Reflections of My Life

palides2021 said:
Thank you for sharing your news with us! I couldn't help noticing that you chose the Keto ice cream! I have started Keto these past few weeks, and it was difficult finding a Keto ice cream with low carbs. The one I settled on is Rebel. It's very low carb (1-2g per serving), smooth, and delicious. I have tried the Mint Chocolate Chip and more recently a peanut butter fudge variety. Yum! Yours sounds good, too! Enjoy!!
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The thing about the one I use is that it is a meal replacement shake with all the nutrients you need for one third of your days food. By freezing it and putting it in a ice cream maker it becomes a good alternative to ice cream. It tastes good too. But there are other protein shakes available to do this with. Keto Chow is expensive so some people just can't use it and will find a keto recipe to use instead. It turns out to be a very big serving, not a limited amount. It has carbs, protein and fat (which you choose which fat you want and how much). I eat 20 carbs daily so that is part of my carb count. Total carbs never net carbs.
 

katlupe said:
The thing about the one I use is that it is a meal replacement shake with all the nutrients you need for one third of your days food. By freezing it and putting it in a ice cream maker it becomes a good alternative to ice cream. It tastes good too. But there are other protein shakes available to do this with. Keto Chow is expensive so some people just can't use it and will find a keto recipe to use instead. It turns out to be a very big serving, not a limited amount. It has carbs, protein and fat (which you choose which fat you want and how much). I eat 20 carbs daily so that is part of my carb count. Total carbs never net carbs.
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Thanks for letting me know! I'm also doing around 20 g carbs daily (up to 25). I do net carbs, though.
 
Had to turn the air conditioner on. Got hot cleaning Rabbit's cage. It is that bending over thing that gets me. Then I notice I drop everything. When I bend over to pick it up my own finger causes it to move farther away! What's with that???? Seems like little things happen that irritate me, such as if I try to step by or over my walker wheel I will ALWAYS bang one of my toes on it............boy does that hurt!

I took all my rugs off the carpeting for a change. Now in the process of vacuuming both sides of each. Then rolling them up in big black garbage bags and putting in my storage area for the winter or for now. Just not sure how many I can do today. Maybe the smaller ones.

Sonny brought my new caster wheels over yesterday. I didn't expect him to buy them for me. I had told him about them and asked them which ones on Amazon would fit. He looked at them and they were over forty dollars so he was thinking about buying them for me but not yet. Then last week He was on another site, and an ad popped up from Amazon and showed him the same ones he was looking at were only $20.00 on a special deal. So he bought them and now they are here. He will put them on next time he comes up.
 
I was thinking about your Thanksgiving meal - or should I say lack of - maybe consider a "progressive" dinner? Since there are four of you, have each one make a different part of the meal to share at their apartment and then the group moves on to the next. Katlupe serves a salad, neighbor #1 - potatoes or stuffing, neighbor #2 - you get the idea. Just keep moving to different apartments so mgt. can't complain.
 
Happy Heart said:
I was thinking about your Thanksgiving meal - or should I say lack of - maybe consider a "progressive" dinner? Since there are four of you, have each one make a different part of the meal to share at their apartment and then the group moves on to the next. Katlupe serves a salad, neighbor #1 - potatoes or stuffing, neighbor #2 - you get the idea. Just keep moving to different apartments so mgt. can't complain.
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You must be a mind reader! I was just thinking about Thanksgiving meals.

Actually we are starting to plan our Thanksgiving potluck right now. We have it downstairs in the Community Room and anyone (tenants and they can bring a guest) is welcome. Everyone brings something and we normally have a lot of food. We have had the potlucks on hold for awhile now. But starting off again with Thanksgiving. Not on Thanksgiving day as most of the tenants here have dinner with their families.

I will make a dinner for Sonny and me, unless he wants to eat with his family, which is okay with me. But he always wants to be here with me for some reason. I make enough food so my son can have some too. He does not want to come to sit down dinner would rather eat alone in his apartment. So he does.
 
I have been doing laundry and cleaning my rugs. Then I fasten the rugs with rubber bands to keep them rolled up. When I opened the jar I keep the rubber bands in, it just about made me gag from the odor! Then I put a plastic garbage bag on each end to protect them downstairs in the storage locker. I had to buy a package of larger bags for this. Black ones. The smell of these in my apartment has made my tongue numb and my lips super sensitive. I can barely stand it. Putting my air purifier on. Makes me sick to stomach and feels like I am getting a headache.

I normally buy the fragrance free white ones, Walmart's brand. I just read it doesn't matter. They are ALL harmful to our health. So why do we use these? What is the alternative? I am thinking of buying the paper bags when I shop at Walmart to use for my garbage and just put them like that into the dumpster. Doesn't matter there what we put in it.

I swear these manufacturers are doing their best to try to kill us off with their products.
 
katlupe said:
I have been doing laundry and cleaning my rugs. Then I fasten the rugs with rubber bands to keep them rolled up. When I opened the jar I keep the rubber bands in, it just about made me gag from the odor! Then I put a plastic garbage bag on each end to protect them downstairs in the storage locker. I had to buy a package of larger bags for this. Black ones. The smell of these in my apartment has made my tongue numb and my lips super sensitive. I can barely stand it. Putting my air purifier on. Makes me sick to stomach and feels like I am getting a headache.

I normally buy the fragrance free white ones, Walmart's brand. I just read it doesn't matter. They are ALL harmful to our health. So why do we use these? What is the alternative? I am thinking of buying the paper bags when I shop at Walmart to use for my garbage and just put them like that into the dumpster. Doesn't matter there what we put in it.

