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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 15, 2019 23:06:08 GMT
I dislike skipping breakfast, but I'm usually hungry when I wake up, even more so now that I eat less at dinner time. There's times when I even skip dinner because it's too close to bedtime. Or, lunch was late and I ended up eating a lot- so I skip dinner again but find that I'm hungry after turning in for the night.
My wife threw out our scale, so I don't know if I'm losing any weight. Not that this is a goal; I'll settle for maintaining where I'm at- about 180 pounds.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 16, 2019 16:21:56 GMT
I think scales get the better of us. It's good to know if we're losing weight, when we're dieting, or if we need to watch our weight for medical reasons, but otherwise, we can drive ourselves nuts with them.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 16, 2019 18:30:29 GMT
I think scales get the better of us. It's good to know if we're losing weight, when we're dieting, or if we need to watch our weight for medical reasons, but otherwise, we can drive ourselves nuts with them. That's probably why my wife threw it out!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 16, 2019 22:28:34 GMT
Smart woman. I had a friend who said she never weighed herself. She knew how her clothes fit, and if they started to get tight, it was time to lose some weight. Works for me
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Post by Bean on Jun 17, 2019 7:46:43 GMT
I'm the same, I don't think we've ever owned scales, but we notice (usually after a holiday of eating and drinking more) when our clothes don't fit so well!
We can all weigh ourselves when we stay with the in-laws if we choose!
I was wondering about elite athletes and all those 'carb gel' things they have. Do they end up having a higher risk of diabetes long-term, or not, if they're using that energy immediately?
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 17, 2019 21:04:17 GMT
Yes, they do have a higher risk of diabetes, and some get it. Too many people think, as long as they're doing extreme sports, they can take in all these things, and still be fine. I knew a man who jogged every day. Jogged down to the corner by his house, and dropped dead of a heart attack. He was someone who would have been medically considered in great health, yet apparently he had a heart a problem that hadn't been diagnosed, and it killed him. Even extreme athletes should take more caution with their diet. It's like taking steroids that destroyed the body slowly, while giving athletes roid rage.
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Post by Bean on Jun 18, 2019 7:12:33 GMT
No matter how fit and healthy you are, you can't completely negate a genetic disposition to a disease. You'd hope that living well would help you stay at the top end of your potential health window, but if you're pushing your body to extremes, like marathon running, sometimes it can work the other way.
It's good to be motivated by what makes you feel well and keeps you as active and happy as you can be, as whatever might be around the corner that you can't predict, at least you know you're enjoying your life as much as you can.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 18, 2019 17:13:49 GMT
I agree. Maybe so many years of having guinea pigs has reminded me that we all have a genetic history, one about which we really know very little, and many of us are walking time bombs, while others have the great genes that will give them long, physically easy lives. My mother died just before her 92 birthday. Never had arthritis or anything major. Did have some skin cancer from all the years of sailing. My sister and I are not great physical specimen, as are far too many of my generation. I can understand why anti-vaxxers think vaccines caused this, and I can't prove they didn't. It may also just be that our genetic time ran out, and all the genetic problems of our ancestors have come back around in us. Don't know.
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Post by Bean on Jun 19, 2019 5:06:58 GMT
I agree, having guinea pigs makes you realise that the same care doesn't even vaguely guarantee the same quality of life or lifespan, and you don't know how each generation has been affected by the interaction of their parents' genes. I had a sibling group (inbred - not by me) and none of them made it much past 3 years old due to different cancers or respiratory problems, yet their mother went onto 7 with no serious health issues. Exactly the same care.
I think our increasing health problems are mainly a result of our lifestyles though. Hence why some societies living a much more basic lifestyle might have problems with higher infant mortality and die from things our medicine has advanced to treat, but they enjoy a better quality of life into old age, and have far fewer of the inflammatory diseases which plague us as we get older.
I'm talking about everything from processed foods, sugar, pollution, trying to create a sterile environment, lack of exercise, alcohol, stress and poor sleep. It all takes a toll in different ways on different people. It's the world we live in though, so too much to change. So I guess we'll just carry on throwing money into medicine to try to counteract all the damage we do, rather than making meaningful changes to the way we all live.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 20, 2019 5:11:46 GMT
I think you're right. I was watching a news segment on women in high stress thinking jobs getting type 2 diabetes. Men in stressful jobs had heart attacks. Stress seems to not only diminish our systems ability to fight problems, but cause some of its own.
Picking grass out of the veggie beds, I asked hubby if he had fertilized, as I won't feed grass to the pigs, if it's been fertilized. Yet we buy regular fruits and veggies at the store, not organic or anything special, because the special foods cost too much. We treat the piggies better than we treat ourselves in that regard.
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Post by Bean on Jun 20, 2019 7:08:24 GMT
I'm conflicted on this as I won't use anything on the veg I grow at home, or even use anything to treat my lawn. But I buy regular veg and fruit, and only buy a small amount of organic veg (because of the price). I'm sure regular farmers use loads more chemicals than I do and I'm chomping it all down a few times a day!
I figure that overall, it's better to eat loads of veg that aren't organic than a small amount of veg that is.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 20, 2019 20:03:23 GMT
I agree. The organic foods cost as much as three times what regular foods cost, and don't go on sale so we can ever save money on them. I'm sure putting those chemicals in our bodies doesn't do us any good, but we get chemicals in everything, including the water from our taps. We get an annual water survey that breaks down the parts per million of all the chemicals found in our water. Some of the amounts look rather high, as the upper safe limit is listed, and they are skirting with that upper limit. Even the other chemicals are significantly represented, if not to the upper limits of safety. That means we're getting all sorts of chemicals every time we drink anything, as those chemicals are in the water supplied used to make the drinks. We can't escape it.
