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Another missed post...
Today was a good day, over 3 hours in the gym and I ate well.
I do think fish caught yourself are better, usually fresher and more carefully handled. For example most of the salmon I catch are saltwater run wild king (chinook) or wild silver (coho), much richer than what you buy in the store. And finding particularly king salmon in a market is almost impossible. Wild caught feed in the middle of the Pacific ocean, getting fat and ready for a long upstream swim without eating. Catching them in saltwater is just before they stop feeding and start upstream. A lot of store bought salmon are farm raised, not bad, but not the same... Oh well, enough about fish.
Today was a good day, over 3 hours in the gym and I ate well.
I'd say mine is more than 40%, LOL.Same here. Food from my parents' garden tastes at least 40% better. A lot of that is freshness, of course, and harvesting at peak ripeness instead of at peak robustness for travel. Guess that wouldn't be true for fish though, so maybe our brains just play favorites
I do think fish caught yourself are better, usually fresher and more carefully handled. For example most of the salmon I catch are saltwater run wild king (chinook) or wild silver (coho), much richer than what you buy in the store. And finding particularly king salmon in a market is almost impossible. Wild caught feed in the middle of the Pacific ocean, getting fat and ready for a long upstream swim without eating. Catching them in saltwater is just before they stop feeding and start upstream. A lot of store bought salmon are farm raised, not bad, but not the same... Oh well, enough about fish.
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Today was another good day, I ate well and exercised. Feeling ok tonight, but tempted, got to stay away from a binge... for a few more minutes anyway.
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Yesterday was a good day, ate well and exercised. Had zucchini, squash, peas, beans and tomatoes from the garden.
I did, and also hoping for easier today, you never know.
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Yesterday was not a bad day, I could have eaten fewer sweets and a bit better, but calories worked out ok. And I did a big exercise day, 4 gym hours a record. But now I am off the gym for a couple of weeks. Sunday night I am flying to Florida for some fishing and visiting.
Thanks!
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I've been tracking and posting my food for nearly a month now, and feel like its been mostly successful. Not binge free, but certainly fewer and smaller than in the month before. A little disappointed that I've not really lost weight, but that always was my secondary objective behind stopping the bingeing. And as I always tell others if you are in a calorie deficit you always lose fat, even if the water and scale takes a while to show it. I know that, but seeing it on the scale always feels better.
I leave Sunday for about 10 days to Florida. Probably will not be able to track or post consistently, if at all. I am going to do my best to stick to the no binge thing, but know my meals will likely be larger. We'll see.
I leave Sunday for about 10 days to Florida. Probably will not be able to track or post consistently, if at all. I am going to do my best to stick to the no binge thing, but know my meals will likely be larger. We'll see.
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I'm back and today was a good day, I ate well and set a gym exercise record, over 4 hours.
Vacation wasn't so good, but that's past now and I'm optimistic.
Vacation wasn't so good, but that's past now and I'm optimistic.
Thanks Llama, I did have fun, but shut my brain off as you say too much. Oh well, today is another day, so is tommorrow.
Thanks Emily, kind words. And yeah I got it, just not quite sure what "it" is...
Thanks Liza, now I am now looking forward to weighing in tomorrow morning... we'll see what damage was done.
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That is true!
Yes, it was. Had a good fishing trip, ~40 hours fished all night, about 100 miles offshore. Got to see my brothers and their families.
However the high was seeing an old friend who recently had a kidney transplant. He was on dialysis and needing one for a long time, finally he came up. I was amazed he looked 10 years younger, could hardly believe the transformation! I doubt he would have lived much longer without it.
Couldn't get the pictures to work last night.
That looks amazing! Dialysis should ideally only be a temporary/emergency solution. It's just staving off full poisoning. John Oliver once had a special about US companies trying to keep folks on dialysis and it shocked me. I know money is always a consideration in medicine but knowingly keeping people in an objectively way worse condition just to keep the money rolling in should be a crime.
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Well I binged yesterday, too many cookies and some cake, all homemade from our apricots. Poor excuse, but it's the only one I can think of... Oh well, today is another day.
My friend would not have survived until the transplant without dialysis, so for him it was a lifesaver, but only a very harsh one. The limitation for him and many in need of transplants was the availability of a kidney. He found a relative who was willing to give him one, but it was not a match. They ended up doing a complex kidney exchange where his relative donated to someone else who did match and another donor who matched my friend but not his donee. Problem is they have to schedule the surgeries simultaneously, to avoid last minute mind changes. Scheduling 4 (or more) kidney surgeries simultaneously is a real trick, it took him a couple of years from the time the donor was identified. Hard to imagine donating a kidney, it takes a special kind of person. Glad my friend found one, and secretly glad he did not ask me.
Thanks Liza, that does help hearing it from you. I don't feel so strong or fit this morning, but your words do make me feel better.
Thanks Cate, and I do like fishing, wish I could do more of it. There is fishing nearer to where I live, but I have never gotten interested in trout fishing. I know a lot of people do, and I have done it. But I don't particularly like trout, and they are not very big around here.