super bowl

[Travlr]

I stand corrected. He should be able to float on a weed induced breeze.

Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't correcting you at all. I was just adding his additional personalities.

 

[MACVSOG]

Quarterback on the winning team... and the most valuable player.

i don't know anyone on here but warren must be a crowd favorite. (perhaps that should be said jokingly)

 

[Travlr]

i don't know anyone on here but warren must be a crowd favorite. (perhaps that should be said jokingly)

You have no idea... or maybe you do.

Warren had a lot of personality, and I suspect he still does. And we can just leave it there.

 

[hrsr]

I'm not so sure he had or ha much personality but he definitely had many different personalities.

 

[Nesikep]

probably check on what should/could be a couple of new calf arrivals.

I'd watch that over the SuperBowel anytime

 

[Nesikep]

food looked good but mostly didn't fit my diet parameters

Didn't think anyone watching the superbowl would be vegan

 

[Silver]

Didn't think anyone watching the superbowl would be vegan

Not that. I'm trying to ditch carbs / sugar and most Super Bowl type treats don't qualify.

 

[Travlr]

Not that. I'm trying to ditch carbs / sugar and most Super Bowl type treats don't qualify.

I don't know why people are so fixated on sweet stuff. It's like an addiction. In most cases I like to stay away from sweet stuff and intentionally look at labels to avoid sweeteners. It's surprising how many things on store shelves have sugar/corn syrup added. Beans... Why in the world would someone add sugar to beans? Gravy, salad dressings, all the dips and chips, and of course bread. My wife worked in a school cafeteria when we were young, and they added sugar to gravy and said it was the only way to make it properly.
But then I admit that I like something sweet for dessert before bed. Which probably doesn't help me sleep.
I hear that there are two kinds of taste receptors that people have, and one is attracted to sweet and the other is attracted to savory. I suspect I prefer savory because I really do appreciate nothing sweet until that one time of the day before heading to bed. Of course the majority of people, by far, are attracted to sweet.

 

[Silver]

I don't know why people are so fixated on sweet stuff. It's like an addiction. In most cases I like to stay away from sweet stuff and intentionally look at labels to avoid sweeteners. It's surprising how many things on store shelves have sugar/corn syrup added. Beans... Why in the world would someone add sugar to beans? Gravy, salad dressings, all the dips and chips, and of course bread. My wife worked in a school cafeteria when we were young, and they added sugar to gravy and said it was the only way to make it properly.
But then I admit that I like something sweet for dessert before bed. Which probably doesn't help me sleep.
I hear that there are two kinds of taste receptors that people have, and one is attracted to sweet and the other is attracted to savory. I suspect I prefer savory because I really do appreciate nothing sweet until that one time of the day before heading to bed. Of course the majority of people, by far, are attracted to sweet.

I can get by fine without sweet, but like you say it's hard to find products that don't contain sugar. It's pervasive.
Carbs in general are difficult to avoid, and I really do like potato's, bread, and they are in lots of fruits and vegetables. But it is manageable, and a good excuse to eat a big steak with just a bit of greens on the side guilt free.

 

[Ouachita]

I don't know why people are so fixated on sweet stuff. It's like an addiction. In most cases I like to stay away from sweet stuff and intentionally look at labels to avoid sweeteners. It's surprising how many things on store shelves have sugar/corn syrup added. Beans... Why in the world would someone add sugar to beans? ...................

Sugar in beans reminded me................
When the COVID "two weeks to flatten the curve", and then all the schools shut down for the remainder of the school year, my wife agreed to watch the neighbors kids. They had just moved in a few months before and we became friends. Mom and dad both worked and their after school babysitter was an elderly lady worried about catching covid.

My wife was having problems finding something they would eat, when finally she mentioned green beans. These kids allowed that they LOVED green beans, but wouldn't touch my wife's beans. At first, she thought it might be because they were in a jar instead of a can with the Jolly Green Giant label. Turns out, after talking to the mom, she puts a quarter cup of sugar in her green beans.

The other oddity was they wouldn't eat much without ketchup. They had to bring their own because we didn't have any. Wife made them some mac and cheese one day and those kids put ketchup on it.

