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My experience with low-carb tortillas is that not only do they taste like sandpaper, blood testing reveals they seem to be lying about being low-carb, since they spike my glucose just as much as regular ones. Sincerely, I believe on the ones I have tried the package info is falsified, since 6 net carbs ordinarily barely…

Got a run in yesterday, working on running a little faster which means meds. I’m making progress, did a slightly fast mile and it felt hard but not like it cooked me, the way it did the first time with the meds. I am still working on recovery - because the meds make my heart work less than it needs to, if I get into an…

Got out to WC Johnson for a short trail run yesterday - I’ve been trying to stretch my trail runs a little longer, but got out late and wasn’t feeling it, so did 5k. It’s clear the trails out here were also flooded last week - all the ground cover which was green a week ago is brown and dead now and covered in silt, and…

There are shades of gray here, but I think many experts believe that Omicron with its greater transmission through aerosols pushed paper masks into being much less useful. With earlier variants, you were fairly safe unless someone sneezed directly on you or you spent a number of minutes in close proximity. With Omicron I…

I’ve run twice and not run once since last post. Just not feeling very social right now! It’s boring hard work getting my fitness back and not much fun to report. Also @Tramboman I will miss you so much! Belated happy birthday! First run of March was a “fast” 5k on the trails where I took the photos of the flooding. By…

@ContraryMaryMary It’s so depressing to learn covid has finally reached Kiwiland, you guys did everything right! Hopefully you all have mild cases and your country can benefit from the advances learned over the past couple of years to get through this as painlessly as possible. You and your family get well soon!

Haven’t read the back posts yet, will catch up later. I’m still trying to play it by ear while I figure out how to manage my meds and their effect on my running properly, but hope to keep improving and getting back to form this month.

That’s a great quilt! What technique is that, I’m trying to figure out the piecing but can’t see well enough - it looks like each piece is sewed on a straight line and flipped like a crazy quilt.

The past four days have been continual rain and off and on thunderstorms, which I won’t run in, so I did lifting, rest, lifting, rest. Today was clear but ridiculously cold considering the last time I ran was singlet and shorts weather, but I felt like if I didn’t get out there I was gonna start growing moss! So out for a…

Better late than never! My first go round my husband was unsupportive and the weight crept back on as I gradually ate more and more like him. Worst of all, he’s the sort who always orders more food than he can eat, then offers it to me. When I was diagnosed with diabetes one of the things that happened was a “come to Jesus…

I read that article, and unfortunately in my opinion it’s a bad article. All of the discussion of antibodies in the article is theoretical, whereas real world results are indeed starting to trickle in and have found a dramatic reduction in real world effectiveness at preventing hospitalization during the Omicron wave after…

Re: the restaurant thing - as a high risk person who doesn’t eat at restaurants, it’s annoying when the pickup area for takeout is crowded with non-mask wearing customers. I agree that it doesn’t lower YOUR risk to wear one in then eat without it, but it lowers the risk of people like me who never enter the dining area.…

Beautiful weather today, ran trails easy so no meds needed and my heart behaved nicely. Did 5k plus 1.5 miles, gradually increasing distance. According to Strava our last couple of trail loops at WC Johnson are the fastest we have ever run that particular loop, which seems unlikely, but then I guess we usually run it in…

It’s still freezing here at night but we have already had the first sign of spring - two nights ago at sunset I saw a bat!

I had never heard of allulose, so I looked it up, and the research is very interesting. It appears to not only not raise blood sugar in diabetics but also improve the metabolism of other glucose consumed with a meal. I absolutely hate the taste of most sweeteners, so I’ll have to try it. Thanks for the info.

Running to eat more works a treat unless you have an injury. Which eventually happens to every runner! Plan ahead and learn how to maintain during those down times.

@shanaber Ouch! Glad nothing is broken, feel better soon! Two days off. Took an extra rest day because it was chilly and also because I did lots of lifting on leg day. I finally got my 200 lb deadlift! This was a yearly goal in 2019, but then I ruptured my baker’s cyst and had to stop deadlifting for a while, made it a…

I use an app to erase objects. We have iPhones (I can’t remember what number we’re up to?) because they simplify communication with messenger, find my phone, and so on - my husband likes that he can take phone calls on his watch. The camera is great for selfies but not all that great otherwise. Basically all the old people…

Ooh I can explain crackerdog! It’s a James Herriot reference! In “All Creatures Great and Small” Herriot is a vet, and one of his clients is an eccentric wealthy old lady with a Pekingese named Tricki Woo, and she describes his various ailments with colorful phrases. Going crackerdog means running around like an insane…

Two runs since last check in. First one was a trail run and since we planned to run easy, didn’t take medication, just relied on my watch and moderated running speed to keep my heart low. Very pleasant run, did 5k, little walk break, then an additional mile with no problems. Hoping to gradually return to doing 10k easy…

Kids grow up and become part of the world you live in - some of those kids might grow up to operate on you or build your house, some might grow up to rob you in a dark alley. Benefiting kids benefits you even if you don’t have kids. I say that as a childfree person myself, btw.

Well.. the meds were a bust but possibly not a total bust. After doing a lot of reading I was concerned because I don’t feel the cardio listened to me when I explained I have a 48 resting heart rate, he just kept saying, “This is a tiny dose, you don’t have to worry about that,” while my reading was saying it would drop…

I love the bird reports. We have the doves and blackbirds as yearly residents, but you get a bunch of stuff we don’t. What with the recent cold snap we have so many feeder birds! Our newest addition is a pair of Tennessee warblers, tiny birds who are bright green!

@shanaber so beautiful where you are! I’ve had a couple of runs since last post. I’m starting to learn the feeling of a heart episode about to happen - this last time I stopped before it did the thing, which is a great improvement, but isn’t getting me any further towards being able to run without stopping! Medical stuff…

I read an article on this, and yes, there is gender bias regarding mask compliance. Their theory was that men find it unmanly to protect themselves, because it implies that they are fearful.

Nope! Tip wage hasn’t gone up since I was a waitress in high school thirty years ago.

I have a friend who owns a Mediterranean restaurant. We stopped there yesterday for takeout and had a long catch-up with him and he said he is having to raise prices by 30% because his wife, who handles the books, pointed out that he is actually losing money with every sale at present. The price increase is entirely…

@katharmonic it may well be the same thing, as I understand it mine is the most common cause of repeated tachycardia in adults. Basically the heart has an extra electrical pathway and if it gets off track it doesn’t fill before beating, so it doesn’t get much done, so it does it again, faster and faster. Meanwhile there is…

We still have power, knock on wood, unlike 92,000 other people in my city! The total number of people without power is climbing today which is worrysome - at some point you would think it would start dropping, with all this good weather! The latest thing the power company has posted is that a lot of people have damage to…

So, I thought after coming through the ice storm yesterday without power going out, I could relax today, but since then the number of outages here has gone from 2400 something to 3800 something. The actual number of people out has gone down, since they are fixing the biggest single outages, but the total number of outages…