I love sweets! The last let’s say four years I have figured out they are killing me. At the beginning of figuring this out, off and on I would get a sharing size bag of peanut M&M’s and in my truck I would eat them when driving. They really taste great. My knees and left hip began to have massive pain, but at the beginning I didn’t get i…
I love sweets! The last let’s say four years I have figured out they are killing me. At the beginning of figuring this out, off and on I would get a sharing size bag of peanut M&M’s and in my truck I would eat them when driving. They really taste great. My knees and left hip began to have massive pain, but at the beginning I didn’t get it. My hip got so bad in pain I would leave my leg hanging out of my pick up truck and all at once I would pick it up in dyer pain yell and put my leg in the truck. Once I stopped eating the M&M’s my pain subsided. Now I notice if I eat just a little extra sugary processed foods, I love those small pies, (don’t hate me for being honest) maybe and a candy bar my joint pain starts to flair up. I turned 60 last Tuesday and I absolutely can’t eat the way I once did. Sugary foods, chocolate, pies, cakes, etc are my kryptonite!! Did I mention my mother was 100% Italian.
Happy Belated Birthday, James. Here is an interesting story: A woman in our local post office had a knee replacement about 2-yrs. ago. Whenever I happened to be in the post office, I would ask her how she was feeling & doing. Each & every time, she said she was still in a lot of pain & had a lot of swelling, in spite of many follow-up appointments & physical therapy. Most of the time I did not even need to ask her as her pain was written all over her face. Not that long ago, when I was in the post office, she was all smiles. I asked her how she was feeling & she said she felt great. I asked her what had changed & if she had been eating differently. She said she went to a Functional Doctor who put her on a anti-inflammatory diet. In no time, she was free of pain & no longer had swelling. This is a perfect example of how our diet can affect our health. As far as loving sweets, I am right there with you! I do try to limit the sweets but truthfully, I am always looking for a little something sweet - even just a cookie now & then. My favorite is either a well made coconut cake or a piece of 7-layer cake.
Years ago I had my blood tested for 100 different foods for food sensitivities. I was sensitive to eggs yeast milk and sesame. They put me on a two day rotation diet eliminating those foods and I was able to choose from 10 meats and 10 vegetables and a few starches and mostly water and tea to drink. I was astonished at how much energy I had and how little sleep I required to feel great. The whites of my eyes were white again my allergies went away my postnasal drip went away and I could smell the grass in the fields. All my senses are heightened to the nth degree. It was wonderful! All my joint pain went away. what we put in our bodies is so important. They said that people crave foods that they are sensitive to. For instance Mexicans crave corn products. In my case I loved milk and eggs and bread. When I eliminated those foods from my diet my health improved times 10!
Agree 100% Gail!! Good for you! I've changed my PC doc to a lady more functionally inclined again and was actually going to talk with her about that kind of test. Thanks for the reminder! ; > )
This was over 10 years ago when I followed the diet perfectly for 3 months and got those fabulous results. Over time I backslid but not totally. I learned a lot and experienced the truth of how great I could feel if I did not succumb to old habits and comfort foods. It was so easy with the support and guidance and choice to "just do it" and with immediate rewards. Life happens and old habits return. It is a constant choice and decision day by day. Almost like any other "addict"....one day at a time!
I see you as a Strong Lady but Kind too. You chose a path and pretty much clung to it. The dividends were in the satisfaction which was All your own to celebrate and take on more challenges. Thank you for your Kind compliment...tis better to laugh then cry.
What keeps me alive: Nat'l Enquirer-Globe Crossword Puzzles; Garage Sales; Springbok Jigsaw Puzzles; Walmart; My Food Diary (please please go there); TCM Old movies; Computer and Donald Trump. You have The Power to be yourself and realize your Life Plan. Only me and myself laugh at my cutting remarks so it's my time to git on down the road. Never Change!
I don't think just a little will hurt you. I have a friend who adores sweets but recently discovered he is pre-diabetic. He found a product called "Choc Zero" that offers a variety of sweets and no sugar!
