other additions help anything, and there is evidence that in some…

I don't think I take license with a good weigh-in. Though, to be fair, really good weigh-ins are few and far between as compared to bad weigh ins, so who can remember?

Good morning and greetings from the Big Apple!

(the "quote" option doesn't seem to work like it used to?) Charlie wrote "I’m curious, Steve - you mentioned traveling and AirBnB’s and such; are you making a memories tour or visiting family or seeing the USA before leaving for Israel?" We're visiting our kids and other family before we leave. We'll be flying out from…

I am a stress drinker. It's a terrible way to approach stress, I freely admit. Stress drinking leads to snacking as well, so it's a double-whammy! If I'm honest with myself, and could change one thing, that would probably be the issue I'd tackle.

I don't have a scale right now, so no official result. I haven't been very controlled in my intake, so I imagine I'm up. I did get my runs in on the non-rainy days this week, so that's good. We're "homeless" now (at least in the US), so we'll be living in AirBnbs and traveling for the next few weeks until we leave for…

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No allergies here, thankfully. I do get rare bouts of gout, so I'm supposed to limit "high purine foods" (including beer and red meat). I don't limit those, and haven't really had a significant problem.

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Good morning everyone! Closing on our house today (G-d willing)! Eek.

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My intention and plans are identical. Unfortunately, my execution has changed for the worse. I was in a really great spot a number of months ago, when I was sticking to my plan pretty well. Now I seem to have fallen into the valley of despair. I'm dramatizing, of course, but I am not following the critical part of my plan,…

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If I'm really honest with myself, I don't actually get hungry when I have my regular meals at regular times. I never need a snack between meals. The only challenge has been after dinner, where my snacking is really just habitual at this point—I feel like I "need" something sweet in the evening. It's a habit I know I can…

I am now officially without a scale! Ours was taken away to go to auction yesterday, along with our furniture (well, half of our stuff, they're coming back to finish the job, hopefully, today). Yesterday I was down 1.6 pounds. It will be interesting to be without a scale for a while. We'll buy one when we get to Israel,…

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Good morning everyone! Up early as the auction company movers are coming to take everything out of our house. Less than a week until closing!

These days, most of my reading is Jewish-learning based. I try to read one full page of gemara a day (called "Daf Yomi," literally "daily page," each page probably takes me 30-60', and I'll complete the full gemara in ~7.5 years total), and every week I read the Torah portion in both Hebrew and English. I also like to…

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I guess it's a NSV: I recorded my lowest heart rate the other day when I was in the waiting area before my recent colonoscopy. They couldn't set the monitor alarm low-enough to prevent it from beeping. I think that's because I've increased my running over the past number of months, and so I'm seeing the benefits of that.

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I do need to have talks with myself, but if only I would actually listen to myself, that would be more helpful! I generally keep a good mental attitude, but I will admit that I am feeling a little helpless with myself to break the current cycle of bad habits I'm in. Thus, my weight is up close to the top end of my range,…

No special meal planned for us. We're going to a friend's house to watch our local parade, and they put out a brunch spread. I already had breakfast so I won't partake. It's Shabbos for us, so that overrides evening BBQs and stuff like that.