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  2. Pain Journey

    toomuchbaloney replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I imagine that your diet and lifestyle have helped to keep your pain on the lower side of its potential. Well done. Good luck, chronic pain is a real challenge on our physical, emotional and...
  3. Tweety

    Pain Journey

    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Good luck. I was in neck pain for three months and went insane, so can't imagine all those years. On a side note and I'm not giving any advice at all, but I had a good friend with psoriatic...
  4. hppygr8ful

    Pain Journey

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    As some of you know, I have suffered from Chronic Pain since around the age of 13. It goes through remissions and relapses. Managing this while working and raising the man cub has been daunting. In...
  5. barcode120x

    Have you ever left work in the middle of the day to go exercise?

    barcode120x replied to SilverBells's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I actually thought about doing this fairly recently since sometimes I have 1-2 hour downtime at my clinic and there is a 24 hour fitness nearby. But then I think about getting sweaty, not wanting to...
  6. SilverBells

    Have you ever left work in the middle of the day to go exercise?

    SilverBells posted a topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Lately, my job has taken over my life. So much to the point that I cannot regularly exercise. This has made me frustrated, so today I left at noon to go to a weight lifting class. While at class,...
  8. Kitiger

    Join my journey

    Kitiger replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Excellent! You are doing it. Quality loss that represents good lifestyle choices is the way to
  9. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    So down another pound. This going slower than I like but I am looking for quality weight loss not just
  10. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Chia mixed with water is a good binder. I think there's a misprint in the recipe in that it called for 1/2 cup of lemon juice and this ruined it. Made it too juicy and too lemony and I tried to...
  11. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    One of my recipe contacts suggested using soked Chia
  12. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I decided not to make them tonight but I'm using this recipe. I'm thinking the oatmeal and the mushiness of the beans will bind it. We'll see....
  14. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    What are you using as a binder for your vegan
  15. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I have been known to get the ice cream. And enjoy all 1000 calories in a pint. I was bad and got Chinese food and chicken wings for dinner after work Friday night. Jumped back on the healthy...
  16. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Well at least you didn't get Ice cream and a milkshake! Down two more pounds. Starting to feel the effects of a better
  17. hppygr8ful

    Rate Apps that you use

    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I use a Vont Smart Scale that I got for $20 on Amazon. Argus atep counter Free with my Iphone and just started using BetterMe.com App. Will give you a rating later in February.
  18. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Agreed! Sometimes You have to feed the
  19. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Well there is that. LOL. I've also learned to take these episodes with a grain of salt and not beat myself up too much and to not give up. Time was I would do that and stay "f-it" and eat too...
  20. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Well at least you didn't get Ice cream and a
  21. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I can't exercise with a full stomach and need to exercise between meals. My issue that day was I went to the gym at lunch time and by the time I came out I was very hungry and while I the store...
  22. Kitiger

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    Kitiger replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I do best losing weight if I exercise before eating.It helps me maintain my weight,
  23. Tweety

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    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I had an air popper to make popcorn years ago. Wasn't as good but very low calorie and I got used to it. You can dress it up with spices, nutritional yeast. I used to put salsa on it. I'm up a...
  24. hppygr8ful

    Rate Apps that you use

    hppygr8ful posted a topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I am interested if anyone is using apps to guide/track fitness progress. If so what apps are you
  25. Kitiger

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    Kitiger replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Good for you, Happygr8ful! I'm UP 4 pounds.?I guess I need to cut out the popcorn, or at least some of the
  26. hppygr8ful

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    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    I am down 2 pounds. Went to the Gym twice this week. Light Cardio only for now as I am still recovering from that last bout of
  27. Tweety

    Trip to France

    Tweety replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    Glad you had (mostly) a good trip and sorry you caught covid. I recently traveled to Costa Rica and had a great time. The airports were crowded and no social distancing. I'm surprised I didn't...
  28. hppygr8ful

    Trip to France

    hppygr8ful replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Exercise and Healthy Living's Exercise

    So I was only back 3 days when I came down with what I thought was the flu (Turned out to be Covid). Now fully on the mend I went and got a thai massage yesterday with CBD oil. The focus was lymphatic...