There is a problem with “just a little “. It never stops with a little. The bag of chips…. The chocolate 🍫 bar…. Popcorn…. It always calls to you like cocaine and you’re never done till it’s utterly gone. For me, abstinence is the holy grail.
Some people can do it. I said my mom could down 3 glasses of wine of an evening, but sweets-ehh. She could eat a little piece of real good chocolate, maybe every couple months to a year. I found a big bag of very good chocolate in her pantry hardly touched. I think she bought it for my sister when she visited, but sis didn't get back until mom passed.
Nonsense. Richard Pryor had a comedy routine about cocaine. He said (approximately) that some people he'd known had been doing cocaine for fifteen years and they weren't hooked.
I was pretty much raised to avoid candies. My weakness is chips/ salty stuff. Thank heavens have that stopper. I've been substituting such as fruit - berries, small tomatoes and the ilk for snacking. Some are on the natural sweet side.
I go with nuts, altho that too is a caution as they are Not low fat. Macadamias are a favorite just cause of the sweeter taste. I try real hard to do a limit of 10 maybe 2 x daily.
Sure, I'm aware of fats, especially after the Keto diet. Nuts have carbs too, so best to limit. Just like chips about anything can become an overindulgence if we let it. Thanks.
You can make your own chips using organic sliced potatoes and frying them in tallow and adding pure sea salt. Or, you can roast them, tossing them first in a little olive oil and adding pure sea salt to taste.
I have many fine memories of driving coast2coast, border2border hopped up on black coffee and peanut M&Ms, watching those first AV-8Bs dancing on the tarmac at Quantico in the early 80s with a bag of, yes, peanut M&Ms and my Bible, and there’s a half consumed Costco sized tub of 😉 peanut M&Ms in the pantry - I don’t go thru them as I use to, kind’a prefer bars of dark chocolate, and like me this tub is nearing the official use by date. Other than having to deal with the dairy, far as I know I’ve never had inflammatory issues - unlike dark beer which is chock-a-block with purines. Now days my beer cellar sits dark, tea in a variety of hues has replaced coffee (for decades) and my sweet tooth is mostly sated with honey.
Still, Truly, the food scientists who gave us peanut M&Ms, Snickers and Fast Break treats were kissed by the sweet gods.
No kidding, James! I used to be able to eat a spicy East Indian late night munchie, no more. Indigestion is a bummer. Carbs are my weakness...It doesn't get easier to stay healthy as I age, I am always having to up the bar.
Oh my James, you and I are foodie twins!! Peanut M&Ms have been my nemesis since practically the dawn of my life, along with chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, Snickers, blah, blah, blah. I've mentioned my maternal grandmother treating me if I followed instructions with bathtime/bedtime etc. I could weigh 500lbs if I didn't attempt a stop to the sugar devil. Think of all those dyes in those M&Ms too! I fight every day and tho at this time I need 12lbs gone, I feel so much better for not giving in to temptation on a daily basis. It's been indicated people find their sugar fix in 1 of 2 ways. 1 group leans to sweets (me), 1 group leans to alcohol. My dad was definitely sweets, my mom loved her glass (or 3) of wine.
Yep. I made the mistake of 'treating myself' not to long ago to several handfuls of those lil peanut devils - oh, my ache stomach and left hand cramped up from tendonitis. I also can get low back pain altho a daily walk helps with that.
I did not grow up with sweets so I arrived late to the addiction. I quickly learned to toss back the M&M peanuts (share bag) but then jumped to the Head of the class with 1/2 lb boxes from a CA celebrated candy shop. Enough of that I'm interested in your hip and leg. Sounds like you might have Sciatica. I have it! It started in my lower back then down my left hip and into my left leg. Did I understand that you drive with your pained leg out the door? Hanging it out the window would be safer don't you think? You're a Spring Chicken give it a Try.
