Travlr
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Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't correcting you at all. I was just adding his additional personalities.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.I stand corrected. He should be able to float on a weed induced breeze.
i don't know anyone on here but warren must be a crowd favorite. (perhaps that should be said jokingly)Quarterback on the winning team... and the most valuable player.
You have no idea... or maybe you do.i don't know anyone on here but warren must be a crowd favorite. (perhaps that should be said jokingly)
I'd watch that over the SuperBowel anytimeprobably check on what should/could be a couple of new calf arrivals.
Didn't think anyone watching the superbowl would be veganfood looked good but mostly didn't fit my diet parameters
Not that. I'm trying to ditch carbs / sugar and most Super Bowl type treats don't qualify.Didn't think anyone watching the superbowl would be vegan
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.Not that. I'm trying to ditch carbs / sugar and most Super Bowl type treats don't qualify.
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.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.
Sugar in beans reminded me................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? ...................
My A1C hit 7.8 back in November....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.
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…..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.
That is a LOT of sugar for a regular sized pot of green beans.she puts a quarter cup of sugar in her green beans
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.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?![]()
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?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 do not think this condition has anything to do with modern lifestyle/environment.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.