"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[shelley262]

Thank you all for the kind wishes. Whatever bug it was passed through very quickly. I take a large dose of vitamin c everyday so maybe that did the trick.
I couldn't sleep however and finally realised I was very hungry so got up at 3 am and had cheese and pate and nuts and a cup of tea.

Today was a bit more normal
B: cold chicken
Exercise class
L: 2 beefburgers on spring greens with kimchi and coleslaw. Very cabbagey, unintentionally!!!
D: had an 6:30 meeting so a little nuts and cheese before and cheese and hm lc mango parfait after.

Pleased to hear you're doing better

 

[Antje77]

Hope job goes well and that your pesky arm tendons don't object too much. Think the grass to feed cattle is called hay in UK when fresh and dry but silage when rotted down or fermented under plastic usually for feed. I'm happy to be corrected though ........

I liked the job, but it was too heavy and I couldn't keep up. The heat didn't help either.
Nice people, very lovely dog, and apparently you're supposed to drink beer after you've finished covering the pile of silage, so my breakfast at 11:30 am was a liquid one.

No issues with my arms though, thankfully!

 

[jpscloud]

Goodness @Antje77 physical work in the heat followed by beer... I'd be fast asleep! Glad you enjoyed it! I think it's very difficult to keep up with a new physical job, as I said before, no muscle memory means it's much more of a challenge.

I've not had a low carb day, and the heat is making me a bit sluggish. I'm a bit disappointed to find that my energy levels are still very low, even after losing a reasonable bit of weight. I need to push on and lose more to get results maybe - or perhaps it's just part of being older for me. I still think I'm in my twenties in my head!

I've got heaps of mushrooms in the slow cooker, I'll make soup out of the liquid and the mushrooms will be frozen to have with breakfasts etc.

Hope everyone has had/is having a great day - it's going to be even hotter here tomorrow apparently - I know these temperatures are fairly mild for people in some parts of the world but I'm just not used to them!

 

[Annb]

I liked the job, but it was too heavy and I couldn't keep up. The heat didn't help either.
Nice people, very lovely dog, and apparently you're supposed to drink beer after you've finished covering the pile of silage, so my breakfast at 11:30 am was a liquid one.

No issues with my arms though, thankfully!

Are you going back for a second day on that job Antje? It's bound to be hard going at first, but at least your arms seem to be playing ball. I daresay the beer helped to recover from the heat, if it was cold.

We don't have anything like that heat here. The weather app says it's 14C and sunny when in fact, it's more like 10C and overcast.

Food yesterday was 2 bowls of vegetable soup out of the freezer. Today was pork ragout - had one meal earlier and there's about half as much again left, so that'll do for my 2nd meal.

Alistair has Covid - tested positive - and is feeling pretty bad. Neil and I have what we thought were colds, but we haven't tested yet. We will later because Alistair said he would send up a couple of test kits. Whatever mine is, it has gone down into my lungs again but is just irritating, not bad. Neil is feeling pretty grotty. It may be Covid, but we don't know yet.

I've done a DNA test to see what ancestral lines they can find for me. I've been doing a lot of family history research and one line takes us right back to the 9th century and Vikings (The earliest is Ragnar Lodbrok and his arch enemy Aelle as well, who had him thrown into a pit of vipers. Nice! especially the fabled comeuppance dealt by Ragnar's sons who, the story goes, executed him using the notorious "blood eagle" method. Very nice!) I can well believe that some of my family members are descended from them.

 

[shelley262]

I liked the job, but it was too heavy and I couldn't keep up. The heat didn't help either.
Nice people, very lovely dog, and apparently you're supposed to drink beer after you've finished covering the pile of silage, so my breakfast at 11:30 am was a liquid one.

No issues with my arms though, thankfully!

Pleased you liked the job and it didn't cause you any more issues with your arms- but such a shame it was hot. Any outdoors work is so so much harder when it's uncomfortably warm. When we painted our fence a few weeks ago one of panels was in full sun and I felt quite dizzy after an hour or so. It was much easier painting in the shade ! Not sure a beer in the morning would have helped the dizziness!

 

[shelley262]

Goodness @Antje77 physical work in the heat followed by beer... I'd be fast asleep! Glad you enjoyed it! I think it's very difficult to keep up with a new physical job, as I said before, no muscle memory means it's much more of a challenge.

I've not had a low carb day, and the heat is making me a bit sluggish. I'm a bit disappointed to find that my energy levels are still very low, even after losing a reasonable bit of weight. I need to push on and lose more to get results maybe - or perhaps it's just part of being older for me. I still think I'm in my twenties in my head!

I've got heaps of mushrooms in the slow cooker, I'll make soup out of the liquid and the mushrooms will be frozen to have with breakfasts etc.

Hope everyone has had/is having a great day - it's going to be even hotter here tomorrow apparently - I know these temperatures are fairly mild for people in some parts of the world but I'm just not used to them!