At that time my hip pain and both my knees were inflamed joint pain. My hip was so bad I went to the doctor and got an X-ray on my hip. He gave me an anti inflammatory meloxicam and in one day, almost immediately the stabbing pain subsided. You think it would be obvious what the problem is but it took me a little while to figure it out. I still have arthritis in my knees but I can work I hope for a long time. When I would pull my left leg into the truck the pain was staggering.
Hey, you two. Do either of you use magnesium? It's in epsom salts, also there is a spray. We used it when mom had pains in her back from cancer. Here is a link on it, if you are interested:
Thank you for the response. I have an aged bottle of Meloxicam, still half full, guess it didn't help me. I'll give it another chance. You're pretty young to have arthritis. How about a couple of knee braces the pressure helps, I think, I hope. I got one at CVS. WE Will prevail Kid.
Funny with the meloxicam, I went into my drawer to see what it was he had given me. I had gotten a refill to have it. I may have taken one or two out of the refill but it did help me. My knees are work related, I have gone up and down ladders and kneel as a carpenter for 40 years, they’re pretty worn out. Eventually if I can afford to take the time off I should get them replaced.
Ha, you revived my interest, and hope, for the meloxicam. I would venture that wonky knees are not reliable on ladder rungs and slippery roofs. Be kind and get One replaced soon. The Knee Men only replace one at a time. There's a recovery time in between procedures. Your Busy Time is coming up soon! You don't want to sit out Summer...
No there not good on roofs, I’ve curtailed certain roof jobs depending on what they are. I’m renovating a big Victorian home in West Roxbury now, 3 bathrooms and a kitchen so it’s hard to get time off. This job has a deadline of May 3rd. Very difficult to say the least.
Yes many great sub contractors. The house had old knob and tube wiring which we replaced. Basically 100% plumbing change and added a beautiful master bath. I wrote about the building inspector who’s a friend from years ago. He’s a great guy!
Going into Construction used to be a prime target for young men. The trade was taught in every school a dozen decades ago. Renovating a house from the Victorian era has got to be very special...
I just took my license 12 hour continuing Ed course for my builders license. 6 hours in classroom and 6 hours on line. If I were 20 years old again I would not want anything to do with running a construction company. Like every aspect of our lives it has been taken over by bureaucrats that never built anything. The code writers are corrupted by donations and lobbyists from businesses with interests. It’s so bad they have put off implementation of the new code book until August because the people that wrote it don’t even know what it means, it’s insanity these new energy codes. They figure if 30 inches of insulation is good 60 inches must be better, but how your supposed to fit it into a building and get someone to pay for it is another thing!! I should have been a dentist🙄.
James I too love sweets- particularly chocolate! But we only eat dark chocolate (85%) and we limit how much we eat. And if we are eating out and there is a chocolate dessert we go for it and don’t feel guilty. No sugar in our house and no cookies or unhealthy candy. And we snack on healthy almond butter or sunflower butter. Works for us! God bless! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I’ve always had a sweet tooth myself! I’ll be 58 in May, so we’re close in age. And yeah, we can’t eat like we used to! But I don’t think I’ll ever give up sweets entirely! Life is too short to be miserable!
I love sweets! The last let’s say four years I have figured out they are killing me. At the beginning of figuring this out, off and on I would get a sharing size bag of peanut M&M’s and in my truck I would eat them when driving. They really taste great. My knees and left hip began to have massive pain, but at the beginning I didn’t get it. My hip got so bad in pain I would leave my leg hanging out of my pick up truck and all at once I would pick it up in dyer pain yell and put my leg in the truck. Once I stopped eating the M&M’s my pain subsided. Now I notice if I eat just a little extra sugary processed foods, I love those small pies, (don’t hate me for being honest) maybe and a candy bar my joint pain starts to flair up. I turned 60 last Tuesday and I absolutely can’t eat the way I once did. Sugary foods, chocolate, pies, cakes, etc are my kryptonite!! Did I mention my mother was 100% Italian.
