The Random Thoughts Thread

Really...there has to be an airline rule against an emotional support PEACOCK? Not even going to waste space with a link to the story...I feel stupid for even clicking on the article.
 
bob91yj said:
Congrats to Space X for getting their Falcon Heavy off the ground!
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In other rocket news today...

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You've been talking about diet soda, regular soda, and Mtn Dew (in a class of it's own, and my personal fave). Diet soda tastes horrible to me.

In the end of June my doctor got me to take a blood test, and my A1C came back 9.5, Type 2 Diabetic. He wrote me a prescription for Metformin, wanted to put me on a statin (lipitor) which I declined and refused to fill since my cholesterol is normal. He sent me to a class that wanted to teach me how to live with diabetes and how this medication was going to be with me for life, and that I should get used to it. He also wanted me to lose 40 pounds as quickly as possible.

From discussions with friends, and lots of reading, and some youtube research, Apryl (also diabetic because it runs in her family, type 2, but takes insulin) and I started eating a ketogenic diet. No more soda! Less than 5g of sugar a day, less than 40g of carbs a day. Higher protein and much higher fat diet.

By the middle of July, I'd lost 15 pounds, and my meter readings were normal levels. By this time I'm only taking Metformin in the evenings, since taking it in the morning messed with my digestive and ruined my days.

In the beginning of August, the 7th to be exact, my A1C was now 8.2, and my meter readings continued to be normal. Around this date, I stopped taking the metformin completely, against my doctors advice.

My next doctor visit/blood test was November, 8th. A1C was 5.8, considered a Pre-Diabetic level, which really means squat to me, because looking at their chart EVERYONE is "Pre-Diabetic". I'd lost 37.2 pounds at my best, but I'm hovering around 35 below my weight when diagnosed in June.

I'm sleeping better, I'm more energetic. The only soda we drink now is a couple Weinhard's Root Beers when camping, and even then not every time.

I go through Tejava unsweetened black tea like crazy. I could never drink unsweetened tea before, but on a keto diet, you just don't crave the sugar.

Lately we've been lax, and we need to tighten it back up a bit, having more ice cream than we should, and making poor choices when going out to dinner with friends or on our own, but it's easier now than it was before. We know what we should not be eating, and its not really hard to stick within Keto. Pretty easy to find restaurants that serve steak with veggies smothered in butter, tea instead of soda, and no potatoes.

So that's my random thought.
 
Newest addition (and a real long shot) to my bucket list, camping in Antarctica.

Craig Ormiston is a chronic adventurer. So it comes as no surprise that he signed up to camp on the ice in Antarctica with Quark Expeditions, a company that focuses on polar adventures. To him, it was a bucket-list item that absolutely had to be checked off.

It all began just after dinner on a mid-November evening. He and a few dozen of his fellow Ocean Endeavor passengers boarded Zodiac boats and made their way to the campsite. The skies were clear. The temperature was 32 degrees Farenheit. And there was next to no wind.

“We arrived right around sunset, so everything started to glow with warm pinks and yellows,” he recalls.

“We arrived right around sunset, so everything started to glow with warm pinks and yellows,” one camper recalled.

The snow-covered campsite, right next to the water, was quite a sight. There were snowy peaks as far as the eye could see. And it was blissfully quiet. The only noises were the occasional petrel squawking as it passed by, gentle waves washing over pebbles on shore, and chunks of ice bobbing up and down in the beautiful but frigid water.
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That's great to hear Mitch! Goodonya! I've done a similar thing and watched 20 pounds melt off in a month and my lab results improved correspondingly.

I too have eliminated most all carbs from my diet, which as a potato eater, bread lover, rice craver, and pasta romancer was not a popular choice. Focusing my diet on proteins and veggies was not too hard and since this includes delicious sausages, not in the too-hard box. I've not been a craver for sugar, but since becoming conscious of examining food labels before purchasing it was shocking to learn the large number of grams of sugar in so many products. Plus, reading the ingredient list was shocking on how manufacturers disguise the types of sugars included in products (catsup being one of the worst offenders). Careful label reading and avoiding products with excessive volumes of sugar and carbs has been fruitful.

The soda thing I don't get... but everyone is different. I've long ago adapted to diet soda and now the taste of sugar filled regular soda is simply distasteful to my palate. It takes time to adapt, but since I have, diet soda does satisfy the craving for something sweet and flavorful, and on a hot day nothing quite slakes that thirst.

The most challenging dilemma I face is the small fortune I have invested in "boutique expeditionary clothing". An IWB holster helps take up some of the slack, but the IWB SBR holster does "print" more. :D
 
TangoBlue said:
That's great to hear Mitch! Goodonya! I've done a similar thing and watched 20 pounds melt off in a month and my lab results improved correspondingly.

I too have eliminated most all carbs from my diet, which as a potato eater, bread lover, rice craver, and pasta romancer was not a popular choice. Focusing my diet on proteins and veggies was not too hard and since this includes delicious sausages, not in the too-hard box. I've not been a craver for sugar, but since becoming conscious of examining food labels before purchasing it was shocking to learn the large number of grams of sugar in so many products. Plus, reading the ingredient list was shocking on how manufacturers disguise the types of sugars included in products (catsup being one of the worst offenders). Careful label reading and avoiding products with excessive volumes of sugar and carbs has been fruitful.

The soda thing I don't get... but everyone is different. I've long ago adapted to diet soda and now the taste of sugar filled regular soda is simply distasteful to my palate. It takes time to adapt, but since I have, diet soda does satisfy the craving for something sweet and flavorful, and on a hot day nothing quite slakes that thirst.

The most challenging dilemma I face is the small fortune I have invested in "boutique expeditionary clothing". An IWB holster helps take up some of the slack, but the IWB SBR holster does "print" more. :D
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Yeah, when Apryl and I are "forced" to get soda (no iced tea option, we don't drink alcohol, etc) we get the cup fill it to the rim with ice, and fill the voids with usually barqs root beer, and we cringe upon our first drink because it's so sweet we can't stand it.

I agree with you on potato/bread/pasta, that was hard, but we "reward" ourselves for being good and occasionally have a slice or some fries from places that make unbelievable french fries. The key is moderation, and being aware of how often you do it. For me it's just about keeping the blood sugar down to normal levels, which if in minimal amounts, is easy for a healthy pancreas to achieve. It was the completely aware and unconcerned attitude I had before that allowed me to fall prey to the sugar industries camouflage tactics, and the hidden carbs processed food makers use to make their foods taste better.

The long short of it is the less we allow others to cook for us (pre-packaged foods, processed foods, fast foods), the more in control of our diets we are, and the more aware of the ingredients we are. Reading labels, and picking carefully what we choose to cook with, and cooking for ourselves more, has been where our biggest changes and successes comes from.

For awhile I was feeling a little down, like I was feeling better but really didn't see a change in size after all this work. It's hard to look at yourself in the mirror and see change, when you're trying to be critical as well. But then something happened that made me notice a difference. Last year I bought myself a TAD hoodie, I never buy clothes like that, but I thought I'd treat myself. I bought their 3XL, and was pretty sad when I got it and found I couldn't zip it up. Well after losing the 35 pounds, I can zip it up with room to spare :) I didn't see it in the mirror, but it felt pretty good being able to zip up that damn expensive sweater.
 
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