Feeling tired and drained could mean you overdid it yesterday. As you said your body doesn't have a lot of pain/heat/swelling sensors on the inside so feeling drained or off is often the only signal you get. Maybe don't keep increasing your speed/distance every walk unless you feel fine the next day. Festina lente in recovery!
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alligatorob
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Except for the lack of peaches it was a good day. I ate well and feel good tonight. My only exercise was lawn mowing and some yard work, but it felt good to be able to do it comfortably. I had charge of the girls today so could not leave the house without them. Took them shopping at the big army surplus place Smith and Edwards (Shop Smith and Edwards - One Big Adventure! - Ogden, Utah), not so much surplus anymore but lots of oddities for kids. I gave them a $20 budget between them and let them go, amazing how many trinkets and candies they found in budget.
Then I asked where they wanted to get lunch and they decided on a local drive in, we brought the food home. I did not partake of that meal!
A fun day for us all!
Then I asked where they wanted to get lunch and they decided on a local drive in, we brought the food home. I did not partake of that meal!
A fun day for us all!
Thanks LaMa, and I am taking it pretty easy. Had to look festina lente up, learned another phrase from you, a good one, I will make haste slowly!
The sheep drive was fun, though it took a lot of work to get the streets clean again, LOL!. And thanks Petal, exercising when we feel up to it is the right thing to do.
overlandflyer
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i remember an A-N surplus store we used to visit in Provincetown on our summer vacations out on Cape Cod. i still have an old flight skull cap helmet liner probably with inspiration from reading Peanuts comics about Snoopy the WWI Flying Ace. occasionally i would wear it when i drove my TR6 with the top down and didn't want my hair to wind up in a massive knot. i know what you mean by trinkets... i can still recall my folks with their standard line of "really... com'on you don't need that".
alligatorob
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It was a good day, I ate well, got in a 5 km meander, and feel good tonight. I am trying to find a more "normal" diet and today was pretty successful, I ate more calories earlier and had some "normal" things, like salad dressing for probably the first time in over a year. Now that the peaches are gone I am eating more apples. We do have one apple tree and the apples are ripe now, not as good as peaches, but not bad. Our apple tree:
I agree, lots of things you just can't find anywhere else.
You caught me! LOL, the Oreos are for the kids and we always have lots of similar things around the house. So long as I don't eat any that's fine with me, I know I cannot eat just one, so I don't . The world is full of temptations... The dogs are always around when the kids are eating, things often fall on the floor.
Smith and Edwards claims to have been the first and largest war surplus store in the world. During WWII the Army built a huge material depot in Ogden, it was out of reach of possible Japanese carrier based bombers. It stayed open until the 80s and for a long time was the largest non-weapons depot in the world. The Army brought much of its surplus from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam there to be liquidated, Smith and Edwards was the biggest buyer. When I first moved to Utah in high school Smith and Edwards had about 25 acres of stuff, it was on multilevel racks about 30 ft high. Mostly outdoors with makeshift coverings. You could just climb through it all and when you found something you wanted take it up front and negotiate a price. As a teen I spent many days there and never saw but a small portion of what they had. And needing it never entered into my thought process. Most of that is gone today, but they do still have a lot of interesting stuff, way too much.
Thanks Emily, that is the grandkids' dog, we have a couple but they did not make it into the picture. And yes it was a sad day in peachville.
Thanks Cate, I am finding the slow walks are much better for picture taking. I see and appreciate more.
Great that you are finding a benefit there. You'll be back where you were before you know it if you take your time.
I think that's so interesting. Sometimes I go on my walks and I am speeding along, even in the lovely woods near my house that I go to sometimes, and I'm kind of thinking to myself, 'Hey - stop! Smell the flowers a little bit more.' Anyway, it's a process. That apple tree is spectacular. You have a beautiful home.
alligatorob
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It was a good day, I ate well, did a little exercise, and feel good tonight. I did another short walk, very short, but at least I got out and did it. I've been experimenting with my homemade yogurt and found that if I incubate it for about 24 hours all of the milk sugar is removed. I tried it and like it, the yogurt is a bit tangy, but the texture is great, thicker and I like it. Not sure how important sugar free yogurt is but its fun to experiment.