Happy Belated Birthday, James. Here is an interesting story: A woman in our local post office had a knee replacement about 2-yrs. ago. Whenever I happened to be in the post office, I would ask her how she was feeling & doing. Each & every time, she said she was still in a lot of pain & had a lot of swelling, in spite of many follow-up appointments & physical therapy. Most of the time I did not even need to ask her as her pain was written all over her face. Not that long ago, when I was in the post office, she was all smiles. I asked her how she was feeling & she said she felt great. I asked her what had changed & if she had been eating differently. She said she went to a Functional Doctor who put her on a anti-inflammatory diet. In no time, she was free of pain & no longer had swelling. This is a perfect example of how our diet can affect our health. As far as loving sweets, I am right there with you! I do try to limit the sweets but truthfully, I am always looking for a little something sweet - even just a cookie now & then. My favorite is either a well made coconut cake or a piece of 7-layer cake.
Years ago I had my blood tested for 100 different foods for food sensitivities. I was sensitive to eggs yeast milk and sesame. They put me on a two day rotation diet eliminating those foods and I was able to choose from 10 meats and 10 vegetables and a few starches and mostly water and tea to drink. I was astonished at how much energy I had and how little sleep I required to feel great. The whites of my eyes were white again my allergies went away my postnasal drip went away and I could smell the grass in the fields. All my senses are heightened to the nth degree. It was wonderful! All my joint pain went away. what we put in our bodies is so important. They said that people crave foods that they are sensitive to. For instance Mexicans crave corn products. In my case I loved milk and eggs and bread. When I eliminated those foods from my diet my health improved times 10!
Agree 100% Gail!! Good for you! I've changed my PC doc to a lady more functionally inclined again and was actually going to talk with her about that kind of test. Thanks for the reminder! ; > )
Dang 10 meats! Beef, Chicken, Pork, Liverwurst, Salami, Hot dogs, Rib Eye steak, Hamburger...that's it for me.
Too Funny!
You have some hard rules and I say Bully on You...I hope you, at least, butter your bread Kid. I'm jealous!
This was over 10 years ago when I followed the diet perfectly for 3 months and got those fabulous results. Over time I backslid but not totally. I learned a lot and experienced the truth of how great I could feel if I did not succumb to old habits and comfort foods. It was so easy with the support and guidance and choice to "just do it" and with immediate rewards. Life happens and old habits return. It is a constant choice and decision day by day. Almost like any other "addict"....one day at a time!
I love your sense of humor!
I see you as a Strong Lady but Kind too. You chose a path and pretty much clung to it. The dividends were in the satisfaction which was All your own to celebrate and take on more challenges. Thank you for your Kind compliment...tis better to laugh then cry.
Amen Joyce! I love you!
I can only say...Bacon.
What keeps me alive: Nat'l Enquirer-Globe Crossword Puzzles; Garage Sales; Springbok Jigsaw Puzzles; Walmart; My Food Diary (please please go there); TCM Old movies; Computer and Donald Trump. You have The Power to be yourself and realize your Life Plan. Only me and myself laugh at my cutting remarks so it's my time to git on down the road. Never Change!
Mmmmmmm chocolate cake 😍
Bad boy! Lol!
Belated Happy Birthday James!!
Thank You Margaret!!
You're goofy, James!
I don't think just a little will hurt you. I have a friend who adores sweets but recently discovered he is pre-diabetic. He found a product called "Choc Zero" that offers a variety of sweets and no sugar!
There is a problem with “just a little “. It never stops with a little. The bag of chips…. The chocolate 🍫 bar…. Popcorn…. It always calls to you like cocaine and you’re never done till it’s utterly gone. For me, abstinence is the holy grail.
Good point. I call them "trigger foods". They should be avoided at all times.
Some people can do it. I said my mom could down 3 glasses of wine of an evening, but sweets-ehh. She could eat a little piece of real good chocolate, maybe every couple months to a year. I found a big bag of very good chocolate in her pantry hardly touched. I think she bought it for my sister when she visited, but sis didn't get back until mom passed.
