🔥Extra! Extra! WE ARE ABOUT IT✅

[tripletfeb]

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.

I love the reds!!! Heelers are my husband's favorite

 

[MadamContrary]

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

 

[R2elk]

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.

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.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

If you are going to freeze them, why not just buy frozen ones?

I like the frozen cherries.

Because the frozen ones halfway melt before I get them home and turn into an amorphous mass. Fresh ones freeze beautifully into individual little marbles when I stick them in the freezer and stay that way.

Sorry, I know that question wasn't aimed at me. But that's why I don't buy the frozen ones. And fresh may be cheaper as they are handled less.

 

[R2elk]

Because the frozen ones halfway melt before I get them home and turn into an amorphous mass. Fresh ones freeze beautifully into individual little marbles when I stick them in the freezer and stay that way.

Sorry, I know that question wasn't aimed at me. But that's why I don't buy the frozen ones. And fresh may be cheaper as they are handled less.

If you keep a small cooler in your vehicle, put the frozen items in it and they will still be frozen when you get home.

I don't have any trouble with my frozen goods thawing out before I get home from shopping even on very hot days without the use of a cooler. If I did, I would use a cooler to get the frozen goods home.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

We do keep a cooler in our car, thanks. Perhaps we live further from Walmart than you do. Or it's hotter here than where you live. What we do works for us, thanks.

 

[MadamContrary]

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.

Moderate use of sugar is defined as no more than 3 teaspoons (12 grams) of added sugars a day. for example to just stay in the same line of conversation 4oz of apple juice has 14 grams, a serving is considered 8oz to the manufacturer and has 28 grams. One could then argue that these are "naturally occurring" sugars, however the extreme processing puts in the same category as table sugar. I could soap box all day on ideal diets. I know when you live in the age of instant gratification that it's much harder to actually do it, especially if you eat packaged foods. They put sugar in freaking pasta sauce to encourage you to eat more. Sugar, once it touches your stomach lining causes the muscles to relax so you can get more food in. This is the phenomenon called "dessert stomach". Once upon a time berries, honey, and flower nectar were the main sweets available to humanity and since it was seasonal or hard to get we evolved a strategy to maximize those precious calories because who knew when we'd see it again. Feast and famine, that's what we are designed for.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

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 won't argue with the science.
There's no doubt that the best food choices are to choose foods that are closest to the ground or the tree with minimal or no proccessing.
But most people are not going to be able to adhere to that strict of a diet.
Sure, guzzling juice daily could end up being as bad as soda if it becomes a regar habit.
And eating a fresh apple would be better nutritionally.

 

[muddy75]

My fitbit had to go on the charger this morning

 

[muddy75]

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