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[Isolde]

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Doggygirl;1238177 wrote:
Is - what kind of stuff are you liking to make in your dehydrator? I've never tried jerky but would like to. I'm not a huge jerky fan myself - and can definitely take a pass on the regular store bought stuff. But Mr. Doggy is gluten free now so jerky is becoming more of a staple. (stuff he can keep in his truck in lieu of fast food!) I'd like to make my own I think - without gluten containing soy sauce, MSG, etc. Have you made jerky? If so, any recipes you like?
I've never made jerky. I actually got the dehydrator when I was doing the raw vegan thing. I was making things like kale chips, and dough for raw cinnamon rolls (made out of almond meal which was the leftover pulp of making homemade almond milk), and raw veggie burgers, etc. Paleo is so much easier! I bet you could find some good jerky recipes on AllRecipes.com though. That's my favorite recipe site, I love all of the feedback and tips!
How long has Mr. Doggy been doing the gluten free thing? Has it made a noticeable difference in his health at all?

Doggygirl;1238177 wrote:
Finally got the decorations off the tree today. And I will confess. I himmed and hawed about putting up the Christmas Village and in the end, didn't. And today I was glad for that! :H

You say "finally" as though it's the middle of January already! I am planning on putting everything away this weekend, and am really not looking forward to it. Mostly because I've really been enjoying the lights and decorations this year! I am still very much enjoying the tree, and the pine garland lights here and there. We have a Christmas village, too. It is the bane of my decorating duties each year. ONLY because the final touch requires taking rolled cotton, pulling off small pieces and stretching them out so they are thin and fluffy, and covering the village (which is a pretty decent size!) with what looks to be freshly fallen snow. It's pretty, but it's a pain in the ass! The house always looks so sad and bare once all of the decorations are taken down.


Doggygirl;1238177 wrote:
I'm sort of getting excited to get back to school. WAY more fun than year end book keeping is going to be the next 1.5 weeks.....

This semester:

Family Dynamics & Counseling
Diversity in Addiction Counseling (same teacher as Dual Disorders so this will be good!)
Treatment Delivery Models
Group Counseling
Psychopharmacology - YEAH!! Everyone says this is really hard but the teacher is awesome. I can't wait. I will be handicapped by my deteriorating memorizer, and I'm sure the offsetting improvements in my bullshitter probably won't help in this class as much as some others. But bring it on anyway!

Oooh, that course schedule sounds really interesting! Can I come to school with you instead of coming to work?

[SlipperyPete]

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Isolde;1237837 wrote:
Love that you're planning to catch the salmon yourself! I've got an Excalibur dehydrator if you want to go in on some jerky making together. The salmon is already caught and ready to be cooked in all sorts of ways. I love my smoked salmon, but have never tried salmon jerky. I bet the dehydrator embiggens the flavor quite nicely

Isolde;1237837 wrote: Ok, you've piqued my curiosity. What's your country of heritage?

I actually don't think it's a good idea to disclose it here. It'll be too big of a giveaway about my true identity when I'm rich and famous.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Embiggens is my word for the day. Maybe even the week.

I'm guessing afro-lithuanian-native american and irish. Since I think we've all got some Irish in us somewhere. It's a Catholic thing, maybe.

I'm going to put a dehydrator on my 'much-wanted' list.

Bruun, I started a new nutrition thing yesterday in order to cut out the crap that might be contributing to ADD symptoms. Ugh. It brought to mind that on my 39th birthday I embarked on a plan to get skinny and sober by 40. I figured that nutrition and exercise would do both. I was wrong. I woke up skinny, and hungover. It was then that I decided to completely focus on just the one thing. I wish I'd done it the other way around.

Any suggestions you all can offer about going sugar/wheat/meat/everything else free would be really helpful. (I think I'll eat fish. Maybe. And chicken if I have to.)
Bruun, did neurontin help at all with your ability to focus and pay attention? The slumps I hit after eating, anything at all it seems, are profound and definitely part of the global problem. I'm such a newb to all this, and I don't like it and I don't get how to do it. I've decided on 7 weeks as opposed to Potatoes Instead of Prozac. Is that the right start?

