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[21hens-incharge]

Apryl I'm going to sell/give away the piglets and take a break from pigs until I figure out how to train them to the hot wire.

I wonder if there are certain breeds that take to behaving better than others do.

I am sad you don't have piggies for a while but I understand that they can be a pain.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Actually there was a study I seen that your body thinks the sugar free is sugar and messed up similar to sugar

I've heard that too. I think it tricks you into craving sugar more intensely and you end up eating more than you should of the other stuff. I've never been a fan of fake food. I don't think powdered stevia leaf has the same issue. The refined stevia does have some issues.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Apryl I'm going to sell/give away the piglets and take a break from pigs until I figure out how to train them to the hot wire.

I haven't had any issues with my AGH being in cattle panels. I'm looking into getting a premier1 fence for them later this year and I'll set it up inside the current pen.

 

[Molpet]

Apryl I'm going to sell/give away the piglets and take a break from pigs until I figure out how to train them to the hot wire.

Luna acres puts the wire inside of the cattle panel for training

 

[Chickassan]

Jeeze my dad could have 1 bowl of ice cream a day....he chose a mixing bowl.

My mom's like that. She's diabetic and has to test her blood several times a day and takes meds, but she's got HUGE containers of candy all over the place. Drinks pop all the time, and has snack cakes all over the place. SMH

 

[21hens-incharge]

Jeeze my dad could have 1 bowl of ice cream a day....he chose a mixing bowl.

That sounds about right.

Hubs favorite cereals.....fruit loops and lucky charms. If we don't have those it is frosted flakes or frosted mini wheats.
Why not Cheerios???

He likes toast and eggs for breakfast too......but puts jam on the toast.

I have been on him for a decade about how much sugar he eats.

Luna acres puts the wire inside of the cattle panel for training

Love that video Molpet!
They have a lot of great videos.

 

[apryl29]

Yeah....It looks like there are a lot of foods he loves that will have to be moderated.

The good news is there are a lot of foods he CAN eat that so far he has not objected to.

It will be an adjustment that whether the retest shows better numbers or not he has agreed is likely a good idea.

WOW apryl! One would hope that she would cut most of those things out.
Freaking scary to have so much naughty (dangerous) things so readily available.

You'd think... They put her on the diabetes med that makes you pee out the excess sugar, she took that as a free ticket to eat as much sugar as she wanted b/c she just pees it out. I went w/ her to the dr and the dr said Wow your urine sugar is really high! and my mom said Yeah, I'm on the meds so I pee it out. The dr said it's still really high. I had to explain to my mom that they still wanted her to cut back on sugar and eat less, not keep eating what she wanted b/c the meds are supposed to take care of it. Clearly she didn't care to listen. She's the type of person who believes what she wants and you can't tell her otherwise. Then one day it'll get through to her and she'll tell everyone like no one else figured it out (or tried to explain it to her before). There's nothing much you can do to get through to her unless she wants to hear it.

Apryl I'm going to sell/give away the piglets and take a break from pigs until I figure out how to train them to the hot wire.

There's this woman who lives around here who has a HUGE hog. I saw her out in the yard with it one day. It was following her around. No idea where she keeps it. She has a TINY wooden shed that doesn't look like it'd hold a hog that big, and a garage. It's hard to imagine how farmers kept them inside in the olden days.

 

[rjohns39]

There's this woman who lives around here who has a HUGE hog. I saw her out in the yard with it one day. It was following her around. No idea where she keeps it. She has a TINY wooden shed that doesn't look like it'd hold a hog that big, and a garage. It's hard to imagine how farmers kept them inside in the olden days.

In the old days they didn't. They'd turn them out in the woods and come harvest time go round them up. Next came hog rings. Apparently the rings preclude them from digging with their nose. Short answer to my situation is that I need different equipment to train and manage them and it's pretty expensive. A minimum of a 2 joule energizer (AC) for training and then a solar energizer for the field. Once trained a single wire will contain them.

 

[ronott1]

The College I worked for gives retirees a free blood test in the fall, along with current FT... sometimes additional tests can be bought by retirees... no ins taken... but for free I can't complain what they offer. This started because the faculty USED to get free ins for 5 years after they retired. The INS wanted to catch anything early and recommended it. The rest of us FT grabbed the coattails for the ride. I expect this to end someday.
Last time they did offer the A1C and it was normal... can't remember what it was though

That is good news!

The University here still give health insurance to retirees. There is a monthly amount to pay-- currently about $155.00 per month. I hope it is still offered when I retire!

 

[ronott1]

Ok....back from errands.

Hubs doc is ordering a redo on the test. Could he still be hyperglycemic? Yup.

I got testing equipment. Hubs said get the cheapest and that if he really needs long term testing he will upgrade later.

What the tater is up with having to contact customer service for the control solution????

Yes hubs sodas are HFCS. I think it is ridiculous the number of things that carp is in.

No worries about sugar free stuff. He won't touch any of that. He finds the taste off putting.

Now how to address sweet tea, pie, cake, cookies, and candy.......God forbid I take away his candy.

One trick is to not remove too much but to add higher fiber foods. Adding will usually lead to dropping more of the bad stuff over time instead of banning food altogether.

Look into carb balancing