For me, you hit the nail on the head!
Nonsense. Richard Pryor had a comedy routine about cocaine. He said (approximately) that some people he'd known had been doing cocaine for fifteen years and they weren't hooked.
Ah ha ha ha! Yes, sugar ! The daily cocaine hit I’ve had for low these 76 years but I’m not addicted…. At least not until the next snack attack.
Caramel Corn is having it's way with me!
I was pretty much raised to avoid candies. My weakness is chips/ salty stuff. Thank heavens have that stopper. I've been substituting such as fruit - berries, small tomatoes and the ilk for snacking. Some are on the natural sweet side.
I go with nuts, altho that too is a caution as they are Not low fat. Macadamias are a favorite just cause of the sweeter taste. I try real hard to do a limit of 10 maybe 2 x daily.
Three Brazil nuts per day provides the selenium you need in a day!
I'm gonna miss Costco's not having the raw/organic bag in the store.
There are different kinds of fat. Not all fats are bad. Nuts are in the good category. You investigate just what fat is.
Sure, I'm aware of fats, especially after the Keto diet. Nuts have carbs too, so best to limit. Just like chips about anything can become an overindulgence if we let it. Thanks.
You can make your own chips using organic sliced potatoes and frying them in tallow and adding pure sea salt. Or, you can roast them, tossing them first in a little olive oil and adding pure sea salt to taste.
I have many fine memories of driving coast2coast, border2border hopped up on black coffee and peanut M&Ms, watching those first AV-8Bs dancing on the tarmac at Quantico in the early 80s with a bag of, yes, peanut M&Ms and my Bible, and there’s a half consumed Costco sized tub of 😉 peanut M&Ms in the pantry - I don’t go thru them as I use to, kind’a prefer bars of dark chocolate, and like me this tub is nearing the official use by date. Other than having to deal with the dairy, far as I know I’ve never had inflammatory issues - unlike dark beer which is chock-a-block with purines. Now days my beer cellar sits dark, tea in a variety of hues has replaced coffee (for decades) and my sweet tooth is mostly sated with honey.
Still, Truly, the food scientists who gave us peanut M&Ms, Snickers and Fast Break treats were kissed by the sweet gods.
No kidding, James! I used to be able to eat a spicy East Indian late night munchie, no more. Indigestion is a bummer. Carbs are my weakness...It doesn't get easier to stay healthy as I age, I am always having to up the bar.
Oh my James, you and I are foodie twins!! Peanut M&Ms have been my nemesis since practically the dawn of my life, along with chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, Snickers, blah, blah, blah. I've mentioned my maternal grandmother treating me if I followed instructions with bathtime/bedtime etc. I could weigh 500lbs if I didn't attempt a stop to the sugar devil. Think of all those dyes in those M&Ms too! I fight every day and tho at this time I need 12lbs gone, I feel so much better for not giving in to temptation on a daily basis. It's been indicated people find their sugar fix in 1 of 2 ways. 1 group leans to sweets (me), 1 group leans to alcohol. My dad was definitely sweets, my mom loved her glass (or 3) of wine.
LB, I don’t drink much at all but find I get hangovers from eating bad and or just too much!!
Yep. I made the mistake of 'treating myself' not to long ago to several handfuls of those lil peanut devils - oh, my ache stomach and left hand cramped up from tendonitis. I also can get low back pain altho a daily walk helps with that.
Before stopped smoking and gained 70 lbs a 1/4 lb bag of peanut m&ms and 2 beers was a normal after work snack. Loved 'em
I did not grow up with sweets so I arrived late to the addiction. I quickly learned to toss back the M&M peanuts (share bag) but then jumped to the Head of the class with 1/2 lb boxes from a CA celebrated candy shop. Enough of that I'm interested in your hip and leg. Sounds like you might have Sciatica. I have it! It started in my lower back then down my left hip and into my left leg. Did I understand that you drive with your pained leg out the door? Hanging it out the window would be safer don't you think? You're a Spring Chicken give it a Try.