I am freaking out about starting school today without medication for the ADD.

Hope everyone around the campfire is doing well and will check in soon!

[SlipperyPete]

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If you're thinking about becoming a vegetardian, then you're almost beyond hope. Your body needs protein, and third-world proteins from beans and soy don't cut it. Besides, there's nothing healthier/tastier than some grass-fed beef, except maybe some wild-caught salmon.

As far as kicking sugar/wheat/carbs, you just gotta bite the bullet and do it. It's gonna be hell for a few days while your body screams out for that crap, but then it passes and you'll feel like Neo from The Matrix. Or at least I do. Point is, you need to eat something with a soul and a face.

[redhead77]

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SlipperyPete;1241597 wrote: If you're thinking about becoming a vegetardian, then you're almost beyond hope. Your body needs protein, and third-world proteins from beans and soy don't cut it. Besides, there's nothing healthier/tastier than some grass-fed beef, except maybe some wild-caught salmon.

As far as kicking sugar/wheat/carbs, you just gotta bite the bullet and do it. It's gonna be hell for a few days while your body screams out for that crap, but then it passes and you'll feel like Neo from The Matrix. Or at least I do. Point is, you need to eat something with a soul and a face.

SP!! We have some vegetarians here in meds! I totally agree on the grass fed meat. It's difficult to afford, however. I feed a family of five with my nanny, and I haven't figured out how to do it on a consistent basis. It would put my mind at ease. I don't have an issue with killing animals kindly when you're going to eat them. :H I worry about the carbon footprint (did you know our meat industry causes more carbon to be released than automobiles?), the cruelty of animals (the feedlots are awful), and the extra garbage we put in ourselves (antibiotics and hormones). When they're grass fed, they don't need antibiotics.

I just finished reading In Defense of Food. It's a fantastic read. It talks about these issues and that people can be healthy and exist on just about any diet...just not the Western one. Now I'm reading The Dirty Life. It's about a woman who trades her New York life for an organic farm (CSA). She and her new, organic, farmer husband grow everything necessary to live. Grass fed meat, fruit, vegetables, and even honey.

I haven't been by the campfire in a while. I also want to tell anyone who I left hanging on my thread, that I apologize. Lifer, I'm glad you visited. Beatle too. I just had to abandon it. You guys know I do that. Sometimes I have a reason, and this time I felt I did. At least it seemed that way to me. I'll go back when I have some positive or interesting things to report.

Hi Bruun! I'm off to put kids to bed and curl up with the book.

[spacebebe01]

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Sorry I havent popped in for a while,, would love to say Ive been so busy living life that I havent had time but the I be lying so I wont say it

I have been busy however still feeling crap and doing nothing much about it I do need to make some decisions regarding my eating habits and stick to them, seems to me that Im not alone there, and think I really should just bite the bullet and get rid of sugar but I dont understand why wheat is bad but keep reading that should maybe go as well, and which carbs?

Bruun, I keep on meaning to ask, How big is your dog?? I think you said it is 90lbs!!!! what kind of dog/bear/horse is it?

Seven weeks/potatoes not prozac? I have not read either but I notice that Jane Larson (?7weeks) has a book on seven weeks about depression, has anyone read this I was thinking of trying it.

Bye for now:l

[SlipperyPete]

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Oh she knows I'm joking, and I love all my vegetarian friends :h I've got some great news for you, though. While I was shopping at my new favorite place in the world, Trader Joe's, I asked an employee about their locations, and she mentioned they have stores in your metropolitan and its suburbs. I immediately thought to myself "redhead will LOVE the $2.49/lb 80/20 organic grass-fed ground beef and other inexpensive delights." Trust me, you MUST shop there. It's turning into a highlight of my week. I was briefly upset when they didn't have coconut flakes, but there's an organic co-op a block away that had it. I love this city

redhead77;1241802 wrote: I don't have an issue with killing animals kindly when you're going to eat them. :H

When I was living in Costa Rica, I had some of the best and freshest chicken ever, killed a few hours earlier by yours truly. I TRIED to kill it kindly, but the dull knife threw a wrench in my plans...

