Greta
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Yeah..if you could see my natural apple body shape, even after bariatric surgery, insulin resistance is a possibility. My father is now type 2 diabetic. A1C and fasting glucose have always been perfect, but I'm wondering if that wasn't the whole story.
Will keep monitoring, and see what happens. That definitely was a bit of an odd meal (pancakes and brussel sprouts???) so we'll see what a more normal one looks like.
I've read that fasting glucose is not a good indicator -- by the time it gets bad, you're already in really bad shape. Doctors use it because it's quicker, easier, and cheaper than a glucose tolerance test, which is really the gold standard. Testing post-prandial numbers is the next best thing. So now that you have a monitor, you'll be able to test post-prandial numbers often, and you can even do a home version of a glucose tolerance test if you really want to, but it isn't fun (I've done it!). You have to eat about 60-70g worth of carbs *without* any fat or protein. So a bagel sans cream cheese, a boiled potato sans butter, or plain white rice, something like that. Then you test your BG over the next few hours. It was harder than I thought it would be to choke down that much pure carbohydrate. They just don't taste right without some fat! :D
Anyway, point being, you'll get a much clearer picture with your home BG monitor than you were getting from just the fasting tests performed by your doctor. There's tons of good information at Blood Sugar 101, so I hope you'll find it helpful.
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This might help: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/16422495.php
I'm no expert, but I think those numbers (if typical for you and not just a one-time thing) might indicate some degree of insulin-resistance.
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I need to get a haircut before baby comes. I have never had a haircut I actually like. Mostly I just have longish hair and pull it back somehow because I can't find a style I like. I've tried shoulder-length or somewhat shorter bobs a few times. I like the look of bobs, but they don't seem to work for me. I don't like the feel of hair on my neck, and I hate having hair in my face so I end up using clips or bobby pins to keep it out of my face. My hair is fairly thick and has a lot of body and it always looks messy if it's down which bothers me, and no matter what I do or how it's cut one side flips up and one side flips under. Is there some way to make a bob work for me without getting a really short one, and without taking more than 5-10 minutes a day to style my hair? If it matters I have an oval face shape and medium brown hair.
Oh, and I need bangs. I don't like the way I look without bangs. I've had straight across bangs that I curl under with a curling iron sort of 80's-style (but not so poofy) for ages. I wouldn't mind trying something else, but I don't know what else to try.
My hair is just like yours! What has worked well for me is to do a layered bob instead of a blunt bob. That way it looks intentionally "messy" and loose and natural rather than just looking like it's not cooperating with my attempts at styling. Something like this: http://hairstylesweekly.com/images/2012/10/Best-Layered-Bob-Hairstyles1.jpg
Also, since my hair is super thick, my stylist thins it out a bit with thinning sheers. That seems to help too.
ETA: my bangs are not as long as those in the picture, because that would drive me insane. But side-swept bangs are so pretty. That might be something new you could try.
ETA again: I may have misunderstood what you were asking for. I always liked sleek styles and tried to get my hair to do that, but it never worked. I gave up and went with a more messy style, and since that's what my hair wants to do naturally, I actually ended up liking it more than I would have expected. So I would personally encourage you to take "messy" and run with it. But if that's not what you want, then I hope someone else is better able to help!
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I don't know much of anything about Tony Robbins, but Steve Hassan is an expert on cults (he has a fascinating book on cult mind-control techniques) so you might google a bit and see if he has anything to say about Tony Robbins. All I could find is that he does say NLP is a covert hypnosis technique, and the descriptor "covert" when applied to anything mind-altering sounds pretty darn creepy to me.
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I homeschooled my daughter full-time for K through 10th grade. This year (11th) we are homeschooling three classes, and she'll be taking three dual enrollment classes at the local community college. Next year we'll only homeschool two classes, and the rest will be at the CC.
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My personal triggers:
If I fail to eat something fairly carby within one hour of waking up, there is precisely a 100% chance that I will get a bad migraine within the next hour. This kind of stinks because I have absolutely no appetite that early, but I've learned from experience that I have to force myself to eat whether I want food or not.
Low carb dieting seemed to make it worse, which also really stinks because I loved that diet in every other way.
Mine are definitely hormone related, because they appeared with puberty, disappeared during pregnancy and nursing, and became chronic and debilitating with perimenopause.
Loud, high-frequency and repetitive, percussive noises are a major trigger for me. Bright flashing lights, watching disorienting rapid motion on a large screen, or experiencing disorienting rapid motion (amusement park rides) are also triggers.
Drinking any kind of alcohol has also become a trigger in recent years, though it wasn't in the past.
Getting dehydrated, hypoglycemic, or overheated will also trigger.
Treatments that work for me:
Tri-cyclic antidepressant, taken daily for prevention. I wasn't optimistic, but this stuff has saved my life!
Aspirin with caffeine, or sumatriptan taken immediately at the first sign of a migraine works wonders.
Minimum of four hours of aerobic exercise per week reduces frequency considerably.
