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I wish him the best Ameriscot, I'm glad he's in a nice place with good care. My aunt died from Alzheimer's, devastating disease to be sure. :( No quitters here my friend! :cool:
 

SeaBreeze said:
I wish him the best Ameriscot, I'm glad he's in a nice place with good care. My aunt died from Alzheimer's, devastating disease to be sure. :( No quitters here my friend! :cool:
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Thanks. Scotland is very good at taking care of its elderly and ill. My dad had a certain type of dementia called Lewy Body. He had it for 10 years before he died. He was like an infant by then. He was in a very good facility as well.
 
Ameriscot said:
Thanks. Scotland is very good at taking care of its elderly and ill. My dad had a certain type of dementia called Lewy Body. He had it for 10 years before he died. He was like an infant by then. He was in a very good facility as well.
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Best wishes to you and your family, glad your uncle-in law is being well cared for.
 

No exercise today, had an Aussie Bite for breakfast, oven grilled salmon fillet with yukon gold potatoes sliced and sauteed in olive oil, yogurt for dessert. Hope everyone is having a good weekend, and has a healthy week ahead.
 
Woke up a bit stuffy but okay now with just a sniffle. So gym tomorrow. Doing serious housework today while DH is at mass then swimming.

Under 1400 calories today.
 
Sorry for being AWOL on Saturday. I didn't do so well counting calories this week, in fact I quit altogether, and didn't even weigh in most days, including Saturday. The problem started with a trip to the grocery store at the beginning of the week. Bought too many tasty things with a lot of calories. Then I felt compelled to "get rid of it" fast. Ha!

Surprisingly weight was down a little today, but that's just one day, and since I didn't get an average for the whole week I'll just leave it unchanged.

I've been drinking a lot of hot black tea lately with artificial sweetener. Just made up my mind to get used to the sweetener in tea because I don't like tea unless it is really sweet. Maybe black tea is a diuretic. That would explain no weight gain.

Starting again tomorrow.


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Hi Nancy, good to see you! I know how it is sometimes when shopping at the store, lots of temptation there, especially if you go when hungry. I don't really bother to weigh during the week, so Saturday mornings are sometimes a surprise. Have a good week, a lot of us are in limbo here for now, looking forward to a better week for all.
 
Congrats, Nancy. I've been drinking more black tea, sweetened with artificial sweetener, since I started posting here. I've been weighing most every day. I need to know where I'm at weight wise on Wednesday or Thursday so I can do what's necessary for a good posting on Saturday morning. Trying to make a game of it so it want be so hard.
 
My first cup in the morning is a huge cup of black tea with soy milk. Later in the day I'll have at least one more but with lemon. Otherwise, I drink green tea, Earl Grey, Nettle & Fennel, chamomile. And cappuccino or coffee with almond milk.
 
Went to the gym today and had a good workout. I've had this craving for something sweet and next to my bus stop is a chocolate shop. Sometimes I've gone in and bought a single piece out of the display case which I figure can't be too bad. Went in today and was told they don't do those single pieces any more. So the clerk suggested I buy a small bag of chocolate and just eat one at a time (yea, right!). I should have said no thanks and left, but I was tempted by the dark chocolate covered caramels. The entire bag, which I ate on the bus, was 500 calories. It was gorgeous! But I'm not going to beat myself up over it. This time. I juggled the menu for today and cut out a couple of things, but total today will be 1748.
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Workout at gym:
30 mins spin bike
10 mins rowing machine
4 x 12 on 4 resistance machines
4 x 12 rope/pulley for triceps


Workout at home (upper):
dumbbells - 4 sets of 12 - 11 routines
push ups - 4 x 12
triceps dips - 4 x 12
 
Thinking Out Loud:
I'm having a hard time getting a handle on calories. The last time I attempted to lose weight (which may have been last year) a diet specialist advising on a diabetic diet, suggested I not consider calories but only carbs. I lost the desired weight, no, a big part of the desired weight, and have managed to keep it off. Now for the part I didn't lose. I use a calorie book and have not considered carbs. The method used to keep score shouldn't much matter but for me calories are harder to compute. I spend too much time trying to match what I actually ate with what's the book said I ate. Its like working a cross word puzzle with a bad memory. Figuring calories is getting in the way of what I'm trying to do (am no longer a multi-tasker if ever I was). I know I'm eating too much for breakfast I don't need or want two small breakfast burritos, a sausage biscuit, and an egg. I try to keep lunch in five hundred calorie range but by then I'm up all I can have, so, anything I have for dinner places me smack dab in the hog pen and if I said what I'm thinking, there would go my reputation for, (he's really sane he just says these things).