Space, there's a book that I'll probably get around to reading eventually called Wheat Belly. Just like how Omnivore's Dilemma talked about how corn is in everything we eat, this book discusses the ubiquity of the wheat industry and its effects on us. Right now I'm reading the most interesting book ever, Deep Nutrition. It's about epigenetics and how the food we eat changes our DNA and that of our children's DNA, for better or for worse.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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Ohmygod did you just say epigenetics. I LOVE epigenetics.

Yeah, the thing about not eating meat is that, well, you'll live a lot longer. You'll be healthier while you're alive. And nigh over a year before I was ready. One evolution at a time. We'll wait for you.

How the hell did you not know about TJs??? Even in a little-bit-backward-here we finally have a TJs. Another little known fact? No High Fructose Corn Syrup and no trans fats in their stuff. At all ever, I think. I :h them too.

Where in the heck is everybody?

[redhead77]

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Bebe, I feel like crap too. I'm here, but with a raging UTI. I woke up last night with blood in my urine. By morning, I had flank pain, chills, nausea, and burning urination. It turns out I have quite the urinary tract infection that has likely spread up into my kidneys. I feel like arse at the moment, very uncomfortable, but at least I know now why I've been so fatigued. It has nothing to do with Adderall (or anything else). He thought I've been cooking this infection for a while (maybe weeks) and when I think back, I did have signs for as long. (slight burning and frequency). I ignored it, or was too distracted to think about it. Now, that's distracted folks.

On a lighter note, I do have a TJ's close to me. I have never looked at their beef. I haven't gone there as much since I stopped buying their wine (it was 2.50 or 2.99 a bottle, can't remember). But SP, $2.49 for a pound of grass fed, organic, ground beef? Now that's :h! Thanks for the tip. No coconut flakes? They do have relatively inexpensive almond flour. Don't get me started on the wheat belly. The wheat is different now. It's a genetic variation called Dwarf something that causes us to change metabolically. I read a blog written by a cardiologist called the Heart Scan Blog, and he goes nuts about it. Maybe Bebe is lucky enough to not have this variation in her country. But maybe not...

Ne and SP, I don't know what you two remind me of. Siblings maybe? The way you bicker and kid each other. :H

Tata for now. I feel like I have hot daggers in my bladder and kidneys. :upset:I think I need to call back for some pyridium (or do they sell that over the counter now?)

[ifulovelife2]

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SlipperyPete;1242164 wrote:

Space, there's a book that I'll probably get around to reading eventually called Wheat Belly. Just like how Omnivore's Dilemma talked about how corn is in everything we eat, this book discusses the ubiquity of the wheat industry and its effects on us. Right now I'm reading the most interesting book ever, Deep Nutrition. It's about epigenetics and how the food we eat changes our DNA and that of our children's DNA, for better or for worse.

Dude, are you a dudette? It's just that you're so into all this faddy food stuff, it's kinda chicky, yer know?

EDIT: Oh my goodness, obviously I mean no offense to all the little ladies out there, filling their pretty little heads with that kind of thing. Although I can't understand where they store all that kombucha, coconut oil, paleo-whatnot type information when their minds are full of knitting patterns, images of fluffy pink things/kittens and worries about what to cook their hubbies when they get home.

Phew! I think I saved that post just in time.

[Doggygirl]

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BRENDA!!! :H:H:H Oh you have no idea how badly I NEEDED a really good laugh today. You always know just what to say.

OK. Would you like a change of channel for some really wild guy type gossip??? Mr. Doggy just secured a significant piece of business, no pun intended, with the larger of the two "Gentlemen's Clubs" in town. (he already has the smaller one as a customer) I told him if he gets the deal, I want him to obtain for me one of their SECURITY T-shirts that the bouncers wear. It has a cool graphic on it. Once I have that T-shirt, I will be the most looked at girl in the gym for one day.