I think energy levels take quite a while to adjust particularly as you are switching about a bit with the fuel you are taking in. I remember clearly in early keto days when adapting that sometimes my energy didn't come in on demand. Took a while for me as I'd had years of sugar burning and then being without the carbs to provide the energy - despite having a lot of fat on my body at the time waiting to be burnt. I'd got the fuel but my body needed to adjust to using fat as my main energy source. In addition heat is very draining too. Once I'd properly adjusted to fat burning on full keto I had energy to spare.

 

[shelley262]

Are you going back for a second day on that job Antje? It's bound to be hard going at first, but at least your arms seem to be playing ball. I daresay the beer helped to recover from the heat, if it was cold.

We don't have anything like that heat here. The weather app says it's 14C and sunny when in fact, it's more like 10C and overcast.

Food yesterday was 2 bowls of vegetable soup out of the freezer. Today was pork ragout - had one meal earlier and there's about half as much again left, so that'll do for my 2nd meal.

Alistair has Covid - tested positive - and is feeling pretty bad. Neil and I have what we thought were colds, but we haven't tested yet. We will later because Alistair said he would send up a couple of test kits. Whatever mine is, it has gone down into my lungs again but is just irritating, not bad. Neil is feeling pretty grotty. It may be Covid, but we don't know yet.

I've done a DNA test to see what ancestral lines they can find for me. I've been doing a lot of family history research and one line takes us right back to the 9th century and Vikings (The earliest is Ragnar Lodbrok and his arch enemy Aelle as well, who had him thrown into a pit of vipers. Nice! especially the fabled comeuppance dealt by Ragnar's sons who, the story goes, executed him using the notorious "blood eagle" method. Very nice!) I can well believe that some of my family members are descended from them.

Think we all need to move to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to cool down! Mind you we'd be grabbing jumpers and complaining about the cold! Think issue is we don't do extreme heat or cold very well.
Sorry to hear about your virus\covid and hope it doesn't stick around. meanwhile your family ancestry research sounds like an interesting distraction. Take care.

 

[shelley262]

Bit of a dashing about day - including picking up scripts from chemist for eldest. I also managed to sort out his new diazepam pills as we are hoping that his crown should be ready for fitting at dentist on Thursday. He needs five pills to enable us to get him there so I'm crossing fingers madly that they don't cancel last minute and that temps go down on Thursday as forecasted.
One of my favourite bits of this hot day was needing to go to supermarket which had wonderful air conditioning and I stayed in there longer than my usual quick dash!
Brunch as out early kefir then bacon, egg and mushrooms then a few garden berries and hm yoghurt.
Dinner Sea Bream with peas and a few hm new potato chips plus a glass of chilled white wine.
Now off to water the garden - will keep an eye on England's score this evening but I'm not a sport watcher.

 

[Antje77]

Are you going back for a second day on that job Antje? It's bound to be hard going at first, but at least your arms seem to be playing ball.

Nope. I was only asked for two days, and on different farms at that.
No use doing a job if I'm not worth the money, and not worth killing my back trying to do the job. The job agency was very nice about it, we'll just keep trying to find something that works.

We don't have anything like that heat here. The weather app says it's 14C and sunny when in fact, it's more like 10C and overcast.

I'm on my way!

Otherwise, my day sucked. Neighbour three houses down the road (I don't think he has featured here before) was on holiday walking in the mountains. Yesterday he misstepped and fell down the mountain.
I heard early this afternoon and had to inform various other neighbours, a job much harder than my morning job.
I feel so sorry for his partner that it hurts. The both of them are recently retired, very fit and active, all ready for another twenty years of enjoying life, and I know no other couple as much in love as those two.

I lost my mum to an accident when I was twenty, echoes are loud today.

 

[shelley262]

Nope. I was only asked for two days, and on different farms at that.
No use doing a job if I'm not worth the money, and not worth killing my back trying to do the job. The job agency was very nice about it, we'll just keep trying to find something that works.

I'm on my way!

Otherwise, my day sucked. Neighbour three houses down the road (I don't think he has featured here before) was on holiday walking in the mountains. Yesterday he misstepped and fell down the mountain.
I heard early this afternoon and had to inform various other neighbours, a job much harder than my morning job.
I feel so sorry for his partner that it hurts. The both of them are recently retired, very fit and active, all ready for another twenty years of enjoying life, and I know no other couple as much in love as those two.

I lost my mum to an accident when I was twenty, echoes are loud today.

Gosh your neighbours accident puts things in perspective - very sad and sobering.

 

[jpscloud]

I think energy levels take quite a while to adjust particularly as you are switching about a bit with the fuel you are taking in. I remember clearly in early keto days when adapting that sometimes my energy didn't come in on demand. Took a while for me as I'd had years of sugar burning and then being without the carbs to provide the energy - despite having a lot of fat on my body at the time waiting to be burnt. I'd got the fuel but my body needed to adjust to using fat as my main energy source. In addition heat is very draining too. Once I'd properly adjusted to fat burning on full keto I had energy to spare.

You're right, I've been kind of blind to that even though when I had got into fat burning I remember posting to say how much my energy levels had seemed to improve. After my hols I'll have another proper go at keto I think. I'm very much the carb addict who can't abstain and that is the reality, but it doesn't mean I can't keep trying!