Treatment that did NOT work for me: blood pressure lowering meds. My blood pressure has always been on the low end of normal, but my GP tried two diffent blood pressure lowering meds for me anyway. They both made me feel AWFUL. I then saw a neurologist who said that my GP never should have tried that for me, because given what my blood pressure was before the meds, it would only make me feel worse. But if your blood pressure is high, or even high end of normal range, might be worth a shot.
I hope you feel better soon!
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Most Orthodox Monasteries (male or female) will not accept a new monastic before the age of 16 or after the age of 30 until the age of 60. (In the US, the youngest age is 18...) Over the centuries, they have found that after 30, people are too well formed to make good monastics. That is, until about the age of 60. Then, people become flexible enough again.
I was reading something in some brain science article the other day that talks about how this is borne out in brain science...we sort of develop until 30 and then we stop for a long time and sort of "freeze"--and then we "unfreeze" again and start learning again at about age 60. I thought that was interesting in light of the monastic practice which has been in place for about 2000 years.
One other thing I have noticed is that many residential addiction rehab centers (especially those focused on behavioral addictions) do not accept patients over the age of 30. I looked further into this (as I find it interesting!) and was told that the success rate for behavioral addiction doesn't hold up after age 30, and so rather than take all the money and fail, they just have a cutoff date. Wow. I didn't ask about the over-60 crowd.
WELL, all that to say, I wonder a bit about those ages as something related to marriage.
Wow, that's really interesting! I'm going to look into that more. Fun stuff.
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Thanks for the warning. I don't get motion sickness quite that easily, but I do get migraines VERY easily, and that can definitely trigger one. Disappointing, too, since I really liked the first Bourne movie a lot, and have been hoping that at least one of the subsequent ones would be as good!
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Hubby said he couldn't really taste a flavor in it either. He said it wasn't offensive - just quite bland. But then again, he's the guy in our family who literally can't tell the difference between Dr Pepper and Coca Cola if you put both in front of him and ask which is which. He's lacking quite a bit in "taste" abilities (which tends to mean he dislikes less, but leaves the rest of us wondering if he even knows what good food tastes like). It's an ongoing discussion in our family - not a condemnation. There are pros and cons to everything.
I think I am like your husband. Certain flavors taste very strong to me. I couldn't eat anything with celery or green chile in it when I was growing up, because if one of those were in the dish, it was all that I could taste, and I did not like the taste at all. It took me years of living in New Mexico before I learned to appreciate green chile, and it was a gradual process. I can also tolerate celery better now, but it's not something I ever crave. But with a lot of other foods, I feel like other people can taste things that I can't. Some spices have to be at a level where other people say they are "strong" before I can even pick them out.
Not only would I not be able to taste the difference between Dr. Pepper and Coca Cola, I can't even taste the difference between diet and regular sodas. On the rare occasion that I order a soda at a restaurant, I always ask my daughter to taste it first and make sure it's diet (can't do real sugars because of hypoglycemia). They all just taste syrupy sweet to me, and that's really all that I taste. I taste enough to enjoy good food! But sometimes I do get the impression that others are enjoying nuances to the flavors that I don't perceive.
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You can also very lightly saute carrot and daikon sticks with cabbage for a fresh, crunchy effect.
That sounds good!
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I have a love hate feeling towards celery. I love celery, but even if I ate it every day I never can go through it before it is bad. I sometimes freeze the excess for soup, but there is only so much of that I need. Wrapping it in foil makes it last longer (but of course wastes a piece of expensive foil). So every week I end up throwing some of it out. They sell these gigantic stalks. If I wanted to buy some cut up celery in a small quantity it's 2x the price so that's pointless. One of mine will eat maybe a stalk now and then, but nobody else likes it all that much.
We love celery. At the moment we are eating close to a bunch in a day. I it thebottom off and stick it into a jug of water on thesink. I crunch all day long andeatover half of it myself. The kids eat the rest.
Not a big fan of celery personally, unless it is properly served.
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We have a fair bit of high tech industry, plus 2 research universities + some technical universities so maybe?
But housing is IN.SANE. Like really, really insane. People keep moving away because of the housing.
Yeah, I was afraid of that regarding the housing. :(
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I would love to participate as well. I'm going out of town on Monday, and I'm not sure how long I'll be gone, but probably about ten days. So I think I'll just plan to start once I get back.
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I'm sorry - I had no idea. So UNM is not a safe campus?
I had no idea either, until after I'd lived here for awhile! NM doesn't have a reputation for high crime, which is really strange because the state as a whole has the second highest crime rate in the nation. There are some very localized areas in other states that are far worse, like those cities that we all think of when we think of crime. It's not that bad. But it's pretty bad. Yeah, UNM campus is not safe. :( It's a shame too, because it's cheap, and the program that my daughter would want to study actually has a very good reputation.
ETA: I'm sorry - I shouldn't be derailing the thread, should I? :blush:
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Hey, Albuquerque is beautiful, too! I'm jealous you get to live there.
:D I have a love/hate relationship with Albuquerque. It IS beautiful! I love the desert landscapes and the even more stunning "skyscapes" (the sky here is just so big, so beautiful, so blue, the clouds are so pretty, the night skies are so pretty, the sunsets are breathtaking). Love all the sunshine. Love the cacti and yuccas and roadrunners. Love all of that so much, and I will miss it dearly if/when we move.
