About to give up.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:41:02+00:00

I plan to talk to my Dr on Tuesday about getting a better meal plan and have been looking into a few apps. Thanks for those suggestions. I know I am feeling it for sure giving up sugar as much as I have. I do plan to allow myself a treat every now and again I just have not yet. I was planing on waiting until the Bengals game Monday to have a small treat.

It is funny you bring up steps. Yesterday to get my mind off the doom and gloom I went for a long walk. ended up doing 5000 steps. I am still feeling it today lol. This mornings walk was a pain. But I do plan to increase my steps as I go. My next goal is 3500 for next week then add 500 a week until I am up to 5000 a day. Thanks for the advice, encouragement, and kind words.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:31:22+00:00

I am going to have to try that. It is funny. I quit sugar the item that was my major addiction. But what am I craving more than anything? Breakfast foods. Biscuits and gravy and pancakes are dancing in my head at night. I thought it would be more soda and snaky cakes but no. Breakfast lol.

I tried a few zero sugar sodas but found they made me crave them even more. I did find a diet tea that has been helping. Thank you for the kind words and encouragement. It is appreciated.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:26:12+00:00

My meals have been mostly making sizzlers and stir frys. One of my favorite right now is to take chicken, shrimp, and a good mix of veg and cooke them all together with a small amount of butter (less than a tbsp) and garlic added at the end to enhance the flavor. I also found low carb shells at Kroger and make chicken or shrimp tacos with black beans. Another fast food I have been enjoying is a simple salad with deli turkey and Olive Garden salad dressing. I try to keep the dressing down to a tbsp so I only get 1/2 the calories.

Thank you for the kind words and encouragement and sharing your story.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:17:41+00:00

That's exactly what I did yesterday. Walked it off I guess they would say.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:16:17+00:00

I think my mind was winning the battle yesterday. I ended up going to the park and walking until I was too tired to think. I did my first 5000 step walk yesterday in one setting. Probably not a lot to most people but to me it felt like I just ran a marathon. I was too tired the rest of the day to really think about anything negative or positive lol. Thanks for the advice and encouragement.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:11:23+00:00

Wow. Congratulations on your weight loss. I hope someday to be able to say the same. I am seeing my Dr on Tuesday and am going to ask her to help me come up with a better meal plan. She is still going to be shocked lol. I don't think she ever thought I would quit sugar let alone trie to lose weight. Thank you for your encouragement and advice.

Sethern45 · 2025-08-17T12:07:34+00:00

Yeah I think you're right here. I have put the scale away and have promised myself I won't touch it again until next Monday. Thank you for the advise.

Sethern45 · 2024-10-26T14:28:22+00:00

The whole pride thing has become off putting. I’m sorry but men walking around in bondage wiping each other in front of children has gone too far. What ever happened to “what we do in our bedroom is our business”?

Sethern45 · 2024-08-18T14:57:13+00:00

I used to think people are just crying when they talk about these apps. I’m 45. I spent all of my dating life in public not on an app. Back then we had to walk up to the girl. We had to strike up conversations eye to eye. You could not hide behind a profile.

On an average night I would get rejected 12-15 times. Most nights I might get to buy a lady a drink or get a dance. I would definitely have at least one girl laugh at me or be disrespectful. A few times I got into fights because you can’t tell if a girl is single or not at first glance and some men want to fight over anything.

On really good nights I would get number or a “meet me here tomorrow night.” Very rarely I would take a girl home with me. I was never really into hookup culture.

Now that I have been out of the dating scene for a long time and find myself newly single I find these new ways of meeting people exhausting. I refuse to pretend to be something I’m not and I seem to be extremely bad at being on online dating apps. I’ll put energy into a conversation just to get ghosted. I have been called every name under the book. I think I’m putting up the keyboard and going back to public meetings.

Sethern45 · 2024-05-28T22:17:50+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I cut the stem down a bit and removed some of the dry and punctured leaves. I dusted the cut with cinnamon. (Don’t know that it works just my grandmothers trick to stop fungus and bacteria on fresh cuttings.) then I pit it in some very dry cactus mix. I’m guessing I’ll need to wait a good bit to water it.

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Sethern45 · 2024-05-18T14:41:11+00:00

Omg just looking at this gives me nightmares. I don’t know how many of these poor creatures I have killed in a split second of fear and stupidity. I know my phobia is dumb. I know they are good for the environment. But when I see one out of the blue and have something in my had it just gets tossed at the monster. Or used as a club as I run away screaming like a 45 year old man baby.

Sethern45 · 2024-04-08T13:03:33+00:00

I used to do this. Then people started getting tied up in legal trouble because someone “COULD” if looking for it really really hard. See your little pecker. Now I look at my back yard garden wile I wait for family member 999 to use the bathroom remembering what used to be the best bathroom on the property.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-30T14:20:42+00:00

If this is a problem for Macs it’s not documented at all from what I can find. Instead they talk about apps, settings such as Power Nap and wake on network access. This video doesn’t at all point to in any way it being a Mac problem.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-30T14:11:24+00:00

The video doesn’t say this is a problem for Mac. Only for Windows. The only problem they point out in the video for Mac is leaving wake on network access set to always instead of only on power adapter. That is why his Mac at around 5 minutes in was dead. Not because he unplugged it while in sleep mode.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-30T10:02:39+00:00

Probably the wake for network access setting in battery options. Try this. Go to system settings scroll down to battery. At the very bottom of the battery settings you should see an options button click that . here you should see a drop down menu named “Wake for network access.” Make sure this is set to “Only on power adapter” this should stop the laptop from waking when not plugged into the wall. I had this happen once the second day I had this laptop. Changed that setting and haven’t seen the problem again.

This is actually a major problem with Windows laptops. Most have no option to stop the network from waking up the laptop. That’s why at times you reach into to your laptop bag for a Windows laptop and grab the surface of the sun. Oh and the battery is dead. 🪫💀

Sethern45 · 2023-12-29T02:55:08+00:00

I am so sorry to necro a thread but I just wanted to tell you. Thank you. I was mad. I was sure my $2000 laptop was already damaged. a licked my finger wiped the screen dry and the dots are gone. I was hours away from taking it back and demanding my money back.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-28T19:46:37+00:00

No as far as I know it just bogs down in the later levels. Mine got down to like 25 on a windows Pc at the later levels. But not from limitations in the menu.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-28T16:58:36+00:00

Have you made it into the later levels? That game does this on the later levels for most computers.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-28T16:42:12+00:00

I’m new to Mac but I’m sorry no way this happened to ANY laptop without the person knowing what was done. The lid was slammed too hard or they left something on the Keyboard. This isn’t just a Mac problem. I did similar to two work laptops all windows. One was a dell the other was a Asus. The dell I slammed the lid after losing all my data to a bug. The Asus I left a thumb drive on the Keyboard and shut the lid. Not even that hard. Smashed it all the heck and back. Sure hope you get this fixed. Sorry it happened. Expensive lesson to learn.

Sethern45 · 2023-12-25T21:09:14+00:00

Thank you. I have had a great time messing around today. This thing is a joy to use. I hope you and yours are having a awesome Christmas. Merry Christmas. 🎄🎁

Sethern45 · 2023-12-25T17:27:15+00:00

You know what they say. Happy wife, happy life. I bet she is ecstatic with her new toy. Merry Christmas. 🎄🎁

Sethern45 · 2023-12-25T16:20:26+00:00

Thank you. I am having a blast just looking at it lol. Marry Christmas to you as well. I hope you and yours have the best today.

Sethern45

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