OK. I better get back to my knitting patterns now. Hope everyone is doing well. (of course we are because we are eating coconut oil!!!!) Bruun - how are ya?

DG

[spacebebe01]

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Sorry to hear about the UTI thing Red, but at least now you know whats up with you so you can get on with getting better I hope. I cant imagine not eating meat Ne as well as not eating all the other crap things I dont want to eat, I would like to live longer tho, thats the thing with coming round after having missed so many years of my life pissed I would like to be able to add some more on at the end.

Brenda, being in the fortunate position as you are of having experienced being both a chick and a guy you are undoubtabley the Master of all knowledge on the difference of the sexes. If men are from Mars and women from Venus then you have your own planet all to yourself. I will call you Brenda, Quing?! of Murphopia

[SlipperyPete]

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redhead77;1242294 wrote:
Ne and SP, I don't know what you two remind me of. Siblings maybe? The way you bicker and kid each other. :HI wish I could say my sister wouldn't say something as crazy as all this meat is going to kill me, but she thinks that I'm going to get cancer from it. Oh well, at least NE isn't as lost as a poor vegan.

ifulovelife2;1242377 wrote: Dude, are you a dudette? It's just that you're so into all this faddy food stuff, it's kinda chicky, yer know?

Oh look, here's one now. Hmmm, this is awkward...Have you joined PETA yet, Mr. Amurrrica? I hear that if you harass enough butchers, they'll send you a thong made out of pure koala hair

[ifulovelife2]

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Thanks to my extensive research into the subject, I can confirm that every vegetarian man in my research group (sample size 1...moi!) has an extremely high IQ and an enormous knob. Ergo, if a man becomes vegetarian he will become doubly endowed. Pete, this is something you need to consider. Your little problem could soon be resolved.

[Bruunhilde]

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Ne/Neva Eva;1241388 wrote: Embiggens is my word for the day. Maybe even the week.
I like that too. Esp for SP's knob per Brenda's recommendation to him. I keep running into wanting to use the word "smallen" because there's no word like it. You can't say you want to shrink something in any other way and sometimes shrink or reduce don't work. I like smallen. Not in the knob department however.

Ne/Neva Eva;1241388 wrote:
Bruun, I started a new nutrition thing yesterday in order to cut out the crap that might be contributing to ADD symptoms.

I agree with SP, cut out the sugar and ideally any bread/pasta/simple carbs. Its like stopping drinking, its really hard but after you will feel great. I'm doing it starting Monday next. I also agree grass fed anything/wild caught fish is ideal. Get a good book on going vegetarian if you decide to do that: I screwed myself up royally going vegetarian because I didn't get enough protein and I think that was part of my spiral into hell and imbalance. If you go vegetarian, beware of too much soy, avoid processed soy just like you avoid processed other food groups like bread.

Space, Depression Free Naturally by Joan Larson = great book, many of the same amino/vitamin therapy schedules are same/similar to Seven Weeks. My dog is a German Shepherd, you don't have to bend down to pet him on the back, he's tall.

Red, Isolde told me D-Mannose for UTIs work for preventative and cure. Your infection sounds HUGE. Hope you're feeling a bit better by the time you read this.

Ne, regarding the gabapentin and ADD, I can't say, I guess mostly I notice I'm no longer dwelling on depressing doomsday thoughts so I can perhaps focus more, I'll have to try and track that for you. Brenda may have an opinion although he might not have ADD.

Space, very funny about the multiple gendered Murphy. :H

Last, all the genetic changes you're talking about with regard to food: I was with a client last week who used to work for Monster Santo. I mean Monsanto. I made a comment about GMO which he overheard, and he just turned into Frankenstein, OMG, like he'd been drinking the koolaid for waaaay too long. He's probably a republican too. LOL