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Two cups of Espresso and a healthy smoothie for me. What about the rest of you?

The smoothie has all the ingredients from the picture and I sometimes substitute coconut water for the grapefruit juice. I'm loosing weight and feeling much better (not that I was feeling bad) with more energy throughout the day.

That XM will surely get my skinny frame into trouble this winter!

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Two cups of Espresso and a healthy smoothie for me. What about the rest of you?

The smoothie has all the ingredients from the picture and I sometimes substitute coconut water for the grapefruit juice. I'm loosing weight and feeling much better (not that I was feeling bad) with more energy throughout the day.

That XM will surely get my skinny frame into trouble this winter!

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Dude! How do you digest all that plastic, never mind the cutting board?
 

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Two cups of Espresso and a healthy smoothie for me. What about the rest of you?

The smoothie has all the ingredients from the picture and I sometimes substitute coconut water for the grapefruit juice. I'm loosing weight and feeling much better (not that I was feeling bad) with more energy throughout the day.

That XM will surely get my skinny frame into trouble this winter!

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shheeet fernie i don't think ya have much weight to lose, in my opinon. ya should be eatin like a horse.
 

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shheeet fernie i don't think ya have much weight to lose, in my opinon. ya should be eatin like a horse.

You know what they say about getting more out of a machine.......loose some of the weight and I fully believe that the easiest and cheapest weight loss is on one's self!

I'll be slim and trim come November and we'll see where the XM will take me.....
 

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Fernie it's so great too see someone taking all of that fibre and easily digestable stuff especially at your age....... lol
Two cups of Espresso and a healthy smoothie for me. What about the rest of you?

The smoothie has all the ingredients from the picture and I sometimes substitute coconut water for the grapefruit juice. I'm loosing weight and feeling much better (not that I was feeling bad) with more energy throughout the day.

That XM will surely get my skinny frame into trouble this winter!

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Coffee,let little dogs out, more coffee and go in hot tub,more coffee work if I am on shift that day. If not Tim Hortons.
 

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DISCLAIMER: I hate mornings. If my contacts aren't in and my teeth aren't brushed, don't talk to me or risk losing your face.

1. Fall out of bed. Find my clothes.
2. Wake up Brats.
3. Let out Great Dane: Feed..... Let out Basset Hound: Feed More.... Let out Yorkie: Feed less
4. Wake up Brats again. Yell a little bit.
5. Make lunches. Go upstairs and see them sitting on the bedroom floor picking noses. Yell more.
6. Make breakfasts. Yell for them to come down and eat.
7. Wake up teenager, AGAIN. Don't bother yelling: it doesn't help.
8. Sign agendas and find unfinished and forgotten homework in recesses of smelly backpack. Consider yelling but decide on threats of doom and anarchy instead.
9. Brush teeth. Put in contacts.
10. Talk to self. Answer self. Yell a little.
11. Issue 5 minute warning that it is time to leave...
12. Ten minutes later: Repeat myself twice more. Threaten to leave without stragglers.
13. Go to truck with 2 of 3 kids.
14. Go find 3rd kid (always the middle one) in messy heap on bedroom floor looking for nefarious "ancient but extremely valuable must take to school right now!" artifacts. Coax child off ledge and into vehicle.
15. Settle fight over listening to the radio or watching a movie (using the same solution I use EVERY SINGLE morning, but somehow we are still fighting the same fight??)
16. Drive listlessly to school choking down vitamins alternately with ice water. (CoEnzyme Q10, Omega 3, Vitamin D, Zinc, Digestive Enzyme, B12 and Hormone Balancer... for those who care) This usually nets a gagging session and a close call with artificial resuscitation measures. My kids are thusly trained in CPR and Heimlich maneuvers.
17. Remember that we live on a rural bus route and wonder WHY in god's name I am driving them again ?!?
18. Return home and eat egg-white and lean protein/veggie omelet.
19. Tidy, laundry, make beds, check hot tub, water plants, take out food for dinner, etc., etc., etc.,
20. Train for Spartan Race: running or strength training, or intervals of both.
21. Walk dogs. Grocery shop. Pay bills. Do Yard work. Cook. Clean. Blah, Blah, Blah.
22. Wonder why I didn't go to work instead... its waaaay less work :cool:
 

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get up just in time to have a coffee and a shower, give a treat to my dogs as the pathetically stare at me sitting by that cupboard, the gf has usually taken care of the morning necessities around the house.....proceed to drive to work half asleep
 

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DISCLAIMER: I hate mornings. If my contacts aren't in and my teeth aren't brushed, don't talk to me or risk losing your face.

1. Fall out of bed. Find my clothes.
2. Wake up Brats.
3. Let out Great Dane: Feed..... Let out Basset Hound: Feed More.... Let out Yorkie: Feed less
4. Wake up Brats again. Yell a little bit.
5. Make lunches. Go upstairs and see them sitting on the bedroom floor picking noses. Yell more.
6. Make breakfasts. Yell for them to come down and eat.
7. Wake up teenager, AGAIN. Don't bother yelling: it doesn't help.
8. Sign agendas and find unfinished and forgotten homework in recesses of smelly backpack. Consider yelling but decide on threats of doom and anarchy instead.
9. Brush teeth. Put in contacts.
10. Talk to self. Answer self. Yell a little.
11. Issue 5 minute warning that it is time to leave...
12. Ten minutes later: Repeat myself twice more. Threaten to leave without stragglers.
13. Go to truck with 2 of 3 kids.
14. Go find 3rd kid (always the middle one) in messy heap on bedroom floor looking for nefarious "ancient but extremely valuable must take to school right now!" artifacts. Coax child off ledge and into vehicle.
15. Settle fight over listening to the radio or watching a movie (using the same solution I use EVERY SINGLE morning, but somehow we are still fighting the same fight??)
16. Drive listlessly to school choking down vitamins alternately with ice water. (CoEnzyme Q10, Omega 3, Vitamin D, Zinc, Digestive Enzyme, B12 and Hormone Balancer... for those who care) This usually nets a gagging session and a close call with artificial resuscitation measures. My kids are thusly trained in CPR and Heimlich maneuvers.
17. Remember that we live on a rural bus route and wonder WHY in god's name I am driving them again ?!?
18. Return home and eat egg-white and lean protein/veggie omelet.
19. Tidy, laundry, make beds, check hot tub, water plants, take out food for dinner, etc., etc., etc.,
20. Train for Spartan Race: running or strength training, or intervals of both.
21. Walk dogs. Grocery shop. Pay bills. Do Yard work. Cook. Clean. Blah, Blah, Blah.
22. Wonder why I didn't go to work instead... its waaaay less work :cool:

Friggin' awesome SledMamma...........a mother's work is never done!

You will soooo much love retirement and some time for yourself. :tea:
 

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Fernie it's so great too see someone taking all of that fibre and easily digestable stuff especially at your age....... lol


I'd like to say that I ate well in my younger years and in fact, I did but it was not that good for a person. This health craze is crazy!

I still get into the red meat and support my Alberta farmers, just not as often.

Now, for the exercise part of living well. I have trouble with that other than the rigors of construction work but it doesn't really get the cardio vascular going.

BTW, I was gonna have that little saying above my avatar as "a real senior member" but I didn't want to give you guys more fodder than I already doo! So don't worry about my age too much young fellow!!!
 
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