What do you eat for breakfast?

What do you call deductive and inductive reasoning, basket weaving?

Salt is not salt water

Salt water is not salt

But try to make salt water without salt.

 

I don't eat breakfast. I just can't stand the thought of eating. Sometimes I get so busy I don't take lunch. Which is no good.

I have found in those situations the Kellog Protein bar works well to give me what I need until supper. Tastes good and I feel good, nourished.

It might be something you can try if breakfast isn't happening for some reason.

 

A salt mine.
Makes salt.

PAH-Leeze don't tell me that salt deposit is there because of water forever ago, please

 

Ron, some medications can cause that. If you're taking any medications for anything it could be a side effect.

Also, you've reached the big 40. In fact, 41. I'm 62. I hate to tell ya this, young fella, but you've reached middle age. At middle age changes start happening gradually. Ask any of the old farts on this board, and they'll agree with me.

I'll bet a dollar your doc tells ya your heart is fine, and he doesn't find anything wrong with you.

Eat balanced meals, exercise moderately. Unless your doc finds something wrong with your heart or lungs, I'll bet he'll tell you the same thing I did.

Seth

 

Stop obsessing about it fgs - go and get a life whydoncha?

 

What is the portion size for toast or muffins or donuts or bagels? Can you prove that a portion of oats contains more than similar portions of wheat products?

Speaking of paleo you must be getting excess dosages of antibiotics which can seriously compromise your immune system. Then there is all that mercury in the fish products.

What are the "safe doses" for those substances?

 

What kinds of core and balance exercises do you do now that you are 83?

 

I have upper and lower body exercise equipment I use. For balance, I know I should be doing something but I haven't felt I needed to go there yet. Mentally and physically I'm lucky to still be on this side of the hill.

 

You still have a long way to go. My neighbor who is in his 90's grows a garden, drives and does all of his yard work. He gives his grandchildren plants in planters that he grows for them every year.

 

Lately, I have what my father can't get down.

It's a lot like when my kids were in diapers.

 

I've been lucky all my life. I hope it doesn't change on me now.

 

Sounds like you are doing everything right. Good for you.

 

Sounds like youve got a good beat on it. They say breakfast is the most important..sets the tone for the day. I think people get all messed up when they have to rush out the door with only coffee or some high sugar fast breakfast.

 

Glad to hear that you are still going strong.

Only reason I asked is because falls, as a result of a lack of balance and core strength, are something to be aware of as we get older. I have just turned 65 and I can stand on my toes for 2 minutes without holding on to anything. I only regained that balance and core strength after my physio pointed out that I had no muscles on my lower right side. In essence the hip replacement on that side had resulted in me doing everything on the left instead. We take for granted that we can do things without realizing that we are actually losing them for lack of use.

 

That's amaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing - I couldn't for 2 seconds. And when I crouch down I lose balance and roll over more or less straight away. But I have long-standing tinnitus in my left ear - wonder if that has anything to do with it? I'd ask my doc if it was important to me.

 

After having a heart attack and 3 stents put in in 2015 along with diabetes, I eat 6 small meals , breakfast being the largest, protein based and low carbs

Now at 67 I am losing weight and down to where i was at 25 years old, although it is a lot from loss of muscle mass

balance is getting worse

blood pressure now low 105/64 , dr took me off one of my bp meds

 

Scrambled eggs (no milk) or fried eggs (in olive oil) plus grilled rashers of bacon.

Virtually no carbs.

 

What, every morning? Think of the colesteral in all those huevos??

 

I stood on one leg once, to prove to my neighbours I was able to, but had the side of the calf of the leg I was standing on against the armchair behind me - they were amazed until after about 3 minutes I came clean and told them!

 

It very well could be the reason since your balance is related to the channels in your ears.

 

Your BP is way better than mine but I am not on any meds for BP. Last I checked I was in the 70-80/120-140 range. Best part is that I can lower my BP just by doing deep breathing exercises. I did that once while the nurse was monitoring my BP and she thought that I had fainted. I started laughing and it shot back up again. She told me to stop messing about because she had work to do.