We all trip over these little temptations. I've actually planned on visiting my favorite chocolate store this week just to have a cup of his in-store brewed coffee, and chat a minute, but the home-made angel-food cake sitting out on the kitchen counter keeps tripping me up and it would be rude to drink a man's coffee and waste his time and absolutely buy nothing. Don't you agree ?
 
Drifter, I count calories and track my meals on an Excel spreadsheet. One page has the calories of foods I eat often. I use a scale to weigh my food. I'm not diabetic but I find a high fibre diet is most filling and healthy. I don't use a calorie book but simply google 'how many calories in....'.

As for breakfast, I find that porridge/oatmeal with some dried fruit in it is the most filling.
 
You've got to be kidding. Google knows about calories? And I thought spreadsheets were only for mathematicians and scientists. By the way, how do you take your oats, sugar, milk, butter?
 
drifter said:
You've got to be kidding. Google knows about calories? And I thought spreadsheets were only for mathematicians and scientists. By the way, how do you take your oats, sugar, milk, butter?
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Basic excel is easy. The only calculation I can do on it is add and once you set it up it adds as you add food/calories.

I use Scottish oats and add cinnamon, and a mix of dried apricots, dates and raisins (10grams), and mix with almond milk and water and microwave it. I stopped using a sweetener and am used to it now.
 
Uhg! An unsweetened oatmeal is enough to choke on. I used a spreadsheet once. That was back when Halliburton's engineers were all using slide rules. I got it to do the simple calculations but when I introduced a logarithm the results couldn't be trusted. By the way, what's the scoop on Almond milk? I know about cow's milk, goat's milk, coconut milk, but Almond...? Down here in the ghetto we've never heard of it. Microwave cooking? Some of us have microwaves but they are for heating up a cold cup of coffee or a cup of water for tea. We tried cooking in a microwave one time and whatever it was came out and chewed like rubber. I think it was toast.
 
drifter said:
Uhg! An unsweetened oatmeal is enough to choke on. I used a spreadsheet once. That was back when Halliburton's engineers were all using slide rules. I got it to do the simple calculations but when I introduced a logarithm the results couldn't be trusted. By the way, what's the scoop on Almond milk? I know about cow's milk, goat's milk, coconut milk, but Almond...? Down here in the ghetto we've never heard of it. Microwave cooking? Some of us have microwaves but they are for heating up a cold cup of coffee or a cup of water for tea. We tried cooking in a microwave one time and whatever it was came out and chewed like rubber. I think it was toast.
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My almond milk is sweetened and with the cinnamon and the dried fruit it's not totally unsweet. It did take me a while to get used to. I use soy and almond milk. Less calories than skimmed milk and I like the taste.

Oatmeal in a microwave is fine, it's just a wee bit creamier texture if I cook it in a pot but not enough better for the extra time and mess.

Besides porridge I use the microwave for reheating leftovers without drying them out or for the occasional microwave popcorn.

I use excel now more than I ever did at work. I do travel planning as well as calorie counting.
 
I must be living, like an old man, in the past.
Did you start using the word, 'porridge' after you moved to Scotland? And, off the cuff, what's the difference in Scottish oats and 5-Minute or Quaker oats?
By the way, thanks for hanging in here with me.
 
drifter said:
I must be living, like an old man, in the past.
Did you start using the word, 'porridge' after you moved to Scotland? And, off the cuff, what's the difference in Scottish oats and 5-Minute or Quaker oats?
By the way, thanks for hanging in here with me.
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In Scotland it's called porridge and actually refers to any hot cereal. But normally it means oatmeal and the traditional way to eat it is with salt, but not my way. They are about the same, the difference is only in the size of the oats.

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Drifter: If you only count calories for one day and quit it has already paid off, because you could verify a weak point---too many calories for breakfast. I keep track of what I eat on a stenographer's notebook. The pages in those notebooks are small---if I need a bigger page, I've eaten too much. :) Add up calories with an old-fashioned pencil. It takes about 5 minutes a day that way. After a lot of practice I can pretty much guess at calories in most things, or use labels on boxes, otherwise Google. Always round up! ;) Good luck to you!
 
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