amneziaHaze
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And you cant eat the same as you did when you had 10kg more.at some point you calories are just enough to maintain new weight. Its suprising to see how little the human body needs for a day
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injinji
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I think I have a form of early onset dementia where the three main symptoms are not caring about things that used to matter, a bad truth telling problem and constant snacking. I have all three in spades. If I'm setting at my keyboard I'm eating something. Most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it. But no, I don't need that much chocolate. I just need to be thru hiking, then I wouldn't be getting enough calories.
injinji
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I live in the free state of Florida, where they lock you up for smoking flower, much less growing it. So unless I've known you online for a long time, I don't talk about growing. But if you want to talk fishing I guess that will be OK . . . .
injinji
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The good news is we have our old cleaning lady back. The bad news is she straightens my desk. I'm sure my list will turn up, but in the interim, I'll pick up with last week. Week before last was the first time I had gained more than a pound, and this week was just the second time I have lost more than a pound.
12/10/24 204.6
12/17/24 203.4
12/10/24 204.6
12/17/24 203.4
OldMedUser
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I know struggles with weight are real but have never experienced it myself.
I seem to have been blessed/cursed with a self regulating appetite. When I was a working man and active a lot I'd eat lots and tho never a muscle man was well toned and had that 'V' shape with a flat belly and tight waist. Now that I've turned into a couch potato for almost a decade I have little appetite and tho my weight remains the same it has redistributed itself in ways not so flattering. Less muscle, more blubber too. Really have to suck the gut in to get the button in the top of my 32" jeans. At least the weather is cold enough I don't look odd wearing snow pants over my track pants and going commando. So much more comfortable.
I grew up with a father who worked for a meat packer all his life so not much into steaks anymore tho love a good homemade burger or the occasional beef donair once in a blue moon.
I eat huge amounts of fibre but not much in the way of greens. Gut problems plagued me for a decade until I saw a GI doc who after looking at an MRI told me I had a constriction in my sigmoid colon due to a ring of diverticular pockets. Either surgery or try Meta Mucil so I tried option 2 and things are working so much better. Helped drop my cholesterol back to perfect levels along with oat bran so that's a bonus.
My back went out a couple weeks ago so can't do squat atm but should be good in a week or so if I don't bugger it up again. I can use my stair stepper unit without much pain so still doing a bit of that every day but want to be lifting weights and spending time on the recumbent bike too.
At 70 all this stuff is getting harder to do but I'm not going down without a fight!
I seem to have been blessed/cursed with a self regulating appetite. When I was a working man and active a lot I'd eat lots and tho never a muscle man was well toned and had that 'V' shape with a flat belly and tight waist. Now that I've turned into a couch potato for almost a decade I have little appetite and tho my weight remains the same it has redistributed itself in ways not so flattering. Less muscle, more blubber too. Really have to suck the gut in to get the button in the top of my 32" jeans. At least the weather is cold enough I don't look odd wearing snow pants over my track pants and going commando. So much more comfortable.
I grew up with a father who worked for a meat packer all his life so not much into steaks anymore tho love a good homemade burger or the occasional beef donair once in a blue moon.
I eat huge amounts of fibre but not much in the way of greens. Gut problems plagued me for a decade until I saw a GI doc who after looking at an MRI told me I had a constriction in my sigmoid colon due to a ring of diverticular pockets. Either surgery or try Meta Mucil so I tried option 2 and things are working so much better. Helped drop my cholesterol back to perfect levels along with oat bran so that's a bonus.
My back went out a couple weeks ago so can't do squat atm but should be good in a week or so if I don't bugger it up again. I can use my stair stepper unit without much pain so still doing a bit of that every day but want to be lifting weights and spending time on the recumbent bike too.
At 70 all this stuff is getting harder to do but I'm not going down without a fight!
injinji
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I'm just 63, (too old to work and too young for SS) but can relate to things getting harder. Just a couple three years ago I always used the full charge on my mower in one cutting. Now when it gets down to two bars I'm like, that's enough for now. I can finish it after lunch. Or maybe tomorrow.. . . . . . . . At 70 all this stuff is getting harder to do but I'm not going down without a fight!
OldMedUser
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I use gas powered mowers etc. I can still run out a full tank of gas in my mower, take a 20 min smoke/coffee break then go burn another tank. We get a soggy yard so long the grass gets waist high and it's too much work with my push mower. The wife surprised me by buying a TORO string mower and that tackles the tall grass like a champ.
This isn't even the thick grass like is in the back yard. I'd cut this front section once already then it got wet again. Shitty drainage here so spring melt hangs around until late July sometimes. Multi year buildup of long dead grass over the whole back 3 acres so in talk with the fire dept to use it as a practise burn next spring or I'll burn it off myself like I did years ago.
Got a new snow thrower a couple weeks ago too. Smaller and lighter than our last one but gets the job done.