Sugar is the devil. I'm one of the lucky ones in my family that was born with a gag reflex when something even looks too sweet. I was the one who scraped the icing off the cake and fed it to little brother. But like you say, it's hard to avoid. Cutting excess sugars from our diet requires more than just a different diet. At this point it's a lifestyle change, assuming a person wants to change. I have worse habits to work on first.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Well - I sure am a bad person to talk to about avoiding sweets!! I LOVE my cookies, cakes, pies, pastry - not so much on the candy though. I don't avoid any foods. So far, my system does not care what I put down my throat. There are a few things I don't like, but not many. As a kid, I think I grew up on Spaghetti-O's and hot dogs. NO vegetables. I still don't eat baked beans - yuk and not a big potatoe eater.
LOVE Lays Potatoe Chips. I am addicted!! I don't buy a bag, because I will sit down and eat the whole thing. I treat myself if we stop at a Subway or other sandwich kind of place - I ALWAYS buy a small bag of Lays.
And back on the subject of the Super Bowl. I don't watch any sports.

 

[1982vett]

Sugar in beans reminded me................
When the COVID "two weeks to flatten the curve", and then all the schools shut down for the remainder of the school year, my wife agreed to watch the neighbors kids. They had just moved in a few months before and we became friends. Mom and dad both worked and their after school babysitter was an elderly lady worried about catching covid.

My wife was having problems finding something they would eat, when finally she mentioned green beans. These kids allowed that they LOVED green beans, but wouldn't touch my wife's beans. At first, she thought it might be because they were in a jar instead of a can with the Jolly Green Giant label. Turns out, after talking to the mom, she puts a quarter cup of sugar in her green beans.

The other oddity was they wouldn't eat much without ketchup. They had to bring their own because we didn't have any. Wife made them some mac and cheese one day and those kids put ketchup on it.

Sugar is the devil. I'm one of the lucky ones in my family that was born with a gag reflex when something even looks too sweet. I was the one who scraped the icing off the cake and fed it to little brother. But like you say, it's hard to avoid. Cutting excess sugars from our diet requires more than just a different diet. At this point it's a lifestyle change, assuming a person wants to change. I have worse habits to work on first.

My A1C hit 7.8 back in November....... I was determined to get it down without increasing med dosage. I was also having trouble with acid reflux. Anyway, bye bye chocolate chip cookies, bye bye the occasional piece of pie, bye bye snitching a piece of chocolate candy....really watched the carbs I ate. Lost 10 lbs, dropped the A1C 1 point and acid reflux is mostly gone.

Used to be a ketchaholic too. Go through a 32 oz. bottle in a week. Now the little 14 oz. bottle lasts several weeks.

 

[Silver]

My A1C hit 7.8 back in November....... I was determined to get it down without increasing med dosage. I was also having trouble with acid reflux. Anyway, bye bye chocolate chip cookies, bye bye the occasional piece of pie, bye bye snitching a piece of chocolate candy....really watched the carbs I ate. Lost 10 lbs, dropped the A1C 1 point and acid reflux is mostly gone.

Used to be a ketchaholic too. Go through a 32 oz. bottle in a week. Now the little 14 oz. bottle lasts several weeks.

I also dropped 10 lbs and nearly eliminated my acid reflux. I seem to have hit a wall with the weight loss but it might resume. Another 10 would be nice. Wouldn't mind a chocolate chip cookie…..

 

[Ouachita]

Hey Vett,
My blood panel is weird. When I only get my blood sugar tested, it's always high. I think 80-100 is "normal", and mine is always 110 to 120. But every time they follow up with the A1C, I'm 3.5ish.

I have "white coat syndrome". When I walk in to the doctors office and the nurse takes my blood pressure it was 184/110. Ten minutes later when the doc checked it, it was 135/78.

She used one of those new fangled automatic pressure checkers.
Doc used the old fashioned way.

So, my question is;
Was it high because of the differences of instruments used to check the pressure, or…..

Was it high because she was hot and he was not?

