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Post by reddarin on Dec 6, 2014 20:25:40 GMT -6
Numbers for today.
Calories: 2,516
Fat: 226 Pro: 91 Car: 46 KR: 2.04
78/15/7
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 6, 2014 21:00:08 GMT -6
storytha I'm so sorry about your pup's injury. We have three dogs, and it can be so expensive to care for them. (But of course we do it, because we love them!) Our last dog was a rescue, so we thought we were getting a "bargain" because we had always purchased puppies before. But she brought with her some terrible virus that made our other dogs sick, and broke her foot within days of getting here, AND had a little tiff with our whippet which resulted in the latter needing stitches. Not such a bargain after all! clueless Congrats to you and your daughter on the art walk! Sorry that the weather didn't cooperate, but I'm so glad that you had success despite that. Very inspiring.
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 6, 2014 21:14:58 GMT -6
So, I have a weird question, and I'm not even sure how to ask it. Please bear with me.
I mentioned that increasing my salt intake has helped (dramatically!) with my digestive issues, and that still holds true. But I am still having this occasional problem, where I'm fine one minute, and the next minute my belly is swollen up so huge that it looks like I'm pregnant and it freaking HURTS so bad that all I can do is lay down on my side and moan and groan until it passes. These two things, the swelling and the pain, are the only symptoms. Once they pass, I'm fine.
Any idea what could be going on here? Or how far back (before the onset of symptoms) I should look in my food journal for a possible trigger?
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Post by clueless on Dec 6, 2014 21:29:27 GMT -6
storytha I'm so sorry about your pup's injury. We have three dogs, and it can be so expensive to care for them. (But of course we do it, because we love them!) Our last dog was a rescue, so we thought we were getting a "bargain" because we had always purchased puppies before. But she brought with her some terrible virus that made our other dogs sick, and broke her foot within days of getting here, AND had a little tiff with our whippet which resulted in the latter needing stitches. Not such a bargain after all! clueless Congrats to you and your daughter on the art walk! Sorry that the weather didn't cooperate, but I'm so glad that you had success despite that. Very inspiring. Oh man I know what ya mean. My oldest daughter got a 5 month old pup last summer. We thought she was a lazy lil hound. She came down with parvo, had a severly resistant strain of hook worms. Geez did the other people not even worm her. Then not a month later she chewed up a pin cushion and had to have surgery to remove a needle from her stomach. KT says she poops gold. LOL
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 6, 2014 21:36:50 GMT -6
Gretalyn, I have nary a clue what's happening with you.
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Post by clueless on Dec 6, 2014 21:56:56 GMT -6
So, I have a weird question, and I'm not even sure how to ask it. Please bear with me. I mentioned that increasing my salt intake has helped (dramatically!) with my digestive issues, and that still holds true. But I am still having this occasional problem, where I'm fine one minute, and the next minute my belly is swollen up so huge that it looks like I'm pregnant and it freaking HURTS so bad that all I can do is lay down on my side and moan and groan until it passes. These two things, the swelling and the pain, are the only symptoms. Once they pass, I'm fine. Any idea what could be going on here? Or how far back (before the onset of symptoms) I should look in my food journal for a possible trigger? How long do the attacks last? How often, daily? Have you noticed any thing that may trigger it? Is the pain on one side, does it hurt in you back? Have you ever had gall stone or any gall bladder problems?
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Post by reddarin on Dec 6, 2014 23:00:34 GMT -6
So, I have a weird question, and I'm not even sure how to ask it. Please bear with me. I mentioned that increasing my salt intake has helped (dramatically!) with my digestive issues, and that still holds true. But I am still having this occasional problem, where I'm fine one minute, and the next minute my belly is swollen up so huge that it looks like I'm pregnant and it freaking HURTS so bad that all I can do is lay down on my side and moan and groan until it passes. These two things, the swelling and the pain, are the only symptoms. Once they pass, I'm fine. Any idea what could be going on here? Or how far back (before the onset of symptoms) I should look in my food journal for a possible trigger? cg037 experienced similar bloating a long time ago. I can't find her post here on our forum so it might have been on Fat Secret. Does anyone else remember that? Has anything besides sodium intake changed? Maybe more fermented foods?