But the culture. Ugh. The crime here is just awful. I want to live in a place where I can go to a play or a musical performance, or go for a run in a park or an open space area without having to worry so much about my safety. I want my daughter to go a college where I wouldn't have to be worried sick all day about what might happen to her on campus. I'm really sick of that part of living here. I know I probably sound ungrateful - I do realize there are far worse places to live. But I always lived in low-crime areas before this, so this was a bit of a shock to me.
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This is an interesting point. We go to the store pretty much every day. I can walk to several grocery stores and several more fruit & veg markets. We would easily eat a head of lettuce and the package of grape tomatoes and one long cuke in one day. Next day we get more. Dh often walks through the store on the way home from work & buys a shopping bag full of produce.
We eat a bit of frozen veg but more fresh. Some of the stay fresh packaging means you can get 3-5 days out of it. If lettuce is on sale for ex, one way to make it last it wash it & store the leaves between paper towels. I also know some people use those special veg storage bags.
Vancouver, Canada.
Hippie land :D House, huge garden, but walkable, bike & transit friendly with lots of small convenient shopping hubs.
I'm so jealous!!!!! I despise car-based living with a passion, and it's my life dream to live in a place where I can walk and use public transit! :D Recently my dental hygienist was telling me that she had lived in Vancouver and she really loved it. The way she described it, it sounded so nice that I wanted to ask "why on earth did you move here (Albuquerque :thumbdown: )when you could have stayed there?" :lol: But I didn't feel it was actually appropriate to ask, so I restrained myself.
So, you wouldn't happen to know if there's much demand for physicists in Vancouver, would you? :001_smile:
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I'm not blaming her. I just didn't understand how it could happen. Of course the guy is a scum and should be put away. Of course it isn't her fault that it happened. I was just trying to figure out...
If you're unfamiliar with traumatic and dangerous situations generally, or sexual predators more specifically, it's natural that you wouldn't understand. I could never have begun to imagine the things that predators will say to intimidate and threaten their victims into silence if I hadn't had friends share their stories with me. And while it's hard to imagine freezing up if you've never been through it, it is a common response to fear for a lot of different people in a lot of different circumstances. It seems reasonable to think that in her situation, with so many people around, she would feel that she could cry out for help. But the thing is, when you're terrified, you don't act on reason. Quite literally - the adrenaline rush and accompanying physiological changes disrupt the higher thinking capabilities of the brain. (Or so I've read - I'm not an expert.) I've never been through anything comparable, but I've been in a couple of situations where for just a few brief moments I was very afraid, and it was almost like I was watching it from somewhere else, and couldn't make my body move.
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Greta, we were on the same page with the food "addiction".
I totally remember living in a city. I ate McDs, Hardees for breakfast every morning with a Dr. Pepper.
Those mornings I missed it because I packed breakfast I had a terrible craving for what I'd missed.
My stomach would hurt every single day but I don't think I put it together that it was the fat/sugar. Food was different back then for me. A must do. Now, I have more money and time and see food as a get to. Socio-economics must surely play a factor as well. I've found cooking with vegetables to be much more expensive than making a pizza or baking some chicken nuggets and fries. I can't believe I stayed alive with the diet I ate in my 20s. ACTually my childhood. Spaghetti, fast food, meatloaf and all canned veggies if it matched our main course.
A funny...I remember the first time I tasted a fresh green bean. I mean one NOT out of a can. It honestly tasted like a different food! There are still veggies (brussel sprouts? -a fresh spinach salad) that I am amazed taste like they do...because I remember them to be mushy nastiness.
Yes, I've had the same basic experience!
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I'd put forward:
Ruined palates. I think many people can't taste much unless it's greasy or sweet.
Advertising budgets for meat and dairy but very little for veg. There are big marketing boards for some sectors but the plant based folks are not marketing much to the consumer - mostly because most plants grown are fed to animals, not people.
Backlash against healthy messages, analogous to anti-intellectualism
I like that - that's a better way to express it than what I said!
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I think many Americans have become "addicted" (this word is too strong, but I'm not sure what else to use) to both the convenience and the taste of packaged foods. I've noticed that if I eat junk food, I just want more junk food. But when I eat a wholesome, nutritious diet, my taste buds "readjust" and I crave even more fruits and veggies.
There could be many other dynamics at work here, that's just the one that I've noticed in my own life.
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That would bug me too.
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Sloppy Joes??? Okay, now I would never mock someone for saying Sloppy Joes are barbecue, but I would politely offer you some real barbecue. :lol:
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My husband (not the mocker) immediately said "assume it's pork unless she (bringer of bbq) is from Texas" when I asked what he thought. He's from GA.
It is pork!
:-)
I grew up in Oklahoma, and barbecue there *usually* means beef brisket or ribs, but pulled pork, pork ribs, sausage, and chicken are not uncommon.
Now I'm hungry.
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To me barbecue simply means smoked meat, so I would have asked as well. I'm sorry that you were mocked for asking a perfectly reasonable question.
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Blood sugar readings
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130 is better! White flour makes my BG go up just as much as sugar does, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were the culprit.