Thanks LaMa, it will be 2 weeks since surgery tomorrow, I figure that at 4 weeks I should be able to resume more normal exercise. I have a follow up with the doctor at about that point, I will ask him.
Thanks Liza, I am enjoying the more relaxed outings, maybe I will continue some of them even when I can push harder.
Thanks Emily, and you should stop and smell the flowers, its fun. Your flower season must be near an end.
Thanks Err, it has been fun taking the time to take a few pictures.
Glad to hear you´re doing well. I´m sure your doctor will be happy to hear you´re so ready to get moving again!
How long do you normally incubate your yogurt?
Good for you making your own yogurt! I always wish I could be motivated to do my own yogurt and sauerkraut as I hear it is much better for maintaining the probiotics that way. I always buy plain yogurt and when i get the sweetened stuff on occasion it always seems so odd to me--like a whole different food!
alligatorob
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It was a good day, ate well, got in a 4.6 km meander and am feeling good tonight. However I am beginning to believe that I am gaining a little weight. I looked closely in the mirror and can see some new belly fat, not a lot, but I am sure its more than I had before surgery... Don't really know what's going on, I am sure the initial weight gain was water not fat, but now 2 weeks on it is not disappearing. I think its possible that as my body loses the post surgery water I am gaining a little fat. I did reduce my calorie intake by about 100, but maybe that was not enough. The big change was that I am not exercising nearly as much as pre-surgery, I really should not be. So tonight I am skipping my usual evening snack, and in the morning I will see where my weight is and rethink a bit. I know this is a drop in the bucket given how much weight I have lost, but I don't want to be gaining... I knew maintenance would be a bumpy ride, so this should not be a big surprise.
I take the milk and microwave it for about 8 minutes to kill the existing bacteria and bugs in it, inoculate with some from the previous batch, pour it into the small jars, put them in the incubator and let it go. That's all. I try to be sanitary and clean, but other than pasteurizing the milk in the microwave not sterile. I bought the incubator on Amazon for about $25 (it now looks like the price is up to $35), it is very simple, only an of off button. Eight of the jars came with it, only 7 fit into the incubator. And it takes up little counter space. I purchased the first inoculum, but have just been using the yogurt I make since then, self sustaining. You don't really need to buy an inoculum, any store bought yogurt with active culture, not pasteurized works. The yogurt is plain, without much taste, but you can add whatever you want for flavor, fruit or anything. I don't think I will ever buy much yogurt again. One jar has about 100 calories, and no sugar after 24 hours. Here is a picture of my incubator with the lid off, took it this evening at this point the yogurt has been incubating for about 8 hours.
The instructions I got with my machine suggest about 6 hours, I was doing more like 8, but now and doing the 24. I like the 24 hour yogurt better, it is creamier and thicker, and also should be without sugar. See SCD yogurt fermentation time & temperature.
Yogurt making is a lot easier than I thought it would be, honestly I don't think it is any more time consuming than buying it in the store. There is a short learning curve, much shorter than I thought it would be. I think homemade yogurt is probably better for you, and I know its a lot cheaper. I can make about 10 six ounce (~150 gram) jars for $1, ten cents per is a real bargain. The only cost is the milk, much cheaper than store bought yogurt.
I take the milk and microwave it for about 8 minutes to kill the existing bacteria and bugs in it, inoculate with some from the previous batch, pour it into the small jars, put them in the incubator and let it go. That's all. I try to be sanitary and clean, but other than pasteurizing the milk in the microwave not sterile. I bought the incubator on Amazon for about $25 (it now looks like the price is up to $35), it is very simple, only an of off button. Eight of the jars came with it, only 7 fit into the incubator. And it takes up little counter space. I purchased the first inoculum, but have just been using the yogurt I make since then, self sustaining. You don't really need to buy an inoculum, any store bought yogurt with active culture, not pasteurized works. The yogurt is plain, without much taste, but you can add whatever you want for flavor, fruit or anything. I don't think I will ever buy much yogurt again. One jar has about 100 calories, and no sugar after 24 hours. Here is a picture of my incubator with the lid off, took it this evening at this point the yogurt has been incubating for about 8 hours.
Thanks Emily, I think the recovery is going as well as it could be, except for the minor weight gain but I can find a way to fix that!