Would that by chance be Sees Candies" The toffee was yummmmm.
YES SIR it sure is. I like it covered in White Chocolate.
At that time my hip pain and both my knees were inflamed joint pain. My hip was so bad I went to the doctor and got an X-ray on my hip. He gave me an anti inflammatory meloxicam and in one day, almost immediately the stabbing pain subsided. You think it would be obvious what the problem is but it took me a little while to figure it out. I still have arthritis in my knees but I can work I hope for a long time. When I would pull my left leg into the truck the pain was staggering.
Hey, you two. Do either of you use magnesium? It's in epsom salts, also there is a spray. We used it when mom had pains in her back from cancer. Here is a link on it, if you are interested:
https://www.greenwaybiotech.com/blogs/personal-care-articles/can-magnesium-help-sciatica-nerve-pain
My wife does magnesium often and I do have it probably not enough, once a week. My wife swears by it!!
Thank you for the response. I have an aged bottle of Meloxicam, still half full, guess it didn't help me. I'll give it another chance. You're pretty young to have arthritis. How about a couple of knee braces the pressure helps, I think, I hope. I got one at CVS. WE Will prevail Kid.
I do at times use a knee wrap from cvs. I should get a couple of new ones they did help. Not sure where they are honestly.
There's always Amazon Gulp! Gulp! I like to see what I'm buying but but. My knee brace is like a long sock that I pull over my knee...simple, cheap.
Funny with the meloxicam, I went into my drawer to see what it was he had given me. I had gotten a refill to have it. I may have taken one or two out of the refill but it did help me. My knees are work related, I have gone up and down ladders and kneel as a carpenter for 40 years, they’re pretty worn out. Eventually if I can afford to take the time off I should get them replaced.
Ha, you revived my interest, and hope, for the meloxicam. I would venture that wonky knees are not reliable on ladder rungs and slippery roofs. Be kind and get One replaced soon. The Knee Men only replace one at a time. There's a recovery time in between procedures. Your Busy Time is coming up soon! You don't want to sit out Summer...
No there not good on roofs, I’ve curtailed certain roof jobs depending on what they are. I’m renovating a big Victorian home in West Roxbury now, 3 bathrooms and a kitchen so it’s hard to get time off. This job has a deadline of May 3rd. Very difficult to say the least.
You must have a team working with you. Well...
Yes many great sub contractors. The house had old knob and tube wiring which we replaced. Basically 100% plumbing change and added a beautiful master bath. I wrote about the building inspector who’s a friend from years ago. He’s a great guy!
Going into Construction used to be a prime target for young men. The trade was taught in every school a dozen decades ago. Renovating a house from the Victorian era has got to be very special...
I just took my license 12 hour continuing Ed course for my builders license. 6 hours in classroom and 6 hours on line. If I were 20 years old again I would not want anything to do with running a construction company. Like every aspect of our lives it has been taken over by bureaucrats that never built anything. The code writers are corrupted by donations and lobbyists from businesses with interests. It’s so bad they have put off implementation of the new code book until August because the people that wrote it don’t even know what it means, it’s insanity these new energy codes. They figure if 30 inches of insulation is good 60 inches must be better, but how your supposed to fit it into a building and get someone to pay for it is another thing!! I should have been a dentist🙄.
James I too love sweets- particularly chocolate! But we only eat dark chocolate (85%) and we limit how much we eat. And if we are eating out and there is a chocolate dessert we go for it and don’t feel guilty. No sugar in our house and no cookies or unhealthy candy. And we snack on healthy almond butter or sunflower butter. Works for us! God bless! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I’ve always had a sweet tooth myself! I’ll be 58 in May, so we’re close in age. And yeah, we can’t eat like we used to! But I don’t think I’ll ever give up sweets entirely! Life is too short to be miserable!