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emardee

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  1. Posted

    1. I'm so close to "onederland" I can taste it. Or, err, not taste it as the case may be.

    2. I started rowing on Saturday, at the gym. The rowing machine kicked my ass. I vowed to it that I was gonna avenge myself and kick it back on Tuesday.

    3. I've consistently tracked everything that goes into my mouth via myfitnesspal for a month. The moral of that story: more Protein.

    All in all, it's been a good nine weeks since surgery.

  3. Posted

    1% cottage cheese is also an excellent source of Protein. I have been eating it for the last 2 years.

    Measure it out but at this stage you will likely only want a spoonful or two. it is very filling and keeps you full for a very long time.

    DJ, how do you eat cottage cheese? Any mix-ins, or salsa topped, or ...

    I like it in things (like a lasagne made with zucchini strips sted of noodles) but I can't quite get into plain. Help.

  11. Posted

    My mom's dressing too would be my downfall. Raisins, prunes, ground meat and stale bread, lots of onions, celery and butter.

    I love love love all the various dishes at Thanksgiving but I do not like turkey. We are a small gathering of ten (that includes all the extended) so we typically just get a turkey breast and a ham. My biggest pitfall is my mom's dressing. She usually makes two kinds; the stuffing with raisins I grew up with that no one but me really seems to care for and cornbread stuffing.

    I only get this dressing once a year and once she is gone, it is gone because she just makes it, no recipe and I can't seem to duplicate it. She knows I had surgery but no one else in the family does and because she doesn't want to call attention to me, she still makes it, knowing I can eat maybe 1/4 cup. I just take home a lot more than I used to. I enjoy every bite. For a few weeks...

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  13. Posted

    I usually host the big blow out meal for Thanksgiving, with family, cousins and friends who are on their own. This year, we're traveling for a few weeks around Thanksgiving and we'll be in New York. Our children will join us for the holiday. I expect a much smaller turkey, fewer sides and one dessert. Or we go out. But we will definitely line up on the street to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

  15. Posted

    I am a Moleskine addict. We have problems!

    Ugh. Me too. What is WRONG with us?

    Omg. I should add.....

    Bullet Journals!!!!!!

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    I'd like to think nothing...

    And then I look at the sheer volume of Moleskins and markers, and pencils and crap....in a duffle bag I drag around when needed. And the Pinterest posts on BJ'ing, and the washi tape.... Damn.

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  17. Posted

    Current obsessions:

    Learning to knit.

    Teaching myself Adobe Muse.

    "The Fall" on Netflix.

    That really annoying Japanese organization book.

    Who the SF Giants are going to trade or cut before next season.

    New and clever ways of eating hummus without crackers.

    The Life Changing Magic of Fat-free/sugar-free Jello pudding.

    And you can have my colored pencils and coloring books when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

  18. Posted

    @@Dub Sounds like your NUT and my NUT have been hanging out, minus the her needing to eat more salad. Mine told me lettuce is a waste of space and hard to digest. She said I could, however, start with cooked spinach and move on to raw, see how it treated me. I haven't gotten there yet, but generally, she recommended I rethink my definition of salad.

  19. Posted

    I worked with a trainer, and when she got bumped up to be the manager, she set me up with another trainer. Love 'em both -- the place I go is hospital affiliated and I have the sense that the people who work there are really invested in my health. Doesn't make doing 100 hip lifts easier, but it's nice knowing they care!

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  20. Posted

    KJ, it gets better. It gets so much better you won't believe it. The first weeks were so rough it had me questioning why I did it. You have to give your body time to heal and your mind time to get with the program. And at a week out, you have anesthesia still working its way out of your system. You need a lot of rest. Go give your pup a scratch behind the ears. And lean on folks here. It's been a great help to me.

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  24. Posted · Edited by emardee

    Morning after surgery I asked the doc when I could go back to lifting weights and he said, as soon as you want to.

    I proceeded to go home and sleep for three weeks. (Not really, but close enough.)

    Once I did get back into it, I found there were things I couldn't do: Swiss ball sit ups caused a sharp pain, so did the leg lifts (on the machine that looks like it should be in the film "Alien.") So I waited a few more weeks to do those and now it's all good.

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