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 7, 2014 7:05:03 GMT -6
Good enough sleep (woke 3:30ish, went back to sleep. How I know the time is my mobile phone is face down on the nightstand. I have to pick it up, click it on, then I put it back face down). Late enough rising time to get the scale out. Now I've returned to the number I had a week or so ago (1.2 less than most recent.) So yea me! It would be great to slide to a lower number by the time my daughter arrives on the 19th. Pure vanity on my part which I am also fine with. As a thank-you for speaking on Friday, I was given a coffee cup with all kinds of foods-I-don't-eat in it. I brought it over to my mom's and I'll offer it to the young woman who stays with Mom on Sundays during the day for us. It'll get given away easily. No siren bells in it for me.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 7, 2014 12:15:56 GMT -6
Weigh-in this morning 175.5 and down point two
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Post by clueless on Dec 7, 2014 12:36:00 GMT -6
Weigh-in this morning 175.5 and down point two
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Post by reddarin on Dec 7, 2014 19:12:15 GMT -6
Numbers for today.
Calories: 2,451
Fat: 222 Pro: 77 Car: 46 KR: 2.10
80/13/7
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 7, 2014 20:54:39 GMT -6
KT says she poops gold. LOL
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 7, 2014 21:02:11 GMT -6
Cheryl and Darin, thanks for the further questions. This does seem to be a recent phenomenon - associated (possibly?) with my weekend "treats" . . . maybe? That's why I'm wondering what is the possible time frame for a trigger food causing problems. I'd like to pin down which foods might be causing this. It lasts for an hour or two, and I haven't been keeping actual records or anything, but it seems to happen no more often than twice a week and no less often than every other week. I've never had any gall bladder problems. And although I should have, I haven't yet increased my intake of fermented foods.
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 8, 2014 6:14:12 GMT -6
Happy Monday all. Good enough night to weigh this morning and it was .4 less than yesterday. Yea! I am getting to the place where I am not a stuffed sausage in my favorite jeans. Ha!
Except for my mom's cat, which has already been spoken for after Mom's death (it ain't me), I am pet free and glad of it. Have been about 10 years now. Not saying I will never have pets again, merely that I am enjoying where I am at with that. And certainly the "freeness" of animals such as ya'll are describing. Years ago, one of my sisters got a free kitty--which promptly not much later ate a needle and thread that cost sis $600 to remedy.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 9:58:41 GMT -6
Happy Monday all. Good enough night to weigh this morning and it was .4 less than yesterday. Yea! I am getting to the place where I am not a stuffed sausage in my favorite jeans. Ha! Hooray!!
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 9:59:51 GMT -6
Weigh-in this morning 175.2 and down point three and I finally beat the 175.3 I hit 26 days ago
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Post by clueless on Dec 8, 2014 10:11:59 GMT -6
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Post by clueless on Dec 8, 2014 10:12:41 GMT -6
Happy Monday all. Good enough night to weigh this morning and it was .4 less than yesterday. Yea! I am getting to the place where I am not a stuffed sausage in my favorite jeans. Ha! You are doing great!
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 11:16:28 GMT -6
Oooooh. I had some foot cramps this morning so I drank a little bit of the fermented left over jalapeno brine I have in the fridge. Wow! It was almost fizzy. And a little too spicy but the very small amount I drank did the trick.
What do you guys do with your left over brine? I read it can be good for marinading meat but I haven't tried that yet. I am eager to do it with the jalapeno brine because that sounds like an amazing way to impart a jalapeno flavor to the meat.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 11:21:42 GMT -6
Cheryl and Darin, thanks for the further questions. This does seem to be a recent phenomenon - associated (possibly?) with my weekend "treats" . . . maybe? That's why I'm wondering what is the possible time frame for a trigger food causing problems. I'd like to pin down which foods might be causing this. It lasts for an hour or two, and I haven't been keeping actual records or anything, but it seems to happen no more often than twice a week and no less often than every other week. I've never had any gall bladder problems. And although I should have, I haven't yet increased my intake of fermented foods. Hmmmmm. Have you started eating something new on your excursion days? Or something you haven't had in a very long time? Or perhaps not new but in a much larger quantity than previously? Trigger time should be reasonably quick *if* it is a direct effect. If the trigger food is itself a trigger then there could be a more muddy time delay. Actually, I was thinking that you might have increased your intake of fermented foods and introduced a bit of an imbalance to that ecosystem. No new probiotic supplements either, right?
