🔥Extra! Extra! WE ARE ABOUT IT✅

[ShannonsChimkens]

Nice surprise this morning as the detox and increased water and activity have me 5+# on the scale official weight/measurement will be next Friday to see if I can rejoin the “10 in 10” club. We’re heading into the weekend though so I definitely need strength and willpower

Weekends can be deadly! All that hard work during the week could be ruined by a few things at the grocery store or a restaurant. You’ve got this…

Now have to practice what I just preached

 

[muddy75]

Weekends can be deadly! All that hard work during the week could be ruined by a few things at the grocery store or a restaurant. You’ve got this…

Now have to practice what I just preached

Food isn’t a huge issue……it’s

 

[Kiki]

You betcha I am! Although right now with the daytime highs at 14 and the night temps around 0 along with the snow on the ground the 'extra' activities are restricted to kicking back and watching movies. Oh, and planning where to plant flowers this spring.

I've also making time to play with our 6 dogs, four having just turned 3 years of age!

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These four hoodlums are part of my extra. They make sure I have fun everyday.

That one on the left looks like pure trouble.

 

[Kiki]

A fun food fact: some fruit, like apples in particular are great for you in whole form, because of the complex microstructure of pectin, fibers, and carbohydrates. However when you change the microstructure you turn a healthy food into a major blood sugar spike, so blended apple or apple sauce will spike your blood sugar and juice is the worst culprit, there's nothing higher in sugar than apple juice.

Yesterday I had one whole apple but not at once.
I cut it in half and ate half of it while driving to the grocery store And the other half at dinner time.
It was a huge honeycrisp apple. I really like these kind. I like buying a little bitty baby gala apples too because they're only like four bites worth... A quick snack.

 

[Kiki]

Yes, for diabetic issues juice does Spike the blood sugar.
I wouldn't rate it in general as bad for you as soda though.

I would. Lol
The pediatric dentist here sees probably a hundred kids a day. They are so programmed to say please limit your sodas and juices that they say it automatically to every single patient and every single time we go I correct them and tell them he drinks zero soda and juices. And every single time she reminds me that she's just programmed to say it but that it's obvious that he doesn't drink soda and juices.

 

[Kiki]

Well.
I don't think sugar is the devil. That's Kiki.

 

[Kiki]

Sugar is the third most addictive substance known to man. I'm studying to be a registered dietitian. I can confirm sugar is, in fact, the devil to your health. Inflammation causes disease, sugar causes inflammation. If you chose to use, you must time it correctly and use it for the instant fuel it is, immediately preceding a full workout. Diabetics are not the only people who get blood sugar spikes either, but frequently spiking your blood sugar will make you a diabetic. Insulin resistance is easy to develop and much harder to remedy.
Now, I know that sounds like a lecture. I don't mean to be condescending, it's just the science and I am a student. Obviously you can have a sparkling apple juice for new years, but if you're regularly buying juice to drink that's just as bad for as regularly drinking soda. And carbonated drinks cause bone density loss and mess with calcium uptake, that's part of the whole "Mountain dew mouth" issue.

I keep thinking to myself that when the mini is finished with high school that I will go back to college with him to become a nutritionist.

 

[Kiki]

Moderation in all things is the key. You can go overboard both directions. Sugar is not the devil. How you use it can be either good or bad.

 

[Kiki]

My fitbit had to go on the charger this morning

I just remembered to take mine off because I put it on the charger last night when I went to take my shower and forgot to get it back off of the charger after I finished my shower like I normally do.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

@EmmaRainboe When you get a minute will you please take a screenshot while viewing a Google sheet and circle the thing that nanners would click on to get to the emojis?