I swear these manufacturers are doing their best to try to kill us off with their products.
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goodness, I;ve never heard of this...:eek:
 
katlupe said:
I have been doing laundry and cleaning my rugs. Then I fasten the rugs with rubber bands to keep them rolled up. When I opened the jar I keep the rubber bands in, it just about made me gag from the odor! Then I put a plastic garbage bag on each end to protect them downstairs in the storage locker. I had to buy a package of larger bags for this. Black ones. The smell of these in my apartment has made my tongue numb and my lips super sensitive. I can barely stand it. Putting my air purifier on. Makes me sick to stomach and feels like I am getting a headache.

I normally buy the fragrance free white ones, Walmart's brand. I just read it doesn't matter. They are ALL harmful to our health. So why do we use these? What is the alternative? I am thinking of buying the paper bags when I shop at Walmart to use for my garbage and just put them like that into the dumpster. Doesn't matter there what we put in it.

I swear these manufacturers are doing their best to try to kill us off with their products.
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I bought a bag of cheap plastic clothes pins and use those to close most items now. My cat trained me not use rubber bands by having to pull one of his back side. I don't know why they like them so much! Many foreign made products have dangerous chemicals today so I'm not surprised that you are having a problem.

It sounds like you live in a good building. There are twelve houses on my street and over the last eight years six have died and one moved on to be with family. The new ones don't seem to be as friendly so I don't expect anything from them.
 
Happy Heart said:
I bought a bag of cheap plastic clothes pins and use those to close most items now. My cat trained me not use rubber bands by having to pull one of his back side. I don't know why they like them so much! Many foreign made products have dangerous chemicals today so I'm not surprised that you are having a problem.

It sounds like you live in a good building. There are twelve houses on my street and over the last eight years six have died and one moved on to be with family. The new ones don't seem to be as friendly so I don't expect anything from them.
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This year we had two people die. Another one died last Sunday. And one went to a nursing home to die. Right now we have five apartments that are empty. They need to be worked on before they can be rented again. Our maintenance does all the work but is not full time here. He has to go to several other properties. I guess that is why I hear he is leaving in March. Can't keep the good ones when you overwork them.
 
hollydolly said:
goodness, I;ve never heard of this...:eek:
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If you research it I am sure you will find it is true. Like the laundry room in my building reeks of those fabric softeners and they are really bad for you too. I can hardly breathe when I smell them. Same for perfumes. I have had to leave my groceries in the cart in the store after inhaling someone's perfume.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I house cleaned for 30 years. I stopped using "chemicals" about 4 years into it. They actually made me feel sick.
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Some products I can use for years and then one day out of the clear, affects me horribly. I belong to a group of people who have this on fb and it can be so bad that they cannot even live in a normal house. Everything in it affects them. I am not quite that bad.
 
@katlupe,,, thank you for posting about MCS.

My husband has done chemical crop spraying for too many years.
We've been trying figure out what is going on with him when he travels over 2 hours
He gets bloated & has painful belches to the point I think he's having a heart attack.

Gastrologist has prescribed an anxiety medicine for him to take.
It does seem to help.
 
Sliverfox said:
I had him read the 2 pieces you put up.

His answer was its too late now.
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I do not believe it is ever too late to do something about it. But MCS is one of those things that is difficult to overcome or try to. It depends on what your triggers are. Most doctors do not know a thing about it. Unless they are the ones who are dealing with illnesses of the environment. Whether someone wants to overcome it or at least make their life easier with it depends on how sick it makes them.

You may remember I wrote on here about dealing with two neighbors next to me using moth balls in their apartment. I could not stand it. It made my tongue and lips numb. Gave me horrible headaches and constant runny nose. Even caused me to have stomach aches. I had to get that smell out of my apartment so I bought two air purifiers and they worked beautifully. Eventually someone else complained about the moth balls and they had to stop using them.
 
For over a year we have been on the keto diet. I lost 35 lbs. and it healed an IBS illness I had been dealing with for about 8 years! I don't eat any sugar products, or high processed grains, not even baked goods with flour. I do miss deserts sometimes. They do have Keto ice cream. :)
 
I realize that most people do not want to follow low carbs, ketogenic or carnivore ways of eating. It is because they do not want to give up their favorite foods no matter how bad they are for them. I am the same way! I am carb addicted. So I have to control what I buy at the store or I od on ice cream and other foods. I used to live on fruit. My refrigerator would be full of various kinds. Now after having been doing this way of eating for quite awhile, I know fruit is no different than sugar once it gets in my body. So only berries in very limited amounts. The government will not change their food pyramid. Until they do, doctors and other associations will promote the wrong foods for all their programs. They feed children high sugar/fructose foods that affects their learning abilities and behavior problems. They also feed people in hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, food pantries and others the wrong foods that affects them in various ways.

So the other day I got food from the Food Bank because it is being given to seniors to promote healthy eating. Too many high carb foods. I only eat 20 or less TOTAL carbs daily and if I eat anything else, I will know the difference in the way I feel. Your body is telling you how to eat if you pay attention to it. It did tempt me and I ate some of it knowing I should not have even put it in my refrigerator. This morning I trashed all of it. Useless food to someone who cares about what they are eating. Eating keto is not only for losing weight but for whatever health problems you might have. Yes, I do feel different when I eat high carbs whether it is processed or not.
 
Paco Dennis said:
For over a year we have been on the keto diet. I lost 35 lbs. and it healed an IBS illness I had been dealing with for about 8 years! I don't eat any sugar products, or high processed grains, not even baked goods with flour. I do miss deserts sometimes. They do have Keto ice cream. :)
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It is such a relief for me to have you say this. I feel like I am the only person here on this forum who believes in low carbs/keto food plans. I am always cautious writing something on one of the main stream threads because I don't feel like I need to defend it. The truth is in the results.
 

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