I highly recommend that you start doing pool exercise classes. You can't really hurt yourself and it will improve your balance over time. I was doing a class called AquaLogix and after about a year I was fit enough to be able to swim 64 laps in the full size competition pool.

On top of that I was feeling about 20 years younger.

 

Coffee and cigarettes.

What I would recommend to others, however, is fruit, eggs and grits. Fruit have the (good) sugars you need to wake up, grits are a good simple carb for energy and eggs have everything necessary for the biochemical functions of life (its a whole chicken, after all).

I occasionally follow my own advice, and I always feel better when I do. But Im not a morning person... my willpower is always at its lowest in the morning.

 

About the same as mine - it really is amazing how it can fluctuate so wildly isn't it. I can take mine first thing in the morning, perfectly at rest, and it can be anywhere upto 150/90, and yet I can take it after one of my long walks, the steep upward climb from sea level to where I live, followed by the climbing of all the stairs to my 8th floor apartment - and I was out of breath with a pulse rate of 130bpm (all this was only a couple of days ago as it happens) - and it was only 121/72. I had quite a scare recently though: the readings suddenly shot through the roof well into 3 figs for the systolic and the diastolic; I thought I'd suddenly developed a blood clot somewhere in my vascular system. To cut a long story short, and leaving aside the panic-stricken visits to my GP and A&E (ER to you?), all the while a-thinking I was gonna keel over at any given moment, another spontaneous diastolic reading was so high my surgery's nurse-practitioner said that if it was a true reading she 'wouldn't be holding that conversation (on the phone) with me', and that so high a level made her 100% certain that my home monitor had developed a fault! Thankfully she was right, but phew!!??

That's amazing - and I can't swim even a few strokes! Yet I was born and raised in a coastal town.

Lucky you. How we take good health for granted?

 

I don't take my health for granted at all. I was misdiagnosed with sciatica for 5 years to the point where I was virtually bedridden for the last 2 years. Eventually I got so pissed off that I asked my specialist WTF were they looking everywhere BUT where the PAIN IS? So they did an MRI and even I could see that there was a serious problem. A black hole right in the middle of the ball joint of my right hip stood out. That was when the diagnosis changed to AVN which is a fancy medical term meaning that the blood flow to that part of the bone was blocked and the bone itself was dying. The pain was caused by the tissue necrosis that was poisoning the surrounding muscles. This had been going for 5 years now!

The day after my hip replacement I climbed the stairs to the next floor up in the hospital. 3 weeks later I was out shoveling snow so that the physical therapist could get in the front door and 4 weeks later I threw away the cane. My friends could not believe that I was recovering so fast but it was because I wanted my life back. The pain of doing the exercises to regain the muscle movement was excruciating but I stuck with them until the pain finally ceased 6 months later.

I took up swimming and the pool exercises 2 years after that when I discovered that I had not recovered the muscles properly on the RHS. So no, I do not take my health for granted. I actively work on it because what you don't use, you lose and I found that out the hard way.

By the sound of it you have an apartment with a great view! Nothing quite like living besides the sea side and smelling the ozone. Even the bad weather is nicer by the sea side IMO.

 

I don't either - I should have said How we take it for granted 'until something goes awry'?

Wow, what a thing to hear? I get a twinge from my sciatic nerve now and again in a buttock (it can be either one . . . and when it's a bit worse than usual and I'm driving, I keep hoping the traffic lights will change to red so I can lean to one side and take the weight off the affected 'cheek' for a while), and I'd guess that any pain near the hip could be assumed to be 'referred pain' from the nerve thereby distracting the diagnose from sciatica to something else in the hip and thigh region.

Yep, swimming is the best of all the methods of exercising. On the other hand distance walking is so much less trouble - no travelling to the pool, changing, drying/showering and changing back, then driving back home, whereas walking means simply putting on thick socks and walking boots, then out of the front door?

I'm extremely lucky (although one little thing would make me much luckier); a panoramic view of the English Channel in all its moods, and on a clear day I can see the French coast.