 

[jpscloud]

Nope. I was only asked for two days, and on different farms at that.
No use doing a job if I'm not worth the money, and not worth killing my back trying to do the job. The job agency was very nice about it, we'll just keep trying to find something that works.

I'm on my way!

Otherwise, my day sucked. Neighbour three houses down the road (I don't think he has featured here before) was on holiday walking in the mountains. Yesterday he misstepped and fell down the mountain.
I heard early this afternoon and had to inform various other neighbours, a job much harder than my morning job.
I feel so sorry for his partner that it hurts. The both of them are recently retired, very fit and active, all ready for another twenty years of enjoying life, and I know no other couple as much in love as those two.

I lost my mum to an accident when I was twenty, echoes are loud today.

A hug emoji doesn't cut it for this, so replying to let you know I'm thinking of you and sending love x

 

[MrsA2]

@Antje77 so sorry to hear that sudden and sad news

 

[LivingLightly]

Coming from BC I feel obliged to give a shout out to our BC Spot Prawns. A champion of the crustaceans.

Have not come across BC spot prawns @MommaE. Are they currently in season? I may be able to order from our trusty fishmonger.

 

[MommaE]

Have not come across BC spot prawns @MommaE. Are they currently in season? I may be able to order from our trusty fishmonger.

I’d think the short six week season has recently closed. Our excellent fishmonger only has them frozen, and a limited number each year. If you can get them they are a delicious treat.

 

[MommaE]

Breakfast was a rushed scrambled egg on half slice of homemade normal bread then biked to pickleball for a couple of hours.
Lunch was a planned over enchilada, made with lc wrap, spinach and kale from the garden with hm caesar dressing.
Dinner was stir fry veggies, garlic and ginger sauce with cauliflower rice. Needed something quick to make in between watching both England’s and Canada’s football games.

 

[RosemaryJackson]

That posting from @Antonynguyen was from one of my postings about my life in Holland in 1959/1961 quite a few weeks ago. Maybe the same happened to him? I've been awol recently but last Friday was my 86th birthday and my stepson and wife came over for the weekend. They brought me a reclining chair as my present. It belonged to my stepson's mother and he thought I might make use of it! I'm very lucky! He also brought me a bottle of normal Baileys and a bottle of Baileys Birthday cake! He found it on the ferry but when they went back, they had sold out! I love a drop of Baileys in my morning coffee. My Irish granddaughter also came up for the weekend. All in all, I've had a wonderful weekend. marinated!!, dined, pampered as never before so I'm really counting my blessings. Have a nice day all.

 

[jpscloud]

That posting from @Antonynguyen was from one of my postings about my life in Holland in 1959/1961 quite a few weeks ago. Maybe the same happened to him? I've been awol recently but last Friday was my 86th birthday and my stepson and wife came over for the weekend. They brought me a reclining chair as my present. It belonged to my stepson's mother and he thought I might make use of it! I'm very lucky! He also brought me a bottle of normal Baileys and a bottle of Baileys Birthday cake! He found it on the ferry but when they went back, they had sold out! I love a drop of Baileys in my morning coffee. My Irish granddaughter also came up for the weekend. All in all, I've had a wonderful weekend. marinated!!, dined, pampered as never before so I'm really counting my blessings. Have a nice day all.

A very very happy belated birthday to you! I like to make mine last at least a week

 

[jpscloud]

Well a very hot day in progress here, but it's forecast to be much cooler tomorrow, so I'm enjoying the novelty by pretending I'm overseas and have spent the morning under a parasol drinking iced water, iced coffee and... eating ice cream!! Oh well. My appetite is slightly suppressed with medications so at least it's not binge eating as it would be without them. The sparrows and starlings have emptied the bird bath twice today by having splash parties, so I'm also on fresh water duty.

I've moved indoors in front of a fan now the heat has really built up, and having a very nice relaxing time. I've pushed it in the past on hot days and deeply regretted it, so today is a holiday. The lawn can wait until tomorrow! I'll go back outdoors later - maybe have my tea out there or a nice evening bat watch again.

Hope everyone is doing well today! x

 

[shelley262]

That posting from @Antonynguyen was from one of my postings about my life in Holland in 1959/1961 quite a few weeks ago. Maybe the same happened to him? I've been awol recently but last Friday was my 86th birthday and my stepson and wife came over for the weekend. They brought me a reclining chair as my present. It belonged to my stepson's mother and he thought I might make use of it! I'm very lucky! He also brought me a bottle of normal Baileys and a bottle of Baileys Birthday cake! He found it on the ferry but when they went back, they had sold out! I love a drop of Baileys in my morning coffee. My Irish granddaughter also came up for the weekend. All in all, I've had a wonderful weekend. marinated!!, dined, pampered as never before so I'm really counting my blessings. Have a nice day all.

Wanted to wish you happy birthday hope your are still celebrating even though it was a few days ago! Sounds like you had a wonderful celebratory weekend.