 

[greybeard]

she puts a quarter cup of sugar in her green beans

That is a LOT of sugar for a regular sized pot of green beans.

 

[Travlr]

Hey Vett,
My blood panel is weird. When I only get my blood sugar tested, it's always high. I think 80-100 is "normal", and mine is always 110 to 120. But every time they follow up with the A1C, I'm 3.5ish.

I have "white coat syndrome". When I walk in to the doctors office and the nurse takes my blood pressure it was 184/110. Ten minutes later when the doc checked it, it was 135/78.

She used one of those new fangled automatic pressure checkers.
Doc used the old fashioned way.

So, my question is;
Was it high because of the differences of instruments used to check the pressure, or…..

Was it high because she was hot and he was not?

My wife and I have just recently been experiencing white coat syndrome. We've had blood pressure issues due to temporary high stress circumstances, but when everything is normal we have good blood pressure. But within the last year or so when we go to the doc the first reading is high for either of us. Later in the office... just fine. At home... just fine. It's a little weird.

I had severe acid reflux about forty years ago. BAD and daily. Debilitating acid reflux. Of course tried all the Tums, Rolaids, yada, yada fixes and it was just getting worse. A doc put me on Zantac for a couple of weeks and then told me to use Gaviscon as necessary. At first I'd need them a couple of times a week. But as time went on less and less. They are in my medicine cabinet but I've had two bottles for ten years and am still working on the first one. Some people have a problem with the way it gets foamy as it's chewed, but I see it as similar to marshmallow ice cream topping.

 

[Ouachita]

There's a bigger story there, Travlr. Tell us.
My pea brain can't understand why I got the white coat syndrome. I've had the same doctor for 35 years now. The nurse is his wife.
They teamed up to give me a vasectomy 25 years ago (a Valentines gift from my wife).
It's just happened in the last few years. Maybe my subconscious arse is preparing to ask the questions that I'm not ready to? But it just manifest as stress instead of inquest?

 

[Travlr]

There's a bigger story there, Travlr. Tell us.
My pea brain can't understand why I got the white coat syndrome. I've had the same doctor for 35 years now. The nurse is his wife.
They teamed up to give me a vasectomy 25 years ago (a Valentines gift from my wife).
It's just happened in the last few years. Maybe my subconscious arse is preparing to ask the questions that I'm not ready to? But it just manifest as stress instead of inquest?

I've got my theories why it happens, but don't really know. I'm over seventy, and you're quite a bit younger aren't you?

My favorite guess is that we walk around with higher blood pressure and it takes longer to get back down to "normal" as we get older. But if you are younger by several years (decades?) then that blows my idea out of the water.

I'll have to ask my doctor about whether all ages have the same syndrome... and maybe if it's a recent anomaly? It would be very strange if it's only shown up in the last few years... and happens across the board with all ages.

 

[Ouachita]

I've got my theories why it happens, but don't really know. I'm over seventy, and you're quite a bit younger aren't you?

My favorite guess is that we walk around with higher blood pressure and it takes longer to get back down to "normal" as we get older. But if you are younger by several years (decades?) then that blows my idea out of the water.

I'll have to ask my doctor about whether all ages have the same syndrome... and maybe if it's a recent anomaly? It would be very strange if it's only shown up in the last few years... and happens across the board with all ages.

I do not think this condition has anything to do with modern lifestyle/environment.
I think it has more to with individual personalities. I'm a hermit, a dang good one!
When my wife bought me a ticket to a masseuse, I said no way. I don't want a stranger touching me.

(No comments from the peanut gallery here, please)

I'm not sure why, but I think it's a brief concern for my mortality. Not sure what the heck else could cause me to get the hots for the doctors wife

 

[MACVSOG]

i have not caught up on all written so far. suppose we all heard of the 'white diet', eliminating all white food. have not tired it, but think all things i eat are carbohydrates anyway. maybe go to beef jerky and water only. i quit ice cream once for a year. numbers were better; however, doctor was not excited said we all needed ice cream.

just speaking generally, i think our problem(s) might be being old and being male. i have found that omeprazole daily helps eliminate acid reflux. try it, you may like it.