I think it's different with the pigs, though, as they live so close to the ground, eat the grass directly, even some of the roots which may have trapped the chemicals. We put amounts of chemicals on our lawns that will make things grow, kill weeds or bugs, etc., and I think that's too high a concentration to be safe for the pigs. That's why, at the condo, I always used a garden hose to blast off the section of lawn I was going to use, or let the pigs graze the day after a big rain storm. I know it didn't get rid of everything, but it get rid of all that could be gotten rid of.
I'm glad you don't have to use a lot of fertilizer and weed killer on the lawn, and hope someday, we'll have a strong enough lawn of grass that we don't have to, either.
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Post by Bean on Jun 21, 2019 7:51:18 GMT
I never use anything on the lawn at all, and most of the compost I use on veg etc is from our compost bins. With the lawn, a few times a year I leave the clippings box off when I mow it, and that feeds back down - that's my sum effort (and really, it's usually prompted by the garden waste bin being full rather than me planning it!). It's not a prize lawn by any means, but it's nice and green, and the pigs like that there are quite a few weeds! We have a lot of clay in our soil, so once something's in it, it tends to stick around. That makes it much easier for us than you where you've got to constantly add in things that are needed to keep the grass alive.
Letting water sit so some of the chemicals can evaporate really helps. But yes, wherever water comes from, you can't escape all the stuff that's in the cycle!
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 21, 2019 20:33:16 GMT
I've been fighting a cold of sorts for about a week and a half now, which is unusual for me. However, a friend recommended taking something called Airborne, a gummy designed to boost your immune system. (Man, does this sound like a cheesy commercial!) I bought a bottle and take the prescribed dosage per day, and although I'm still not over the cold, I'm about 85% normal after three days. Not entirely sure it's helped, but before I was taking it I had been rather ineffectual the past week.
(When I get the flu or a cold, I tend to slow down physically and mentally. I can still get through the day if I need to, but I'm WAY slower than my regular routine. I came down with a cold on my first day on vacation in Arizona back in 2017, and the first two days were miserable. I told my wife I wasn't going to spoil our time, but please bear with me as I planned to do everything we wanted as long as we adjusted for my moving much slower. By day three I was still sick but much more functional. I could have used these Airborne gummies back then.)
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 21, 2019 21:26:14 GMT
If I'm not mistaken, Airborne is a massive dose of Vitamin C, along with other things. I've heard it works. In fact teachers I know said they always took it during the worst of the cold season, to fight off all the colds the students were passing around. They said it worked great. Hope you're totally back on your feet soon, and the Airborne really helps I'm fine, if I don't take cold pills. If I take cold pills, I might as well stay in bed for all the use I am, for the length of time I can keep a train of thought going
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 21, 2019 21:46:26 GMT
If I'm not mistaken, Airborne is a massive dose of Vitamin C, along with other things. I've heard it works. In fact teachers I know said they always took it during the worst of the cold season, to fight off all the colds the students were passing around. They said it worked great. Hope you're totally back on your feet soon, and the Airborne really helps I'm fine, if I don't take cold pills. If I take cold pills, I might as well stay in bed for all the use I am, for the length of time I can keep a train of thought going Yeah, they can put me in the "it works" camp. I tend to be a bit skeptical about stuff that sounds too good to be true, but in this case I'll make an exception.
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 28, 2019 16:42:11 GMT
Seven days later, and I still have a very minor cough. I'll take this as a good sign. I imagine in a few more days it'll have cleared up completely.
On an unrelated note (but still health-centric) my boss was telling me he'd heard this summer is going to be awful for Europe. Supposedly a heat wave is expected, and air conditioning is uncommon over the other side of the pond. If so, I hope you ladies over there are going to be okay.
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 28, 2019 18:54:33 GMT
You and I have both had summers when the heat waves wouldn't quit. Not at all fun, especially for people who have to be outside, or for people who can't afford a/c. We're in a hot spell, though not a heat wave(90+ for 3 days or more), and we're eating a lot of cold foods, or hubby is cooking outside on the gas grill. I even made his morning tea into iced tea, this morning. After the last few summers we've had, that seemed to last from April to November, I'm selfishly glad to not be the one suffering. France posted a record high of 45.1C/113.18F. Not at all my idea of fun
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Post by bazookagoof on Jun 28, 2019 19:11:42 GMT
You and I have both had summers when the heat waves wouldn't quit. Not at all fun, especially for people who have to be outside, or for people who can't afford a/c. We're in a hot spell, though not a heat wave(90+ for 3 days or more), and we're eating a lot of cold foods, or hubby is cooking outside on the gas grill. I even made his morning tea into iced tea, this morning. After the last few summers we've had, that seemed to last from April to November, I'm selfishly glad to not be the one suffering. France posted a record high of 45.1C/113.18F. Not at all my idea of fun Weather here has been odd, to say the least. It's around the 80s, temperature-wise, but then we'll get a short rainstorm. Then the sun will come out again. It's rained twice today so far and it looks like it's going to come down again soon!
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Post by 3piggles on Jun 28, 2019 19:18:16 GMT
This is our hottest day so far, with temps in the 90s, but humidity is way down, so it's tolerable outside. I saw the light show you got the other night, during the Cubs game. Cool! Nothing like that for us, so far.
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