Flyer's diary

Emilyrose said:
Soup is so good. And well done on being a very healthy BMI! That is the dream for me.
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staying here will be the ultimate test of my new way of living. as a senior, the home stretch is the last chance to not screw up..

the downside of making soup... the house is starting to fill with an aroma that will be hard to ignore. i usually plan this time to start my eating window... timing looks good today.
 
dem bones, dem bones, dem .... roasted bones...

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breakfast today... oatmeal & about 3 bites of leftover orange chicken... mmmmm.
 
Looking at those bones reminds me of my mom´s soups. They´re the best, and the dogs were always happy :)
 
Emilyrose said:
... The bones don’t look that appealing to me, lol.
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going on a vegetable run this morning... should look a bit more wholesome by the afternoon. picked up a bag of lentils last trip and have been debating whether or not to add some to this mix. never made any sort of bean soup from dry beans before.
 
alligatorob said:
I know what my dogs would do ....
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might be funny to watch at first, though... i can just picture noses up in the air thinking... where IS that coming from??

things are looking nominal today...

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decided to put off finishing the soup in favor of a relaxing Sunday with a walk down to some sports bars. without a team in town anymore, i'm sort of a free agent. probably support Green Bay today as some friends i'll probably run into are Packer fans. ...sorry Cowboys. ... :)
 
seeing the words "i'm starving" in a diary this morning got me thinking about hunger (not hungry at the moment, btw)...

with intermittent fasting, i can boil it down to two different feelings. i either get hungry before my eating window... in the morning. or i get hungry after my eating window... in the evening. in general a hunger attack, when it occurs, doesn't seem to last very long. with me it is an empty feeling in my gut. very quickly it becomes psychological... i consider the consequences of eating. it's at this point i can't really say what happens, because ... as i've mentioned before ... i relate the feeling to hiccups. hiccups always go away, but in retrospect, you can never really pin down the time they stopped. the same occurs with me an hunger attacks. i certainly know when the happen, but never actually feel it going away... it just does.

whereas, when i hear "starving" i think about long term... and i mean LONG term food denial. even with the few multi-day fasts i've done (a little over 3 days being the longest), i never really felt like i was ever starving. even when i brake multi-day fasts, it's hardly ever in a response to hunger.

thought i'd throw in ... still not hungry... last time i ate anything... maybe 14 hours ago, by now. might be a liquid carb breakfast today. at least i'll squeeze in a few miles of walking beforehand and with no glycogen reserves, hmmmm... wonder where my energy will come from...;)
 
about the only good thing i can say about Stevia is that it's handy. it is sweet... really sweet, but not a sugar-taste sweet. i'm slightly anosmic, so my pool of taste related adjectives is a bit limited. the dispenser gets a 2 on a scale of 10. also about the odds of squirting out the amount i need. i usually have to go the opposite way... i'll put in too much for ½ cup and then dilute it until its drinkable.

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the only reason i opened it is because i ran out of the pink stuff. yes, i'm old-school, sodium saccharin... but it works for me.
 
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Hi Over thank you for visiting my diary and commenting . I opened yours and some of your first posts are shortbread . Nice !

Well done on achieving a very healthy weight .
 
overlandflyer said:
whereas, when i hear "starving" i think about long term... and i mean LONG term food denial. even with the few multi-day fasts i've done (a little over 3 days being the longest), i never really felt like i was ever starving. even when i brake multi-day fasts, it's hardly ever in a response to hunger.
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Yes - I've done a few long-term fasts too - once just out of interest, for the experience. (I was young and stupid at the time.) For me, I felt hunger maybe towards the end of the first day, and through the second day, but then no, it just settled down and didn't feel like what I would recognise as hunger at all, and stayed that way through the third and fourth days - I stopped part-way through the fourth day. I presume if I'd kept it up really long-term then real starvation-response would have kicked in, which would be a different sort of hunger altogether.
(The other fasts were Oxfammy sort of fasts.)
 
Petal001 said:
Hi Over ....
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may as well explain... the use of Overland Flyer comes from one of my hobbies... old toy trains. Hafner wasn't a very mainstream name like Lionel or American Flyer, and they never made an electric train (all clockwork motors), but along with Marx, it's one of my favorites.

unfortunately it seems like pseudonyms are frowned upon by many social platforms. i've been kicked off Facebook a number of times, likely because i give them no other information other than a name... no profit in keeping a profile like mine, i guess.

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i also used to fly... well, i still probably could, but i wouldn't trust me right now.
Flyer is always ok...

cheers...gary
 
yikes... i just came across a 2-year old picture... probably closer to 230 than 220 here...
[ed: had to edit this post to include a current shot... that one by itself was too depressing to look at.]

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i hate it... but i think i'll keep it around to remind me... like the next time i bring up the PizzaHut delivery menu... :)
 
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I don´t think the first pic is bad, actually, but you definitely look a lot more alive in the second.
 
i don't think i ever really felt fat... just dumpy... it was depressing. the Monmouth College T is one i pulled out of mothballs... probably from the 70's when i lived in right next to the school ... i've heard it's Monmouth University these days.
 
I agree, you look fine in the before picture but more alive and healthy in the second.
overlandflyer said:
i also used to fly... well, i still probably could, but i wouldn't trust me right now.
Flyer is always ok...

cheers...gary
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Fly like as a pilot? I have flown a lot, but always as a passenger.

So its really Gary? Its probably too late to change, you'll always be Flyer here.

I appreciated your story, hard not to like old trains.
 
alligatorob said:
...Fly like as a pilot?...
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for the Navy i had a job for a while where i worked on a radio interface and since it was classified, someone also had to be responsible for its whereabouts whenever it was outside our lab... like when we were flying it for testing. so for nearly two months, nearly every day i had to go up in a twin engine plane along with a single pilot. after a while they let me fly the plane a bit (all three pilots we hired were actually instructors, too, so it wasn't completely illegal...:)) along with many hours of free ground school.

so after the project was over, i decided to get my certificate (...license, but technically they are called certificates). so much fun, ...but $$$. now that i'm retired, i don't really need to make a long weekend really long (i could fly out to Lake Powell in just under 3 hours ...or drive there in 15)... though i still miss hopping over to Laughlin or Vegas for lunch.
 
kitchen scientist at work...
Peaches and Apples float... not Plums.
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yes.... that's a huge red plum..!!...............................↑

they put up a good fight, but ...
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don't know why i didn't test the blueberries. ...or are they blue berries...??

 
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