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 11:22:15 GMT -6
Cheryl and Darin, thanks for the further questions. This does seem to be a recent phenomenon - associated (possibly?) with my weekend "treats" . . . maybe? That's why I'm wondering what is the possible time frame for a trigger food causing problems. I'd like to pin down which foods might be causing this. It lasts for an hour or two, and I haven't been keeping actual records or anything, but it seems to happen no more often than twice a week and no less often than every other week. I've never had any gall bladder problems. And although I should have, I haven't yet increased my intake of fermented foods. No new meds either, right? ETA: No changes in brands, doses, cessation, etc. ?
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 8, 2014 20:08:08 GMT -6
No new meds or probiotics. I did experiment with a little gluten, which used to to a number on me, to see if my tolerance had increased. It seemed fine, so I had it once or twice more, and I'm not sure if the episodes are correlated with that or not. I really wish that I'd been keeping track of when the episodes happen! I have my food journal, but I don't have a record of the episodes to correlate with it. If it was the gluten, the episode was long enough after the intake that I did not think at the time that they were correlated. I *thought* I was handling the gluten just fine (these are small amounts, btw). Two of the episodes did happen almost immediately after having a treat that involved corn (in the form of tortilla chips). But on a different weekend, I had popcorn, and had no problem at all afterward. (You may notice that my idea of a treat is something salty and crunchy rather than sweet. Chips and popcorn are my carb kryptonite!) I will, of course, keep more careful records from now on, and try to get this figured out.
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 8, 2014 20:11:06 GMT -6
What do you guys do with your left over brine? I read it can be good for marinading meat but I haven't tried that yet. I am eager to do it with the jalapeno brine because that sounds like an amazing way to impart a jalapeno flavor to the meat. That sounds amazing! Let us know how it turns out if you do try it. This brought to mind a vague memory of a friend of mine talking about an Indian recipe in which you soak the chicken in yogurt for some time before cooking. She said it makes it really tender. And that's the same type of bacteria that would be in the brine, so . . . sounds worth a shot!
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 20:52:06 GMT -6
No new meds or probiotics. I did experiment with a little gluten, which used to to a number on me, to see if my tolerance had increased. It seemed fine, so I had it once or twice more, and I'm not sure if the episodes are correlated with that or not. I really wish that I'd been keeping track of when the episodes happen! I have my food journal, but I don't have a record of the episodes to correlate with it. If it was the gluten, the episode was long enough after the intake that I did not think at the time that they were correlated. I *thought* I was handling the gluten just fine (these are small amounts, btw). Two of the episodes did happen almost immediately after having a treat that involved corn (in the form of tortilla chips). But on a different weekend, I had popcorn, and had no problem at all afterward. (You may notice that my idea of a treat is something salty and crunchy rather than sweet. Chips and popcorn are my carb kryptonite!) I will, of course, keep more careful records from now on, and try to get this figured out. Perhaps it was the low quality vegetable oil the chips were cooked with? Maybe the gluten is irritating your gut which is subsequently exacerbated by something you eat later that would otherwise be innocuous? Like it is causing mild leaky gut syndrome. That might explain the bad reaction to the GF grain (corn). "Chips and popcorn are my carb kryptonite!" Same here! Those are the only things that ever really tempt me to eat a lot of carbs. It's the nachos and rotel dip for the tortilla chips and I've been a lifelong popcorn lover. Ever since I was a kid and my uncle showed me how to pop the best tasting popcorn using butter. Microwave is so good these days that I lost my skill at home cooked butter popcorn.
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 20:58:22 GMT -6
What do you guys do with your left over brine? I read it can be good for marinading meat but I haven't tried that yet. I am eager to do it with the jalapeno brine because that sounds like an amazing way to impart a jalapeno flavor to the meat. That sounds amazing! Let us know how it turns out if you do try it. This brought to mind a vague memory of a friend of mine talking about an Indian recipe in which you soak the chicken in yogurt for some time before cooking. She said it makes it really tender. And that's the same type of bacteria that would be in the brine, so . . . sounds worth a shot! Yeah, I've heard of using yogurt for tenderizing meat before but never why it worked. I can't wait to try out the brine for marinade
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 8, 2014 21:01:05 GMT -6
Darin, that is a really interesting thought about the gluten causing a mild leaky-gut type scenario that then gets exacerbated later. I think you might be on to something there!
My mom really loves popcorn too, so when we were growing up, she would always make it when we rented a movie or were watching Star Trek (that was a big deal in our house!). And I LOVE guacamole, queso, salsa, or pretty much anything else that you can dip a tortilla chip into. Darnit, now I'm getting hungry!
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Post by gretalyn on Dec 8, 2014 21:24:11 GMT -6
I'm almost finished reading "Sitting Kills, Moving Heals". It's a very short book, and an easy, quick read. And worthwhile because of the message. It's written by a NASA scientist who studies physiological effects of spaceflight. Her point is basically that inactivity here on earth (sitting all day) in many ways mirrors the kind of physical deterioration that is seen in astronauts on extended spaceflights. Take bone mass for example - the average person loses 1% of their bone mass per year beyond age 20. But astronauts lose that much in a month. And people who are bed-bound due to illness or injury lose it at the same rate as astronauts. So when your circumstances don't allow you to move in gravity the way you were designed to, you start to deteriorate. Sitting isn't as bad as lying in bed, but it's quite bad enough.
She says that each time you stand up, it triggers a physiological response. Basically, your body gets ready to become active. So the simple act of standing up is beneficial. I wish that she gave a more specific guideline such as "try to stand up every x number of minutes", but she doesn't. She just says move as often as possible, because in her opinion (which is not just opinion but based on studies that she directed about exercise for bed-bound volunteers) it is the frequency of your movements that counts far more than intensity or duration.
My husband told me about this idea that he heard for getting variety in your workouts. You take a deck of playing cards, and write a different exercise on each card. Shuffle the cards and work your way through the deck. So I thought I would combine that clever idea with what I learned from this book. I'm still doing the things that I like to do (hiking, barre class, SimpleFit, etc.) for my workout every day. But to break up the amount of time I spend sitting, I'm using the cards. I wrote a variety of things on them that can be done quickly and easily, without any equipment. Anything I could think of, from taekwondo kicks that my daughter taught me, to active yoga poses (I don't like the passive deep-stretching poses) to classics like jumping jacks, to balance challenges like standing on one foot with eyes closed (harder than it sounds!). I don't do the activity for all that long, the idea is just to get up and quickly do something, and then sit down and get back to work. I did a dozen cards today, and I'm hoping to increase that.
Editing to add: there are some fitness tech devices, such as the Jawbone UP and the Garmin VivoFit, that will alert you if you've been sitting/inactive for too long. I don't have one, so I'll just be using the timer feature on my iPad. But if Santa is generous this year . . .
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Post by reddarin on Dec 8, 2014 22:37:41 GMT -6
Numbers for today.
Calories: 2,575
Fat: 225 Pro: 102 Car: 43 KR: 2.03
77/16/6
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Post by rejoicealways8 on Dec 9, 2014 6:48:29 GMT -6
Hey Gretalyn, thanks for giving the book report and the idea about the cards. Hope you figure out the occasional digestive trouble soon. The scaled registered another .4 drop this morning. That's so nice. I tell you this all-meat thing is easy on the mind as far as eating. And my I'm-okay-with-much-repetition character trait is showing. Yesterday, with a pork shoulder roast, I would slice off a few pieces, throw them in a cast iron pan for a few minutes (with fat saved from oven-baked ribs late last week) and eat. It's gets me off my chair to do that two or three times, right? Then when I came to Mom's last night I cooked up a ground beef patty (also with added fat to cook). I can do this for a while. How are you feeling Cheryl? Way to go Darin! You've got it going on with your numbers these days.
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Post by clueless on Dec 9, 2014 7:13:27 GMT -6
My oldest DD went back to eating gluten a while back. It didn't bother her at first so she thought cool, I can eat it with no problem. Then after a few weeks I noticed she was looking bad, then she was feeling bad. Then she felt awful and started having stomach issues, I was get off wheat NOW!! Within days she was better.
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